The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey May 20, 2018

20 May 2018

Howdy. A full work week, followed by chores and theatre on Saturday, and mowing a wet, wet, tall set of lawns today. We had just one rainy stretch - it lasted from Saturday the 12th until this morning. All in, according to my still-poorly-sited rain gauge, we got just under 5" of rain in that period of time. Not too shabby. The abbreviated garden hasn't drowned or died from lack of direct sunlight, either ... yet. I've been working my way through some Python (programming language) training, and I've reached once again the point where I spend more time fighting…

Brian Bilbrey May 14, 2018

14 May 2018

A day late, and a bit more than a dollar short. We missed the storms this evening by attending the ASC Cabaret - lovely. Weekend: yardwork, getting a bunch of stuff done, but just one bed fully prepared, planted, and protected from the wrascally wrabbits. * * * DoD reports no casualties in the last week. Ciao!

Brian Bilbrey May 6, 2018

6 May 2018

Whoops. One third of a year is gone. And we apparently went straight from Winter to Summer this last week. It was still Winter on Monday, with a frost coating all the lawns and roofs in our neighborhood. Spring lasted about 6 hours. I say this because, for me, Spring is the period of time between turning off the furnace, and turning on the air conditioning. That lasted about 6 hours on Wednesday (it was a 40°F wake-up temp), I figure the furnace was running until about 10 AM; I turned on the AC at 4 PM (it was 87°F…

Brian Bilbrey April 29, 2018

29 April 2018

Fun weekend. After the first full week back from vacation, I put in a grueling day and a half at BSidesCharm. Talks and panels all day and into the evening on Saturday, then I came back for half a day today. I missed a couple of afternoon talks and the closing ceremony so that I could catch up on the mowing, etc. Favorite talks: OSX/Pirrit by Amit Serper on Saturday, and Effective Monitoring by Russell Mosley and Ryan St. Germain on Sunday (yep, I'm biased about that one). The Saturday evening Straight Up panel was a lot of fun, only…

Brian Bilbrey April 22, 2018

22 April 2018

Well. That was one of the longest breaks I've had in posting since I started 18 years and change ago. Reasonable reason: We went out to California to visit family. Other than puttering about working on Python a bit here and there, I was offline most of the time. A very relaxing trip, but hard to jump back into the groove. We got back near midnight Wednesday. Thursday was shopping, picking up the dog from the boarding kennel, and (apparently) sleeping much of the rest of the day (but a couple of hours patching systems remotely in the mid-evening hours).