I got a lot going on, day is not over yet, probably going to work a few more hours, but I still got my steps to do.
I had my usual Tuesday morning meeting then I went off and did some other things and had more meetings.
I was on the phone getting my first refill of Nucala this year. Have a PBM, not sure how that calculates into the payments.
Weight: 321.8
Spent a lot of the day in my lab writing ansible playbooks for CIS compliance.
At work we have a server and clients that check but I wanted to do this in a lab environment.
I did automated rebuilding 3 nodes in the lab, so I can quickly start from scratch.
On another note, today was the due date for college tuition, for my youngest and last dependant.
Kind of a milestone, I am mostly free from any responsibilities and commitments to them.
Of course I am going to always help where I can, put promise has been kept.
Weight: 322.6
Today was one of those, not doing much days. Was just waiting for the 3:30 kickoff of the Seahawks against the LA Rams with the winner claiming the NFC championship and headed to the Superb Owl.
I did get my steps done early, and did get a hard drive in that I was supposed to get in.
In addition to to the hard drive, I finally upgraded a system I have from a GTx1660 to the RTX5060ti and a 2000 series to 5000 series AMD CPU. That required a firmware upgrade.
So happy productive day.
Weight: 328.8
Got a lot done today even though I woke up late, credit maybe a good sleep to getting a lot done.
Cleaned the CRV and did some significant cleaning on the roof.
After that I took it to the car wash for a proper wash, was worried cause it is cold, but it was not freezing.
I decided to take a nice walk, the day “looked” great, but was cold.
So got my steps done early, but day was not done.
Added these indicators on my tire to let me know of low air.
Got some smoke detectors installed, but couldn’t find one of them.
Now before I go to bed trying to install my RTX5060ti on to my Rocky 9 box.
If there is time I am installing the new CPU as well.
Weight: 326.6
Revisited some things that worked for me in 2025.
Was a good productive day, also got my Zepbound shots. But will administer that tomorrow.
Weight: 323.8
Today added three more machines on my lab, also figured out how to connect my lab to cloudflare.
It is kind of cool
So lap now supports cloudflare, and tailscale.
Need to figure out how to get real email in and out of the lab network.
Weight: 325.8
Walked late again today, maybe I should be more careful, was pretty darn icy
Got a lot done on the tech side today, made use of the lab to test out building linux servers.
I can rebuild a 3 node lab in under 30 minutes.
I started at 11:30PM lets see if I am done before midnight.
I am back, I was able to get it to a base state before 11:40
Back again, was able to get it down to right before patching. That will take a bit cause it has to go to the Internet, but about 15 to 20 minutes.
Weight: 325.8
I ordered a couple more drives, almost got all the drives I need, not quite, but they are all new.
Got the 2TB NAS fast drive, so almost there. Just need one bulk drive and two more NAS drives, and a spare.
Looking like a February build. May use drives I have that are used or I may get used drives online with the plan to replace them later this year.
Going to begin burn in this weekend.
Weight: 325.0
There is a variable in my Home Assistant that is considered when turning the lights on or off automatically. I call them light hold values. If say the kitchen hold is on, then the motion sensors will not turn the lights on or off.
There is a button in the kitchen to toggle this value, but most don’t have access to the app. So I created a web page that talks to a mysql database, and also updates it if needed. So they just need a simple browser to look at a simple unauthenticated page, to see if the hold is on.
Another tech thing I did today was install Windows 11 on a cheap HP TC630 thin client. Had to do some hardware tricks but it is running windows 11.
Weight: 327.0
Woke up late today, not only that, after I woke I, I did not do much work. Spent most of the day watching youtube videos on the Seahawks.
But I did start reviewing my home assistant and looked to cleaning things up.
Also documenting the different types of zigbee devices and looking to clean up some actions.
It will be a slow process but it is moving.
Weight: 327.8
