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Brian Bilbrey October 15, 2017

15 October 2017

On the face of it, three day work weeks are pretty nice. But I stay busy, and cramming a week's worth of productivity into three days is less fun than it sounds like. That said, I got done what needed doing, and the coming week is prepped and ready. * * * Last night, we went back for a second round of Annapolis Shakespeare's production of Much Ado About Nothing. With 17 actors and a two story set, there's always more going on than one can take in at one sitting. Since opening night, the actors have really settled into…

Brian Bilbrey October 9, 2017

9 October 2017

Good morning. It's a holiday for $FIRM, in the midst of a five day weekend (for me), so I've only been doing email and tickets for an hour or so, and work is done for the day. A busy weekend. First up, Capclave. Capclave is a small-ish literary SFF convention put on by the Washington Science Fiction Association. It's been held at the Hilton Gaithersburg for at least the last several years, and I've attended several now. It's simply lovely. Loads of writers, editors, publishers. I've been attending intermittently since 2012. It's good to catch up with some prior acquaintances…

Brian Bilbrey October 1, 2017

1 October 2017

"Wouldn't you prefer a nice game of chess?" * * * I'll just leave that there, okay? In other news, I just called my oldest best friend (I've known him since I was four) to wish him a happy birthday, which was pleasant and fun. I also left a voice mail for pater and mater, they're probably out painting the town red. Some of our weekend was normal routine - shopping, roasting coffee, washing the car, going to the office to get some hardware maintenance done during off-hours, doing other chores, but... Speaking of painting the town red, we had…

Brian Bilbrey September 25, 2017

25 September 2017

That was a chore-filled weekend. The lawns are all lovely and flat, and nearly the whole house is much, much cleaner. But I was bloody exhausted by the time last night rolled around. So sorry. * * * Only big news is upgrading my MacBook Pro to the latest MacOS release: High Sierra. I'd popped for one of the Beta releases earlier in the Summer, and put in a few issue reports before reverting to Sierra. All of the issues I reported actually garnered responses from Apple, and they've all been remediated in the GA release of the OS. Frankly,…

Brian Bilbrey September 17, 2017

17 September 2017

A busy week and weekend. We made it down to Melford Pond for a couple of hours of fishing on Saturday morning. Well, Marcia was fishing (and caught a decent-sized catfish that she put back, might I add!), while I walked the dog around the pond. It was a nice start to the weekend. Chores: Mowing the lawns, changing old, worn-out locksets out for new ones that work properly, etc, etc. * * * Tech-side, I've been playing around with Flask (a Python web framework). Yeah, should I find something more bleeding edge? Probably. Maybe I'll revisit Node shortly. Or…