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
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
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
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
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
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
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
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
Making use of lab but it does not need to be on all the time.
So I figured out how to power on things, I can probably script it all, but I want to make sure things are started in the correct order and there is a timing issue.
I can do it relatively quickly, I think total it takes like 15 minutes to be completely up and maybe 20 minutes to be completely down.
At least it is relatively low thought and documented.
Also created an hta launcher for the lab to get me quickly to the utilities, apps, notes and files I need.
Weight: 322.6
Got a quick presentation tomorrow that requires a heck of a lot of preparation.
It is late, past 10:30PM and I got most stuff done, but got a bit more to go.
One hurdle is missing notes on how I managed to work linux stuff with Active Directory.
Another thing I documented was startup and shutdown procedure.
Also improved nagios monitoring.
Did a lot.
Weight: 321.8
