Kind of hate how inconsistent I get between Windows versions and different windows computers I reside on. I finally decided to take a look at custom hta which is close to html enough for me.
So now I created a launching page for my apps that I use a lot
Now I can easily back it up, and move it from computer to computer.
I think I overdid it yesterday, it has been difficult for me to walk around.
Taking a break today. Feels almost like gout.
Weight: 326.2
Recall yesterday I took a break. Today I went and got 10000 steps and 10 floors and got my fitbit steps in.
It was a beautiful day that marks a week after losing Toto.
Weight: 326.0
I think what did it was upgrading the bios and updated some of the motherboard drivers. After I did that I ran the upgrade and found myself at Windows 11 a few hours later.
I did not sleep well though. So I was kind of hurting in the morning. I am going to sleep early tonight.
I did not go to gym either, technically it has not been a week yet since my pets passing, but the real reason was my wife felt sick and no one was there to help her.
Couple other things
Mariners lost, so no World Series, but Seahawks won.
I have a hard drive that seems to be steadily failing. The reallocated Sector count has been going up. So I took immediately formatted a drive I had and began copying data to it.
Ordered two more drives that will go into my backup server. For my new NAS. I want to have emergency excess capacity.
Weight: 327.8
Got a lot done today but one huge hangup was trying to upgrade my main rig to Windows 11. Been struggling for weeks now, but I think I found the problem.
First off the things I did that probably didn’t help
It is that last step that kind of got me pointed to the right direction. The memcheck I had supported UEFI but I noticed my BIOS has CSM enabled. As I post, I am trying another upgrade but this time in UEFI mode.
A google search says CSM should be powered off.
I am posting on an alternate machine, but I should see if the upgrade is done and will be back to posting on my main machine tomorrow.
Weight: 327.8
Tomorrow I am highly considering redoing my entire desktop. Starting fresh.
Gonna try a few things first though, gonna strip down everything, most usb and start from scratch.
This will keep me busy. Sign of a new start. Therapy to move on. There will be shadows of the past, but this may be the restart that my life needs.
Weight: 325.6
House is going to get bad this weekend. My sister said to keep busy. I do have a list of things to do.
Going to try and go to casino tonight.
Side note, this was a draft I discovered Saturday, did not post. Back posting to Friday
Weight: 326.0
Unfortunately, I had to get back on ambien, because my sleep cycles are bad. I keep thinking of my friend, the house is unreal without him.
I found a new way to cope though, planning out some goals. I told me son, by May, if I can be under 270 and he is able to run, we should train for the Seattle Half Marathon.
We will see how that goes. We did have a family gettogether and was able to be in each other’s company.
Weight: 324.0
It has been a rough day with a missing soul in the home. Everyone left in the house is hurting emotionally. But at least Toto is not hurting physically, at the end he had diabetes, was bumping in to things and decline was speeding up.
The house is quiet, I was glad that my wife called in sick because it helped with the loneliness I was feeling.
Then my youngest son, still hurting himself, went to work because he needed the distraction. He also headed back to school after work.
I take solace that my wife has the next two days off, and when the weekend arrives my son will be back.
I myself tried to engage with work. But the pain is distracting, not just my own but my family.
We did make it through, and there is support, Monday when I am truly alone at home may be the worst. I am probably going to go in to the office.
An interesting note regarding my weight, I intentionally did not post yesterday to honor Toto. But I did weigh in at 322.4, last time I was that low was in late 2022 which is outside the current database. I marked yesterday as a milestone not for the weight though, but for my dog. I am leaving that milestone for him.
Cracking 320 before end of month is achievable, which makes cracking 310 before end of year achievable as well. That makes it possible to be running by March. Last time I was under 300 was when we went to the Philippines.
Today my weight went up a bit though, and it is actually a good thing. This super rapid weight loss is bad.
Weight: 322.6
Happened fast, this morning woke up to some vomit on the floor and pee with blood in it. My wife said it may be time. It was coming too, his diabetes, some eye infection, at least we got to all say goodbye.
So instead of waiting a week and seeing him suffer we decided to move up his date to tomorrow.
Tomorrow there will not be much of a post, but today, as tired as I was, wife came home early and she and I took Toto out for one last “pasyal.”
It was a good day, it was sunny, not too hot, leaves are starting to fall, but not all over the ground.
We drove out to Newcastle Beach, looped around Coulon Park a few times, then went around to Lake Washington, to Alki Beach and on to Issaquah.
He gets to eat whatever he wants, chicken nuggets, ribeye steak.
Tomorrow, no more pain, no more shots, he will be free and the healing can begin with the rest of us.
I went from 332.4 to what it today. That is a lot for 1 week. Nearly 10 punds.
Weight: 323.0
