Frustratingly Close

Weight is listed below, recall 3 days in a row keeps you at that weight class. Today is the second day.

Also no Zepbound, would have been nice to control my appetite, looks like I am going to write this one off as a week lost.

I did get another ThinkCentre M920q, I ordered some upgrades to it as well. In the end I will have an M900 for my infrastructure server, and M900 for plex and an M920Q for VM host and M920Q for a container host.

As for the lab, I want to call it good. Yes there are some upgrades, but functionality, I think I am ready to do those workshops.

Over the weekend I am going to go through DR maybe even a full rebuild.

Weight: 340.2

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Progress Progress

Didn’t sleep well but I am amazed what I got done today.

Weight still hanging in there between the 330’s and 340’s but it is holding.

Lab is nearly done, I think this weekend will be a lot of documentation.

But I really need sleep.

Weight: 340.4

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Lab Coming Along

Lab has a way to go, it is up and it works, but a lot of little things need to be done. The huge focus now is monitoring.

  • Nagios
  • Grafana
  • Prometheus
  • Node Exporter
  • InfluxDB
  • Telegraf

Then there is home assistant that needs to be cleaned up. It is running but on an volume that needs to be updated.

I did get keypass working, was intrigued by getting it to work with yubikey.

Monitoring is huge though.

Went to Farmer’s market for first time this year, I like it being on a street.

Almost done with my steps, as I post I have 40 more steps.

Weight: 338.8

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Another Round of Breathing Issues

Last night I did not sleep well, I was up late dealing with more breathing issues. Not only I, my dog too.

Maybe need to change the filter, maybe some thing in the air, the air monitor says there are no particulates. But there are VoC and the temperature is elevated.

I did get a good workout in, I think credit my long sleep yesterday.

Got some more services up in the lab. Pihole as a VM and pihole as a container, but need to fix the routing.

Weight back above 340 but I think it has to do with me having to eat a bit in the morning and prednisone wanting me to eat.

Weight: 341.0

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Goal Setting

Today I did a few things but I did wake up late. With that said I need to focus on what I need to do. I need a new or to review my goals.

I have a to do list and I random goals but no plan. My schedule is a mess. I need a planning day.

Weight: 339.0

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Non Tech Day

For the most part today was a low tech day. I did a few things, but my plans didn’t go as how I was thinking, wasn’t bad though.

Originally I was planning to get a chunk of my steps in the morning, but came across Renton Tech and they had a trash collection event.

A little backstory, the past few weeks, Republic Services, the company that picks up our trash had its staff go on strike. This left a lot of trash in people’s homes and my wife was concerned.

In my morning walk I came across a long line of cars waiting to go in to RTC to throw their trash in some collection event.

After my walk I was going to RePC then we were going to go North for some shrimp.

Found out the event was till noon and it was near 10AM. I told my wife I was scrapping the plan to go to RePC and instead, rebag the garbage (it was nasty) and drop it off.

Then we did our trip north.

One surprising thing is my weight. I am happy, officially under 340.

Weight: 337.4

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Things Going Better Today

I feel better today, got a lot done and had a great swim.

I am continuing to work my 10″ Rack project.

Got some fasteners for the cables in the back, they look ugly, looks like bird wings.

Anyway, it is working, better access.

For the lab itself, I redid all of the Windows 11 Labclients and created Clonezilla images. Hoping this will speed up rebuilds.

Two days in a row under 340, one more makes it official.

Weight: 339.0

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Time For Myself

Fasted long walk I can remember. I wanted some peace for myself after an emotion filled day.

Fought with a family member, or more so I got angry at them.

I took a nice long walk, I was under 1000 steps so I needed some time and to decompress and be by myself.

It was good for my mental health. I did get my fitbit goals.

On the tech front, got more stuff figured out, nagios w/ LDAP authentication, XRDP in guacamole and the new power supplies for the Lenovo came in and it all fits. Need to monitor heat though.

Finally on the physical health front, I didn’t believe my eyes.

Weight: 339.6

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Butterfly Effect

Amazing how one thing leads to another and a cascading domino effect.

I was hoping to post today how fun it was to meet my coworkers on our annual Coulon (or where ever) meeting. It was fun no doubt.

Or how I am going through my documentation on building a guacamole box. That is going well, can’t seem to get RDP to work for Linux though.

Instead I am posting how a misplaced shampoo lead to a locked car.

So I went swimming today, and as I was showering after my swim, I noticed my shampoo was gone. So that is the genesis of all this, I lost shampoo bottle. Not a big deal, it was used, not a full loss, nor was it expensive, $7.16. I took some time to ask lost and found, then I ended up ordering a new bottle in the parking lot so I could get one before my Friday swim.

I then go to order food. This slight delay made me late in getting to the restaurant. It closed at 8:30 and I was there at 8:47, so I grab my duffle bag and threw it in the back of my car so it wouldn’t be exposed. This was effect #2, late for restaurant.

But my car keys was in my duffle bag and it (the car assumed I had it on my person) so it locked the car with my keys in it. Funny how that all led to getting locked out of my car.

At least I discovered the batteries in the spare were dead, so new ones were put in them. At least next time our car keys will be fully functional. Luckily there was a backup physical key that pops out I could use.

At least the swim got me closer the the weight I was expecting.

Weight: 342.0

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Walking Away From A Problem

Starting to add more stuff to my demo network, I got hung up on guacamole install.

Try and try, fight and fight, couldn’t figure it out.

Took a step back, walked away for 9k steps (only had 1k as of 8PM) and when I got back, instantly found the answer.

Sometimes you need to walk away.

Weight: 342.8

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