Apr - Jun

0401-garage-walls
The wall framing is done and Ed has started putting up sheet rock.

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0403-garage-walls
Insulation has been put in and the other side of the interior walls is getting sheet rock. The insulation is not to keep the car warm. It is to not lose heat when the garage door opens in winter.

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0410-foundation
We had a warm day so Ed was able to get more of the foundation stuco done. Ed is in the photo behind a bush.

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0410-garage-walls
The area by the garage side door was cleared of junk to allow work on those walls. That junk along with other junk is temporarily piled where the car would normally be parked.

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0420-garage-walls
Progress was made putting insulation on exterior walls and putting sheet rock up over those walls. After Ed does taping I'll put up shelves and try to organized the junk and throw out the most worthless of it. A lot of the shelving will be for garden and outdoor tools.

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0422-garage-walls
Most of the sheet rock is up in the area that was cleared. It is still too cold for taping and mud.

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0425-garage-walls
Even though access was poor Ed could resist putting sheet rock up enclosing the bottom of the stairs. Still too cold to tape and mud and too cold for stuco on the foundation.

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0521-home-servers
These are pictures of the server rack in my basement, the ethernet distribution panel and switches and the small computer used as a router. Either Fidium or Spectrum was reluctant to quote business service for a residential site so they wanted to know more but I never ended up sending the photos.
The server rack is fairly neat and the distribution rack is moderately neat except the very sloppy power cable wiring hanging down in places. Nothing some tie wraps couldn't fix. The ethernet cables from the server rack to distribution rack could use some tie wraps as well. The placement of the Fidium EPON ONT (optical network terminator) could be improved with a shelf above the distribution rack for the EPON ONT and my small router.
By the way neither Fidium or Spectrum business service offer IPv6. Fidium dedicate service offers IPv6 but it is dynamic IPv6 and not worth paying $300+/month for. I don't think either support rDNS delegation. Both are very poor business service offerings. Spectrum business technical support is only moderately incompetent but will escallate as opposed to Spectrum residential technical support which is severely incompetent and will refuse to escallate. Fidium support is better but not great.

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