{"id":15088,"date":"2025-12-31T22:18:50","date_gmt":"2026-01-01T06:18:50","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=15088"},"modified":"2025-12-31T22:18:50","modified_gmt":"2026-01-01T06:18:50","slug":"reflections-on-2025","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=15088","title":{"rendered":"Reflections On 2025"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>It was a sad year, a large part of it was the lost of my dog Toto, I am going to list the bad and good like last year, but losing Toto was truly the most heartbreaking thing of the year for me.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Bad<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The top of this list of course was the loss of Toto, in addition to his passing, one thing I did not notice was how much medical expenses piled up in that final year.  It was worth it, but putting him to sleep was the hardest.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Got a weird bulge in my leg, not sure what it is, had to go to ER, but we are keeping an eye on it.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Home got clean and messy, could not stay clean.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>RAM and storage prices surged<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Garbage collector strike caused pileup of garbage at home<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Finances went into the gutter 2026 will be a year of recovery.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">The Good<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>Got better a 3D printing even before the Bambu P1S, but that triggered a good thing, and I ended up getting a 2nd P1P that was upgraded to a P1S which helped me finish projects faster.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>I build a 10&#8243; mini rack.  Friends liked it, but saw online that you could print them.  I went nuts and printed more.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>After I was able to print a rack, why the heck not build a JBOD as well.  Now I have slots and capacity at home.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Got SMS going and OOB notifications<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Got into Gridfinity as well<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Mini servers became a thing at home<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Wife became a US citizen<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Got the first production KVM host going at home<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Got home assistant at the Molokai house and my Son&#8217;s apartment<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Set up ZFS for backups on a Linux Server<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Started Zepbound lost 25lbs this year due to it<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Improved the 433Mhz network at home<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Upgraded Zoneminder<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Upgraded to Windows 11<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n\n\n<p>You know on reflection a lot of good things happened this year, overshadowed by 1 huge loss.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Here is the weight to beat next year.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Weight: 321.8<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>It was a sad year, a large part of it was the lost of my dog Toto, I am going to list the bad and good like last year, but losing Toto was truly the most heartbreaking thing of the &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/?p=15088\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6,14,11,3,12,9],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15088","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-milestone","category-new-toys","category-technical","category-training","category-virtualization","category-weighin"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=15088"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15089,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15088\/revisions\/15089"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=15088"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=15088"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.apolonio.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=15088"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}