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Brian Bilbrey

Suicide by BMW

At 0635 EDT (pre-dawn at this time of year), a deer tried to commit BMW-assisted suicide while I was driving to work. I'd have to say, that deer is a failure. It got up and ran off, and my car is in the body shop for the next few days. Bummer, I know. It jumped out of the bushes ten feet in front of my car or less. I barely got to the brakes before the deer was in my grill. Torso to the grill, neck took out the headlight, and the head dented the driver-side front quarter panel. And…

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Brian Bilbrey

I'd better not get the flu...

I'd better not get the flu this season, because I've already paid the cover charge and over-tipped all the bouncers. Seriously. Thursday I got the regular dose (as opposed to high dose) quadrivalent flu vaccine for the season. Friday, I had the day off. I was taking the day to handle a couple of chores, and then attend Capclave for the two and a half days of programming, Friday through today. Yeah, that didn't happen. By midnight Thursday, I had aches and pains in the large muscles and joints, and a mild fever afflicted me. I was "fine" by Saturday…

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Brian Bilbrey

Kindle, revived?

I have a 2012 Kindle touch. It's been my bedside reader, light and easy on the eyes as I wind down from the day. I think it's a better late-night device for me than a backlit screen device would be. However, week or so ago, I noticed that my kindle had stopped behaving. It wouldn't turn on. Then it would, just to display a dialog box saying something about the application crashing or stopped or somewhat. I figured it was down on charge, so the next morning I put it on the charger and headed to work. That evening, with…

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Brian Bilbrey

Back to the grind

Tomorrow, I'll be back to the grind. Today wrapped up a four day weekend for me. I just took Friday and Thursday off for fun ... then spent those two days worrying about a hurricane headed our way that ended up turning right instead of left. So it goes. It was also a low-energy weekend - I felt pretty washed out the last couple of days. Maybe my body was missing work? Still, you might have noticed a bit more activity around here than usual over the past week, from foxes to Apple upgrades. Most of the activity was indoors,…

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