Daughter Got Her Degree

Posted on June 23, 2023 by larry

Today we celebrated my daughter getting her degree. It is an AS, and she will continue working towards her 4 year degree and maybe farther.

I appreciate the fact that she wants to see how it goes in her field,

I keep telling the story that I was originally supposed to be in civil engineering. I took my first programming class in Fortran and I was hooked.

What I also didn’t say was during this time I discovered that you can get data from other over a modem. I recall using pclink and compuserve. Led me to who I am.

So I wish my daughter to find out what works for her and I hope it works well.

Weight: 338.6

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Disk Check Done

Posted on June 22, 2023 by larry

The badblocks scan of my new DIY JBOD is done, unfortunately 3 disks were bad, one of them really bad.

Also forgot to mention RHEL is no longer providing source code to non customers.

Not sure how that is going to work with Rocky and Alma Linux.

Also got my Sonoff 433Mhz actually working and in use. I see it picking up 433Mhz signals.

Weight: 336.6

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Summer Solstice 2023

Posted on June 21, 2023 by larry

Summer starts, longest day of the year.

It was finally nice again, hoping it holds, hoping it is really summer and we can do stuff.

Unfortunately, I was really beat and tired. Only ate once today, so I earned a snack, but I was so tired.

I slept for 3 hours. So something going on, I ask myself if I am sleeping well.

Anyway, like last year we just got out of a 3 day weekend.

Weight: 366.6

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Ruined My Bench

Posted on June 20, 2023 by larry

I think I damaged my motherboard on my bench today.

Kind of sucks.

Anyway, I may have to get parts to build another bench.

I may look at another brand of motherboard.

Weight: 336.8

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Happy Juneteenth 2023

Posted on June 19, 2023 by larry

back to back holidays nice. But Juneteenth is a day off for me so woopie.

Got a lot done today, I went to bed really late last night, fixed a cable that was bugging me and finally started the burnin on 16 four TB drives.

Said goodbye to the fax machine. It served me well.

Nostalgia is high, but I don’t need it anymore. My printer scanner can fax if needed.

Weight: 337.0

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Father’s Day 2023

Posted on June 18, 2023 by larry

It was a good Father’s day, kids made me a great dinner and we spent some time together.

One of the ingredients to being a father is kids, and I got some great ones.

I guess you can say this was some late spring cleaning, but the garage looks great. Being able to move stuff around is nice. I was able to easily rearrange the garage to suite my needs.

There is way way more stuff to do still.

I started on my office as well. I really need it cleaned by tomorrow though. I can’t keep working this way.

Weight: 337.4

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Not Too Much Work Yet

Posted on June 17, 2023 by larry

Got my steps in, but started the day really late.

I think I needed the rest, but as I post my legs are aching.

Will rest early though. Charge the next two days.

Weight: 337.0

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Weekend Work Started Early

Posted on June 16, 2023 by larry

This is a 3 day weekend and I started it early.

Not relaxing but doing the work I scheduled to do.

I finally flashed some HBA cards I had, now working on dual booting a utility box with FreeDOS and CentOS 7 (which has compatible software)

It is interesting.

Weight: 338.6

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Needing Another Rest Day

Posted on June 15, 2023 by larry

I can’t seem to keep up the pace of work I am doing, I think I need to lessen they days and increase the intensity.

Looks like I will have to go to the gym.

Weight: 338.6

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Grafana Meetup

Posted on June 14, 2023 by larry

Met some folks from grafana and had a meetup.

This week was grafanacon and got a lot discussed,

But it did take my evening up and I did not have a good walk because it was dark,

Anyway I did get it done. I also recorded my time this morning

Did 1 RTC lap started at 212 steps and ended with 3481 so had 3269 steps.

Got 3 floors in during the walk which was just 1 real lap from home to home.

Took 38:02 minutes and ended at 8:27AM

This is for future reference.

Weight: 337.0

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