Mid Summer Bar B Que

Posted on August 3, 2025 by larry

It is the middle of summer, Blue Angels rocking our area and the Mid Season Bar B Que happened.

So to recap, there is normally a Memorial Day, July 4th and Labor day one. But added this one I think I am going to make it a tradition.

Also The 4th was actually Cajun Seafood.

We set up the hammock and I fell asleep outside again.

The zepbound does curb your appetite, I did not eat much.

I did get the XCA database set up in the lab. It works.

Also decommed a former important box, it was my primary nagios monitor at one point.

Weight: 339.2

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May have to get off Zepbound

Posted on August 2, 2025 by larry

Bummer, my insurance company is saying I am no longer covered by zepbound and I should switch. Such good progress too.

Late getting steps today though, as I post I have 9969 steps, 31 left. Everything else has been met.

I am willing to do the work, not sure why Insurance does not want to help me.

Anyway, what a day, got up late, took son downtown for work.

Blue Angels supposed to be flying, did not see anything, But was out of town half the day.

Got home late and pushed my remaining steps.

Weight: 337.0

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No Lab Work Today

Posted on August 1, 2025 by larry

Not intentional, but I stayed out to the lab today. I think the lab has been off the whole day. But the lab is pretty well off, also today is a Friday got all day tomorrow and Sunday.

Got up early did the normal finance friday thing then took my wife to the the Doctor, and Costco.

Was 2PM when I got home, rested a bit then hit the gym for a great swim.

Just finished swim and about to head out for a night of fun. Still need to shower, no time for lab stuff.

Weight is incredible though.

Weight: 336.6

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Status on Demo Network

Posted on July 31, 2025 by larry

I am going to call home assistant good in my demo network. It is done, I am ok where it is at. Just finished monitoring, specifically nagios as well.

Last thing is the Certificate Services and Securing. But with that, the lab can move forward. In fact on of the things I need to do is a video on setting up XCA, so I will do that.

Frustrating day on the fitness side, I am exactly at 340.0 as I post, all I have to do is change me shirt to something lighter and I will be under 340.0 I am going to hang in there for a bit though. Maybe in an hour I will lose natural weigh by breathing or bathroom.

So maybe for a video this weekend, I will do an XCA and Intro to Lab video.

Weight: 339.0

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Escape Room

Posted on July 30, 2025 by larry

Had an all day “meeting” for my team today. It is true we had some real administrative things to do for the first half of the day, but we all did lunch together at Red Robin in Tukwila.

I spoke to my coworker about being on zepbound, I thought I was on it since April, that is not true I was on it since late May, I weighed in that day at 348.4, 67 days ago. So I am clocking in about a 10lb loss.

I thought I was averaging 5lbs a month, and I am, just not since April.

But the fun thing we did after that was do an Escape Room. First time, I solved on of the puzzles in there but we did not escape in 70 minutes.

Afterwards we were told this was one of the tougher rooms. So we did OK.

When all was done did my swim. Felt pretty goood.

Weight: 338.6

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Exhausting Productive Rewarding Day

Posted on July 29, 2025 by larry

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

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Revisit Linked Clones

Posted on July 28, 2025 by larry

Been exploring cloning in qemu/kvm and looked at cloning images. Building throw away VMs is fast now. Combine that with ansible and it is possible to spin up machines quickly.

Still need to get backups going right.

Kind of exhausted though, need more hours in the day. It is almost 11PM and I have not showered yet.

Still have too much stuff to do.

Weight: 338.4

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Is the Lab Done?

Posted on July 27, 2025 by larry

Serious question I need to ask myself, I keep tweaking it but maybe I should call it done.

I did just go through a rebuild for the PODHOST today because I replaced the physical box, also upgraded KVMHOST with more RAM and faster storage (SSD vs HDD).

Then I did clone images for the LABCLIENTS and PRIME.

As I finished up took a look at perms and cloning on my old lab.

At some point I need to call the lab done.

Glad today was a rest day though. Looks like I did a lot, but I did sleep a lot.

Weight: 339.2

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Low Plans Week

Posted on July 26, 2025 by larry

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

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Weight Reset

Posted on July 25, 2025 by larry

Kind of nice to crack 340 again resetting the clock… er scale.

So technically still under 340.

Was a weird day, I was so tired. Day not done but my workouts are.

Glad the weekend is here, going to Renton River Days Tomorrow after a vet visit.

Should have a slower day tomorrow and a relax day Sunday. Would have time to work on my lab.

Weight: 337.6

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