Gazing up at the late-April night sky … look, it’s the Lunar Lobster! That’s right, it’s time for the annual spring sports update and Ubuntu upgrade!
- the Rays started off red-hot, tying the 1987 Milwaukee Brewers and 1982 Atlanta Braves for the longest win streak to start a season with 13; they’ve also set records with 14 straight home game wins and 21 straight games with a home run. They’re currently (still) in first place, 3.5 games ahead of the Orioles. Go Rays!!
- meanwhile, the Guardians are 2nd in the AL Central
- the Cavs exited the first round of the NBA playoffs as former Dayton Flyer (my alma mater) Obi Toppin and the New York Knicks beat them in 5 games
- the Lightning opened the first round of the Stanley Cup Playoffs against the Toronto Maple Leafs but currently trail in the series 3-2
- the NFL Draft is underway, but I really haven’t been paying attention to what the Browns and Bucs are doing (it’s playoff hockey time after all!)
On to the upgrade …
After making my typical backups, do-release-upgrade took about 30 minutes to download and install all the updated packages. I didn’t really have any major issues this time, but that was probably due to the fact that I’ve moved most of the services (Calibre, MySQL, phpMyAdmin, PiHole, Plex, Tautulli, Unifi Controller, etc.) off of my Linux server into Docker containers on my NAS. The one problem I had was Adagios, the “prettier” front-end for Nagios I’ve been using since 2016 (and I’ve been using Nagios since 2006). Adagios has given me problems in the past and doesn’t really seem to be maintained anymore, so after trying to tinker with some older packages and not getting anywhere I decided to just drop it and go back to the native Nagios UI. I also took the opportunity to upgrade to Nagios 4.4.11.
That was about it, easy enough! Until October when I’ll face the Mantic Minotaur (and let’s hope for some October baseball)!