When we planned this trip we had couple places we wanted to go,
first was to stay at the Ilani Hotel and Casino, it was fun.
Then we wanted to see the Groto, we saw that yesterday
Today we went to the Japanese Test Rose Garden, that was fun, I got 10 floors and 5k steps.
Added 6 more floor and a bunch for steps at the Multnomah Falls, was a disappointment but did get some steps in as well.
So in lieu of a Gym Workout I am counting fitbit goals for today. It is 9PM night still young and I only need 1k more steps, I can get that in 10 minutes.
Final place we want to check out it weird, In and Out burger, thought there was close one to us but it is under construction.
Getting easier to prepare for these road trips, to be fair we only staying 2 nights so should be ok if we forgot most of things, laptop can work off of a charger nowadays, maybe dont need so many spare clothes, the critical thing is the CPAP.
Anyway early post, more tomorrow. Sneaking in pushups and situps today.
Update: looks like I will hit 10k steps and 10 floors today, I am already at 9,330 with 3 hours left to go. Just walking back to the casino will rack up enough steps or really really close.
Furthermore that frees up my Tuesday and I can just have that my rest day.
I been randomly building stuff to get my new lab up, I realize that I have to setup a kickstart that I can give to the public. I have settled on 3 different kickstarts with a version for UEFI and BIOS.
prime server = The main homeserver project I am designing
standard server = Any additional Servers that will be added to the network
workstation = Simple MATE workstation if needed.
I was trying to do this all physical, but I came to the realization that I needed to get these initially done in a VM before translating it to physical boxes.
Today was a weird day, I went to the office, finished off early with 6500 steps.
But I was so tired, not sure from the steps, dont think it was lack of sleep.
But a quick nap for lunch helped and after work too before completing the balance of my steps.
Was not too crowded today at the pool, but it has been easier to get into it. Maybe new googles and more comfortable shorts, but I think swim is getting me the full cardio I need.
Three days a week of that plus a decent 10k for three others is a great July goal.
I do think the chlorine is a bit string. Took two showers and still smell it.
I should have thrown this out a couple years later when I got a real rack.
But there were couple upgrades done that kept the server. This weekend I spent a large amount of time upgrading the rack.
I replaced one of the machines in the rack which was in a Fractal Node 804 case into a rack mount one. That took a day to move components into that rack mount server. Another thing I added was a new 8 port HDMI KVM. I did not have any pictures I took that I can publish but here is the front of the rack now.
New KVM and Rackmount
A problem I had with the old rack was loose USB Hard drives. I fixed this with rack mounted brackets I 3D printed.
3D printed HDD brackets
Another problem I solved was a way to organize the power supplies for the 1L servers. I 3D printed a holder for those power supplies.
3D Printed AC Adapter Holder
Another rack improvement was a 2U Patch panel I removed the CAT 6 adapters from. This is to help keep cables in and UPS from falling out. This huge fix was to make it easy to move the rack.
Rack Patch Panel
This top has been on the top for a while, but wanted to note it is also a white board where you can draw stuff on.
Rack is way more functional now. I can use it for its purpose as a workbench.
So this was most of my weekend. I was tired today, the slept a lot. But I think it was a good weekend, didn’t finish my entire list, but this was good regardless.