The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey March 20, 2016

20 March 2016

It must be Spring. We've been in the 30's all weekend, and it's currently dropping what's quaintly called a "wintery mix" on us from low, leaden skies. Bah! * * * We've lost a lot of the roadside trees in our neighborhood in the last couple of years. The HOA's landscaping service took out a bunch this winter, and replaced them with ... some other kind of tree, I'll guess. They didn't get all of the dead trees yet, and from the tracks on the barkless trunk, you can probably see the reason behind the death: Yup, some kind of…

Brian Bilbrey March 17, 2016

17 March 2016

There once was a service called FandangoNOW, ah, Fucking Bastards, the company formerly known as M-GO. I logged into it once, because it was a featured service on our Roku box. As of this morning, I had neither purchased nor rented any content from M-GO. This is a good thing, because it appears that with the acquisition of M-GO by Fandango, you can either accept their new Terms and Privacy Policy (including the privacy policies of their corporate parents, NBC Universal and Warner Brothers), OR YOU, THE CUSTOMER, CAN GO TO HELL. Well, not HELL, as such. But if you'd…

Brian Bilbrey March 13, 2016

13 March 2016

Friday the thirteenth falls on Daylight Stealing Time Sunday this month. Yay? * * * A good week and a productive weekend. Yesterday I got the spring fertilizer down on the lawn (in time for today's rain-in), and got the garden beds cleared of all the fall and over-winter cruft. I still have to turn over and amend the beds, but a start is a start, so I'll take it. I also did some aggressive pruning of the crepe myrtles in the front of the house, and weeded some of the beds there, too. Today? Well, I'm a bit sore…

Brian Bilbrey March 6, 2016

6 March 2016

Not much to report - it's not Spring yet, though it'll be trending that way in the week to come, with temps in the mid-70's. We had a couple of inches of snow on Friday, though. Soon it'll be time for the garden. So the days are getting longer, and the Sun is working its way north again, which means more sunning spots for Lexi, like this one in the front foyer: * * * DoD announced no new casualties in the most recent week, for which I am grateful. Ciao!

Brian Bilbrey February 28, 2016

28 Feb 2016

One more day to go ... in February. So very odd. Did I mention that Marcia baked and decorated a wonderfully delicious cake for me to take to work in celebration of a recent parenthood event? Yeah, this is it: Well, that's part of the cake. We'd already started digging into it before I was thoughtful enough to take pictures of my own. Delicious: chocolate in many ways, plus raspberry compote layers in between. And I'm told there are very few calories involved. I should believe that, I think. * * * Yesterday, I got the new over-the-range microwave oven…