This is my favourite time of year because its all public holidays and people away, but without the stupid frantic behaviour of Christmas (“I need it done BY CHRISTMAS” is our favourite November catch phrase).

This is what the Christmas/New Year period should be like. Just… people stop working for a bit. No build up, no frantic tidying of intrays and emptying of outboxes… just a work -> no work jump cut.

So Wednesday just didnt happen huh Brisbot?

I’m at about 35TB so far… 25 on Plex, and 10 on Nextcloud.

Somewhere near 100 will give some good headroom to grow in to.

Side note: where Brisbot at? We’re missing a day

I have my eye on a 120TB array 🫣

Why the fuck does Aussie zone block so many instances? You guys okay out there?

I’m not entirely sure we’re missing out on all that much with a few porn instances missing.

Proxmox to run a VM hosting Nextcloud for work, and another VM hosting Plex for friends and family.

Currently both bare metal machines and both out of space, and old enough to need replacing anyway.

Also, todays pupdate… This is Poppet, and she had a 12th birthday. This meant she got to wear the special birthday hat, and got to eat cupcakes.

Also everyone else got cupcakes too cause that’s how it works, but only she got to wear the hat.

I bought a 45RU rack and a Dell 730xd server.

Next purchase is a MD3460 storage array.

I have no prior IT experience.

Gotta start somewhere, though possibly I should have tried baby steps first.

In my opinion every week should be a three day week. Four days is the perfect amount of break time per week.

Had my very own Malcolm In The Middle moment yesterday…

Told the wife before she left to go out somewhere that I was going to try and mow the lawn (it’s been too wet to even walk in the backyard of late).

Fired up the mower and realised one of the tyres was dead flat and had come off the rim.

Jacked the mower up on to stands to take the wheel off, then couldn’t find any of my hand tools in the shed to undo the bolts.

Got my work tools out of the van but after half a dozen trips back and forward I cracked the shits with having to do this every time I wanted to do anything at home.

Went to the local tool shop and bought a rolling toolbox, socket set, hand tools etc.

Stopped in at Bunnings cause the mower shop was closed, but they didn’t have any tubes. Then while I was googling other sources for tubes, I found you can just reseat a tubeless tyre… Oops. So I bought a ratchet strap to give that method a go.

Got home and started to put the toolbox together when I realised it was getting dark, so figured I’d have a crack at the tyre first.

Wrapped the tyre with a ratchet strap and pumped it up (worked by the way), then found the air reel distributor thing (that spools the hose roll up properly instead of stacking in the same place) had snapped. So I tried opening it up to see if I could replace it, but being a plastic clip together piece of shit it just broke so now it’s all in pieces.

Wife gets home and the lawn is unmowed, mower is still on stands with a ratchet strap on one wheel, there’s air line everywhere, half assembled (new) toolboxes and packaging all through the car port… “I thought you were going to mow the lawn?” “What does it look like I’m doing??”

Now this is a Good Friyay, amiright?

Can never remember which one this is - death, birth, or marriage of Jeebus - but I’m a big believer in public holidays so thanks for whatever.

Our local list was a bag of shitcxnts, plus Labor and Greens. Dont even have the well-meaning nutjob parties like Animal Justice to properly pad out the numbers between valid options and god-no-please-jesus-dont-let-them-get-a-single-vote options.

Unfortunately its been Liberal for the last… lots… of elections, but at least it hasnt been the Christian nutjobs, or the racist cosplaying farmers or whatever.

Last election had One Nation lose votes to whatever the Trumpets were called last time (Palmers Collective Knobs, then United Palmer Knobs, now Trumpeting Palmer Knobs I think?) so its nice to see the racist parties just sharing the same number of votes amongst themselves instead of taking any from the less terrible parties.

That’s voting sorted! Postal votes ftw.

She sure did, infinite pats for young Schnugget

Also here’s my song of the day (which I dont post every day):

Amy Macdonald - This Is The Life

Scottish this time, and apparently quite popular in the EU back in 2007 through 2011 when it was the new hotness.

Apparently she’s still around according to Wiki, might use her as the next YouTube Music Radio seed. She sounds lovely.

This is Stonky’s mum… Nugget. Actually her name is Jersey. And actually Stonky’s name is Soli.

People get very confused with our dog names. We have 8 dogs and they all have at least two names, so there’s a few to remember.

Todays pupdate:

Schnugget doing some sadface

Outside, yes. Outside your property, no.

Related, though I’m not sure how many wolves or eagles we need to worry about around here.

A bloke across the road is a “cat lover” and looks after two…that roam around all night.

We have a “cat lover”, and another moving in with two more. Both declare that cats need to roam, and keeping them contained is cruel.

I have purchased a cat trap and will be relocating them to the local pound. Watching a possum limp past our front camera the other night with chunks of fur missing all over it and moments later the cat stalking it was enough to put me over the edge. I also have an assortment of large rocks near our front door which will be used to shoo the cat away at high velocity whenever I catch it on our property.

I can’t stand free range cats and the damage they do to the environment.