Tuesday this time. Eventually we'll settle into some kind of cycle, but honestly lets be real, probably not.
The last two weeks have been alright. We've been getting out on the weekends quite often and having a good time with that, but definitely need to slow down or at least stop spending so much on crap (mostly fun food things we find while out driving). Been mostly working on fixing things as they break lately.
The driver's side seat back in my son's car decided to just die on him and lay flat and not come back, so we had to spend a few days going to junk yards and finding the right replacement. We did eventually and it was mostly affordable and not too terribly far away. We got the old one out, put the new one in, everything's happy.
Moved some stuff around with the servers too since the last time we updated here. We've got two servers, one is a Dell T610 actual server machine, the other is a beefy desktop I used as a domain controller before the big one showed up. For a long time that one basically just hosted files because the big one did everything else. Well I wanted to get all my file hosting over to the big one too, so we worked on getting hard drives.
As of now it's got 6 3tb SAS drives installed, in a RAID 5 for about 15TB of space to work with. That was more than enough space to spend three days copying the data over tot he new location, updating the shares, pointing Plex at the right thing, and getting the torrents all sorted back out again. I did install a 10gbe NIC into the desktop server, but the card for the big one doesnt fit so we are ordering a new one of those and trying it int he PCIe port. The last time I installed a NIC to the PCIe ports on this machine it gave me an error that performance was degraded due to too much power being used. apparently those PCIe ports are limited to 25w. I tried moving the RAID card to the RAID PCIe port, but that port is broken and doesn't recognize the SAS cable in port A, even though it works fine in the other ports. I did try cleaning it, but that didnt make a difference. So right now I'm sitting on the idea of replacing the motherboard, since it's only like 50 bucks and might fix the issue.
I've been mostly avoiding people. I dont know why, i just havent been in the mood to do anything with people lately. I did get on and play some peak with voods and the dudes on saturday after the oldschool guys and i played some stuff. The new game we started playing was pretty entertaining, but who knows if we stick with it.
Been missing jamming out with the records. Its fun to do alone but sometimes it's nice to have people around for it. Mrs Potato and I did that the first weekend i didnt stream and it was really nice but we havent made it down here together to do that again since. There was a moment this weekend when I thought about maybe doing a little bit of a party/jam thing for an hour or so, but never did. I dont know why. I think it was the game that was one (baseball) and people's birthdays and i just didnt wanna add anything to the mix, even if it was brief.
Well I just got rear ended driving home form the office, but someone that is definitely half my age and not paying attention. Made a report, but in my state we have "no fault" insurance, which means you pay for your own shit. So thats worthless. Awesome.