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  • Finishing Nailer

    I started the last finishing pieces of the back bedroom which is putting the baseboard and trim back up. The air compressor and nailer combination that I inherited after Dad passed work perfectly. Still need to pin the rest of the baseboards down and caulk them but we’re a step closer being done.

    Also, this is the first post I’ve done in several years that is actually being done for my cell phone. I was arguing with the application for several months trying to get it to work right and update my posts. But it didn’t work. I finally uninstalled and reinstalled the app and then logged in and lo and behold everything is working great. So now I should be able to update this daily in a much easier fashion. That should include adding pictures but we’ll get around to that as time allows.

  • Passing

    I’ve been giving a lot of thought to passing recently. Passing of time, passing of people, passing of feelings. I guess in this sense, change and passing are interchangeable. I seem to be at a crossroads in my life. I’ll be lucky if I have 20 years ahead of me and it’s become painfully obvious that almost every decision that I’ve made has been wrong. Everything I’ve done to procure my peace and happiness has just led me further away from it. And while I am very grateful for the life I have and the gifts fate has given to me, I just feel like I could have accomplished so much more had I made the right decisions or had the right partner in crime.

    I need to find a direction, something to give me hope. Hope for peace and purpose in my life. I’ll find it or die trying…

  • New Old Server

    I got RHEL installed on the new server, it’s so rare that you have a bare metal install anymore that it took me a minute to figure out what was going on. And I did remember to allocate more space to the root as opposed to home. I guess in systems where people are using it home gets a lot more use but I’m running it as a server and most of it’s content is going to be in the web server.

    I have the drives in a RAID 6 and I’m only using 4 of them so I have 8 TB worth of space but can loose up to two drive and can still limp along. Considering the age of the drives I thought RAID 6 as a necessity, I have 4 spare drives and I found out I can get new high capacity SAS drives from B&H so when the time comes they can be replaced.

  • Server Showed Up

    Super excited that the server showed up but a little bummed how old it is, it shipped in 2017 so it’ll be 8 years old next year, the drives are the same age. But it feels solid, it booted up no issue, the drives all seem to be fine even if they’re half way to driving age. It’s got 8 bays so I RAID 6’d the first four and will look into using the other 4 to change up to SATA.

    I did try to install RHEL 9.4 but even though the installation seemed to work fine, it didn’t seem to boot. I’ll have to look into it more tomorrow. One of the things that I’ll definitely need to build towards is the ability to move services to different systems if needed. I’m thinking docker all the way but I’ll have to give it some thought. It would be cool if there was an issue that I could take the docker and mount it to Azure if needed.

  • Haircut Day

    I woke up and went to work so to speak but I’m kind of waiting for directions so I didn’t have much to do. Decided to go ahead and get a haircut, Nice 30 year old lady did my hair and she was quite nice. When I got back I went for a bike ride and did about 5 miles. It was nice to be out in the fresh air.

    I then went to Kroger and got some 6oz fillets and a dozen roses because I hadn’t done that in a while. Cam home and took the bike back out to the gym and walked a mile or so, came home and cooked up the rest of the mushrooms and when Sandy came home we had eggs, mushrooms and cheese.

    Sandy also had a doctor appointment and they’re going to fix her nose. So hopefully I won’t be the next one in the hospital. I still haven’t gotten a bill for my little trip to the hospital but the insurance company issued and EOB so it shouldn’t be long now.

    In a piece of good news I got the notice that a FedEx package will be here tomorrow, so my server will be here tomorrow and I’m kind of psyched about it. More to come on that front soon.

  • Server Woes

    I’ll post the details on the tech blog but I’m having all kinds of issues with my server and I’m not happy about it. After an update, I get a BIOS is broken error and I can’t keep up with updates. I’m a bit pissed off about it as I think I got a call from my Dell rep a month or so ago and now I’m thinking that he knew that my server was about to bomb and didn’t warn me but just tried to sell me new hardware.

    I broke down and spent $1500 on a refurb server. Supposedly a Dell T430 with dual Xeon processors (16 core), 8 bay with a 710 RAID controller and 256 Gb RAM. It even has dual power supplies, 2 gig NIC’s and a DRAC card. It also comes with 8 x 4TB SAS drives but I think I’ve learned my lesson with those, I’ll have to get some new drives or repurpose my others.

    I hate buying refurbished but servers last about 10 years even if mine didn’t but that’s because it’s the bare bones entry level server.

    It should be in in a couple of weeks so we’ll see how it turns out.

  • Lots Done

    It was an eventful day. The floor is done!!! After a 2.5 week delay due to the appendix, it’s finally done.

    The finished floor!!!

    I also got the baseboards painted, but it was the wrong color. I sent Sandy to the paint store to pick up paint and got the wrong paint, so $80 down the drain and I wasted two hours painting the baseboards with the wrong paint.

    I got the backyard mowed and I made all my health goals for the day which I haven’t made in 2 weeks.

    The Cowboy’s lost again but that’s just like saying Sunday came after Saturday so no news there. I can’t complain, life’s been good to me, I’m just sullen by nature…

  • Trip Up North

    We were heading up to David’s this morning and I got into the truck and for the first time since I’ve had it, it wouldn’t start. The batteries seem to be dead, I tried jumping in and nothing. I put the charger on it and we switched to the Xterra and headed up to Valley View.

    We were just pulling into David’s road and they were going the other way, we turned around and caught up with them and off to lunch we went. A little place in downtown Valley View, I didn’t catch the name but there was a cute little blond waitress and they had good burgers and fried food.

    Got back to David’s and I worked about 20 minutes and I was hurting. We weren’t there too much longer, we got home and just chilled. I think tomorrow I’m going to attach the last part of the floor in the back. There’s going to be football on and I can power though it. Hopefully. More to come on that point.

  • End of Week

    I’m still not feeling 100% this week. Well I guess I shouldn’t be thinking that I would be at full speed but I’m surprised how much I’m still hurting. I guess I’ve just got to take it easy until I’m better.

    It was a nice day, rainy and cloudy, we don’t get nearly enough of those. And you have to love Friday’s. I’m getting frustrated at work with the Oracle support dumbass telling me to optimize a query for a system that won’t even be around in 6 months. I mean I understand where he’s coming from but you don’t spend time rewriting code for something that’s being decommissioned. Oh well, more to do on Monday. Just need to get my hours done this weekend.

  • News Detox

    As you know I’m not thrilled about what’s going on in this country. In my opinion it’s over but it’ll take a while for everything to go to hell and a hand basket. Here’s the long and short of it. I don’t care anymore. I’m done, I care only about my wants and that’s to have some property in the middle of nowhere and enjoy nature. In order to do this, I need a job. I’m going to work remotely and make enough to buy the property and build on it. I’m currently doing a contract gig but I think it’s time to figure out what the next full time gig is. I need to work on that.

    In any case I’m done with news, it doesn’t impact me. Actually it probably does BUT is there anything I can do about it? No and that means there’s nothing I should worry about as I can’t do anything about it. God, grant me the serenity!!!