💾 QNAP TS-1273AU-RP Upgrade

I recently upgraded to the QNAP TS-1273AU-RP from my trusty Synolog DS1817+ that has served me well for years. I started to make the move to a rack when we moved into the house, and figured this was the next swap that needed to take place to complete that setup. I have 12x12tb drives in this build which has given me a nice boost in diskspace from the Synology with 8x12tb drives, I am hoping I wont need to upgrade this again for some time to come. ...

March 14, 2024 · 1 min · 120 words · shelby

🛻 My Chevy Silverado just hit 88,888 miles.

It seems like only yesterday that I bought this truck with only 500 miles on it ( From transportation, test drives, etc). And, of course, I had to stop and get a picture before it rolled over.

March 12, 2024 · 1 min · 37 words · shelby

A trip to Museum of Science of Industry

Over the holidays we took a trip to Chicago to visit family and Cole and I took a trip to the Museum of Science of Industry. While I have been to Chicago a handful of times at this point, I had never made it to the museum so I was excited to go. [envira-gallery id=‘12918’]

March 12, 2024 · 1 min · 55 words · shelby

🧹 Format USB drive from macOS command line

If you ever need to format a USB thumb drive on macOS from the command line, this will get you going. The first command will show you the drives so you can figure out which one is the USB. You will want to swap out DRIVENAME for what you want to name the USB drive. diskutil list diskutil unmountDisk /dev/disk2 diskutil eraseDisk FAT32 DRIVENAME /dev/disk2

March 11, 2024 · 1 min · 65 words · shelby

🚪Finally painted the trim

The weather finally started to make a change for the best, so I could get out and paint the trim around the new door. Sadly I didn’t get a picture with out the tape… ohh well you can get the idea. You can check out the before and after with the slider below.

March 2, 2024 · 1 min · 53 words · shelby