Author Archives: larry

Seahawks Win In A Thiller

Posted on September 25, 2025 by larry

Thursday night football and the Seahawks played against division rival Cardinals, and Seahawks won. Away game in Arizona where bad things have happened to the Seahawks in the past so a good win. One thing nice was being able to … Continue reading →

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Trying Out OpnSense Firewall

Posted on September 24, 2025 by larry

We will see how it goes, still configuring, a lot of new today. Another change happening really soon is moving to wireguard, already implemented tailscale. Finally, got new glasses, still in the container, I tried on my spares from 2023 … Continue reading →

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Laziness Kicking In

Posted on September 23, 2025 by larry

The past few days I been kind of lazy and not wanting to work out, today is probably the worst. I think part of it is not sleeping right. I been sleeping late and not getting 8 hours of sleep. … Continue reading →

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Back Above 330

Posted on September 22, 2025 by larry

Bummer, scale showed above 330 for 3 days so officially over 330. Relatively busy day though, and I did get a good working. Planning a trip to Molokai next week. Last minute fast one. Tired, gonna rest now. But I … Continue reading →

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End Of Summer 2025

Posted on September 21, 2025 by larry

Technically still summer, tomorrow will be last day, but we are going to go to the Washington State Fair. I got the tickets at least. Going to go with a mission, because it will be late and we don’t have … Continue reading →

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Production VMs on KVM

Posted on September 20, 2025 by larry

Pretty big accomplishment, the first was a simple DNS server, then was a little bit harder with the main LDAP server. But the tough one, which I knew was going to be it was the Unifi Network Application server. I … Continue reading →

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Officially Under 330

Posted on September 19, 2025 by larry

Three consecutive days of being under 330 makes it official, I am under 330. No weirdness too like wearing light clothes or fasting a day and weighing in right before and after midnight to get two days. This was legit … Continue reading →

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Playing With QEMU KVM

Posted on September 18, 2025 by larry

Now that I got 1 QEMU server going, planning on getting more. Probably another production one and a development one. It is cool, I got a pair of Linux templates on my QEMU server now and am ready to move … Continue reading →

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First Production KVM Host

Posted on September 17, 2025 by larry

Got my first production KVM host built, this is based on a Lenovo M910Q, has a quality NVME storage for VMs and a cheaper 256GB SSD for the OS. There is a USB Ethernet for management while the onboard one … Continue reading →

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Vlans on QEMU-KVM

Posted on September 16, 2025 by larry

Cool. I figured out how to configure my KVM host to use a trunked VLAN for multiple subnet access. I can now land a VM on any subnet. Still reviewing if my process is right but here is a script. … Continue reading →

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