First Trip to the Zoo
The weather was finally improving and so we figured it was a good time to take the twins to the zoo for the first time. When Scarlett was around the same age she didn’t care for the animals as much. She was much more interested in the kids around her. So we weren’t sure if the kids would enjoy it. The National Zoo seemed like a wise choice since it was free to enter.
Leveling up on Grilling
For a long time we’d been avoiding New York Strip Steak. I’d tried to grill some a long time ago and it just couldn’t hold a candle to a Ribeye. But recently my father-in-law bought a bunch and gave us some so I gave it another shot. I took all I’d learned in the past year or so from Meathead and used my thermometer to get a prefer medium steak. Here’s where I ended up:
Video Games Q1 2017
Things are busier now, especially as the weather warms up and we begin to do more outside, so I’m switching from keeping track monthly to doing so quarterly.
Vertical Drop Heroes HD (3 hr 15 min)
https://youtu.be/NcjpCmkKb9c?list=PLEJrELYLxNgXBv5HxeZNUxg5AWWM9QGJb
Finally beat this game. It was a lot of fun and I’ll probably play some New Game+ this year if I find the time.
Contraption Maker (1 hr 20 min):
https://youtu.be/Yezzplk2dYs?list=PLEJrELYLxNgULZsu5WJW6Xyb1Hc4XPK_X
Scarlett loves when I play this game and it’s always fun to go through the brain teasers to try and figure it out.
Outdated Thinking
In a post about how security has changed, Josh Bressers had this great bit of info in how some people are living in the past when it comes to understanding technology:
If you listen to my podcast (which you should be doing already), I had a bit of a rant at the start this week about an assignment my son had over the weekend. He wasn’t supposed to use any “screens” which is part of a drug addiction lesson. I get where this lesson is going, but I’ve really been thinking about the bigger idea of expectations and reality. This assignment is a great example of someone failing to understand the world has changed around them.
Making BBQ for my Employees
As a manger, I’m often thinking of ways to show my employees how much I appreciate their hard work. Recently, while watching a Meathead video, I saw his quote at the end that cooking for someone is an act of love. And love is not far off from appreciation so I figured I’d ask my employees if they’d like it if I made them some smoked baby back ribs for the cost of raw materials. We settled on a half rack per person, salad, and bread for $6. So then I just had to pick a date to make the food. Thanks to my mom getting me the Weber Kettle for my birthday this year, I had enough room to smoke to the ribs across both my BBQs as long as I used rib racks. So I used the Weber 6605 rib racks (which you saw in the featured image and will see again below)
btrfs scrub complete
This was the status at the end of the scrub:
[root@supermario ~]# /usr/sbin/btrfs scrub start -Bd /media/Photos/
scrub device /dev/sdd1 (id 1) done
scrub started at Tue Mar 21 17:18:13 2017 and finished after 05:49:29
total bytes scrubbed: 2.31TiB with 0 errors
scrub device /dev/sda1 (id 2) done
scrub started at Tue Mar 21 17:18:13 2017 and finished after 05:20:56
total bytes scrubbed: 2.31TiB with 0 errors
I’m a bit perplexed at this information. Since this is a RAID1, I would expect it to be comparing info between disks - is this not so? If not, why? Because I would have expected both disks to end at the same time. Also, interesting to note that the 1TB/hr stopped being the case at some point.