Garage Tidy Up #78912678
After spending all day playing video games yesterday and not accomplishing much else, I decided to get some chorin’ done. First, I spread out and raked in the box of garden seed I bought on the bare patches on the front lawn. It remains to be seen whether it will grow up enough to survive the summer heat this late, but I’m optimistic.
Next, I remembered that it’s been a good month now since I noted that the front of a couple of the servers and the UPS were a bit dusty, and I wanted to move the server rack back to it’s original position. Both of those things required everything to be shut down, so that’s what I did.
I cleaned it all out, rolled the rack across, re-routed the power cable and the ethernet drops, and stuck the GPS antenna (which I completely forgot about) to the window. While I had everything apart, I pulled the battery tray out of the UPS grog gave me and had a look at it. First of all, they’re not swollen, which is good. Second, they’re just CSB HR 1234W F2 batteries, which look fairly easy to get. I’ll reach out to Lachlan, who did our solar install, as he reckoned his supplier could probably beat anywhere else in Australia, and I’ll probably do those after Christmas. I contemplated leaving them disconnected, but that’s probably not that much safer and they do still hold a charge, just not a very big one, but enough to protect me from a short blip.
Anyway, when it was all said and done there isn’t actually noticeably more space in the garage. Sabriena came out and was decidedly unimpressed with my effort, however it’s actually much more sensibly laid out, and next weekend hopefully I can get to organizing some of the storage and that’ll actually make room. Also I found about four different tools we’d been looking for, so that’s a win.
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