bilborg (Brian Bilbrey)
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bilborg (Brian Bilbrey)
@orbdesigns.com
he/him/y'all - committed, dog rescues, wood working, fishing, SF&F
I just got an email from LL Bean with the subject line: "Reexplore Men's Pants!" ... someone should tell their AI about double entendre.

Don't get me wrong, I like Bean gear a lot, but that was amusing to me.
February 10, 2026 at 4:42 PM
@katinoxford.bsky.social finally found the brain power and got my review of Hell's Heresies up on Amazon… And the question stands: when's the next book? Wanna know what happens to Emrie and Samael next!
January 19, 2026 at 1:56 AM
but also, I made another pie, and got the ham stock going - the stock will go into the roux that is the basis for the macaroni and cheese. They will include sautéed onions and cubed ham
December 28, 2025 at 9:16 PM
yet another coffee roasting day
December 28, 2025 at 9:13 PM
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another robot highlight for 2025: man wearing humanoid mocap suit kicks himself in the balls
December 27, 2025 at 5:27 PM
and the snow has stopped so it's time to shovel
December 25, 2025 at 3:12 PM
@katinoxford.bsky.social I just got Hell's Heresies for myself as a Christmas present. Looking forward to it.
December 25, 2025 at 3:06 PM
hello. It's my first Christmas without Marcia. And it's a white Christmas, which she would've loved.
December 25, 2025 at 2:45 PM
i'm cleaning the pellet stove, and my earphones aside from sound protection are feeding me Robbie Robertson's somewhere down the crazy river… This song is definitely on my desert Island soundtrack
December 20, 2025 at 5:53 PM
@katinoxford.bsky.social oh yay, I found you again. Used to chat with you a bit on the thing now known as X (I bailed on that platform for slightly obvious reasons) and then life and assorted other things gotten in the way and you're here. I think I have to go buy a book…
December 19, 2025 at 9:11 PM
first snow of the year here was on Wednesday, yay us?
November 15, 2025 at 1:03 AM
It's been a long while since I last spoke to y'all. After several months filled with health challenges, Marcia passed away on 15 October. We had a nice long run, more than 27 years.
November 4, 2025 at 11:56 PM
it's been a rough couple of weeks with Marcia's health, and we're not out of the woods yet. But we're getting by.

In other news, it's coffee roasting night:
June 1, 2025 at 11:09 PM
Roasting more Guatemalan…
May 17, 2025 at 12:23 AM
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"We have 45 seconds to get out of here before we both die." From Compulsory by Martha Wells

Happy #murderbot day! Big fan of The Murderbot Diaries and can't wait to watch the show.

A huge congrats to @marthawells.com and everyone who worked on the show.

#scifiart #digitalart #murderbotdiaries
May 16, 2025 at 10:40 PM
This is what the forecast looks like for the days following the day that you get your fishing boat out of storage…
May 2, 2025 at 12:35 AM
on Monday, we had another 4 inches of snow for Spring... it didn't last long though it was mostly gone within 24 hours. Tonight, roasting coffee - I've got Kenyan from Sweet Maria's
April 11, 2025 at 12:15 AM
Tonight, I'm roasting a pound of this Guatemalan from Sweet Maria's... that aside, this was kind of a shitty day.
March 26, 2025 at 12:38 AM
Roasting the 2nd pound of this Guatemalan from Sweet Maria's in the Behmor roaster. The 1st pound is still resting upstairs, we should start brewing it in about four or five days. My resting time is generally about 12 to 14 days between roast and first brew.
March 19, 2025 at 12:18 AM
Georgia, our rescue dog, goes into the water as soon as there's room between the shore and the ice.
March 19, 2025 at 12:13 AM
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Share the last picture you took of your pet.

NO CHEATING!

Dems the rules
March 18, 2025 at 7:43 PM
roasting a pound of Guatemalan beans tonight from sweet Maria's.
March 11, 2025 at 11:51 PM
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Women couldn’t have their own credit until 1974. Marital rape became illegal nationwide in 1994.

We are ONE generation into women having a CHANCE at life & it’s proved so intolerable America would rather end itself than allow such a thing to continue.
February 17, 2025 at 2:53 PM
Sunrise the other morning... from my front yard.
February 18, 2025 at 12:52 AM
this is my #coffee roasting set up: the roaster is in a vent hood that exhausts to outside, the green coffee beans are staged on top of the cart to the left-hand side. I generally roast once every seven or eight days.
February 7, 2025 at 1:02 AM