Halloween 2025

Posted on October 31, 2025 by larry

It has been raining today, not light either, so I was surprised when one little girl, I think she is our neighbor down the street, came with her parents for some candy.

I would like to reflect on a tough month it has been for me.

First off had to drop off my mom, was sad to be split up with her, but she looks like she will be happier there.

Of course the big hard emotional hitting news was losing my dog Totoro. As each to goes by, the pain lessens, but things come up, like Halloween today, and it hurts.

I have also neglected my workouts, I have tried to keep up with my medication, but I may have missed a dose or two.

A week ago I tried to get my 10k steps, I got it, but the cold weather I think got my, and gout may be hiding in me a bit.

Another thing down is my NVR, the recording hard drive is dead. I am trying to spin up a USB drive to replace it while the spare comes in. I know I have a hard drive some where, may need to order so me 4TB drives.

RAM is expensive again, I ordered some to extend my personal desktop.

Speaking of my personal desktop, I think I am going to rebuild it from scratch next week.

Weight: 324.8

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Memorial Done For Toto

Posted on October 30, 2025 by larry

Getting close to closure for Toto, the memorial is done

Waiting on DNA and clone plushy.

My windows 11 box got weird last night, not sure what happened. But I still cannot enable SVM

Did a weird restore and got it functional again.

Weight: 324.8

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Oh Microsoft

Posted on October 29, 2025 by larry

What a pain, a few days ago it was AWS East, now today it is Azure AKA Microsoft.

I think this is affecting a lot of sites, I tried to pay my Centurylink and T-Mobile bill and got an error.

Furthermore my Windows Desktop is showing errors as well when I try to enable SVM.

Luckily I have another world I can go to, Linux.

Still have not gone back to the gym.

Weight: 325.6

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Having Fun With The 3d Printer

Posted on October 28, 2025 by larry

Holidays are here, kicking off with Halloween, so tried my hand at some decorations

Been two weeks since we let Toto go, but as we move on, the pain is getting masked by the joyous memories.

I do need to get back into the gym though.

Having some weird problems with my new KVM host. Not sure what, but the cockpit web interface does not seem to work right.

Good time to test the rebuild before it goes into production.

Weight: 324.6

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Need To Get Back To Working Out

Posted on October 27, 2025 by larry

Have been so low energy lately, last week I had a legit excuse, my feet was sore maybe even injured, they are still hurting but not as bad.

Today, I could have gone to the gym but I am also super tired.

Gonna try and sleep early.

Was on mifi most of the day, finally Comcast is back.

Weight: 324.8

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More Power Outage Havok

Posted on October 26, 2025 by larry

Day was supposed to be a relaxed one, incredibly I got stuff done, like a new rack in the living, room and a new KVM host. I even started unpacking the 10GB switch I was going to set up.

But something knocked out the power again for about two hours, it was a pain to get it back up, but I think the huge problem at the moment is that Comcast Internet is down. I flipped over to mobile wifi, but it is not the same.

We will see how things go. For now internet is slow but works.

Weight: 325.8

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Windstorm Damage

Posted on October 25, 2025 by larry

Bummer, there is a rain and wind storm going through the area and the power was flickering in my home.

One thing I think got damaged was one of the 3D printers. When I powered it up this was on the display.

The good news it is seems like the controller board is OK because I can access it remotely.

Looks like it will be like that till 5AM tomorrow. I can wait on the printing, nothing urgent, so I powered them off.

Weight: 325.2

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Productive Rest Day

Posted on October 24, 2025 by larry

Sounds like an oxymoron, but today is my day off, got home late last night (more on that in a bit), but got a lot done, including getting some rest, today.

  • Started burn in a some new drives
  • Started printing
  • Got lawn weed and feed
  • The usual backups and finance reconcile
  • Even a nap

Still got more to do this weekend, it is just Friday although feels like a Saturday.

Got home late though, about 2AM slept at 3:30AM, had good luck at casino. I like to think it was my dog seeing I needed a bit of joyful distraction and gave me some fun for a change.

Weight: 326.2

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Badly Needed Weekend

Posted on October 23, 2025 by larry

Yes it is Thursday, but I am off tomorrow. I need the break. I am still not only emotionally recovering (healing) but I am kind of hurt from Tuesday.

Tonight I should be able to sleep in, tomorrow night not so much because there is league XC meet we want to see on Saturday.

But Sunday, I am definitely sleeping in. No Seahawks, they are on a bye, no shots for my dog. Would gladly wake up for him though if he still was around.

Working on todo list, one huge one is to clean up now that my PC is up to Windows 11.

Foot feels better, but this morning wasn’t too sure.

Weight: 327.2

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Custom Launch Pages

Posted on October 22, 2025 by larry

Kind of hate how inconsistent I get between Windows versions and different windows computers I reside on. I finally decided to take a look at custom hta which is close to html enough for me.

So now I created a launching page for my apps that I use a lot

Now I can easily back it up, and move it from computer to computer.

I think I overdid it yesterday, it has been difficult for me to walk around.

Taking a break today. Feels almost like gout.

Weight: 326.2

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