New Systems

New laptop for son, new server for me. So a lot to work on.

Finished my son’s laptop today, Windows 11 Pro, so kind of new to me.

But my HP X840 came in yesterday, started building it today.

It actually came with a hard drive, NVME on a card, and it was compatible with ESXi 7.0

Got this one error I am trying to figure out though.

Weight: 313.4

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Seahawks Beat Russell Wilson

This was a Monday night game, RW 3 returned to Seattle.

It was a great game, Seattle won, barely.

Seahawks aren’t that great but pulled it off.

Weight: 316.0

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Son’s New Laptop

Son got a new laptop today, an HP Envy X360. Looks cools, gonna spend some time setting it up this week.

First system in house that has Windows 10.

Did last minute 12,000 steps, need to spread it out more during the day.

Weight: 316.6

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Wenatchee Picnic Cut Short

Went to Wenatchee to meet up with my daughter who was camping there. Just a day trip for fun.

But there is a fire in the area, we weren’t rushed off, but we did get text messages warning us on what was going on.

SMS Warnings

We saw the fire in the background

Fire At Wenatchee

So we took prudent action and went home early.

Spend a lot of the night trying to get my steps.

Weight: 315.2

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Smoke Season

More smoke again, had to do my steps with a Mask today.

Spent a lot of time catching up on emails, but got time to chat with coworkers regarding flying.

I think we will be flying more.

Weight: 317.4

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Las Vegas 2022 Trip Summary

In no particular order here are somethings I learned on this trip

  • It was really really hot, like up to 114 degrees, and it was draining, if I was not in an area with AC, I was moving slower, especially when directly in the Sun. Got cooler in the way home.
  • Hotel sucked but saving money made it easier to bear
  • Like our last trip to Vegas, we won on the last day.
  • Show was OK, we watched 0, ka and zakara was better.
  • I like how our flight worked out , leave early like at 8AM gave us a day to do stuff.
  • Return flight at 2:30 put us at checkout at 11am
  • Felt like our time was not wasted.
  • Need a hat or shirt saying “I am not interested in timeshares.” My vacation time was not worth the timeshare pitch.
  • MGM had an app that made things easier
  • Google maps does not help with casino Floorplan, It was nice finding stuff at Random, but there were times I needed to get to places.
  • Ended on last games cashing out more than I put in.
  • Water was expensive, you can ask for free water in a cup.
  • Mobile phone wasn’t useless on plane, downloaded spotify playlist, had movies but did not watch, learned to use onenote

On a sad note, UK Queen Elizabeth died today.

Lookie her, I lost weight, and I went to a buffet last night.

Weight: 314.6

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Finale to the trip

Capped of a quick getaway with some shopping, a buffet and a show.

Sprinkled with some gambling throughout.

Three nights is about right.

Miss home, but still had a ton of fun.

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Busy Day Checking out Vegas

It was a good day, started off the day with a meeting for work.

After that checked out the hotels near us and purchased some tickets to a show.

We saw new York new York, bellagio, Harrah and the Venetian.

Had a pretty expensive late lunch, but made our way to Fremont.

On bus now as I post going back to hotel,

got my steps in for sure and made sure my floors are done too.

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Being Irresponsible

I am in Vegas right now, so you can guess from the title that I am not really being frugal.

Living it up, eating bad, barely got my fitbit goals, not wearing a mask.

Kind of need to enjoy life.

Weight: 320.4

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Problems With Upgrades

This was fun (NOT!). I am going on a trip tomorrow and yesterday I had the bright idea of patching some critical systems.

Samba broke, so I was not able to access files, also kind of broke was authentication.

Then my zoneminder broke too.

Both related to upgrade. I knew to run zmupgrade.pl after the patching but looks like I needed to run zmupgrade.pl -f as well.

Samba was more interesting, apparently creds and usernames are stored in multiple places, sssd, nscd, tbd, winbind/idmap.

Figured it out. On top of that I broke wifi trying to update firmware.

Need to go to bed now, got an early flight tomorrow.

Weight:: 318.4

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