Danny's Space

After replacing the old red SATA cables with the new black cables, I cleared the zpool status.  #zpool clear dpool   I had to reboot. I get some un-refreshed messages perhaps. After rebooting I got this welcome messages.

Reuters reported that Chinese consulate in Houston were told to close. Now the Chinese government is considering a retaliatory move to order the closure of the US consulate in Wuhan. Trump has been laying the blame of the corona virus pandemic at China calling the virus, the China virus. The US Navy fleet also moved into the South China Sea this week. It released photos of its carriers and warplanes patrolling the disputed area.  Could Trump be starting a conflict against China to bolster his dipping numbers in the polls? A fighting president can always use this crisis to win an election. Trump isn't above using his country's military to score points.  A conflict in the South China Sea will always impact the Philippines as well as the ASEAN countries. Closure of diplomatic offices tell us that relations between the US and China is at its worse. 

"When you see something that's not right, not just, not fair,  you have a moral obligation to do something, to say something." -John Lewis

l am using the note app to compose this email for the blog post. It has been a while since I write long hand. The period and the comma are annoying me. I don't have good penmanship so I really don't know why I'm doing this. just so strange that it has come to this.

I have switched the format for email composition to html from plain text. It is for the simple reason of convenience. The dpool zfs filesystem is degraded because one of the drives is returning "too many errors" status. I ordered new SATA cables. I also ordered new compact lights. I am hoping to solve the drive degradation by using more reliable SATA cables with locks.  A certain Camile Samarista sent me a message about my PLDT Home payment last June. That there was an error. I checked my bills and there seems to be an item I can't explain. It seemed like I got my service back even if there is a question with my payment. My bill is now in question then. I did not receive an email for my April and May bills. I only got my July email for the bill and I can't explain the gap in the bill. It has been a month since I applied for Home Unli fibr from PLDT. The application is still in progress. I have to check that again. I also remember that I applied for my credit card at B...

Alam mong nagdidilim na kaya nagsisindi ka ng ilaw. Pero ang iba pilit hinihipan ang kandila. Ayaw nilang may makakita ng kanilang kabuktutan. Isang kandila na naman ang namatay. Hindi binigyan ng pagkakataon ng mga nagtatago sa dilim. Kaya sikapin mong huwag mamatay ang liwanag na hawak mo. Bagkus sindihan mo pa ang ibang walang ningas upang ang sulok mong iniikutan ay magliwanag pa.

M Roger our carpenter and all-round repair man completed repairs and cleaning of roof and gutters. The rainy season began a few weeks ago and these repairs are needed for the rest of the year. He also removed screens in the drain pipes so we can see the natural status of water drains. We have been experiencing higher levels of water backed up in the drain system during the heavy downpour. The neighbors also began construction of their commercial and residential building this week. (additional 8-9 feet of wall there) Mom has been showing signs of forgetting what time of day it is. She has been oversleeping a lot of times. She is 78 years old.

I need to get back to my diet regimen. That involves eating macro nutrients in specific ratio. I have a body fat of 29% and that's high. I need to reduce that to below 22%. I really like how my muscle mass "look" now. The problem is that most of that muscle mass is really fat. The real danger in having a high body fat number is the location where my body stores it. A male body usually stores all that fat around the mid torso or the belly. A lot of studies suggest that accumulation of fatty tissue very near the vital organs isn't healthy at all. So regarding my macronutrients or macros, I have calculated that a daily calorie intake of 1,800 - 1,900 should be the norm. I exercise daily and burn about 600-700 calories per session. My macros are: 25% Protein 112 grams - 118 grams daily 70% Fats 140 grams - 147 grams daily 5% Carbohydrates 20 grams - 23 grams daily A ratio of 5-25-70 should move my body to use my fat stores instead of sugar. ...

I am enjoying Warrior Nun in Netflix. I am on my 4th episode now. It stars Alba Baptista as a young woman accidentally given the powers of walking through walls and slaying demons. She chose to help a group of nuns who have battled these demons for ages. I am also alternating re- watching Voyager.

I have been using Evolution Mail uninterrupted for three years in Arch. I posted that upon installing Ubuntu 20.04 LTS I learned that Thunderbird is the default email app. Now I'm trying to get Evolution back in my daily tools. Installing it in Ubuntu 20.04 is no problem. I tend to use the terminal and issue the "apt" command to install packages. It is now sitting in my desktop and downloading my emails. I need to get my openPGP keys too. The backends are alread there. The calendars, and the todos are already working and being used in the desktop reminders. Okay so no fuss. Contacts are working automatically. I am composing the first message and it is in plain text. But let me try this first. I don't want to change defaults unless it is necessary. I'm inserting an image to test embedding images inline. Okay the default seems "to attach" it. But I'll go with it and then eyeball the result in the blog itself. I have no proble...

I thought I have to post this because it has been days of me trying to take a simple image screenshot with my phone. I learned how to take a screen recording before I learned how to take a screenshot. Taking a screenshot with my Samsung is done several ways. One, you could press the power button and the volume down simultaneously. Two, you could press the Bixby button and let the genie out of the bottle and say a wish (kidding), say "Bixby take a screenshot." Third, you can use the S-pen and click to access S-commands then choose Screen write. The S-pen path is recommended if you're going to write on the image, or annotate it.

Indoors running mostly.