Expenses Keep Piling

Neighbor asking to help pay for the fence. I am being nice and paying half.

But it is putting a sudden strain on my finances.

Then there are other expenses like sports registration and shoes for my kid.

It is a real stresser.

Was thinking of getting the scale to record to homeassistant or a database some how. Still a WIP.

At least my chair is repaired.

Weight: 340.8

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Need To Trim Expenses

Things are going to get tough financially in a bit so you may see me slow down on new purchases.

This is a good thing, I can still afford stuff, but need to control my spending before things get out of control.

Got a lot of stuff to do anyway.

Weight: 341.0

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Chair Can Be Fixed

Finally took a look at the chair again

Looks like the parts used for my chair are standard. So all I need to get is the new tilt part and the extension.

Also with the new part it will be stronger.

Weight: 340.6

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Weight Related Malfunctions

Hoping three malfunctions and I am done.

  1. Wife Fitbit went down – not me but it motivated her to go walking with me.
  2. Scale – Scale went crazy and was not able to measure my weight.
  3. Chair, broke because I leaned too much into it. to be fair I think I felt it giving in days ago.

But all got replacements today, wife got a samsung watch, I got a new scale, and the chair was replaced today.

My booty needs to get used to the new chair.

Slept a lot today, kind of worn down. even after I got up did not have energy to do stuff.

Scale back like I said.

Weight: 340.6

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No Weigh In Today

Got a new scale but have not set it up. But did well on the steps, got 12k steps.

Kind of exhausted after trying to do the 5k. Only did 1.5 miles but made it up during the day.

Purchased a Samsung watch for my wife and tried some new dim sum place.

So it was really busy even though I got a long nap.

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Angry At Fitbit

They didn’t even try.

Anyway got this

Posted on reddit and the fitbit community forum.

Also no weigh in because guess what else broke.

Well not broke but can no longer register my weight is the scale.

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RIP Fitbit

Another fitbit bites the dust.

My wife’s fitbit Sense wasn’t syncing so I attempted to reboot it but I think it bricked.

May get her a samsung watch instead.

Reached my fitbit goals, it still tracks.

Weight: 343.2

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Muscle Weight

Had a session with my personal trainer today. I am heavier butI seem to have more muscle.

Watched my son run today, he did great, cracked 5:30 on the mile.

Was able to recover some data from an encrypted drive.

Also been setting up more iot devices.

Would post more but it is late and need to get this post out.

Only need 2000 steps but stuck in traffic. Gonna assume I make it.

Weight: 344.4

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Butt Hurts

Not butthurt but butt hurts.

I knew yesterday I had a good workout yesterday and I was going to pay for it today. Sure enough, my booty hurts.

Got my first TPM 2.0 chip today for my old Supermicro motherboard. I rebuilt the OS and it is now using TPM and has bitlocker going.

I also got a weird relay board that uses an ESP-01. Looks like it communicates serially with the device to trigger the relays.

Weight: 343.4

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Beeping Notifications

There are times when I want to get audio notifications that aren’t a blazing loud.

So I build small beeper and put it on tasmota.

So now I am getting beeps when something happens by simply publishing Beep to the tasmota command for that unit.

Another thing I did today was create bridges from rf and homeassistant to mqtt. Basically I can subscribe to mqtt now and take action based on the payload.

Went to gym with son today, I think it is the change in pace that I need.

Weight: 344.8

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