Today I reached my weight loss target. When I started in May I didn’t even have this target in mind. I was thinking I wanted to lose 10-15lbs. When I was well on my way to that target I adjusted it and was targeting 20-25lbs. That quickly turned into a target that when complete would be 33.7lbs loss. I have a few other posts that outline what I did and how i achieved this goal. What is funny is after I got started I wasn’t afraid of the process of losing the weight. I am concerned I will gain it back eventually.
Month: November 2013
250 miles With Fitbit
I just unlocked the 250 mile achievement since starting to use it in early September. For that amount of time I dont know if that is good or bad but it makes me feel good that i walked 250 miles regardless.
Suiting Up For a Fund Raising Dinner
Yesterday MC’S friend called asking if we wanted tickets to a free fundraising dinner since her husband had extra tickets. We hadn’t had a night out in a while and our babysitter was able to stay late so we said yes. it was cool to dress up and goto a $500 a plate fund raiser. Added bonus it was for an cause that if i had money to give I would donate to.
MC and I also got a chance to hang out with two of her friends who we hadn’t seen since our wedding.
Ordered a Jawbone UP24
I keep waffling on what fitness device I am using. After lots of replacement units of the Jawbone UP I got a Fitbit Flex in September. I used both devices for most of October to see how they compared. Then I dropped the UP in favor of the Flex. Part of the reason I did that was that the UP was too big on my wrist after my weight loss in recent months. The Flex didn’t have the inactivity monitor that I liked with the UP. it also seems to record about 2,000 more steps a day for me than the up does.
Just as I was getting used to using the Flex Jawbone comes out with the UP24. It offered me the bluetooth sync that the Flex has and all the features that the original UP had. I took the risk and ordered one in Medium hoping it fits and i can go back to using the UP. I will write more once I get it and see how it works.
Synology DS412+
I have been a user of a Drobo for several years now. It meet my storage needs even if it wasn’t anywhere near as fast as i wanted it to be. I used my desktop computer as a server and had at one point two Drobo’s attached to it. This year my old one started acting up so I am down to one Drobo. I had been slowly upgrading the storage on it but it has become apparent that I needed an upgrade. Jayson suggested Synology since he loved his Synology NAS. I had read good things about them in the past but I wasn’t really sure I wanted a NAS. I ended up buying a much cheaper Transporter in an attempt to solve only one of the storage issues I had. I wanted a private cloud solution. That was a mistake. The Transporter was nice but I had issues with the software. It didn’t do exactly what i was looking for. It was close but just not enough. At that point I started to research all the things i could do with a Synology and I got very interested. It does what i want with private cloud storage as well as tons more features. I was sold and made the investment in one.
Today I received my Synology DS412+.NAS along with 2 4TB drives. I will upgrade to a 3rd drive after i get the system setup. 4TB of usable space wont be enough once I get started. I have already started copying my files onto the new NAS. I also got Plex configured but need to wait till I get my media moved over. That means it will be a few days as the transfer takes a long time.
Once I get all my data on the Synology I need to setup backups of the data back to my old Drobo so I have an extra copy. Once that is done I also have plans to try a cloud backup service. Backing up to one hard drive a year and putting it in offsite storage at my dad’s is not going to work anymore with this much data to backup.