Dog Is Expensive

Posted on April 21, 2025 by larry

Dog getting older, dog getting more expensive.

Got a 3k vet bill to pay.

I can afford the money, I don’t want to deal with the heartache.

Vet said he can still live a healthy life with many more years.

So go for it.

Weight: 346.0

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Easter 2025

Posted on April 20, 2025 by larry

Just needed to chill a bid, weather did suck.

I just wasted time most of the day watching Youtube.

But I did get the zigbee coordinator working on whit will be my mom’s home assistant instance.

Here is what I did so far

mkdir -p /volumes/homeassistant

Homeassistant

docker run -d \
–network=host \
–name homeassistant \
-e TZ=”America/Los_Angeles” \
–volume /volumes/homeassistant:/config \
–volume /run/dbus:/run/dbus:ro \
–volume /dev/serial/by-id:/dev/serial/by-id \
–device /dev/ttyUSB0:/dev/ttyUSB0 \
–device /dev/ttyUSB1:/dev/ttyUSB1 \
docker.io/homeassistant/home-assistant

Worked OK

Weight: 344.4

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Tulip Festival 2025

Posted on April 19, 2025 by larry

Went to see the tulips again, between Good Friday and Easter. Better than last year, it was cool not wet.

Although my oldest son could not make it again, we did bring the dogs.

They had a blast, I recall the past two years there were dogs and figured there was a rule change.

I am sitting here at about 8PM posting and have accumulated 6000 steps, but I am hurting a lot. Body is aching. Doubt I can walk the remaining 4000.

We did need heed our past year’s advice and left at 8:40 without a full tank of gas. Luckily we still beat the crowds, arrived there at 10:15AM after little more traffic and getting some fuel.

Quick trip for a snack at Snow Goose and lunch at Strita.

Got home at about 4:15 and took a nearly 3 hour nap. We were all tired. We did go in two vehicles, but the other car was tired too.

Weight: 341.3

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Good Friday 2025

Posted on April 18, 2025 by larry

As I post there are about 2 more hours left before midnight. I am still going strong though with the fasting.

But it has not been an idle day, I embarked on upgrading an ancient Mediawiki circa 2016 to something that will run on Rocky 9 using PHP 8.

I had to spin up a CentOS 7 box first with its PHP 5, then I used the alternate Repos to go to PHP 7.1 then 7.3.

Recall there are no normal repos for 7 since they have all been vaulted.

Currently building a Rocky 8 server, I think it will do because it does support PHP 7.4 and PHP8

Once I get it on Rocky 9 it will feel like home.

Weight: 339.6

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Back From The Past New Shoes

Posted on April 17, 2025 by larry

Wife and I went to Road Runner today and we each got two pairs of shoes.

I been rocking Brooks Glycerin GTS 20s the past few months (Recall I got two pair from Outlet store)

This time around I got Brooks Beast and surprise my favorite the Saucony Hurricane. It is back.

The beast is supposed to be tougher than the glycerin gts, and I been so long wothout a hurricane I want to try it again.

Still it will be a few more weeks, my current shoes still have maybe a hundred miles left.

Tomorrow is Good Friday, I will fast for 24 hours.

Weight: 344.0

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In Need Of A Permanent Lab

Posted on April 16, 2025 by larry

I am thinking of rebuilding the mobile lab and making it permanent.

Not sure what is going on but it is not connecting.

I think I am going to have to connect a monitor and keyboard to see what the heck is going on.

Been pretty busy, falling behind at work.

I did get into the gym, need to go faster though.

Weight: 343.0

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Planning Trip

Posted on April 15, 2025 by larry

Recall April 2 I was planning a trip to Molokai to do some work. One of those things was a Home Assistant install.

Today I got my tickets and purchased the UPS. I have not posted on the box itself but it is built and running HA in a container. Got MQTT and mail working out of GMAIL.

This will be connected to my tailscale on a tailnet I set up for my mom.

It is late as I post, almost had to go in to the office.

Weight: 344.2

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