Frustrating Day At Work

A scan at work on my Linux admin box is triggering some security alerts. It looks like it is scanning my home directory and not the OS directory.

Frustration is high because those are just templates, not config files for real systems.

Someone did give me some advice though.

“Study to pass the test, not to learn the materials”

I took that to heart. I simply tar’d up the folder and deleted the source. When I need it I will unroll the tar ball.

Weight: 320.4

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Dymo Printer Spool

Ah yes, I used my 3D printer to solve a problem on my label printer.

I wanted to buy another Dymo label printer from ebay. I noticed some of them were missing the print spool.

So I printed a model I found on the the internet and it works.

Now I can get that cheap printer.

Weight: 319.6

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Another Dymo Printer

I purchased another label printer today, found one online for pretty cheap around $30, normally they would be $120.

I think it is missing a spool and a power cable. I think I already have a spare power cable and I can print a spool.

I am doing this because I order the wrong labels. It is smaller, should by 1 4/10 by 3 1/2 I got it a bit smaller.

So this new printer will print those labels.

Weight: 319.8

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Looking for Quality Labels

Getting fed up with bad printing on my Dymo LabelWriter Twin Turbo, but the sides of the current batch I purchased are burnt.

I had to enhance the picture a bit to emphasize the side burn in. May have gotten a bad batch.

I did purchase another batch of paper labels. With that said I also wanted labels that would last and found out that I need a special type of label called Polypropylene Direct Print labels.

These are meant more for permanent labels, so these are not normally for something that I will mail.

Not cheap, but today dropped about $100 in labels.

Another cool thing I did today was connect with the server at my son’s dorm.

I can sync backups to a secure hard drive I have there.

Weight: 321.4

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Simple Move Took Longer

Was supposed to move some parts of a server from one case to another. Took longer than expected.

Some hard drives have a 3v pin that it detects and doesn’t power on. Drove me nuts trying to fix that.

The good news is garage is slowly coming together, I think I going to spend an hour a day cleaning up the garage and finding something to organize and clean up.

Weight: 322.6

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Sore Hips After Gym

Went to the gym today and ran on the treadmill, still wen out later and got my mile walking but I am hurting a bit.

Hoping it is temporary.

Got a lot done too, finally got the doorbell working, thinking of making it smart using a shelly.

Tomorrow another doorbell is coming for the back. Some of the things I was supposed to do today got deferred till tomorrow.

Weight: 320.2

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Finally Cracked 320

Last time I was under 320 was 4 year ago around October of 2022, still a bit of the ways to go, before I was tracking regularly in a database.

Got a lot done today, but didn’t quite finish my list. Still got a few more things to do if I want to chill out Sunday doing little.

Going to power through.

Weight: 319.2

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Weekend I Can Rest

I may need it, if I can pack most of my chores tomorrow and Saturday I think I can relax Sunday because I got tomorrow off.

Maybe I can simply focus on simple desktop stuff.

Saturday is the end of the month, I really wanted to crack 320 at least by end of the month.

I think I can, may do an extensive workout Saturday morning to bring my weight down.

Weight: 321.0

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Body Sore Again

Not sure why my body is sore all day, maybe not been sleeping right, I am not sure.

I feel like crawling into bed and sleeping all day.

Got couple things to do though, may just go to bed early again.

Weight: 321.2

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Highschool Mentorship

Today as part of my work duties I went to school to offer mentorship to some students interested in tech.

The place we went to was called the Puget Sound Skills Center.

Kids there were interested in tech and one of them was interested in red team ethical hacking.

I can get behind that, I will provide them some things to play with.

Weight: 321.4

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