The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey April 28, 2017

28 Apr 2017

Ubuntu upgrade news: I upgraded a Kubuntu 16.10 workstation to 17.04 this week. I ran into just one big issue. I'd previously been running the open source nouveau driver for the nVidia card in that system. After the upgrade, I could not keep the desktop running for more than about 5 minutes before the screen would freeze. After a bit of search-engine foo, I found that the recommended solution was to use the nVidia binary driver instead. As sad as that makes RMS, I went back down that rabbit hole. A brief visit via remote connection (unaffected by the frozen…

Brian Bilbrey April 23, 2017

23 April 2017

Hullo. For my birthday this year, we went to Annapolis Shakespeare Company's Cabaret 2.0. A fund raiser for the theatre that's still a-building, we had a lovely evening of song, mostly Broadway musicals in origin. Wonderful. Upcoming: Richard III, Compleat Works of William Shakespeare (Abridged), The Miser, and Alice and the Book of Wonderland (an original work). That wraps the current season, and we're *also* really looking forward to the next year's shows, too. But we can't get our tickets for that, just yet. Are you in the DC area? Visiting? You *really* should treat yourself to a show. You'll…

Brian Bilbrey April 16, 2017

16 April 2017

Oh, first: Release your tax info, President Trump. Note: No one paid me to say that. Just do the right thing, please. Just this once... * * * Here's a happy dog: This dog had to deal with Marcia's trip, immediately followed by mine. About 16 hours after Marcia got home, Saturday last, I hopped onto a plane headed for Denver. There, I spent a week in a Red Hat Automation with Ansible class, wrapping up with a brutal four hour practical exam. I learned a bunch of stuff, and I passed the exam. That also extended my RHCE/RHCSA certs…

Brian Bilbrey April 9, 2017

9 April 2017

G'day. Lexi was a happy puppy, yesterday late afternoon. That's when Marcia got back home from a 9 day trip up to Maine, where she was spending time with her sister. This is a dog waiting for his mistress to come home: For the duration, I was bailing out of work early, coming home to walk the dog and work on fitting out Marcia's closet. Every time I'd go down to the basement workshop, Lexi would eventually follow, and sit on her perch in Marcia's sewing room (as above), and look a bit pathetic. Here's how the closet came out:…

Brian Bilbrey April 2, 2017

2 April 2017

A busy week and weekend - I got lots of things started, and a number of them finished. Along with shopping, laundry, front yard edging and mowing, and a car wash ... I made progress both days on the closet project for Marcia: After taking down the old wire racks, I removed the anchors and started the wall patching process. Meanwhile, in the woodshop, I : Drying after pre-stain sealer application. My next steps are to final coat on the wall patching, sand and paint in the closet proper. Then for the components ... I'm not sure. Probably just polyurethane…