Printing Stickers

Posted on July 25, 2026 by larry

Another expensive hobby, but I think this will all work together to make my project look much better

Also today was Renton River Days, so did not run, I did get some badly needed rest.

Weight: 314.4

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Back At Weight Loss

Posted on July 24, 2026 by larry

Even with my new Creatine, I have been losing weight.

Another milestone reached, I think this weekend there is a chance I will crack 10lbs.

Was going to post on my new label printer, but it is still in the box.

Got a lot to do still. Will post more tomorrow. Also I need detail out a purpose for my Fedora laptop.

There was another weird milestone today. In this work week, all my kids flew on an airplane seperately. Weird milestone but feel like is signals them growing up.

Weight: 310.6

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Personal Maker Space

Posted on July 23, 2026 by larry

Fell into an interesting rabbit hole today, I want to my personal maker space equipped and organized.

Here is what I was thinking (with the help of chatgpt)

  • Bambu P1S
  • Cricut
  • Small CNC router
  • Dymo label maker
  • Black & white laser printer
  • Color laser printer
  • Potential Liene PixCut S1
  • Soldering Station
  • Hot Air Rework Station
  • Laser Engraver
  • Digital Calipers
  • Heat-set insert kit
  • Logic Analyzer

I have most of these items, but wanted to list them here for future reference.

Weight: 313.0

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Treadmill Struggles

Posted on July 22, 2026 by larry

Had a hard time sleeping again, so I got up early and went to the gym.

Got my treadmill workout done early but I was definitely tired so changed up my run to be 1/2 hour at 3.2MPH for the first and 3.3MPH for the second all at a 2.0 incline.

It was tough cause of lack of sleep.

Also I think I been dehydrated, leading to why my heart beats fast and I can’t sleep.

I think my metabolism has started to spike and will finally be losing weight faster.

Shirt has been so soaked with sweat lately.

Weight: 310.8

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More Fedora Fun

Posted on July 21, 2026 by larry

Got a lot going now with my Fedora Linux Laptop. Got it connected to my Internal Samba shares and am able to connect to the primary password database.

Still struggling with mTLS though, aka client side certs.

Office has been hot all day, still hot, I need to drink more water.

But I took the bedroom for a bit, only cool place for me to work at home.

Maybe dining room. But the bedroom has AC.

Weight: 313.0

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Good Plan Bad Execution

Posted on July 20, 2026 by larry

Took a while to troubleshoot what the heck was going on with my network. Finally figured out the new VLAN I set up had 1 switch that had it untagged. Should be tagged.

As I was troubleshooting there was a whole slew of tech debt (moved cables with no documentation or tracking).

I have to reconcile that in the future. I did document the new ports. Also I got way too many switches, I need to get rid of some and consolidate the ports.

Another horrible night sleep. Heart was pumping fast. Note sure why but I was ready to ask my family to take me to the ER.

It passed, so feel ok now.

As I post I did not work out yet, going to hit the gym and work while my son flies back from San Francisco.

Weight: 313.8

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Trouble Sleeping

Posted on July 19, 2026 by larry

I been trying to catch on some sleep, I got 8 hours of sleep last nigh but I was still tired this morning.

All day I was groggy.

Hoping tomorrow I will feel better.

Weight: 314.0

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Almost Disaster

Posted on July 18, 2026 by larry

I was replacing storage on a linux RAID, I was going to resilver my disks and go from 4TB to 8TB.

Disaster hit though and a ran the wrong command and zerod out a drive.

Luckily this is RAID but I was in degraded mode.

Adding disk back, going to take couple hours but it she be done by tomorrow morning.

Another PR for parkrun

Time: 51.05

A fellow runner, Crystal helped keep me going. I was still slow though, she kept up with her dog.

Weight: 314.4

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Small Paradigm Shift

Posted on July 17, 2026 by larry

I am going to focus a bit on intake, maybe for the next 2 months. That would put me at the end of summer.

Was hoping to be under 305 by then.

What I am doing is watching intake more. Also boosting my protein and creatine intake.

I think I got a 1 month supply, we will see.

Weight:313.2

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Continue With Fedora Build

Posted on July 16, 2026 by larry

Found out something new about my wifi, the default is to rotate the MAC, I needed it the same so I chose permanent which used the hardware wifi.

Also got wireguard working. Looks like there are two ways, wg-quick and network manager.

If you go the wg-quick way you can import the config to network manager so that was pretty slick.

Still got a bunch more things to do though.

Weight: 312.8

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