Daily - 2025-11-29

Previously…

Yesterday recap

It was as you would expect for the day after Thanksgiving.

In the morning we spent time cleaning up, putting things away, etc. to close out Thanksgiving. I went in the backyard and finished up the yard clean-up and then put up our inflatable Santa. I never understand decorating the front yard for the holidays. I don’t give a shit about the neighbors except that they don’t block my driveway or park on my plants. We have a window in the living room that can see most of the backyard, so I decorate the backyard so we can see it everyday. I’m not doing all this work for a bunch of deadass neighbors and then the kids only see the decorations maybe once a day. If I’m doing it, we seeing them everyday.

If its not clear: IDGAF about my neighbors and fuck you HOA.

By the time we got to the afternoon I had heard from my brother who decided to come by next weekend instead.

We next started decorating the house for xmas, including the tree. Wife is very much into xmas, so she went big with the decorations. Her xmas villages are assembled and she even wrapped the kitchen cabinets. We are full steam into xmas.

Late afternoon and into the evening I worked on reviewing my EDC data requirements, usage, and measuring various port and device speeds. Two things I learned: The internal SD card slot on this laptop is hot garbage and FAT is a terrible filesystem. I ended up moving entertainment to an SD card and “homelab” stuff on the external NVMe SSD.

We watched WWE Friday Night Smackdown, dinner, and then gorls bedtime.

It was game night, so wife and I played Uno Flip, had some snacks, and called it a night a little early for us.

How are you feeling today?

Better. I’ve been winning more battles than losing. GERD is starting to behave, so I’m in less physical pain.

Gratitude

I’m happy everyone else in the house is excited for xmas.

Todo

Chores

• Go through our pantry and pull out expired or soon to be expired food. As a prepper, we keep a full pantry. Since our monthly grocery shopping will happen sometime next week, I want to review the food and replace anything needed.
• Monthly battery charging time. Collect all the flashlights and rechargable AA batteries and top them off.
• Straighten up the garage. Stuff is starting to build up around our little gym and I don’t want anyone to be discouraged from using it due to the mess.

Fun

• Watch WWE Survivor Series WarGames. The storyline leading up to this one has been prety good.
• Watch Die Hard, our xmas movie kickoff.

Projects

• Add data to the EDC load out. I want to add some books to the entertainment card and then pull in more data from my NAS to the portable SSD. This means I will also need some more apps on the device for using the data.
• Next step in the portable homelab/EDC desktop is networking. I want to be able to setup a little LAN while out and about. I need to layout my requirements and then see what devices I have around and get some notes down.

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