Category Archives: New Toys

Repairs After Power Outage

Posted on October 10, 2024 by larry

Bunch of actions still need to done after the power outage. So far Still want to go physical on a bunch of things, and there are still two more devices that are offline. Weight: 334.0

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All Parts for New Laptop

Posted on October 3, 2024 by larry

I got all the parts I need for my new laptop, I may upgrade to 16GB of RAM, but for now I got 2TB Samsung EVO NVME that should work and is more expensive than the rest of the laptop. … Continue reading →

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New Personal Laptop

Posted on October 2, 2024 by larry

My new (used) Dell Latitude 7490 arrived yesterday. Remember that Dell 7290? This one is a bigger brother. I will configure it like the other one, but this one will have a bigger hard drive, wanted a smaller 1080P model, … Continue reading →

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Too Tired To Clean

Posted on August 12, 2024 by larry

A lot of things still need to be done in my office, but too much to do. Just got done at gym using weights On the tech front got a replacement MiFi. Brand is inseego No review yet. Weight coming … Continue reading →

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Bedroom Looks Great

Posted on August 10, 2024 by larry

Not done yet, need to put essential stuff in there, but it had the effect of cleaning out our bedroom and starting from a blank slate. The essential things are in there, now like the bed dresser and my desk. … Continue reading →

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Bad Day to be in IT

Posted on July 19, 2024 by larry

So there was some update for EDR software from a company called crowdstrike that messed with a bunch of Windows machines. This took down a lot of machines in the world. There are reports that this is one of the … Continue reading →

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Prime Day Upgrade

Posted on July 16, 2024 by larry

Got parts I needed to upgrade my frigate box to a larger more powerful box. I do not think the IO is cutting it. If I get the same results I will move back to the 1L box and convert … Continue reading →

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New USB Drives

Posted on July 15, 2024 by larry

Got my drives for my new OS project. This is version alpha, only USB2 so we will see how it goes. Super tired though cannot to much. I think I am going to sleep early. Weight: 344.4

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Some Goals Reached

Posted on July 12, 2024 by larry

Made my goal of swimming 3 weeks, 3x per week, for 30 minutes. It feels good, the feeling after each swim is one of chlorine, ok accomplishment. Another thing is I got the 4th and final AWS instance built. Ready … Continue reading →

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Evening Finish

Posted on July 10, 2024 by larry

This was a rushed day, got meetings, and needed to return some stuff to Amazon, get my steps and swim in. On top of all that had my wife to drop off and pick up. I had a really small … Continue reading →

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