Visiting Places

When we planned this trip we had couple places we wanted to go,

  1. first was to stay at the Ilani Hotel and Casino, it was fun.
  2. Then we wanted to see the Groto, we saw that yesterday
  3. Today we went to the Japanese Test Rose Garden, that was fun, I got 10 floors and 5k steps.
  4. 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.

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On The Road for Getaway

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.

Weight: 346.2

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Getting Ready For a Getaway

I need some escape time. Tomorrow wife and I will be gone for two nights on a weekend gateway.

Still need to pack but no hurry here. Hoping to just be us, I need it to unwind.

I did clean the car and it should be a nice drive.

As I post, I need 1115 more steps. Got 4 hours to make it.

I lost a but of weight, I think I gonna find it again in a few days.

Weight: 343.4

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Kickstarts Built

I got all my public kickstarts done. Going through testing now.

There is some weirdness where I have to shutdown the box and remove the boot media.

Going to try with other hardware, not sure what is going on, maybe even BIOS mode.

Another pool day today, getting my workout in.

Weight: 346.0

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Rocky 9 Public Kickstarts

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.

Weight: 347.0

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Lab Slowly Coming Back

I am slowly setting up my demo lab. First thing I needed to do was get the old lab set up so I can extract the data I need to rebuild it.

Then I been digging up ISO I needed and been moving them to my iodd st400.

For those interested here is how you convert a physical USB (on /dev/sdd) to a RAW image then from a RAW image to a vhd that the ST400 can use

dd if=/dev/sdd of=usbimage.img
qemu-img convert -f raw -o subformat=fixed,force_size -O vpc \ usbimage.img usbimage.vhd

Currently preparing the new kickstart. Been busy so will take a couple days.

I am tired though, I need to go in to the office tomorrow, I think I really will go to bed early. Did swim today.

Weight: 345.0

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Normalize Schedule

Been having a weird schedule with my 4 day weekend, but I think my body has finally normalized. Thing is, next week I have another weird week.

Did do my 10k steps and 10 floors, so I am keeping up with my promised workouts.

Need to get on the new gear, a little burned out, lost some momentum but need the rest.

Weight: 345.4

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Swim May Be What I need

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.

But the weight..

Weight: 344.2

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DIY Rack Upgrades

It has been over a decade since I originally built this rack.

Original Rack

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.

Physically a rest day.

Weight: 344.8

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What Happened to Me?

Before I go more of into today’s post, I need to ask what the heck happened to summer? Feels like spring and don’t need to water the plants.

I just finished up my 10k steps when it started to drizzle a bit.

Not sure what happened yesterday, had a boost of I dunno what, I was supposed to be tired after swimming instead I had a surge of energy.

I worked till 7AM this morning and took a two hour nap and continued.

Wiring is so much more organized, still a bit more to go.

I should have some pics tomorrow, also picked up a new ThinkCentre M920Q, this will run my windows 11 admin box.

Weight: 343.6

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