Time For Myself

Posted on July 17, 2025 by larry

Fasted long walk I can remember. I wanted some peace for myself after an emotion filled day.

Fought with a family member, or more so I got angry at them.

I took a nice long walk, I was under 1000 steps so I needed some time and to decompress and be by myself.

It was good for my mental health. I did get my fitbit goals.

On the tech front, got more stuff figured out, nagios w/ LDAP authentication, XRDP in guacamole and the new power supplies for the Lenovo came in and it all fits. Need to monitor heat though.

Finally on the physical health front, I didn’t believe my eyes.

Weight: 339.6

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Butterfly Effect

Posted on July 16, 2025 by larry

Amazing how one thing leads to another and a cascading domino effect.

I was hoping to post today how fun it was to meet my coworkers on our annual Coulon (or where ever) meeting. It was fun no doubt.

Or how I am going through my documentation on building a guacamole box. That is going well, can’t seem to get RDP to work for Linux though.

Instead I am posting how a misplaced shampoo lead to a locked car.

So I went swimming today, and as I was showering after my swim, I noticed my shampoo was gone. So that is the genesis of all this, I lost shampoo bottle. Not a big deal, it was used, not a full loss, nor was it expensive, $7.16. I took some time to ask lost and found, then I ended up ordering a new bottle in the parking lot so I could get one before my Friday swim.

I then go to order food. This slight delay made me late in getting to the restaurant. It closed at 8:30 and I was there at 8:47, so I grab my duffle bag and threw it in the back of my car so it wouldn’t be exposed. This was effect #2, late for restaurant.

But my car keys was in my duffle bag and it (the car assumed I had it on my person) so it locked the car with my keys in it. Funny how that all led to getting locked out of my car.

At least I discovered the batteries in the spare were dead, so new ones were put in them. At least next time our car keys will be fully functional. Luckily there was a backup physical key that pops out I could use.

At least the swim got me closer the the weight I was expecting.

Weight: 342.0

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Walking Away From A Problem

Posted on July 15, 2025 by larry

Starting to add more stuff to my demo network, I got hung up on guacamole install.

Try and try, fight and fight, couldn’t figure it out.

Took a step back, walked away for 9k steps (only had 1k as of 8PM) and when I got back, instantly found the answer.

Sometimes you need to walk away.

Weight: 342.8

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Fast Day

Posted on July 14, 2025 by larry

Wondering what happened today, things just flew by. I recall waking up, going to work, next thing you know it is lunch.

Then breaking to go to gym and now it is nearly midnight and I am posting so late.

I am tired had a good day though. Still need to shower.

I did get some more of my demo network up. Working on guacamole in a VM. Harder than I recall.

Weight: 345.0

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Good Time To Print

Posted on July 13, 2025 by larry

Taking my first shot at printing in PETG. It is summer hot, and I think it will print well. Going to reprint all of the rackmounts in my server rack.

Spent most of the day getting a test google account going which will be used in conjunction with my new lab setup.

Then I continued with the odds and ends in the lab setup.

Got QEMU Installed on both the prime server and the KVM host.

InfluxDB, Prometheus (on a different port) and telegraf are installed as well.

Had problems with LDAP, looks like a cert issue, cleartext worked.

That was fun but should sleep early.

Weight: 346.6

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10″ Rack is Nearly Done

Posted on July 12, 2025 by larry

Took 4 days of my spare time (got a Full Time job) but I am done. Most of the future changes will be aesthetics, like color coded cables or keystones. But it looks good.

Will post more details, but it is looking clean.

Getting better wiring to clean things up as well

But that is more aesthetic and not so much functional other than easy color coded access.

Note that the Router is not going to be there permanently.

Still mulling over ideas for the keystone patch panel. But I do have a 1G Smart PoE switch

Not sure about shoving all the power supplies in the drawer

People will ask how much does it cost to power this, it is currently drawing 100Watts, including the router

So would be over $130 per year in my area

Now to figure out the other mess

I should be able to start rebuilding and documenting the home server.

Weight: 341.4

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Gonna Sleep Well Tonight

Posted on July 11, 2025 by larry

Didn’t sleep well last night, got home late, and I did work today so I did not get a decent rest day. I did swim and will be tired.

As I post it is late and sloe to midnight, hope to sleep deep and long.

I did a few things with my new rack, got the KVM host build, I need to redo it to make sure I got my documentation right.

Weight: 340.8

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Getting Better All Around

Posted on July 10, 2025 by larry

Health, finance, my side hustle all are starting to trend better, the next 18 months look extremely promising. Imagine falling into complete balance of health, career, spirtuality and finance.

As I post I only have 203 steps left, I get that walking around the house.

Weight is really looking good.

Some visible positives are happening, like energy. Need to keep pushing.

I want to call crack 340 so bad, but I know I need some intake. We will see though, I think it is not out of the realm of possibility I touch 340 by the end of the week.

The mini rack is coming along as well. I want to say no more 3D printing, but I want to change out the PLA parts with PETG.

Weight: 340.8

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Energy Back, Maybe

Posted on July 9, 2025 by larry

Seems like swimming gives me some sort of energy boost. I just got done, I am all clean haven’t eaten dinner yet. Most of the day I was sluggish, doing better now. Also when I got out of the car today, my body wasn’t as sore. Hoping this is a little payoff of what I been working towards.

On the tech front, New Zoneminder keeps rebooting, I think to protect itself, I need to add more fans and put in some sort of temperature monitor.

I patched a bunch of R9 boxes today, it was weird like some of the repos out there were not fully synced causing some of my systems to fail patching requiring manual intervention.

The 10″ rack looks great, a few more things I need to install, and then some functionality tests.

Will provide pics tomorrow.

Back to health, last year’s lowest weight was 326.6 achieved on 9/5/2024, 15.2 lbs to match it and 342.2 was my weight a year ago, so I am beating last years weight. Got a little less than two months to do that. I did crack 340 by the end of July, I really want to push for that.

Weight: 341.8

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10″ Rack Here And Started

Posted on July 8, 2025 by larry

Got my 10 inch rack today, I wish I waited for from day, but the prime day one was not the color I wanted so I will keep this one. I also ordered some from prime day not sure if I will return or not.

This is a GeeekPi 8U 10″ Rack

I am printing some mounts and will get this better organized.

The LCD screen works, the power bricks do fit in the drawer with one huge caveat, I don’t have enough of them.

RAM for new NVR server came in too, gonna add it now, see if it still OOM kills zoneminder.

On the weight loss front, I am less than what I was this time last year, so things are trending good for me.

Weight: 342.2

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