Category Archives: Weigh In

Scripting AWS Builds

Posted on November 6, 2020 by larry

Cool project at work, there are some kids that we would like to provide some guidance. One of the things was a wordpress server and a minecraft server. I may need 25 of them at one time, so I scripted … Continue reading →

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Still Counting Votes

Posted on November 5, 2020 by larry

Election not done yet. Still being tallied, although there is a lot of news about it. Seems like every little change in count has been reported. Certainly exciting. In other news, the Ryzen 5000 series came out, I feel like … Continue reading →

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Bloated And Hurting

Posted on November 4, 2020 by larry

Feel like I should say I am lazy, but the weather, the pain, and my cough all holding me back from a good workout. Need to find a gym, or at least get the treadmill going again. Weight: 317.2

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Election 2020

Posted on November 3, 2020 by larry

Wow pretty exciting day. Two of my kids were interested in the results of the election. It is neck and neck in the presidential race. Locally, kind of knew the current governer was going to win. He did an OK … Continue reading →

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Still Not Losing

Posted on November 2, 2020 by larry

Saw a doctor today, good news is that my hear its OK so far. Awaiting blood tests. But can’t seem to loose weight. Need to get out and work out. Weight: 318.8

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Halloween 2020

Posted on November 1, 2020 by larry

Ok technically it was yesterday, but waited the whole night and it was the first time I can remember we had zero trick or treaters. But couple other things happened today Daylight standard, fall back, whatever you call it. So … Continue reading →

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Monitoring Lab Network

Posted on October 31, 2020 by larry

Getting my network squared away. I want to get Grafana working and logging. First cleaning up network, then got a bunch of stuff monitored in nagios. We’ll see if I can get some next gen monitoring going. Weight: 317.8

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Pushing My New Computer

Posted on October 30, 2020 by larry

I finally got to editing a large file, when I rendered it it really pushed the CPU Pretty sweet, I think I tried editing this file prior, could not do it with my old machine. It is a simple 7.5 … Continue reading →

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New Couch

Posted on October 29, 2020 by larry

Another new thing came in today, a couch. I think that is it for this year. At least for big purchases (over 1k). Need to work on stabilizing our finances abit. Weight: 317.8

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Verdict Still Out On Computer

Posted on October 28, 2020 by larry

But it does look very promising. Here is the final cost No Description Qty  Amount  1 AMD Ryzen 9 3900XT 3.8 GHz 12-Core Processor 1       429.99 2 Corsair H60 (2018) 57.2 CFM Liquid CPU Cooler 1          79.99 3 … Continue reading →

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