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One of those days that finished was fulfilling, got a lot done and next thing you know it work was over. I checked my steps and I had less than a thousand. Here I am nearly 11PM and still need about 76 more steps.

After all that I was able to image all my physical computers (except my desktop) for a backup. I really feel like I can finish this lab off by this weekend and finally do some videos.

Nagios and Home Assistant are partially done and XCA and some sort of securing standards need to be done.

Gonna sign off now, actually shutdown the lab. It is hot temperature right now. Need as many things off as possible.

Weight: 339.0

Kind of nice to have a chill afternoon. Not that we did not have any plans. We got home late last night and still had to get up early to take dog to vet.

Afterwards we did our annual Renton River Days visit. No elephant ears, pretty sad on that one.

But still had a decent weigh in, I did come home late last night (which was technically today) and weighed in at 337.4. But did not need any crazy shenanigans’ to keep it under 340.

After RRD I got home with nearly 6000 steps, after a pre dinner walk to get to 10k my weight below is what I hit.

Last night did get my zepbound shot though.

Did get some home server stuff done, looking to get restores going.

Weight: 338.4

Weight is listed below, recall 3 days in a row keeps you at that weight class. Today is the second day.

Also no Zepbound, would have been nice to control my appetite, looks like I am going to write this one off as a week lost.

I did get another ThinkCentre M920q, I ordered some upgrades to it as well. In the end I will have an M900 for my infrastructure server, and M900 for plex and an M920Q for VM host and M920Q for a container host.

As for the lab, I want to call it good. Yes there are some upgrades, but functionality, I think I am ready to do those workshops.

Over the weekend I am going to go through DR maybe even a full rebuild.

Weight: 340.2

Didn’t sleep well but I am amazed what I got done today.

Weight still hanging in there between the 330’s and 340’s but it is holding.

Lab is nearly done, I think this weekend will be a lot of documentation.

But I really need sleep.

Weight: 340.4

Lab has a way to go, it is up and it works, but a lot of little things need to be done. The huge focus now is monitoring.

• Nagios
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• Node Exporter
• InfluxDB
• Telegraf

Then there is home assistant that needs to be cleaned up. It is running but on an volume that needs to be updated.

I did get keypass working, was intrigued by getting it to work with yubikey.

Monitoring is huge though.

Went to Farmer’s market for first time this year, I like it being on a street.

Almost done with my steps, as I post I have 40 more steps.

Weight: 338.8