Weekend Here, Storage Focused

My weekend plans have a lot to do with storage.

Adding an LSE SAS9300-16i with an adapter to allow an external 8 drives.

But before that, I need move extents in a logical volume group to a larger physical disk.

Then I need to clean up the server room to prep the arrival of my 10TB drives. I think I got most of them, but the rest are enroute.

I should have most disks before next weekend.

Because next weekend I am going to finalize the new NAS.

Oh also next weekend

Weight: 324.2

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Delayed Weekend

Normally I would have a 3 day weekend, but I was asked to fix a problem at work and it will span till tomorrow.

But I will take it, because there is no Seahawks game this weekend and I was given next Friday off for the Superb Owl LX.

Another benefit I am going to start reorganizing my server room and I know I will need cables and stuff.

Speaking of the big game, which our Seahawks will be in, I have 3D printed some Seahawks trinkets, wild that someone is selling pretty much the same thing.

Weight: 322.4

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Hanging In There

It is hard to go to the gym, been simply too busy.

I feel like I got a lot going on, I usually prepare a to do list over the weekend, but had to do one just for today.

Glad I did, there were couple bills to pay and prescriptions to fill.

Gonna try and get a good nights sleep now.

Want full strength for Friday when my weekend starts and I got the new weekly to do list.

Don’t want it bleeding over to the weekend.

Weight: 322.6

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Quick Day Too Much

I got a lot going on, day is not over yet, probably going to work a few more hours, but I still got my steps to do.

I had my usual Tuesday morning meeting then I went off and did some other things and had more meetings.

I was on the phone getting my first refill of Nucala this year. Have a PBM, not sure how that calculates into the payments.

Weight: 321.8

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CIS Compliance

Spent a lot of the day in my lab writing ansible playbooks for CIS compliance.

At work we have a server and clients that check but I wanted to do this in a lab environment.

I did automated rebuilding 3 nodes in the lab, so I can quickly start from scratch.

On another note, today was the due date for college tuition, for my youngest and last dependant.

Kind of a milestone, I am mostly free from any responsibilities and commitments to them.

Of course I am going to always help where I can, put promise has been kept.

Weight: 322.6

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Seahawks Win NFC, Headed to Superb Owl

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

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

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

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

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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