The journey continues...

Brian Bilbrey December 27, 2015

27 Dec 2015

Another busy weekend gone by. I was doing some clean up in the shop, and came across a stack of 2x2 acoustic tile matching the small section of drop ceiling in the basement kitchen. Wonderful - I have a few of those that need replacing. A couple of them had holes in them, not hard to replace. Another one, though, was severely bowed by the HVAC vent attached to a floating, insulated feeder. The additional weight had bent the tile nearly an inch out of true. Were I to just replace it, the tile would be good for a year…

Brian Bilbrey December 26, 2015

26 Dec 2015

Lexi likes her new friend, "Moo" : Lexi & Moo

Brian Bilbrey December 24, 2015

24 Dec 2015

Happy Christmas eve, if that's your thing. Today I've finished up, finally, the second plumbing job I started on the weekend. I was reconnecting the sink and trap in the foyer area in the basement. It'll be handy for a variety of purposes, so that's all good. In other news, I traded up in cars. After a few squirrelly episodes last winter, I found myself wishing for a four wheel drive car again. I still wanted "fun to drive", but "massively fun to drive, yet safer" (say an Audi R10) is out of my reach. I'd also been mulling the…

Brian Bilbrey December 21, 2015

21 Dec 2015

A day late, and a vacation dollar short. Yep, vacation. I'm "off work" for the next two weeks, which means that I only keep an eye on email, and respond if SMS messages flow my way. But for the purposes of day-to-day operations, I'm offline. Yay! * * * In other good news, no vomiting in more than a week, so I've got that going for me. * * * Please note that policy requires the new disclaimer in the footer of this site. So noted. * * * The weekend flew by with assorted home-maintenance chores. They were mostly…

Brian Bilbrey December 15, 2015

15 Dec 2015

Life is, by some definitions, a process of learning new things. The wonderful new thing I learned Sunday night is that my food-borne GI problems from the weekend before were not, in fact, caused by food from the new restaurant we tried that last Saturday evening. Instead, my homemade chili, that I've been eating from off and on over the last two weeks, was to blame. I can't explain how whatever was in the chili only affected me really badly but twice... in hindsight, I had a couple of intermittently "bad days" in there that weren't at the level of…