Notes

Neutral wire: White in color. Last time, I saw 3 bundled together already before I began my installation. I had to take a 4th one and connect that with the bundle and switch. One of line or load can have multiple wires. If so, put all of them in the new switch. Green or bare == ground. Enbrighten: Change LED light behavior by pressing up-button thrice and down-button once. (By default, it is on when light is off and vice versa.)

With kiddo, we’ve reached a point where he does something for the first time in his life and we don’t ask where he learnt that, because firsts happen often nowadays. Instead, we just relish those. Just a couple of days back, he mentioned he took 3 girls in his preschool class to Costco. What did they do there? Well, they bought apples! I told him girls don’t like going to Costco for fun, so, on my advice, he took them to Seattle by monorail but they didn’t like it there! Monorail, because we sat in one last weekend. Often times, when he interrupts a conversation between me and wife, I ask him to not interrupt and wait for his turn. Today, the opposite happened. I interrupted his conversation with wife, so he told me to wait. And, like I do, he finished his conversation, turned to me and asked what I was saying! Sometimes, he speaks a lot, and I mean a lot. In a way, that’s a good thing because that’s how he expresses himself. But it can become tiring at times. Still, I really enjoy his company and I can safely say he enjoys mine too. This many not last, of course, because he’ll grow out of it sometime in future but I am happy till it lasts. I’ve seen parents that tell their kids how much they’ve done for them. However, I don’t think they realize how much happiness their kids gave them by just being. I feel parents get way more out of the relationship than what the kids do.

I wanted to integrate HAOS with our car so that I could use the car without its keys. Here’s why I can’t do that: There is an HA integration but it requires Subaru Star Link subscription. Apparently, I need to purchase 2 parts of that subscription, totaling 15 USD per month and then I’ll get remote lock/unlock capabilities. That’s not worth it.

Details available here. Only applicable to a few buildings. Specific to Nitro North: General:

Last time, in September 2023, we visited Kailua-Kona and Hilo, and its nearby places. We couldn’t go up north or south, so can do that. For stay, I might want to splurge and book some beach resort. I could also stay at some offbeat resort close to the ocean and away from touristy spots, such as something in Kalapana area.

Opnsense runs as a VM on my Proxmox server. So, to access Proxmox’s management interface on my LAN, I had to modify the /etc/network/interfaces file. This is how it looks after the change: auto lo iface lo inet loopback iface eno1 inet manual auto vmbr0.20 iface vmbr0.20 inet static address 10.0.1.105/24 gateway 10.0.1.1 auto vmbr0 iface vmbr0 inet manual bridge-ports eno1 bridge-stp off bridge-fd 0 bridge-vlan-aware yes bridge-vids 2-4094

Here are 2 nice ones I found in my research: Airthings: https://www.amazon.com/Airthings-2930-Quality-Detection-Dashboard/dp/B07JB8QWH6 - Wave Plus looks good for $192. 2nd choice would be Purpleair: https://www2.purpleair.com/products/purpleair-zen for $300.

It’s not enough to decrease sugar intake (for healthy living) but also processed food. Sticking to one-ingredient foods sounds like a nice idea. Cheat days are okay but a good way to blunt their effect is to drink a fruit or vegetable smoothie before.

Carbs: 3 types: Good ones: vegetables and fruits. Eat a lot of veggies. Satiating too, because they are fibrous. So, will make you feel full. Bad ones: sugary things, avoid as possible. Middle ones: pasta, wheat, rice, oats and grains. Decrease their intake. Keto diet doesn’t have any or negligible carbs. But I don’t think that’s for me because I do want to consume vegetables (which contain carbs) for overall nutrition. Balanced diet still seems to be a good idea.

I relate a lot to this: Well, I can’t say the job made me this way. More like bein’ this way made me right for the job. I used to think about it more, but you reach a certain age, you know who you are. Now, I live in a little room out in the country behind a bar… work four nights a week… in between I drink. And there ain’t nobody there to stop me. I know who I am. And after all these years, there’s a… victory in that. ...