Author Archives: larry

Shutting Down Another Box

Working on shutting down another physical box. Hopefully that is enough. Although I did bring up another box, I am still running a deficit. This is basically a P2V with some things disabled. I cleaned my office, for my future … Continue reading

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Second New ESXi In Place

Got the new ESXi host in place, put a nested VM in there that can read the old drives. Looks like a total of 4 disks from the old setup. Basically I have everything in place to work on the … Continue reading

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That Felt Good

Got my fitbit goals today. That was good, I feel good too. Actually walked outside, twice around RTC. I had a list of things to do started on them but didn’t finish. Got tomorrow, also there is a Seahawks game … Continue reading

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Kind of Long Weekend

It is Friday, but I feel like my weekend started early. Already did my exercise for the day and I did complete my fitbit goals yesterday. Going to have some fun tonight, going to get some housework done tomorrow. Weight: … Continue reading

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Last of Busy Days

Been burning the candle on two ends, tomorrow is Veteran’s day and I am hoping things are slow and I get to chill out a bit. Gonna try and hit my fitbit goals. If I don’t make it I will … Continue reading

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Transcoding A Lot of Files

Getting better at bash scripting, I want to take advantage of new things a learned in scripting. Anyway, found some handy ffmpeg commands to compress plex TV records to mkv ones for better storage. Taking advantage of my GTC1660 with … Continue reading

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Election Day 2022

Today was General Election day for our country. Did my civic duty and voted. Not as exciting as a presidential election, but one hopes there was no Russian interference. Anyway, not staying up for results like the last presidential election. … Continue reading

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Need To Post Before 11PM

I have to get back in to the habit of posting before 11PM again. Kind of sucks, but have to do it till March 12 which will be during Lent. I get to reflect on a lot of changes till … Continue reading

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Daylight Fall Back 2022

Took advantage of the daylight savings extra hour of sleep. I needed it, felt beaten up by yesterday journey home. I did get my new ESXi host (2nd one) cleaned and am getting it finalized. Weight: 314.8

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Crazy Day At Pasco

Not sure if ever want to attempt that again, on the way to state XC the pass started to snow, and on the way back got caught up in two road closures of I90 and almost got hit by an … Continue reading

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