Making Peace With Data Loss

I have a disk that I just screwed up on, I did a dd thinking I was clearing another drive and I deleted one with a lot of non backed up TV recordings.

It is sad but not a disaster, I only back up critical stuff.

Also booking a flight for my wife to the Philippines, funny how we both look at the fees differently. She’s mad at the baggage fees, but it is not a recurring cost so I don’t scrutinize it as much.

Weight: 318.2

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Workout Adjustment

Today is Thursday and usually I just to my outdoor walk, but my son who is helping me train said to switch my Friday and Thursday workout to give myself a rest Friday to perform better on Friday.

So in two back to back days I had a pretty decent workout, although today my workout was a hair lighter to give me a bit more time to recover.

Weight: 317.6

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Global Running Day 2026

Although I have been running for a while, my blogging on running started in June of 2009, the same month National Running Day (since changed to Global Running Day).

I have not started on the first Wednesday of June 2009, but pretty dang close.

Had a good workout today

Throttling down for the day. I am tired.

Weight: 318.0

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Hot Again

Temps are creeping up again. My computers are all heating up again.

Hoping temps don’t go too far up.

I struggled with some heat today, had to move over to the room with AC.

I think if I increase airflow the office will cool down.

Weight: 318.4

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Hard Drive On Nearstore

I dont think the hard drive I got was a smart purchase for its use. As a backup I think it would be OK, so I may reformat it and just use it for cold storage. It is not 2 years old but I don’t think Seagate will honor it.

I did find out it is an SMR disk, the new one that is coming in will be more appropriate (and larger) for my needs.

8GB RAM came in, I need to add it to the box. Maybe tomorrow.

Had a great workout, weight dropped a lot.

Weight: 316.4

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Nearstore Server Rebuild

I little sad because my 1L M900 had a hard disk that was not up to the task. Yesterday I purchased a Dell Optiplex 5050 and moved the nvme disk in to it jerry rigged the 2.5″ disk in there waiting for a 6TB NAS disk to come in, because a 3.5″ disk will fit.

I didn’t need it, but just preparing, I got a 10GB NIC and an HBA in it as well.

It is not as cheap as it looks, increasing the RAM cost me another $60 just to 16GB. And the 6TB NAS Disk was another $220.

Hoping the new system will be more stable.

Weight shot up, cause I ate at the Casino last night. Feeling heaving, got 2 more days to get it back under 320, not a good end to May.

Weight: 321.8

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Parkrun PR Again

I did another PR, yay

Time: 52:10

Got a busy schedule this weekend.

Also have to comment on this video of someone that tried to take Legos off of some poor fellow.

Video is wild, and there is a part 2

Showing corruption.

I really recommend people watching it, so engaging. My goodness.

On the tech side, I decided to purchase a “head” for my NAS. It is a dell Optiplex 5050 SFF. It should fit the HBA and 10G card.

Weight: 318.2

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Minivan In for Repair

Had to get the AC repaired for our minivan that is 16 years old and has 100k miles which is pretty low. It cost us $1,300.00

Not cheap, but there was a realization, we could handle it. So it is interesting I am at a stage in my life this wasn’t a huge problem.

Been having problems with the Rocky 9.8 upgrade, can’t install wine, looks like it is missing some packages.

Good workout, Monday was a down day for working out, happy I did a normal workout.

Weight: 318.2

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Upgrade To Rocky 9.8

Starting to move my processes to Rocky 9.8, I have upgraded all my production machines and created a kickstart for 9.8. I still have a few things to do like MATE.

Currently creating a Rocky 9.8 instance on AWS and will continue with local vmware and KVM images.

Happy I am where I am at.

Weight: 319.4

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Need A Workout Break

I feel like I cannot push anymore in my workouts. Not sure how to explain. I feel like my legs hurt too much, like a person that has walked miles and just needs to sit down for a break.

At least my workouts are done, have to head into the office at 10PM so want to post now.

I should be home around 1AM.

Long day indeed.

Weight: 316.2

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