2 December 2018, a day from Mark’s past

Status: Living room still has a few tubs left, a family of four made an offer on the land that’s almost palatable.

Narrative: It’s Sunday morning and I’ve checked the tunnels I worked on yesterday only to find out that the two tunnels to Todd are also restored. Yea! There are at least two Raspberry Pi’s on each of the three locations, most of them are configured as a “Pi-Hole” DNS filter. All of them can be remoted into using an VNC graphic interface or an SSH session.  I setup a ping to each endpoint to maintain the links, I know it’s crude.  But it’ll work until I can find a way to keep the tunnels up.  (Maybe a keep alive?)

The printer on the farm has a bad printhead, but it can scan documents. The printer at grandpa’s farm is fully capable of scanning/printing remotely. After we sell mom’s farm we can discuss any cameras that mom/Auntie want on their farm. It would make sense to have a camera in grandpa’s shed since it is fairly remote from the house. It would also make sense to have a camera on the horse barn and or Tack room. There are 12 cameras on mom’s farm that can be repurposed after the land sells.

Church services was hard today, I was tired and it was a long day with the Christmas Play dress rehearsal. (Which wasn’t because everyone wasn’t in costume today.) I did have a script, what I didn’t have was how many people speaking, light cues and other details. She said that she’d provide someone in the sound booth with us next week. Audio cue was easy, One song. One graphic on the screen. Light cues also are pretty easy, one scene with a spotlight otherwise a simple lit stage.

Sis sent me a 12 page document that I’ve got to read by 7PM. Daughter is bringing a laptop to repair tonight after work.

Engineering: The primary UPS on the house is only designed to keep things running for a couple hours with two 100AH batteries. The secondary “Pure Sinewave” UPS has a significantly lower load and should last about 7 hours at which time my Internet and landline phone die. It doesn’t make sense to try and extend the secondary UPS to provide power for the two CPAP machines in the bedroom. If I locate the CPAP UPS in the garage then the summer heat will reduce the life of the batteries. If I locate them in the bedroom it takes up considerable space and I need to run a wire from the solar panels to charge the batteries. The space is the tall pole in the tent today.

Tomorrow: Make a counter offer for the land if we can get through the paperwork.

https://www.verywellfamily.com/feelings-words-from-a-to-z-2086647

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT set clear goals for the day? No
Did I DMBT make progress to those goals? No
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT fix something today? Yes
Did I DMBT improve something today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
Did I DMBT be fully engaged? Yes
*Did My Best To
Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accomplishments: Purchases: Project: Theme: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News:

1 December 2018, a day from Mark’s past

Status: Going to be a rainy day, good for getting organized.

Narrative: Sent a link to my network using GMail to mom in Florida. Called her and had her click on the link I sent her. (Raspberry Pi) When she clicked on the link her firewall in Florida dialed into mine here in Atlanta. Once the tunnel to Atlanta was established I could build a link to the farm (As a backup link.) That link came up without any problems.
I then added her printer to my laptop so I can scan and print to grandpa’s house from Atlanta. (Like I can with the farm printer.) I’ve reconfigured the Grandpa-Atlanta link using the Farm-Grandpa link. What I don’t know is if the links will reestablish themselves upon a power failure. We’ll have to wait on that one, right now I’m enjoying everything talking like it should. I successfully logged into the 2nd Raspberry Pi and configured it to be a Pi Hole to protect the DNS entries. I also configured the firewall to use the two Pi-Holes as DNS servers. The only remaining thing to work on is the firewall time configuration.

I had a really good day today, weird since it’s been raining all day.

Tomorrow: Church services and Christmas Play rehearsal.

https://www.verywellfamily.com/feelings-words-from-a-to-z-2086647

From the book “Triggers” by Marshall Goldsmith
Did I DMBT set clear goals for the day? No
Did I DMBT make progress to those goals? No
Did I DMBT make my wife feel loved? Yes
Did I DMBT help my wife today? Yes
Did I DMBT fix something today? Yes
Did I DMBT improve something today? Yes
Did I DMBT be happy? Yes
Did I DMBT be fully engaged? Yes
*Did My Best To
Injuries: Arguments: Exercise: Feeling words: Travel: Noteworthy: Accomplishments: Purchases: Engineering: Project: Theme: Engineering: Repairs: Pi News: