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Wow\...end of January already? Where has the time gone?
We are already three weeks into the Winter Volleyball season, and the
team is doing great. Going into last Friday\'s game, we are undefeated,
and in second place out of 7 teams.
This weekend, the boy and I did the sleep-aboard program on [The USS
Lexinton](http://www.usslexington.com), and he had a blast. I did not
get a chance to take too many photos, but I will see if I can get some
up.
Everybody is doing well, and school is keeping them busy, which is good.

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Happy Leap Day!
Another month has gone by, and things have been busy. In addition to all
the normal crazy that is life with kids, I have been elected to the kids
pre-school board of directors. Now, the oldest two no longer go there,
but the youngest will be there another year, any my term is three years,
so there will be a bit of time when I will not have a kid there. They
did ask me before, but that was years ago, and I was not in a position
to be able to do that back then.
In other, but more geeky, news, February saw me running
[FreeBSD](http://www.freebsd.org) as my OS for the month. There was only
one thing in which I needed Linux for, and it was [something I know I
could do under FreeBSD](/posts/2014/03/freebsd-challenge-day-4-6.html),
but I had not set up my machine to run that program yet. Will I keep it
up? Probably, although the lack of supported sleep on the current
laptop, an Acer C720 Chromebook, is a major downer. I may need to see if
I can do something about it, as it appears to work fine under Linux.

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Making it once a month, but I should do more..
Spring break is over, and now, we moving to the crazy season. With
number 3 starting to play soccer (as is number 2), I am still coaching
number 1 at volleyball. For those keeping score at home, that is 3 games
a week on two days for 8 weeks. I might have time\...

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The month is almost over, and again, this site is quite. Sorry about that.
Last week, I was in Austin, TX for [OSCON 2016](http://www.oscon.com). The show was fun, and it was the first time in over 5 years that I was just an attendee instead of a presenter or booth worker. While OSCON seems to be targeted more for developers and the DevOps scene, there were a few things I could use in my current Ops role.
Speaking of current Ops Role, I have transitioned to a new group at $EMPLOYER. I am now in the HPC (High Performance Computing) group, still as a Senior Linux Administrator. While most of the job is the same, the HPC group uses a global file system, and I have never played with one of those, it is learning time for me! The group has had some transitions in the last 12 months, so there is a lot of digging in to find out what is where, what is working, and what is not. The users are doing good work with the systems, so it is more of how can we manage the system better and faster, and react to changes better/faster.
On the photos side, I have not gotten back into the swing of things, and I need to set a goal, and go for it...and stop making excuses. :)
The motorcycle is down, and I guess I have not found the time to work on it. I think I know the issue, and it requires a little work. With [Ride To Work Day](http://www.ridetowork.org/) in less than a month, I should get busy and get the bike back up and working.
And in the geeky side, I think I am going to switch over to using MarkDown like all the cool kids, as it does seem easier to use than RST...

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Many, many, many years ago, I went to a comic/game convention in Austin. This was pre-internet, and really pre-console gaming, so the games were all table top type. Steve Jackson Games was prototyping something called 'Car Wars'. Pretty cool stuff.
But, I never really had a chance to go back to one. Until this year. This past weekend, we went to [SpaceCity Comic Con 2016](http://spacecitycomiccon.com/). It was a hoot. Learned a few things (pay for the tickets at the door, as the line was way shorter; don't leave the food area with food and expect them to let you back in; silly things like that).
I also took my camera with me to get pics of the kids, and I tried to do some shots of cosplayers. Not bad for my first attempt. The results are [here](/photos/Comic-Cons/Space-City-Comic-Con-2016/).

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So, in the last couple of weeks, I have had the following issues:
* The CMOS battery dies on my file-server (a [FreeNAS](http://freenas.org) box), taking it, and the zpools down with it. I fought over a long weekend to recover the data, and in the end, got it mounted read-only, and copied it off. New hardware, and new zpools, and we seem to be going again. Recovering services is taking a bit of time.
* There is a bug with the ZFS on Root for [Antergos Linux](https://antergros.com). Seems that it does not put all the kernel drivers in the init image when you upgrade. Last time, I booted off the instal media to fix it. I lost that USB stick, so I downloaded a new one. Guess what? They have turned that feature off ZFS, so there is no way to recover. Since [FreeBSD](http://www.freebsd.org) still does not support suspend/resume on the Acer C720 that is my small travel laptop, I have to reinstall Antergos and reload my data. Which I had to do because
* My main laptop, the HP R810G1 seems to be having major battery issues. I bought a new battery in Novembers, and it died. I bought a new one a couple of weeks ago, and it at first did not seem to be holding a charge. Now, the OS does not see the battery. I think I might need a 'new' laptop.
I am torn between getting something one or two reves old with a solid record in the size I want (sub 13", under 1" thin, and good 6+ hours of battery) or the [latest shiny](http://store.hp.com/us/en/ContentView?storeId=10151&catalogId=10051&langId=-1&eSpotName=hpspectre&jumpid=cp_r163_us/en/pc_cons/nextgen/premiumlaptops/shopspectrelaptop).
Other news, I have the ownCloud server upgraded to [nesxtcloud](http://nextcloud.com), and everything I have tried works out of the box, which is a lot more than I can say for ownCloud. Last major thing I need to recover it the [Plex Server](http://plex.tv)!

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Wow...summer is almost over. Three more weeks until school starts again.
Need to spend more time putting pictures up from some of the trips we have done. I think there is time to squeeze another visit to the beach before school starts up, but we will see.
One of the projects I have been working on is taking over web hosting for an organization I volunteer with. The old hosting was with a former member at his hosting company, but he is retiring as of the end of July, so I stepped up to host it. Some of the code used has not been updated in a while, and one of my first projects on it will be to wrap it into a more modern frame-work so other people can help maintain the site.
In other random news (hence the title), [FreeBSD](http://www.freebsd.org) has released on schedule **FreeBSD 11.0B3**. I heard in passing on [BSDNow](http://www.bsdnow.tv) that this release might work on the Thinkpad x260. If you remember from [my last post](link://slug/home_network_updates), that I was in the market for a repalcement machine. Well, I found a really good deal on an new-in-the-box x260, and picked it up for around 1/4 the retail. The only thing it is currently missing is a back-light on the keyboard, but I am okay with it for now. Battery life under Linux has been awesome without any tuning. I can easly get 10+ hours in my testing, and I have not run the batteries dead yet. The only two issues with FreeBSD on the x260 that I know about is the lack of suspend/resume (general issue with Skylake), and the fact the Intel 8260 wireless card is not yet supported, but it seems like someone is working on that!
At some point in the near future, I will have to rethink the mail situation. Do I really need to roll my own, or can I use a third party?
Time to call it a night. Catch you next month!

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![Deadpool BOFH](/images/Random/deadpool-sa.jpg "Deadpool BOFH")
There is a new sheriff in town.

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Drive failed. Harley does not like that....
![Harley!](/images/Random/harley-drive.jpg "Harley Drive")

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This weekend, we went to the [Houson's Amazing Comic Con](http://www.amazinghoustoncomiccon.com/). As normal, we had fun, and as normal, I brought a camera. This one was not the big rig, but a small, older point-n-shoot type, so I am not totally happy with all the pics, but I did get some [some good ones](/photos/Comic-Cons/Houston-Amazing-Comic-Con-2016/)
I still have some other pictures to process and post, so there will be more coming....

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As Fall has according to the calendar, but mother nature has something to say about that. We are going on something like 13 days where the low does not get below 72F. Ug.
The Fall sports have started back, with all three doing something. Soccer, Volleyball, Tae Kwan Do, and Wrestling. A very mix bag, to be sure.
So, over the summer, I took part in the Windows 10 Free Upgrade on the kids machine, which turns out to be a bit of a mistake. The box is a Compaq desktop with an AMD CPU from about 5 years ago. Even with 16GB of RAM, it started running **very** slow, until Tuesday, when it rebooted by itself and then did not restart. I was planning on upgrading it at the start of next month, so of course, it fails now and I am forced. But, at least I had done research, so I could just order it in a few seconds.
I may give a review of the machine in a bit, as I am getting another to replace another aging desktop which is acting up.

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So, the current gig is not what I expected when I interviewed. While the people working there are dedicated, intelligent, and hard-working, the fit is not right for me. I’m going to rhetorically vote with my feet and go elsewhere — in the words of the immortal and beloved Snagglepuss, **“Exit, stage left.”**
Starting November 21, I will be transitioning into a new roll. The new gig is a home-coming of sorts, as I will be re-joining GTI at JPMC here in Houston, but in a different role then I was before. The new position is in more engineering/architecture than the old one, and it promises to be a lot of fun.
No travel, alas, so no chances for pictures from far-flung parts of the globe for now.

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So, I decided it was time to go TLS (aka https) with all my websites. This is something I have wanted to do for a while, but I held off due to the way I had to get my laptop on the wireless at the previous job. Now that I have left, there was no need for that, so away I go!
On the job front, this was an odd week to start with almost everybody on my new team being out due to the holiday. I finally got my accounts all settled today, and spent the day doing that every populare on-boarding trainnig which while is a drag, is very much needed.
With the holiday tomorrow, and a vacation day Friday, I get to have a nice long weekend with the family. This will be nice.
In other news, I got the latest version of [TrueOS](https://trueos.org) on my [Acer C720](https://smile.amazon.com/Acer-C720-Chromebook-11-6-Inch-4GB/dp/B00FNPD1OY/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8). So far, everything I have tried works accept for the touchpad, but I have not spent any time looking into it. Once I get that working, and play with it a bit more, I think I will convert my **Lenovo ThinkPad X260**.

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This last weekend was the last weekend for the [2016 Texas Renaissance Festival](https://www.texrenfest.com/). Since the fall has been a bit crazy with sports and the new [job](link://slug/exit-stage-left) that we only got to go one time this year.
Naturally, I took my camera, but as luck would have it, the battery which said it was full before I left was actually flat, and died on me. I ended up using my phone (Nexus 5x), which turned out took decent pictures within limits. Action shots were out. However, I did manage to get a [a few I liked](/photos/TRF/2016), so on the photographic front, it was not a total loss.
On the family and fun side, we all had a blast, as the weather was near perfect. We still did not manage to leave at the right time, and it did take us almost 45 minutes to leave the parking lot. Oh, well.

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*Note- This is late due to software breakage*
Just a quick note before the end of the year to wish everyone a happy Christmas, holidays, and/or New Year!
![Santa Train](/images/Christmas-2016/Santa-Train.jpg "Santa Train")