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We just got an offer to buy our old house.

They are planning to replace the kitchen cabinets, which means we do not have to repair the broken range hood !

(The range hood has not worked properly in months and cannot be replaced because that width is not sold anymore).

They said they would take good care of the home.

In other news, Club Jouet was very glad to take the old toys we were donating. It's better than throwing them away. We kept them in very good condition.

My right canine hurts. I have a cavity.

I took an appointment with the dentist Monday at 2pm.

The stone layers just removed their scaffolds, so I took this picture.

Finally, I just found my old iPod nano a few seconds ago !!!

I have been searching for it since we started moving.

It was at the opposite end of the room of where I thought it was.

I knew I didn't throw it away.

The results came back, and we have hard water. We will need a water softener.

Tomorrow, we will also do another test to see if the water is now drinkable, now that we have added filters and a UV light.

Today, I moved my server from our old house to the new house.

It is now close to me, under my desk, with my UPS on the side.

I had to change the IP of all of my domains to go from a Vidéotron Business Static IP (24.37.91.254) to Starlink's 'Public IP' that 'should not change often' (129.222.94.178). This is why my websites were not accessible for a few hours.

I just made myself a bash script that logs into Domains Canada and changes the IP of all of my domains at once. It is very slow, but it works. I am ready if Starlink's IP changes.

I have previously been using dynv6, but I was having problems (it returned an IP one minute and no IP the next, loop).

So, I just went back to Domains Canada, even if the TTL is an hour instead of a minute like dynv6 (but I can change that in the future).

This morning, me and my dad installed the central vacuum.

It took about an hour and a half.

We installed every inlet except the one in the garage. Righ now, the pipe is open to the garage, which means the other inlets do not have much vacuum. We can't find the airtight plate.

We just put some plastic and tape over the inlet. The others now work fine.

When we were driving from our new house to the old one, the trailer jumped really high ! It almost tipped over. We looked at it and it seemed fine.

When we arrived, my dad noticed that the right wheel was no longer centered.

We lost a blade of the spring, which allowed the wheel to move back and forth.

We did not have the tools to fix it (they are at the new house). So my dad just jammed a screwdriver to hold the wheel.

We went to Canadian Tire to buy two new springs for the two wheels. They will be replaced when we have the time. There are other things that have to be done first.

Also, I start work again tomorrow. This will be a good test for our Starlink access.

Oh, and Starlink no longer says "partially obstructed" like it was at the old house. It also works much better :)

We moved into our new house Friday.

The movers were supposed to be there in the afternoon, but they were there at 8. We did not have time to prepare.

The new house is 45 minutes away from the old one. Friday, they did two trips. They finished at midnight.

We also moved some stuff with our car and trailer yesterday. It will take some more trips to move everything that's left.

The water is not yet drinkable at the new house, we have to add a UV lamp to kill bacteria. I brush my teeth with a water bottle.

My server is still at the old house until I create a script to change the IP addresses of all of my websites at once.

I just changed the IP address of all of my domains back to 24.37.91.254, the static IP we get from our Cable ISP Vidéotron. (I have a second ethernet card in my server with Vidéotron plugged in it, so my server does not need a router.)

I plan to move Starlink to the new house, make sure it works and then move my server there.

I want to move the internet access before we do on the 20th. So that we're not in a rush.

I have everything I need in a cardboard box. My big switch, small switch, router, Wi-Fi access points, faceplates and lots of cables.

I really want to put the Starlink antenna on the peak of the roof where there is no trees in the way, but my mother won't allow it.

The new house is next to the St-Lawrence river, but there are trees all around it.

Now, I want to put the antenna on the large shed we have not built yet (I hope it will be high enough with a pipe between the top of the shed and the antenna).

In the meantime, the antenna will be on the ground. It will still be less bad than at our current house.

I plan to use my mom's residential Internet access while Starlink is at the new house. (We have to accesses at our current house : business and residential).

At the new house, we will have Starlink. My mom also wants to get herself a Rogers "LTE to Wi-Fi" thingy as a backup if Starlink does not work. She's on FaceTime all day long for work and needs working Internet access.