Masks
I’m getting pretty tired of this quarantine and the new normal. We are all trying to protect ourselves from COVID-19, but there are things I’m seriously missing from this new normal.
Smiles
Human interactions are pretty tough now, specifically non-verbal communication. Lip reading is almost impossible now! I’m a big lip reader, because I’m going def in on ear. We have to pretty much yell at each other now. You see someone in the store and I often smile at them instead of saying “HI” or something.
Going out to eat
Social eating is pretty hard now too. We loved getting together with friends at a restaurant and just chatting for hours! To get around the restaurant restrictions, our friends meet us in a parking lot or a pavilion at a local church to chat. We keep our distance and bring food from our favorite restaurant. The boy usually just plays, getting energy out. It’s nice to get out and see some friends.
Friends
This is lumped with the “Going out to Eat”. It’s hard to meet up and go visit someone or invite them over. My boy is seriously missing his friends. We see a lot of kids playing with each other around here, but we have been keeping our boy in to protect my wife from anything. It’s rough on him. This is probably going to go down as the most boring summer of all time! We are probably being overly protective, but We want to error on the side of caution.
Little Break update
About a month ago, I wrote about my temperature sensor PI that I put together. It has been running pretty good. We had a power outage a couple weeks ago and the servers shut off (We have UPS issues). The AC Went off, but all the machines were off too. It didn’t help much in this situation, but hopefully it will help in the future. An interesting thing has happened this weekend with the temperatures going up and the building being unoccupied. As you can see in the image, the heat as climbed up from the average of 66.
I’m assuming that the heat in the building is making it harder to keep the room cold? The temperature seems to be consistent. I’m going to look at adding the temperature outside to the DB. We’ll see what that produces. I also need to do the average of the last 3-4 days, to see how the trend is.
Power Outage
We have a little problem at work where we have a ton of VMs that aren’t used very often. Some VMs are forgotten about. Like I mentioned before, We had a power outage a couple weeks ago. So solve this problem, I found a pretty cool NPM package called, PING and threw together a quick application/dashboard that allows us to check and see if our servers are up. It has a long way to go. I read in the machine names in a DB and ping them every 2 hours. This weekend, I added a PING button to allow the user to manually ping the site.
There are a few changes I want to add, such as: Adding notes, Archiving a machine, adding machines, etc. I’ve always wanted to write something like SiteUpTime – it would be pretty easy to do something similar for cheap if you wanted to?
Other stuff
I’ve been busy with work and a lot of other random stuff, like my boys birthday! He was severely spoiled on his birthday. We have had a lot of fun building and playing a lot of Minecraft! 🙂
(featured image Image by 💛 Passt gut auf euch auf und bleibt gesund! 💛 from Pixabay)