Demo NAS Up

Posted on January 11, 2026 by larry

My 2026 demo project is up, recall last year was the home server, this year it is a NAS

I will begin to document how to build one.

Weight: 326.2

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Getting Foot Into Local LLM

Posted on January 10, 2026 by larry

Purchased an RTC 5060 ti with 16GB of VRAM with the sole intent of using it to learn openllama.

Of course this leads to a rabbit hole like is my gear up to the task. I am wondering if I need a new motherboard and or CPU.

Or maybe a sign to rotate my gear, bring in new faster machine, and this one in front of me becomes an AI box.

Another thing I did today was figure out was for my Demo NAS, the chipset matters for smart, luckily I had another nvme to sata adapter and it works. The hard drives all appear normal.

Only 6 channels though, I need 8. Oh well it works enough.

Weight: 326.6

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Places Close Time Marches On

Posted on January 9, 2026 by larry

We had one last dinner at this Little Peking, a Chinese Fusion food place near me.

Sign was broken for a long time, but the place was clean.

Food was great today, not sure if they wanted to go out with a bang or not leave anything.

Talked to the owner, she remembers us, we tipped well. May be just another place, but kind of impressed. Owner been there for 10+ years, the place itself been there for 30+ years.

But in a few days it will be closed. Got our last taste and said goodbye.

Weight: 324.6

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Still Getting Ready for 2026

Posted on January 8, 2026 by larry

Feeling like I don’t have a plan for 2026, I kinda of do, but I have not reflected on what is ahead of me.

  • I kinda know how much weight I need to lose
  • I kinda know where we are financially
  • I kinda know what I want to do around the house
  • I kinda know what things I want to make

I just have not had the time to reflect and push for it.

No Seahawks this weekend, so I got time this weekend.

Weight: 322.0

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Disappointed With NVME to SATA

Posted on January 7, 2026 by larry

Recall yesterdays post regarding the NVME to SATA adapter

Doesn’t work as expected, it seems to struggle. Can’t even get temp or smart info. Kind of sad. Searching for a new solution.

Weight: 325.0

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Demo NAS Coming Together

Posted on January 6, 2026 by larry

Made some significant progress on my demo NAS. I will have more pics later, but currently have USB SATA connections to the JBOD.

Didn’t work as expected, SMART just broken

Both temp and smart do not give any information.

I will give this one a try tonight.

Will report on it tomorrow.

Weight: 327.0

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Back To Work 2026

Posted on January 5, 2026 by larry

Had my first official day for 2026 today, felt like a grind really sluggish. I thought as the day wore on I would gain momentum. Not so, my head was still in vacation mode.

So I kickstarted it with a bit of authoring some ansible playbooks just to get started. I had a meeting with my manager and have a big January to start off.

Also converted one of my machines from R8 to R9, I then realized that it was a physical box because it was a time server. Time does drift in a VM, maybe technology is better, but can’t take the chance. Luckily, there are other boxes that can do the job.

Forgot to mention, for this month, I am going to do a minimum of a 1 mile outdoor walk every day. This is on top of any swim or gym workout.

Weight: 325.8

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Moving Back To Garage

Posted on January 4, 2026 by larry

Not sure this is a workable goal in 2026, but I was thinking about moving a lot of the fabrication back to the garage.

I used to have a workspace there but it was overrun buy junk, I thought after we built the shed I could reclaim it, still overrun by junk, cause we just bought more junk.

I actually need to toss stuff out and just rebuy things as we need it.

Hurts because I feel like it is a waste of time, but the storage in the house causes an unorganized mess that costs… TIME.

I been adding some gridifinity stuff but space in the gridfinity makes it more usable.

Weight: 326.0

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Seahawks Win… Again… Against the 49ers

Posted on January 3, 2026 by larry

To be honest, my day kind of stopped for this Seahawks game. I did a few things this morning, but my day was mostly waiting for the Seahawks to start.

Oh boy, not as great as the LA Rams game two weeks ago, but what a game still.

The score 13 to 3 was low, but did not feel as close as it was. Seattle dominated the 49ers, they were gashing them in the run, not giving anything in the pass. I saw a stat that was the worst offensive game the 49ers played.

Weight: 327.8

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Personal Check 2026

Posted on January 2, 2026 by larry

Today was the second day of my 4 day weekend. It felt like I did not do much work today, but on reflection, I did a lot of work.

A big chunk of that was a financial check for myself.

I won’t go into detail on a public blog, but it did make me aware of some bumps these year.

In additional to a financial check I started to get rid of some computers and clean up my workspace.

Still a bunch of stuff to go, put it is progress. I think it will take a while to get it to where I want, a bit each day should help.

Forgot to mention, I joined this month challenge where I have to walk 1 mile outdoors. It was cold, but that will replace my workouts.

Weight: 324.0

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