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Home-Brewed Goodness

Tuesday, August 17th, 2010

Coming Soon…

Ginger ale, spicy ginger beer, regular beers, and eventually mead….

My latest article is up..

Thursday, July 29th, 2010

TechTarget has published my latest article.

THE HISTORY OF UNIX ON THE PC: EXPLORING LESSER-KNOWN VARIANTS
Bill Bradford, Contributor

A list of my other writings for them can be found here.

Rest in Peace, Siffycat.

Saturday, July 17th, 2010

Siffy cat, ~1997-2010. She passed peacefully in her sleep.

Ow.

Saturday, June 26th, 2010

Six days after tripping and falling in my bedroom, landing against the dresser:

I actually hit below my knee. The bruising in my foot is from gravity causing the blood to flow downwards, and the toes are due to blood flowing along the tendons.

Trust me, it LOOKS a lot worse than it feels – but I’m not doing acrobatics, either.

My second tattoo

Wednesday, June 16th, 2010

A week ago (on Wednesday the 9th), I went down to The Electric Chair on Richmond here in Houston for an appointment with Stephanie.

A couple of hours later, I left with this on my upper left arm:

Elder Sign Tattoo

It’s an Elder Sign from the works of H.P. Lovecraft.

It doesn’t feel like a year.

Tuesday, June 15th, 2010

One year ago today, I lost my best friend, partner, and wife of eleven years. I love you, Amy.

I’m still here. Barely.

Tuesday, June 1st, 2010

I’ve just been really swamped with work and lots of other stuff lately, plus I’ve tended to post shorter things to Facebook.

June 16th will be the one-year anniversary of Amy’s death. It doesn’t seem that long; it seems like a couple of weeks rather than twelve months. I’ve taken that week off work; this will be the first vacation I’ve had in over a year. Needless to say, I’m pretty burned out and stressed. My house is a mess because I’m too tired after work to clean, and too depressed some days to care.

Had to sell my MacBook to pay bills related to Amy’s passing. Don’t know when I’ll be able to afford another, as there are still more bills to pay.

I hope to spend the evening of the 16th out somehow with friends, but there are no concrete plans yet. I certainly don’t want to spend that day here at home alone.

Anniversaries

Wednesday, March 31st, 2010

This would have been our 9th wedding anniversary.

Spreading the Media Player Love

Sunday, March 7th, 2010

Willa (my current ladyfriend) has been using an old decrepit laptop with a bad keyboard hooked up to her TV at home to watch NetFlix instant-streaming movies. I took pity on her as the “geeky boyfriend” and bought her a Roku HD Player (e.g., “NetFlix Box”) a few days ago.

We just finished doing the initial setup and account connections via my TV and Internet connections here, and she’ll take it home with her to try out tomorrow.

awesome socks #3

Tuesday, February 23rd, 2010

Today’s color: “Earth”.

"Earth" tye-dyed socks