Category Archives: Training

This is all items related to my physical training.

XMas Lights Down

Posted on January 6, 2019 by larry

Official end of holidays, things are quieting down and falling back to a normal schedule. Need to get my workout in to a normal schedule. But Christmas lights are down and no holidays (ok there is MLK) but pretty quiet. … Continue reading →

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BBS Setup

Posted on January 5, 2019 by larry

Playing around with my phone line simulator. Trying to set up a BBS. Amazing how hard it is to find hardware that can make and receive a POTS call. Now need to figure out what software to use. On a … Continue reading →

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Plex Pain

Posted on January 4, 2019 by larry

The Live TV recording is a pain with plex. Really the only reason I got it. I knew sometimes the EPG wouldn’t get updated so a show would be missing. But what is annoying is that there was no way … Continue reading →

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My Back Does Feel Better

Posted on January 3, 2019 by larry

Went to PT today, and I did not realize how much better I feel. Getting in and out of a chair/car/bed is not as much of a struggle. I did not realize my back is so much better.

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Expanding AWS Presence

Posted on January 2, 2019 by larry

Thinking of moving another service up to AWS. Also falling behind in my schedule for writing something. Only second day of the year but being lazy last week did me in. Thing is the CPAP gave me a good boost. … Continue reading →

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Happy New Year 2019

Posted on January 1, 2019 by larry

Continuing the tradition of waking up early to welcome the new year. It was a little rougher year but still good. The surprise was that I was able to make weight. Last year’s post I mentioned “If I can lose … Continue reading →

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Reflections on 2018

Posted on December 31, 2018 by larry

Another look back at another year Wow time flies Financially we were stable again, bang up year. Although we had to tap in to equity on our house, we did not pay any consumer credit card interest. To be clear, … Continue reading →

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End of the Season

Posted on December 30, 2018 by larry

Seahawks end the regular season with a win. They were already were going to the playoffs, but a double digit win is nice. Need to make my goals for next year and review what I did last year.

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Little Optiplex Won

Posted on December 29, 2018 by larry

I got NVidia NVENC encoding working, and an optiplex with a lower end Quadro video card beat an 4 core Xeon. Trick is you need to compile your own Here are the details Here are the results of different versions  … Continue reading →

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FFMpeg Speed Testing

Posted on December 28, 2018 by larry

Got some information from the ffmpeg mailing list. It was an issue with the x265 package. I was able to make the change and compile. Now I have it installed on a physical box. Going to get some testing done … Continue reading →

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