Woke up around 6:30. Lazed in bed until 7:30. Made coffee, back to bed and browsed a bunch. Made the startling life decision that today would be a work and organization day. Work as in employment-related labor, organization as in organizing my workspace. I set the goal for 9AM and hustled to browse more until my deadline.
9AM. Completely cleared my home office desk space, it hasn’t looked like this since the pandemic started. It’s pristine, it’s gorgeous. Grabbed a USB-C to DisplayPort cable so that I can view my work laptop on the big screen. Grabbed my TimeCube so that I can hold myself accountable. Brewed a second batch of coffee. Ate pancakes and sausage links for breakfast. The plan is to spend the 10AM-11AM hour working on a backup system project, and then reassess where I am at that point. I plan to build in breaks for reading, browsing, and journaling progress.
My soundtrack for this initial work period is Simulation Theory by Muse, from 2018.
1 hour set on the TimeCube, coffee poured… and… go.
- Finish configuring backup software
- Open VLAN path to backup server
- Connect the MacBook to the external monitor
- Why is this running so slow
- It seems like using an external monitor really slows things down.
- Why is this running so slow
- TeraStation doesn’t seem to have the VLAN flexibility of, say ESXi management interfaces. It looks like adding another network to this thing will require cabling it to one of the other interfaces.
- Connect the MacBook to the external monitor
- Open VLAN path to backup server
Hour complete. Next hour begins (it’s now 11AM)
- VLAN path comaplete. Can reach backup server on new VLAN from admin vm and backup software app vm.
Two more hours. Taking a break. Stuck on the bareos vmware plugin seeming to be unable to find the pyVim module.
Oooh, the tool I was waiting for arrived. Switching gears to finish assembling something.