Hard Time Sleeping

My sleep schedule is still off, last night (or actually this morning) I woke up early and couldn’t go back to sleep.

I went to bed before midnight but woke up at 2AM itching on my legs.

Hoping I can sleep better tonight.

Watched my son’s swim meet today. My first of the season.

Weight: 350.6

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Flyer Posted

Here it is

https://my.apolonio.tech/?p=240

Pretty long document, so I will not hash it out too much.

Been a good day though, got a lot of good work done, going through homeserver kickstart.

Weight: 349.2

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Home Server Flyer Document

Finally got most of the document for a flyer/brochure on using the M900 Lenovo.

Feels like a huge load off my back. Not only I have something for marketing, but a base for my book.

Finally, 3 days in a row under 350.

Weight: 349.6

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Almost Showroom Quality

Not ready to show off my new desk yet, but got a lot done.

I was able to cable up some of the things, and it looks OK.

One more day under 350 and I am buck under 350.

Weight: 348.8

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Desktop Setup Change

I worked for hours cleaning and redoing cables in my setup.

Instead of 3 across monitors and an extra monitor, I am doing 4,4 with the 4th being a vesa mountable monitor that connects from the KVM.

So the 4th monitor is actually my elgato display.

I have a real TV connected as well, hope to have the cables by Wednesday.

Weight finally dropped below 350, need to keep it going for two more days.

Weight: 349.6

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Canada Snow

Found myself in Canada today and it snowed on us

Canada Snow

It was cool, wish I were home though nice and warm.

Drive home was brutal, I needed some sleep. Took a nap at a rest stop. Rained the whole way.

The Canadian part still had snow.

At least we left for home before it got dark.

Couple notes for my future self, avoid Truck Crossing, go Peace Arch. Was stuck in snow.

We left hotel about 10:30 and got into Surrey at 12:30.

Shopped for about 3 hours.

Got home, and am still tired, trying to get stuff done but too tired.

Weight: 352.0

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Christmas Shopping 2023

About this time of the year wife and I get away to do some shopping.

We left house a little late like 1PM but timing was good, we did a bit of shopping and it was dark enough to see the lights in Tulalip

Tulalip Lights

Got some great parking too.

Angel of the Winds Casino was busy when we got there. Got decent parking.

Weight: 352.8

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Guacamole On Home Server

Added one final bonus app, and I got openvpn to work.

Got guacamole on there. With tomcat.

Now I am just getting more accurate nagios and cleaning up things to make it a good example.

It is done though.

Accepting the fact I am over 350 again.

Weight: 352.8

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Oh so close

Almost got all of my major objectives done, to recap here is the list.

To recap these were the goals

• DHCP
• DNS
• NTP
• File Server (NAS Samba and NFS)
• Mail Server (postfix and dovecot)
• Podman(Docker)
• DNS over HTTPS
• TFTP
• plex
• home assistant
• MATE
• RDP
• Certificate Services (via XCA)
• Influxdb
• Telegraf
• Grafana
• Prometheus
• LDAP
• Nagios
• PXEBOOT via BIOS and UEFI
• OpenVPN

And I got them all working but openvpn is weird. I can connect, but it is not communicating with the containers.

Got to be some sort of routing issue.

I thought I would be done, but it got really busy today at work.

Yes this weight is bothering me, got two tries to drop under 350 again.

Weight: 351.8

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Working Hard Making Progress

I got my sample server working, all the bits are installed and most of the features are installed.

So far

Done and Working
• DHCP
• DNS
• NTP
• File Server (NAS Samba and NFS)
• Mail Server (postfix and dovecot)
• Podman(Docker)
• DNS over HTTPS
• TFTP
• plex
• home assistant
• MATE
• RDP
• Certificate Services (via XCA)
• Influxdb
• Telegraf
• Grafana
• Prometheus

Installed But Need Configuration
• OpenVPN
• Nagios
• PXEBOOT via BIOS and UEFI
• LDAP

I think by tomorrow I will be done and can start documentation.

Weight: 349.0

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