Seahawks Win In A Thiller

Thursday night football and the Seahawks played against division rival Cardinals, and Seahawks won. Away game in Arizona where bad things have happened to the Seahawks in the past so a good win.

One thing nice was being able to walk and listen to the game. So no Sunday game.

Tomorrow, I am not going to swim, I want to hit the treadmill and see how things go.

Relatively busy at work today, tomorrow we will be short staffed, so on the eye out.

Weight: 332.0

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Trying Out OpnSense Firewall

We will see how it goes, still configuring, a lot of new today.

Another change happening really soon is moving to wireguard, already implemented tailscale.

Finally, got new glasses, still in the container, I tried on my spares from 2023 and they are clear.

Probably not swimming Friday, I am doing an on call for someone else and dont want to risk it. Besides, I want to see how the treadmill goes, I feel like swimming is better.

Also, back under 330

Weight: 329.8

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Laziness Kicking In

The past few days I been kind of lazy and not wanting to work out, today is probably the worst. I think part of it is not sleeping right.

I been sleeping late and not getting 8 hours of sleep.

I am posting now then headed to the airport to gets some steps. It is dark out, may do more of these the rest of the year.

Weight: 330.2

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Back Above 330

Bummer, scale showed above 330 for 3 days so officially over 330.

Relatively busy day though, and I did get a good working. Planning a trip to Molokai next week. Last minute fast one.

Tired, gonna rest now. But I did have a good swim.

Weight: 331.0

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End Of Summer 2025

Technically still summer, tomorrow will be last day, but we are going to go to the Washington State Fair. I got the tickets at least.

Going to go with a mission, because it will be late and we don’t have that much time.

Dropping off son to school right after.

Good weekend, Seahawks Won by a lot, Huskies won the Apple Cup by a lot, moved services to a cheaper box, cracked 330 officially.

Hoping tomorrow I will hit under 330 keeping my streak going.

Edit: Adding this after going to the fair. I lost my keys at the fair, but I was able to locate it because of the tile attached to it last year. I dunno if I feel stupid for losing my keys or smart for having a tile on it.

Weight: 332.8

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Production VMs on KVM

Pretty big accomplishment, the first was a simple DNS server, then was a little bit harder with the main LDAP server. But the tough one, which I knew was going to be it was the Unifi Network Application server. I decided on the container route for both the Mongo DB and the application server itself.

A mix of forums, chatgpt, and what I knew got me through it and now I am on the latest version 9.4.19 on a VM using a container.

Bonus is that I was able to backup and restore my old settings making it simple.

This allowed me to upgrade home assistant because it needed an updated UniFi controller.

As a bonus I was able to update firmware for the Access Points and couple IoT devices.

Summer definitely coming to an end, getting colder.

Weight went back up, got two more days to bring it down to keep it official.

Weight: 331.6

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Officially Under 330

Three consecutive days of being under 330 makes it official, I am under 330. No weirdness too like wearing light clothes or fasting a day and weighing in right before and after midnight to get two days. This was legit (all my weight crosses are legit I just thought about doing it).

Thinking about going to Washington State Fair, may just be a token visit though.

Tomorrow or Sunday I will need to upgrade my ubiquiti server though. Kind of nervous.

Big weekend.

Weight: 329.6

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Playing With QEMU KVM

Now that I got 1 QEMU server going, planning on getting more. Probably another production one and a development one.

It is cool, I got a pair of Linux templates on my QEMU server now and am ready to move production workloads to QEMU.

Need to start tracking VMs like how I did in the VM upgrade.

Weight: 328.4

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First Production KVM Host

Got my first production KVM host built, this is based on a Lenovo M910Q, has a quality NVME storage for VMs and a cheaper 256GB SSD for the OS. There is a USB Ethernet for management while the onboard one has VLAN tags.

This is running Rocky 9, an OS I can manage well.

Weight: 329.6

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Vlans on QEMU-KVM

Cool. I figured out how to configure my KVM host to use a trunked VLAN for multiple subnet access. I can now land a VM on any subnet. Still reviewing if my process is right but here is a script.

#!/bin/bash
VMINT="en0"
VLANINT="vmnetwork"
BRIDGE="vmbridge"
VLANTAG=199

# Bridge should already exist but here is how to create it
nmcli connection add type bridge \
  ifname ${BRIDGE} \
  con-name ${BRIDGE}

# Attach VLAN interface to the bridge
nmcli connection add type vlan \
  ifname ${VLANINT}${VLANTAG} \
  con-name ${VLANINT}${VLANTAG} \
  dev ${VMINT} id ${VLANTAG} \
  master ${BRIDGE}

nmcli con mod ${BRIDGE} ipv4.method "disabled"
nmcli con mod ${BRIDGE} ipv6.method "disabled"

cat << ENDOFFILE > $VLANINT.xml 
<network>
  <name>'$VLANINT'</name>
  <forward mode='bridge'/>
  <bridge name='$BRIDGE'/>
</network>
ENDOFFILE

virsh net-define ${VLANINT}.xml
virsh net-start ${VLANINT}
virsh net-autostart ${VLANINT}

Really cool, another step towards bailing on ESXi.

Weight: 330.6

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