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[317.06 --> 318.80] or add something to the network,
[318.80 --> 321.60] this T48 window is my last chance.
[321.78 --> 322.78] 48 hours before we leave,
[322.80 --> 325.16] that's my last chance to make a major change like that.
[325.16 --> 328.56] Uh, it's also when I'll take snapshots of home assistant
[328.56 --> 331.36] and my boxes and make sure my backups are offsite.
[331.84 --> 334.62] It's a window of time to kind of just do a sanity check
[334.62 --> 337.48] on all of my, what if I lose the devices?
[337.80 --> 339.92] What if there's something that causes me to, you know,
[339.92 --> 342.06] completely lose the storage or something like that?
[342.46 --> 344.74] Do I have something in place, you know,
[344.74 --> 345.94] just to make sure before I go.
[345.94 --> 348.12] You know, what's so great about everything you've just said,
[348.12 --> 350.56] I think you actually have more pre-flight checks
[350.56 --> 354.44] than some customers of mine do deploying stuff into production.
[355.44 --> 357.64] Well, I, you know, I, you know,
[357.66 --> 360.98] I recently kind of decided to really treat these trips
[360.98 --> 364.16] as, uh, as kind of an operational thing.
[364.16 --> 367.26] And so, and that goes into like finding gas stations
[367.26 --> 369.68] that we can fit in and the best routes to take
[369.68 --> 372.02] and trying to identify weather conditions and construction.
[372.02 --> 375.66] And these, these concepts of a T48 checklist,
[375.84 --> 379.02] we expand that too to like making sure we have propane available,
[379.56 --> 380.76] a double checking reservations.
[380.76 --> 383.24] Like it's a, it's a lot outside of just the tech stack.
[383.68 --> 385.90] And, you know, we also will use this window of time
[385.90 --> 388.30] to make a go or no go call possibly on the trip.
[388.42 --> 390.78] Maybe something came up like this last trip,
[390.78 --> 393.52] we had something come up and we're like,
[393.58 --> 395.60] well, we should have added that to the T48 checklist.
[395.74 --> 397.96] And now that's part of what we're going to do from now on.
[398.54 --> 399.16] Hold on. Hold on.
[399.36 --> 400.84] Your checklist has a name.
[401.16 --> 401.88] Yeah. T48.
[402.02 --> 403.42] Yeah. Yeah. That's not just it.
[403.46 --> 404.44] We have it's yeah.
[404.46 --> 406.46] Cause that's T minus 48 hours until leaving.
[406.56 --> 406.70] Yeah.
[406.98 --> 409.14] Oh, okay. I like it.
[409.44 --> 411.70] And then we also have the T24 window.
[411.84 --> 414.42] Now that's the last like crunch time.
[414.46 --> 416.36] That's 24 hours before the trip.
[416.74 --> 419.46] That's when I break down my home office setup,
[419.46 --> 420.72] quote unquote in the RV.
[420.92 --> 422.82] So I no longer have a PC set up.
[423.20 --> 427.02] So I mostly transitioned to using my iPad for most of my work
[427.02 --> 428.74] or if I have to allow, I'll break out my laptop.
[428.74 --> 432.80] And this is where the change control committee,
[433.02 --> 435.80] AKA myself says no more big changes.
[437.80 --> 440.12] Just stop with your crazy updates.
[440.58 --> 441.50] I don't care.
[441.76 --> 442.86] I love this so much.
[443.18 --> 444.08] I can't even.
[444.80 --> 444.92] Yeah.
[444.92 --> 446.36] Oh, this is so good.
[446.58 --> 447.46] It works though.
[447.54 --> 449.68] It's like, and I've been in that window before.
[449.76 --> 451.78] I'm like, oh, I didn't install the home assistant update.
[451.86 --> 454.32] I'm probably going to be too behind by the time I'm on the road trip.
[454.46 --> 457.22] I should do it right before I leave because I'm going to be in a limited
[457.22 --> 459.18] or maybe no bandwidth situation on the road.
[459.18 --> 464.40] But when I'm in that T24 window, no, no major changes because I don't want to do anything
[464.40 --> 468.22] that's going to break and cause me to go on a big project right before we leave.
[468.30 --> 468.50] Right.
[468.66 --> 471.36] That's what we call in the biz, a change freeze window.
[471.80 --> 472.10] Yep.
[472.22 --> 472.46] Yep.
[472.60 --> 476.42] And that is an effect on once the T24 window is in effect.
[476.98 --> 481.80] But you know what I will do during this time is I will manage the media for the trip.
[482.00 --> 486.12] This is part of happy family, happy life where I go through,
[486.12 --> 489.14] because I have only two terabytes of media storage in the RV.
[489.30 --> 492.50] So I go through and I purge old movies and shows that we're not watching anymore.
[493.14 --> 497.20] And then I kind of load in the fresh stuff because I want content that the kids can watch
[497.20 --> 501.52] while we're going down the road that I know is kid friendly and will also keep them occupied.
[501.78 --> 503.72] So little tip for you dads out there.
[504.06 --> 508.84] What I start doing or you moms is I start collecting a show for them like weeks before the trip
[508.84 --> 510.00] and I don't tell them about it.
[510.20 --> 512.84] And I get it all organized like on an external hard drive.
[512.84 --> 516.54] And then I load it on the Plex server in this T24 window.
[517.08 --> 519.92] And then I tell Plex to immediately index and do its thing.
[520.00 --> 523.82] So that way when we set off for the trip, all of a sudden they've just got new content on Plex.
[523.92 --> 524.62] Oh, look at this.
[524.66 --> 525.12] It's great.
[525.30 --> 529.04] And then something else I'll do is I'll look for like a movie or a trilogy.
[529.18 --> 532.56] That's what I've been doing is finding family trilogies and loading them on there as well.
[532.66 --> 535.08] So while we're on the road, maybe we're at a rest stop for a night
[535.08 --> 540.18] or we're at some site where it's really bad weather and the kids are kind of stuck in the RV.
[540.18 --> 541.92] We've got movies to watch like this year.
[542.00 --> 542.98] I brought Jurassic Park.
[543.08 --> 544.40] Last year I brought Back to the Future.
[544.64 --> 545.44] I love the trilogies.
[545.72 --> 547.30] Who doesn't love a bit of Jeff Goldblum, eh?
[547.62 --> 547.84] Right.
[548.04 --> 549.24] Oh, my gosh.
[549.52 --> 552.56] I have not watched Jurassic Park in like forever.
[552.80 --> 555.50] And boy, Jeff Goldblum is laying it on thick in that movie.
[556.62 --> 558.92] It's thicker than my cookie butter on fresh bread.
[558.92 --> 561.88] No doubt about it.
[562.44 --> 565.44] So, you know, they get all that stuff sorted in my 24-hour window.
[565.58 --> 571.60] Verify that my LTE networks are all active, that one of my crazy carriers hasn't like canceled my account for some random reason.