Labor Day 2025

Posted on September 1, 2025 by larry

We had a bar b que planned today, one interesting thing was getting to the Bar B Que pick up place, met a guy named Bryan that shares a lot of the same techie journey have.

He had pfsense, ubiquity and knew what CentOS is. I overheard him talking to his buddy about filament, while I was researching how to fix my problem with the new P1P I got.

The line at Bar B Que took 90 minutes. I would normally be bored but having some stranger to discuss techie topics made it go by fast.

Speaking of my printer, found out the problem, I dropped it to a the same firmware as my other P1S and things worked as I wanted.

Didn’t crack 330, also lost a lot of time and didn’t finish some To Do’s I wanted to do.

Since I started on zepbound I have yet to crack 330 and it has been nearly 100 days. Also I have only lost 15lbs, it is NOT insignificant, but I am not going to make my goals going this slow.

Weight: 333.8

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Another Bambu 3D printer

Posted on August 31, 2025 by larry

Now I am rocking

Got another 3d printer from facebook marketplace.

Before I can continue printing though, I need to reorganize my area. If I were to get serious with a print farm (or hit the next level) I would get a larger format one.

Another thing my by the minions, things that print smaller stuff, that may be next. I need to figure it out with my workflow.

I need to commit some time to cleaning up though. Weekend running out of hours. But I did get a lot done.

Sad that I probably will not crack 330 this month.

Weight: 334.2

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Researching A Print Farm

Posted on August 30, 2025 by larry

Contemplating setting up a print farm at home. Going to need to rearrange some stuff in the garage but I think we can do it.

Woke up late, needed the rest. Tomorrow is going to be a lot of cleaning and organizing.

Weight: 332.4

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Pushing Past Today

Posted on August 29, 2025 by larry

Was a pretty busy day but made worse by coming home late last night.

Got home around 3AM and still got up at 8 to get my todo lists done.

A little beat up, I went to the doctors, harbor freight and RePC.

After I got home still had some appointments to schedule and ate some lunch.

Got my swim in, but the facility will be closed for a little over a week.

Good news is I got a lot done, and it is day 1 of 4.

I was hoping to crack 330 today but I did not.

Weight: 333.6

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Oh So Close

Posted on August 28, 2025 by larry

I am not going to make it to 330 officially before end of month, there is a low chance, but I got so close.

Today I nearly cracked 330 but I didn’t have much to eat. Not sustainable.

We will see tomorrow, it is going to be tough getting under 330 and staying under for 3 days.

Weight: 330.2

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Tough Day

Posted on August 27, 2025 by larry

Got bad news regarding my dog, he is blind and injured. Looks like need to crate him for the next few weeks.

He woke up yelping this morning at 5AM, and we were not able to go back to sleep.

Which was fine because I began shutdown procedures of my network prior to the scheduled power outage.

Boy did I feel unprepared though, all systems went down OK, but I need a more systematic way of bringing things back up.

The portable power packs worked well. Gave me enough run time.

I thought it was going to give me more run time, but it held up.

I am tired right now, went swimming, the outage, early wakeup, vet visit and swim took a toll.

Weight: 333.6

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Power Outage Tomorrow

Posted on August 26, 2025 by larry

There is a looming scheduled power outage tomorrow. Been researching what needs to be protected. When I wake up tomorrow I will need to shutdown everything.

Feels like the calm before the store. Outage is scheduled for couple of hours about 6.5 hours, good time to test fridge battery.

Charging all mobile devices and power packs as well.

Weight: 333.6

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Four Day Workweek Four Day Weekend

Posted on August 25, 2025 by larry

Got to compress my work schedule for the next two weeks. Got a lot to do both at work and for home.

Need to organize, deploy some servers, print another rack or two. Busy

Still need to get my swim and steps in. Hoping my weight can get close to 300 before end of year, also noticed that my weight on the two days ago on the 23 was my lowest weight this year.

Weight: 336.2

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Custom 3D Models

Posted on August 24, 2025 by larry

Doing some custom 3D models, hoping to come up with a line of things that are consistent between different models of things that go into a rack.

So far I been using other people’s models, I kind of want to do my own.

My son is doing the drawing, hoping he can keep it up.

Weight: 334.8

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Heat In 1U racks

Posted on August 23, 2025 by larry

Went to RePC today to see if they can loan me some equipment and they did. Loaned me a Lenovo M90Q, dang what an impressive piece of tech. Unfortunately no review for it. No power supply, just a fitting. Also cost was $500 high for my taste.

As I post I have not made my steps yet. Vowing not to make the same mistake last time of being a little short.

Weight cracked 333 today, barely.

Amazing last year on this date I was 332.0 Little more this year.

Weight: 332.8

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