So I just purchased my first Ubiquiti networks product. I’ve been a diehard Cisco fan since my early days in the IT field, but it’s worth giving them a chance at least based on the recommendations I’ve had from some colleagues (and some hype). Can Ubiquiti beat Cisco (in my household?) … we’ll see!
I’m going to do a really basic test with just a single, small switch to start with because we’re still in the apartment while house matters are still rolling around (I’ll do a post about the large gap in time since my last post soon, hopefully).
Based on my initial research, they have a really good ecosystem and user experience no matter if you’re doing a small home setup or an enterprise/sport-like setup, so that’s good to hear if it turns out to be true. I’ve only done a limited bit of research so this just whets the whistle so to speak.
Right now I have an HP v1810-48g switch, and on this small desk in small space it takes up a laaaaaaaarge corner of the back of my desk (even though I have it caddy-corner standing up angled off the desk … don’t ask). This new switch will give me a smaller profile and I can save this HP for some other use.
I’ll do a follow-up post and let you know how Ubiquiti turns out.
So it’s been a little bit over a month since I last posted, and a LOT has gone on. Let’s get right into it all.
After we sold, we had moved [basically our entire house of stuff] into an informal rental (informal as in a place a family member had available we could use), but we had to turn around within 2 months of moving in and move out due to some misunderstandings from both sides on financials that would hurt our much needed budgeting for the new house. All good, though, we got storage for all of our stuff, and our cousins are gracious hosts letting us stay with them during our build.
Whew. Danielle and I are mentally exhausted from the seemingly non-stop work really since last November when everything started, but more so the last few months. We’ve been going, going, and going, but at least we can slow the brakes a little and rest a bit easier for a little while now. Yay!
On top of all the chaos of selling, moving, buying (land) and building, I’m still in school. My worst and least favorite subject on the entire planet … no, in the entire cosmos is math. It was inevitable that I’d have to take two maths, but way back starting out at Phx I wasn’t aware nor prepared both classes would be back to back. There are pros and cons to this. Con: you’re stuck with math for 10 weeks straight… Pro: get math done in 10 weeks and concepts from one class are fresh for the one right after. I had been dreading the math classes ever since I knew they’d arrive, but now one of them is already over and I’m 2/5 of the way through the second one. I was thankful I passed the first one and I pray I pass this one, too. Harder to come IT classes will surely have their challenges, but I speak computer … not math. So that’ll be a huge lot of academic stress out of my way when the final math class is done here in a few weeks.
Since everyone is stuck at home during the Corona/Covid pandemic, recent studies have shown that video gaming has skyrocketed. You don’t need anything but common sense to know this. Still, gaming is one of my favorite pastimes (and currently my only one). I was a Sony PlayStation fan when I was younger and have been a Microsoft Xbox fan since I was a teenager. Without going through essentially a book on my gaming history, suffice to say I’ve experienced and understand both companies and their offerings. I just like Xbox more. So, I jump on lots of opportunities when I can. Plus, with technology as a passion of mine, it was a no-brainer when I got a chance to participate in Microsoft’s beta for xCloud, which was their mobile phone game streaming technology. It was fun and pretty cool to use regular 4G cell service to play high-quality games. Since it is out of beta now and part of their new subscription offerings, I got a cool emblem for being a beta user. That’s all I really wanted to make this whole section about (hahaha).
I was also able to secure an Xbox Series X earlier this week during the madness for pre-orders of the next-gen consoles coming out. Future-proofing is good to go.
If you haven’t noticed yet, I set in place the official changeover from andrewcoody.com to andrew.coody.co. While selling, moving and Corona/Covid put a wrench in my videos for the Coody Connection YouTube project I started, I do like the different website name and merging my personal site in with the YouTube business site. It’s smoother to refer to so that my blog and personal site have moved here permanently along with the business site (just remember: it’s .co not .com!)
Well, I think that about wraps up this post. It is not as linear as most of my posts usually are, but sometimes a jump around of topics is all you’re gonna get when my mind and life are all over the place. 🙂
That’s my slight spin on the quote “When one door closes, another opens” by Alexander Graham Bell. 🙂
It sometimes feels like it was only yesterday that Danielle and I made the huge decision and commitment to jump off the deep end and move to Arizona from Georgia. But alas! It’s already been over 3 years! Wow! It’s crazy how time flies.
In the time that we’ve been here in AZ, we’ve settled our roots in reasonably well (got myself a job, a beautiful house we intended to be our “forever house”, had most all of our family move nearby, etc.). But as with a lot of things in life, we had a change of desires for what we wanted for the rest of our lives and in retirement; shifting our hearts and mindsets from being in our forever house to preparing for our forever house. With that came getting out house ready to list on the market. We started that process really last year doing upgrades to the house and stuff like that.
Fast forward to earlier this year, and we reached out to our realtor and got the serious ball rolling to list and as you read in my last post, we officially listed. Since then, we had a TON of showings — somewhere in the neighborhood of 50! — and then we accepted an offer and have been going through all the motions with that … paperwork, inspection, appraisal, and other rollercoaster nuances. Today marks the official date we wrapped up selling our house. We put a lot of work into making the “house a home”, just like our last one in Georgia, and I hope the next people will love it, take care of it, and make it their own “house a home”, too. We wish them (and the house) the best.
Now we start a new chapter in our lives. This one I think is more outside the comfort zone than even moving was. We are going to build our own house (well, not us, but you get it). Of our needs and wants for the long-term future, the housing and land we are seeking doesn’t exist in the masses like it would back home, or it is exceedingly outside of our humble budget, so actually building our dream house isn’t really far fetched and meets or goals right in the middle. It’s too early to say anything because we’re just getting the ball rolling with the right people, but I’m sure I’ll throw out a new post or two (or more) as we go along this journey. So stay tuned for that.
Oh, yeah, and I pretty much gave up counting what day it is in Corona Quarantine … it’s been a lot with no end in sight. -_-
Today is officially day 1 of listing our house! It’s so fresh it’s not on all sites just yet. We’ve been working up to this point for the better part of a year, as I had mentioned in my last blog post, but nothing prepares you 110% for it until it arrives. Even up to the last minute last night we were tidying up this or that nitpick item before bed. Now we’re at center stage ready for a potential buyer to be enamored by this beautiful house that they can call home, too.
While this is not our first rodeo with buying or selling a home, it’s still a new journey nonetheless. We are excited to sell and then find our for real forever home (second time’s a charm, right?), even amidst the current pandemic and humanity crisis. You can tell by the timestamp of this post I’m up wayyyyy too early. I got a few hours of sleep in and then I was wide awake. Oh well.
Here’s a link to the initial MLS listing as we received it. I checked Zillow, Realtor, and a couple others and they show the house as when we bought it, so be sure to check in periodically with your favorite realty website to see when it hits there with the newer listing.
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