Goal Setting

Posted on July 20, 2025 by larry

Today I did a few things but I did wake up late. With that said I need to focus on what I need to do. I need a new or to review my goals.

I have a to do list and I random goals but no plan. My schedule is a mess. I need a planning day.

Weight: 339.0

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Non Tech Day

Posted on July 19, 2025 by larry

For the most part today was a low tech day. I did a few things, but my plans didn’t go as how I was thinking, wasn’t bad though.

Originally I was planning to get a chunk of my steps in the morning, but came across Renton Tech and they had a trash collection event.

A little backstory, the past few weeks, Republic Services, the company that picks up our trash had its staff go on strike. This left a lot of trash in people’s homes and my wife was concerned.

In my morning walk I came across a long line of cars waiting to go in to RTC to throw their trash in some collection event.

After my walk I was going to RePC then we were going to go North for some shrimp.

Found out the event was till noon and it was near 10AM. I told my wife I was scrapping the plan to go to RePC and instead, rebag the garbage (it was nasty) and drop it off.

Then we did our trip north.

One surprising thing is my weight. I am happy, officially under 340.

Weight: 337.4

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Things Going Better Today

Posted on July 18, 2025 by larry

I feel better today, got a lot done and had a great swim.

I am continuing to work my 10″ Rack project.

Got some fasteners for the cables in the back, they look ugly, looks like bird wings.

Anyway, it is working, better access.

For the lab itself, I redid all of the Windows 11 Labclients and created Clonezilla images. Hoping this will speed up rebuilds.

Two days in a row under 340, one more makes it official.

Weight: 339.0

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Time For Myself

Posted on July 17, 2025 by larry

Fasted long walk I can remember. I wanted some peace for myself after an emotion filled day.

Fought with a family member, or more so I got angry at them.

I took a nice long walk, I was under 1000 steps so I needed some time and to decompress and be by myself.

It was good for my mental health. I did get my fitbit goals.

On the tech front, got more stuff figured out, nagios w/ LDAP authentication, XRDP in guacamole and the new power supplies for the Lenovo came in and it all fits. Need to monitor heat though.

Finally on the physical health front, I didn’t believe my eyes.

Weight: 339.6

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Butterfly Effect

Posted on July 16, 2025 by larry

Amazing how one thing leads to another and a cascading domino effect.

I was hoping to post today how fun it was to meet my coworkers on our annual Coulon (or where ever) meeting. It was fun no doubt.

Or how I am going through my documentation on building a guacamole box. That is going well, can’t seem to get RDP to work for Linux though.

Instead I am posting how a misplaced shampoo lead to a locked car.

So I went swimming today, and as I was showering after my swim, I noticed my shampoo was gone. So that is the genesis of all this, I lost shampoo bottle. Not a big deal, it was used, not a full loss, nor was it expensive, $7.16. I took some time to ask lost and found, then I ended up ordering a new bottle in the parking lot so I could get one before my Friday swim.

I then go to order food. This slight delay made me late in getting to the restaurant. It closed at 8:30 and I was there at 8:47, so I grab my duffle bag and threw it in the back of my car so it wouldn’t be exposed. This was effect #2, late for restaurant.

But my car keys was in my duffle bag and it (the car assumed I had it on my person) so it locked the car with my keys in it. Funny how that all led to getting locked out of my car.

At least I discovered the batteries in the spare were dead, so new ones were put in them. At least next time our car keys will be fully functional. Luckily there was a backup physical key that pops out I could use.

At least the swim got me closer the the weight I was expecting.

Weight: 342.0

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Walking Away From A Problem

Posted on July 15, 2025 by larry

Starting to add more stuff to my demo network, I got hung up on guacamole install.

Try and try, fight and fight, couldn’t figure it out.

Took a step back, walked away for 9k steps (only had 1k as of 8PM) and when I got back, instantly found the answer.

Sometimes you need to walk away.

Weight: 342.8

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Fast Day

Posted on July 14, 2025 by larry

Wondering what happened today, things just flew by. I recall waking up, going to work, next thing you know it is lunch.

Then breaking to go to gym and now it is nearly midnight and I am posting so late.

I am tired had a good day though. Still need to shower.

I did get some more of my demo network up. Working on guacamole in a VM. Harder than I recall.

Weight: 345.0

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Good Time To Print

Posted on July 13, 2025 by larry

Taking my first shot at printing in PETG. It is summer hot, and I think it will print well. Going to reprint all of the rackmounts in my server rack.

Spent most of the day getting a test google account going which will be used in conjunction with my new lab setup.

Then I continued with the odds and ends in the lab setup.

Got QEMU Installed on both the prime server and the KVM host.

InfluxDB, Prometheus (on a different port) and telegraf are installed as well.

Had problems with LDAP, looks like a cert issue, cleartext worked.

That was fun but should sleep early.

Weight: 346.6

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10″ Rack is Nearly Done

Posted on July 12, 2025 by larry

Took 4 days of my spare time (got a Full Time job) but I am done. Most of the future changes will be aesthetics, like color coded cables or keystones. But it looks good.

Will post more details, but it is looking clean.

Getting better wiring to clean things up as well

But that is more aesthetic and not so much functional other than easy color coded access.

Note that the Router is not going to be there permanently.

Still mulling over ideas for the keystone patch panel. But I do have a 1G Smart PoE switch

Not sure about shoving all the power supplies in the drawer

People will ask how much does it cost to power this, it is currently drawing 100Watts, including the router

So would be over $130 per year in my area

Now to figure out the other mess

I should be able to start rebuilding and documenting the home server.

Weight: 341.4

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Gonna Sleep Well Tonight

Posted on July 11, 2025 by larry

Didn’t sleep well last night, got home late, and I did work today so I did not get a decent rest day. I did swim and will be tired.

As I post it is late and sloe to midnight, hope to sleep deep and long.

I did a few things with my new rack, got the KVM host build, I need to redo it to make sure I got my documentation right.

Weight: 340.8

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