First Practical 3D Print

Posted on May 20, 2023 by larry

Here is the first practical item I printed on my 3D printer.

It is a bracket for my older HDHR, and it fits!!

Too cool. It is a milestone.

Watched son run a 1 mile. He did it in 5:41 not bad.

I almost hit 10k steps today.

Weight: 334.6

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Caught Between Generations

Posted on May 19, 2023 by larry

It was an extremely tough week, but it ended with this exchange which made me smile.

So my mom calls me said she wants a radio for her birthday.

I said "ok", 

then she said, "the one I can put tape inside".

I am stunned at this point, so I said "I don't think they sell those anymore."

She then said "what do you listen on now then CD?"

I literly can't speak for a second.  "Radios don't come with those anymore either"

So she said "just buy it at Radio Shack."

I am more stunned.

I told her "Radio Shack closed years ago, I will get something for you on Amazon.  "

I then said "I thought you want to come here for your birthday"

She said yeah, "can you send me money, just in case I want to eat something on the plane."

Then I reminded her "planes don't take cash anymore."  for context she doesn't have a credit card

We spoke some more and we will figure it out.

After I hung up and my son comes in saying he heard all that, then asked me what Radio Shack was.

I had to laugh at what just happened, it made me feel good.

I just HAD to update my post. A friend Ronzell actually fixed my 3D printer

First Good 3D Print where the XYZ are pretty clean. Took over 2 years for it to print out a clean print.

Also he was interested in my CNC that is not even unpacked.

For future reference it is a SainSmart Genmitsu CNC 3018-PRO.

Weight: 336.0

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No Walk Today

Posted on May 18, 2023 by larry

Work kind of shifted my schedule today, didn’t get a good walk today.

So close, 6000 steps, but didn’t get time to do an evening walk.

Maybe tomorrow.

Weight: 336.0

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Let Down My Boss

Posted on May 17, 2023 by larry

Kind of a heartbreaking day today, I was reprimanded by my boss today. I made a mistake, but the thing that hurt was I let him down. I pride myself with the quality of work.

A lot of things lead to my mistake but in the end, I my workflow is faulty.

90% of the time a like my job, but today I was reminded that the 10% exists.

Weight: 338.8

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Finally Sleep and Walk

Posted on May 16, 2023 by larry

Not sleepwalk, but a good sleep and a decent walk.

I slept from about 11PM to 8AM, so it was a good sleep. Fitbit said I slept for 7 hours 19 minutes. Felt more but it was a good sleep. I scored a rare “good” sleep.

Walked in the evening, and it was a tough one even though it was only 2 miles.

Weight: 338.2

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I Need Sleep

Posted on May 15, 2023 by larry

Been struggling to get a good long sleep. Tonight I want to go to bed early, hoping to sleep for at least 7 hours straight.

The hot weather doesn’t help.

This will be the heaviest I will be this year, committed to not gaining more weight.

Weight: 338.0

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Mother’s Day 2023

Posted on May 14, 2023 by larry

Was a nice day, kids and I got my wife and mom stuff.

It was still hot though, so in the afternoon went driving around.

I overdid it with the food though. See my weight below, that is the evening weight.

I forgot to weigh in this morning.

But I did get my ESXi storage and network physically set, just need to do the software configurations. By end of week I will be moving workloads to this ESXi host. When I get the two 10TB SATA and 1 10TB SAS we should be good.

Weight: 338.2

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Getting Hot

Posted on May 13, 2023 by larry

I been slowing down a lot, I am so hot.

Got the AC running in our bedroom and the fan is blowing air into my office but it is hot and will get worse.

Too lazy to work anyway, got parts, just need to force myself downstairs and work on the gear.

Weight: 335.6

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Getting Final Parts

Posted on May 12, 2023 by larry

Hoping by end of May I will have everything I need for my new ESXi host.

The only thing I need to get is the hard drives, but they need to be prepared.

I am going to have

  • Two 2TB SSD
  • Two 4TB SAS
  • Two 10TB SATA
  • One 10TB SAS

I should get at least the SAS and SSD in there before the weekend but need burn in the 10TB disks which will take a while maybe a week.

Weight: 335.8

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Post Busy Day Effect

Posted on May 11, 2023 by larry

Yesterday during my long day I had some coffee late in the day.

I think that was a huge mistake, I could not sleep afterwards or I did not sleep right.

I hung in there in the morning but at 3PM I couldnt take it, I took a 5 hour nap.

Just got up but still sluggish. Feeling better though

Weight: 333.8

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