Cold, clear, and damp.\u00a0\u00a0 Or maybe not, but probably.\u00a0 It was 42F last night, and I expect the same this morning.\u00a0 The clear sky forecast will help with the chilly…\u00a0 It was pretty chilly most of the day yesterday.\u00a0 Oddly the mid 40s at 7am didn’t chill me to the bone like usual.\u00a0\u00a0 The wind gusts were pretty unpleasant though.<\/p>\n
Spent the day at my client’s home, getting his new AT&T business internet fiber service set up.\u00a0\u00a0 We put off doing a bunch of networking stuff, mostly related to the Ubiquiti Unifi gear, until we had a decent connection and a way to use it.\u00a0 That all came home last week, and yesterday.\u00a0\u00a0 I think it’s about 95% done at this point.\u00a0\u00a0 Some port forwarding, a DDNS service and a VPN, with maybe a VLAN to get the other vendors’ gear off the main network, and we’ll be complete.\u00a0 Ok, that looks like 85% done.\u00a0\u00a0 I’ll try to get back there this week for a couple of hours to do at least the port forwarding and poke at the VPN.<\/p>\n
This stuff is a lot easier if you do it all the time, and not once every couple of years.<\/p>\n
There were some other issues at the house, including another dead camera from last year’s lightning strike.\u00a0\u00a0 In testing it, I also killed a port on the NVR’s PoE switch, so I’ll have to replace that too.\u00a0 Supply chain issues mean I still can’t replace a dead piece of control hardware either.<\/p>\n
Speaking of supply chain, my wife stopped at the store to get some turnips for a dish she volunteered to bring to her office potluck lunch.\u00a0\u00a0 She came home quite angry that there were no turnips to be had.\u00a0\u00a0 I talk about it, and she nods along, but until SHE went to the store and couldn’t get what she wanted, it apparently wasn’t quite real that things are DIFFERENT now than they were.\u00a0 She’s even popped into the store for a couple things, and come home saying “everything seemed normal to me” a few times in the last year.\u00a0\u00a0 And they might seem normal, if you don’t look, or don’t know what you are looking at.\u00a0 But they are not normal.<\/p>\n
If you don’t see it, when others do, ask yourself if the reason might be that you don’t look for it or recognize it when you do see it.\u00a0\u00a0 This applies to more than just the economy of course, and can be difficult or painful to do.\u00a0 But it’s worth doing, if you are an adult, and live in the world.<\/p>\n
Today’s plan is to do more of the things I’ve been letting slide here at home, and some new things.\u00a0\u00a0 We’ll see if I get sidetracked, or derailed.\u00a0 (Train metaphors, from when they were the new hotness…)\u00a0 Maybe I won’t have the bandwidth, or my buffers will be full…<\/p>\n
But I will be working on improving my situation, and finding things to stack.\u00a0\u00a0 Because I’m the adult in the room*, and likely, so are you, so get to it.<\/p>\n
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*and isn’t THAT a terrifying thought?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Cold, clear, and damp.\u00a0\u00a0 Or maybe not, but probably.\u00a0 It was 42F last night, and I expect the same this morning.\u00a0 The clear sky forecast will help with the chilly…\u00a0 It was pretty chilly most of the day yesterday.\u00a0 Oddly the mid 40s at 7am didn’t chill me to the bone like usual.\u00a0\u00a0 The wind gusts were pretty unpleasant though.<\/p>\n
Spent the day at my client’s home, getting his new AT&T business internet fiber service set up.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n