We're heading to Auburn again for a follow-up CT to see how Pippin is responding to the radiation treatment he had in December. He seems to have really improved since then (no more coughing when he gets excited) but it will be good to have confirmation of what's going on inside his chest.

Merry came along to provide moral support / little brother energy.

#DogsOfCoSo

My little #Proxmox setup is growing!

Work gifted me a pair of HP Elite Mini 800 G9 PCs to supplement my #homelab efforts (recognizing that my weekend/evening tinkering helps me be more effective while at work).

Each of these little guys packs a 12-core 12th-gen i7 and 96 gigglebytes of RAM. This should keep me sated for a little while.

Merry is Very Concerned about what dad might be eating for breakfast.

#DogsOfCoSo

It's early Monday and this made me spill coffee on myself.

I strapped a 1TB SSD to each Blade, and did a Very Professional Job of mounting them in the wall.

I've fleshed out my Salt high state for these to address the prereqs I could think of, so I think I'm about ready to start putting these to work soon.

Long hair: ✅
Clean-shaven: ✅
Sexy specs: ✅

Continuing my unintentional transformation into that cool young dude in my avatar...

(I had Lasik ~12 years ago, and it's been great, but I've noticed my distance vision slipping a bit over the past year. So now I get to wear glasses again (though with a much lighter Rx than last time!) while I wait a few years to see how my eyes progress. I can get a Lasik adjustment, but can apparently only get one of those so want to make it count!)

I found a GitHub Action which sends a snake chomping through your contributions grid and I'm very entertained.

https://github.com/marketplace/actions/generate-snake-game-from-github-contribution-grid

Why drive just one Miata when you could drive 2.5?

I don't wanna go outside.

I was too busy teaching racecar things this weekend to do anything with my new Zima Blade cluster other than just installing the memory, but look how cute this stack of single-board x86 computers is!

Hopefully I'll find time this week to actually set it up. I'm thinking I'll eventually turn this into a light Nomad cluster for doing container things.

https://www.zimaboard.com/blade/

I did a lot of jogging between student cars today.

I'm instructing at our club's annual performance driving school this weekend and having at least as much fun as the students.

#FunWithCars

I'd say `democracy++` but that feels too optimistic for this timeline.

#Vote

I got a new device last night, so naturally the first thing I did was install Tailscale.

It's not just because stanning Tailscale is kind of my thing, but also because Taildrop (https://tailscale.com/kb/1106/taildrop) makes it super easy to share files directly to this e-ink writing tablet thing. Very slick.

Also, I'm really impressed with the tablet so far (BOOX Air3 C). More on that later.

Attention all drivers in the North Alabama / Tennessee Valley area: it's time to learn to drive better.

Our local car club is hosting our annual Performance Driving School on March 8-10, and you really should come out! It's a fun and educational time for drivers of all experience levels.

I attended the school three years in a row and learned a ton, and I've now been instructing for several more years (and learning even more). Come hang out!

http://msreg.com/tac2024pds

Well this is a thing which we have now.

✔️ I'm in this photo and I don't like it

We heard someone was bringing food soon.

#DogsOfCoSo

I did some tinkering with my omg web page (https://jbowdre.lol) this week, and was able to embed data from my #Tempest weather station without putting secrets in the client-side JavaScript.

Here are some quick notes on the setup: https://scribbles.jbowdre.lol/post/near-realtime-weather-on-profile-lol-ku4yq-zr

This was a really fun little project for me, so I'll probably share more technical details on the bigger blog soon.

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