Upgrade Moving Faster Then Expected

Was thinking of sticking with my Dell T410 for a few more months, but FOMO got the better of me on the new motherboard I wanted.

So I just ordered it. So my main ESXi host will be based on the Supermicro X10DRI-T4+

Saved money on the NIC’s got two of them.

Also got pfsense installed on my new HP T730 based firewall.

Weight: 316.0

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Finally Thin Client As Firewall

Went to the PC recycle store today, and finally found a power supply that will work with my HP T730 plus thin client.

Going to stick with pfsense with it. Don’t feel like redoing things with opensense.

All I can say is finally.

Weight: 312.8

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Knee Getting Better

But I want to take it easy.

Going to rest another day or two.

Finally installed proxmox, didn’t like being on a VM, got weird problems.

Lab is coming together though.

Weight: 311.4

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Lab Stack Up

Back working on the lab, got two clients up.

Now I am working on getting the servers up. Maybe even prox mox.

Slowly getting better too. May even do 12k steps tomorrow.

Weight: 316.0

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Xray on Knee

Had an x-ray done on my knee today, the results came in, not sure how to interpret it, but looks like it is a mild injury.

We’ll see how it goes.

Got a massager today, hopefully it will help with my IT band issues. Initial try says yes.

Purchased some lower end parts for another new ESXi host. May be built sooner than later.

Weight is disappointing, not walking will start to affect me.

Weight: 317.0

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May Be An Injury

Finally saw a doctor today, looks like two things are going on, the first is relatively easy, an IT band issue, I have had it in the past.

The next thing is my knee, Doctor thinks it is either an arthritis issue or a meniscus tear.

I think it is a tear. I will try to schedule an x-ray tomorrow to see what is up.

Weight was done in the evening, I think I was lighter this morning but I did not record it.

Weight: 316.2

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Accepting Injury

I am injured, I just need to face it. As much as I want to keep walking, I am just making it worse for myself.

Tomorrow going to schedule a doctor appointment.

Weight: 313.4

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Non Work Stuff

Seems like I was able to avoid work stuff today.

Chilled out a lot and did not do much.

Relaxing, and did watch son run XC but for the most part was stress low day.

There was an issue with a flat tire, but Les Schwab hooked us up for free and for the most part did not miss a beat today.

Weight: 313.0

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Smoke In Atmosphere

There is visible smoke in the air and it is hard to walk.

Was hard to walk today, been busy though, a lot of things to do.

But got it done. I notice when I do these walks, I definitely sleep better.

Weight: 310.4

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Walking Again Sleeping Better

After a week break, the walk is starting to make me tired again.

So I think I am going to sleep better.

A little late post, was in bed, forgot.

Got my backup server to 10Gb networking, just need my two media servers then I got all of the important boxes.

Weight: 310.4

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