Election Day 2026

I don’t get political on this blog, just calling out that today millions of Americans voted. Our household did.

But enough of that

The real story today was that our cat Autumn took a turn for the worse. Hoping the steriods help her last till the past the holidays, but quality of life will not get better.

Weight: 309.6

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Seahawks Lost Bad

I was distracted during the game, I was actually working out in the gym so I was only listening and did not see the game.

But it was brutal, gonna suck the next few days.

Also, it was harder to run when trying to listen to the game, I could not key in on my workout. I managed 3.6 in the treadmill but it was pretty slow.

Weight: 307.6

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Need To Lay Off Casino For A Bit

Maybe not cold turkey, but limit my time there to the length of a single football game.

It does chew up money, but mostly time which to me nowadays is more valuable.

With that said, this is a late post, actual time is 1:19AM Monday but back timing it for two hours.

Did get a lot done though

One thing was to get the light connections protected from the elements.

Weight: 310.6

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Halloween 2026

Better turnout this year, I did not get an exact count but I would say about 20 to 30 kids, in about 5 or 6 different groups. Not huge but fun.

Lights was kind of cool, one group of kids commented positively of it.

It is 10PM as I post, I have an extra hour of sleep tonight due to daylight savings.

Got my steps done early when I went to park run with our dog.

My daughter walked with the dog and did it in an hour, I normally would beat that time, but I needed rest so just got my mile walk done early.

Weight: 308.6

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Pre Halloween Dressup

No pictures to post, but family, 7 of us dressed up to go to the Landing and show off our Mario cosplay. Was kind of fun.

I went as wario.

Busy day at work though, but in the end had fun. Also completed the WLED lighting. No can work on signage.

Weight: 308.4

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RIP Patrick Stewart

One of my favorite actors passed today, Patrick Stewart who played the iconic Jean Luc Picard on Star Trek the Next Generation. He also played Professor X in the X-Men Movie series.

You will be missed.

I need some rest, real rest, not sleep but time to heal. My body ran a fast 4.0 Friday, a 5k parkrun Saturday, had to do a lot of work around the house Saturday and Sunday. By Monday I could feel myself breaking down and getting tired.

At least I got three days of rest if I do not do Park Run. Because today I did moved my normal Friday workout to today. Which added to my need for recovery.

Tomorrow we got some Halloween pictures to do.

On a lighter note

Ice cream that looked like fried chicken, it is so wrong but family liked it. I liked the mango ice cream.

Weight: 305.8

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Small Christmas Stars

Still working on my small parol star. Found some lights to use, hoping I figured the correct place to cut.

More to show, will be able to work on this over the weekend.

Today I had to split my 1 hour run into two, I actually went longer because of the extra 5 minute cool down. I had to use the bathroom. It is what it is.

Weight: 306.4

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Holidays Start Soon

I feel like Halloween kicks off the holiday’s ending with Presidents Day. There is a decent gap between Halloween and Thanksgiving with a similar spread between MLK and Presidents Day.

Furthermore I have a mandatory day off I need to pick.

Maybe should give out oranges this year. Just kidding.

Any candy left over gets consumed in house, and that is a problem because I want to crack 300 before end of year.

Weight: 309.4

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Finally Patching All My Machines

My internal Rocky 9 repo finally has all of the php updates that were vulnerable.

My external sites were offline till I got php upgraded there via internet repos.

Happy I got my internal systems patched and they should be done in a few minutes.

Workout was rough today, I tried to go 3.8MPH but had to drop down to as slow at 3.5 for part of my run.

Recall this weekend I did a lot, I need a vacation from the weekend.

Weight: 308.6

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Accomplished Weekend

Wow, did a lot this weekend.

Got an early workout done Friday, purchased some new sweat pants and shirts.

Saturday did parkrun, got lights started.

Today, we finished the Eufy lights

The lightbulbs were replaced from TP Link Kasa to Third Reality Zigbee bulbs.

Note the holiday curtains too, it is displaying pumpkins.

Those were govee curtains not connected to home assistant.

I am good with the lights we have now till we put up the real Christmas lights.

Also Seahawks won. So did we at Casino. Good weekend.

Weight: 307.4

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