End of Lent

Today is the end of lent, I know it is up to a person to extend past today, and I normally hold off till Easter myself.

Tomorrow I am going to fast again, at more than usual to increased stores.

Speaking of increasing stores, maybe I should buy more filament, doesn’t look like things will ease up soon in the middle east, and even things like filament will be hard to get.

Weight: 320.8

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April Fools 2026

Day was busy, started off with reports we could not log in to work and stuff was down.

I logged in, checked nagios, I thought it was a big joke on me.

Ended up being a real outage. Network filipped from one ISP to another ISP.

Day was just filled with work and meetings. Glad it is over, still more tomorrow though.

Weight: 319.6

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Hope and Progress

Doubt I will be able to run a 1/2 marathon this year, but I do have a real shot at cracking 300 before summer. Summer hits June 21, so I got two months and 20 days, 82 days before it hits. Two pounds every 10 days would get me there.

Also house is getting more organized, I am financially stable, all is good.

Life is looking better.

Also got to do a fulfilling presentation at Puget Sound.

Ordered an HBA that I think will fit the M920Q. AN IBM 9220-9i.

Had a good run on the treadmill at the Y today, for most of the run I was at 3.2MPH and hit 3.3 then did a mile walk.

Busy day, also got my 10,000 steps.

Weight: 316.8

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Another School Visit Tomorrow

Going back the school for more mentorship. It is the Puget Sound Skills Center.

Almost forgot to post tonight. Been busy preparing. I got what I got, not sure if I need anything else. Maybe I got too much stuff.

We will see.

Weight: 319.2

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Rack for Education

Over 10 years ago I wanted to have a mobile rack for training. It was a big monster heavy to load. Too damn heavy, not practicle.

Today I build a smaller one, hoping to see if kids will like it on Tuesday.

Weight is a bit high, I think if I weighed in after I got home would be lighter.

Weight: 320.4

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Major Migration Done

Moved from the old FreeNAS server to the new TrueNAS server.

Wasn’t smooth, let me count the ways

  • for one thing, don’t move the entire pool that has the system folders, it wrecked some havok on the new server
  • Wasted a lot of time moving data I thought was already moved.
  • Although I have the old data, the move is permanent 1 way.
  • I lot of legacy junk could be removed.
  • Home dirs are in a different location.
  • Perms were different
  • Sudoers were different
  • Need to make sure snapshots were still running
  • and backups
  • and monitoring

Calling it done though, not moving back. Will look to replicate some stuff though. Feels like a greenfield environment.

Pushed it with the weight, needed it under 320

Weight: 318.2

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Garage Functional

I want to say the garage is done, but I keep finding little things I want to do.

Need to end this some day, go into normal mode where I do use it but clean up as needed.

I got two active projects on there now, when I clear it out will take a pic.

Concerned about my weight, I second day in a row, I need to trim it under 320 to officially be under 320.

Weight: 322.0

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Consumer Shortage Hitting Me

I am building a couple of things and need a bunch of filament. I ran out a bit on the normal petg black I use, then tried to order on Sunlu store, there was none.

I got two rolls of official Sunlu from Amazon, that buys me time, but I also ordered from Sunlu reseller Yoopai as well.

It is weird how there seems to be a shortage of filament.

What is next?

Weight: 321.2

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NAS Built, Truenas Installed

I got so many little things, I am running out of time.

Was hoping TrueNAS was already up, but there is a good chance I will get it done this weekend.

Initiating a large zfs send, users are there already, after I need to recreate the shares.

Before I go live this weekend I will do 1 final sync.

That is not all, building 3 4U mini racks, printers are busy.

Still working on trying to fit fans on the front of my JBOD, heat did go down a bit after I covered all the holes, but I think I need to go 80mm fans. I ordered them and will try them out.

Weight: 319.6

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Another Big Purchase

I pulled the trigger on a new firewall. I am nervous at the cost, it came to 905.00, but it has everything I need. RAM and storage included.

There was a cheaper version, but no RAM and RAM is where the rub is.

So in 2026 I got a new NAS and a NEW Firewall.

Looks like I will be in major cost trimming mode for the next few weeks.

Pushing to clean and organize the house. A lot of cool things gonna happen, need it clean.

Weight: 319.4

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