"You too now begin to be a magician"
It’s hard to describe the pride as a parent when I look forward, (or behind) and see my first born on his first ride. After 8 hours of his second day of the course, he spent an hour and a half with me training in the neighborhood.
I still have two more riders to go in the house… someday we will have our own MC.
When those first big raindrops hit your face, and you know it’s all over! Trying to see the lights of the car in front of you, so you can stay on the road, barely able to breath because it was raining so hard and it felt like a swimming pool.
What a great summer ride! 😀
One of the things I do on the weekend, is run my small data center….
Step(s) 3:
Tomorrow, I’m going to tear down the old esxi and rebuild new arrays for boot and storage and try and merge it into the xen pool and try to live transfer some guests between hosts in the pool. Wish me luck..
Then, if that all works, I’ll need to install another patch panel in the network rack, setup a new ups, and reconfigure the switch for new VLAN and trunk ports.
I will say that the pfsense on a protectli box with 6 ports, and a Unifi SDN costroller, managed switches and WAPs throughout the house had made the networking side extremely easy!
Maybe tonight I’ll find time to finish up the Azure DevOps course and get back to learning React.
Oh, and I mowed the lawn and took Bob for a ride too.
p.s. if anyone knows why mdadm isn’t activating my raid10 on reboot, please drop me a DM.. its a huge PITA.
p.p.s. Second xcp-ng server is up with 2x ssd raid1 arrays, 48GB of ram and the migrations between the two hosts completed; also created and deployed my first Azure ASE tonight. Tomorrow I relocate it to the secondary media closet.
Update a week later: media closet was still too hot so I attached a nice fan to it; dropped the CPU temp by 10 degrees!
Oi Vey!
It’s been quite a few years since I have had the opportunity to be intellectually stimulated in the areas of religion, philosophy and science – I very much miss the days of tutelage under my friend and mentor, Bill Johnson.
One of the topics that I really took an interest in, was the intersect of religion and science. I recently added a new author to my “to read” list. His book(s) appear to settle comfortably in the company of Collins, Jastrow, Tipler, Davies, and the likes: Stephen Meyer.
Although I haven’t read his books yet (just found him this morning), I enjoyed his cursory overview of his latest book Return of the God Hypothesis from Uncommon Knowledge.
Especially appreciated his reference to Jastrow, when he wrote:
For the scientist who has lived by his faith in the power of reason, the story ends like a bad dream. He has scaled the mountain of ignorance; he is about to conquer the highest peak; as he pulls himself over the final rock, he is greeted by a band of theologians who have been sitting there for centuries.
Robert Jastrow, God and the Astronomers.
Like mother, like daughter. Frequently I answer tech questions for @amandarachael, and once she follows my instructions, she usually replies: never mind, I figured it out myself.
Apparently, like mother like daughter.
We went down to the dock today after work, and @amandarachael found both a lollipop and a can of sprite just sitting there, alone. She was so pleased at the treasure she found.
Meanwhile, back at the farm, Braeden was pretty upset, because he put down a lollipop and a can of sprite and they were mysteriously consumed by some unknown thief.
Braeden and I took a quick Motorcycle trip to Powhatan Park today, we had to stop to enjoy (and record!) a beautiful bubbling brook. It might not look like much, but it sounded sublime!
When two of you want to go on a walk, and it’s pouring, and you only have one umbrella.
Looks like we have a couple new candidates for the school of driving Inc.
