Seahawks Win NFC, Headed to Superb Owl

Posted on January 25, 2026 by larry

Today was one of those, not doing much days. Was just waiting for the 3:30 kickoff of the Seahawks against the LA Rams with the winner claiming the NFC championship and headed to the Superb Owl.

I did get my steps done early, and did get a hard drive in that I was supposed to get in.

In addition to to the hard drive, I finally upgraded a system I have from a GTx1660 to the RTX5060ti and a 2000 series to 5000 series AMD CPU. That required a firmware upgrade.

So happy productive day.

Weight: 328.8

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Blue Skies, Still Cold

Posted on January 24, 2026 by larry

Got a lot done today even though I woke up late, credit maybe a good sleep to getting a lot done.

Cleaned the CRV and did some significant cleaning on the roof.

After that I took it to the car wash for a proper wash, was worried cause it is cold, but it was not freezing.

I decided to take a nice walk, the day “looked” great, but was cold.

So got my steps done early, but day was not done.

Added these indicators on my tire to let me know of low air.

Got some smoke detectors installed, but couldn’t find one of them.

Now before I go to bed trying to install my RTX5060ti on to my Rocky 9 box.

If there is time I am installing the new CPU as well.

Weight: 326.6

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Return If Some Things

Posted on January 23, 2026 by larry

Revisited some things that worked for me in 2025.

  • First off, finances look more stable, made some money moves and the rest of the year looks ok.
  • Saw my OT today, took one of the tests and show improvment.
  • Went to the office
  • Went to the gym
  • Got 10k steps

Was a good productive day, also got my Zepbound shots. But will administer that tomorrow.

Weight: 323.8

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Quickly Building New Lab

Posted on January 22, 2026 by larry

Today added three more machines on my lab, also figured out how to connect my lab to cloudflare.

It is kind of cool

So lap now supports cloudflare, and tailscale.

Need to figure out how to get real email in and out of the lab network.

Weight: 325.8

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Icy Walk

Posted on January 21, 2026 by larry

Walked late again today, maybe I should be more careful, was pretty darn icy

Got a lot done on the tech side today, made use of the lab to test out building linux servers.

I can rebuild a 3 node lab in under 30 minutes.

I started at 11:30PM lets see if I am done before midnight.

I am back, I was able to get it to a base state before 11:40

Back again, was able to get it down to right before patching. That will take a bit cause it has to go to the Internet, but about 15 to 20 minutes.

Weight: 325.8

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Almost Got All Parts for NAS

Posted on January 20, 2026 by larry

I ordered a couple more drives, almost got all the drives I need, not quite, but they are all new.

Got the 2TB NAS fast drive, so almost there. Just need one bulk drive and two more NAS drives, and a spare.

Looking like a February build. May use drives I have that are used or I may get used drives online with the plan to replace them later this year.

Going to begin burn in this weekend.

Weight: 325.0

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Getting Info From HA to Mysql

Posted on January 19, 2026 by larry

There is a variable in my Home Assistant that is considered when turning the lights on or off automatically. I call them light hold values. If say the kitchen hold is on, then the motion sensors will not turn the lights on or off.

There is a button in the kitchen to toggle this value, but most don’t have access to the app. So I created a web page that talks to a mysql database, and also updates it if needed. So they just need a simple browser to look at a simple unauthenticated page, to see if the hold is on.

Another tech thing I did today was install Windows 11 on a cheap HP TC630 thin client. Had to do some hardware tricks but it is running windows 11.

Weight: 327.0

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Sleeping In Relaxing Day

Posted on January 18, 2026 by larry

Woke up late today, not only that, after I woke I, I did not do much work. Spent most of the day watching youtube videos on the Seahawks.

But I did start reviewing my home assistant and looked to cleaning things up.

Also documenting the different types of zigbee devices and looking to clean up some actions.

It will be a slow process but it is moving.

Weight: 327.8

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Journey Home, Seahawks Won

Posted on January 17, 2026 by larry

Doing a quick post, watched the Seahawks demolish the 49ers. Was a rare low stress game.

We checked out of the hotel today and it was interesting drive home listening to Bill play Denver and the pregame.

Also won enough money today to pay for the hotel.

Had fun eating and a place that had a new owner.

Good times.

Weight: 327.4

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Unprepared for this trip

Posted on January 16, 2026 by larry

Almost missed posting to this blog, was extremely unprepared for a quick get away.

Overall gone for less tan 48 hours so I didn’t think much of it, but boy did we missed some things.

First off I usually RDP to my primary desktop at home. It as all the tools I need to complete my Friday task. Unfortunately, RDP was turned off on that machine.

Next the mouse I had didnt have the correct mouse usb connector.

Third didn’t bring the air compressor.

Finally, forgot to test my certs, almost was disallowed from posting.

But here we are. Need to update my travel checklist.

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