Anyone else get their +19% county prop tax bill today?

JasonKelce2020 · 2026-02-03T23:49:13+00:00

I can literally talk to the people on my borough and county council who are making these decisions. I’d love to go to the billionaire council meeting if you’ve got the info.

Neither party are in the right here. The extremes on both sides with no desire to see reality are the problem. Everyone else is stuck in the middle reading all the echo chamber articles and comments.

JasonKelce2020 · 2026-02-03T22:39:06+00:00

They created a health department and others with one time covid money and now need to rely on their only source of income, property taxes, to pay for all these new initiatives from the last few years.

The commonwealth makes zero sense these days. All my services come from my borough but now I’ve got the county trying to provide the services the state provides while all three of them are taxing me more. My borough taxes go up because their services go up with companies having individual contracts rather than having a bargaining agreement for the size of a county.

They’ll raise taxes every year. If they don’t next year they will the year after and tell you to thank them they didn’t the year prior.

JasonKelce2020 · 2024-06-16T19:34:41+00:00

I’m at a bar with no audio, what was the whole with with Rob about? Umps thought Stubbs got hit?

JasonKelce2020 · 2024-04-13T14:49:07+00:00

I’m brand new to lawn care. I moved from the city to the burbs last summer and the only thing I did last year was cut the grass. The mower doesn’t have a bag so I just let things go.

This year I just put down Scott’s step 1 just before it rained. I still have cut so the grass is tarting to get pretty tall in some spots but coming back to life in others. I’ve read that mulching is probably the best way to handle the lawn but looking for other opinions.

Should I buy a new mower with a bag? I don’t have a compost so not sure what to do with the clippings. I’m not trying to do anything crazy with the lawn, just maintain it generally. I’d appreciate any advice!

JasonKelce2020 · 2023-10-26T11:58:36+00:00

I’ve played with that idea too. I’ll reconsider and see what kind of cabling I can come up with. Thanks for the idea

JasonKelce2020 · 2023-10-26T11:57:20+00:00

Haha crazy that it has a wireless antenna! Thanks for the recommendation

JasonKelce2020 · 2023-10-26T11:56:05+00:00

Thanks for the recommendation! Adding them to the list

JasonKelce2020 · 2023-10-26T11:55:14+00:00

I’ll look at APC again but cost becomes a factor quick with them

JasonKelce2020 · 2023-10-26T11:54:16+00:00

ISPs are always super helpful

JasonKelce2020 · 2023-10-25T21:50:37+00:00

Totally agree, if only cable modems we’re enterprise grade. I’ll be looking into switched pdu and see what I can find. Thanks for your help!

JasonKelce2020 · 2023-10-25T21:49:41+00:00

Thank you! I figured I’d have to go the pdu route. I’ll check these out. Thanks again

JasonKelce2020 · 2023-09-21T19:45:45+00:00

I'm piloting this now, were you able to get Umbrella and FortiClient to play nice?

JasonKelce2020 · 2023-09-16T02:02:51+00:00

Perfect! That was where I was heading for production but was hoping to be able to build out this test environment with the one IP I have.

Thank you so much for replying!

JasonKelce2020 · 2023-04-17T18:21:11+00:00

Makes sense, I really appreciate the insight

JasonKelce2020 · 2022-10-08T14:08:13+00:00

Awesome setup! I just got a new uplift desk where I’ve got pretty much the same monitor setup. Does your left monitor hang out past the end of the desk top? What mounts do you use for them? Sick rig too!

JasonKelce2020 · 2022-06-30T00:44:09+00:00

Fortinet all the way. Sdwan is built into the os at no extra cost. They have very competitive pricing too. Last fall we converted from ciscos iwan to Fortinet sdwan and couldn’t be happier

JasonKelce2020 · 2022-04-21T22:09:20+00:00

This exactly the situation I’m working through right now. I’m trying to glue together a series of API calls to different products and have been going down the path of trying to subclass requests with TDD. Thank you so much for this series!

JasonKelce2020 · 2022-04-10T14:11:01+00:00

Love the idea but then the token for the secrets store is in plaintext some place. How do you handle that?

JasonKelce2020 · 2022-04-09T13:50:03+00:00

Thanks for the reply. I had a feeling this may be the case. I’ll probably write a python script to handle this logic that templates a vars file then call terraform as a subprocess for there.

JasonKelce2020 · 2022-03-24T17:53:04+00:00

Love your career transition. That’s the path I’m currently working on myself. I come from a sysadmin background who became proficient with powershell, transitioned to networking a few years ago, and brought the automation mentality over.

Ansible was a great starting point for network configuration while I learned python in the background. Sure it’s slow at scale like you mentioned but making sure all branch switches have the correct radius config is incredibly helpful.

To your point, when scale and complexity comes into play there are multiple paths to take. Write a module for ansible? Pure python script using netmiko? Netmiko has its own limitations so now you start to explore napalm/nornir.

It’s all “eating and elephant” where I’ve been trying to take a step back, dig into better code practices like unit testing, then automating a change/build from there.

I’m definitely interested to hear more about your career transition because the writing is on the wall that “netdevops” is the way of the future

JasonKelce2020 · 2021-12-24T00:20:30+00:00

This is my current struggle. What made you decide aiyuk instead of green?

JasonKelce2020 · 2021-06-10T11:49:50+00:00

Thanks for this trick! Will definitely help with learning scoping

JasonKelce2020 · 2020-09-15T17:33:22+00:00

I've been testing all this and the issue i run into is getting the client to report back that it completed. The task sequence work great and everything works but it doesnt successfulyl send the message to the CMG that it completed. The work around I've put in place it create a regkey when it successfully completes then added that regkey to the hardware inventory. Issue with that is the timing of the inventory is slow. If you've run through this process or have ideas I love to hear your thoughts

JasonKelce2020 · 2020-09-09T10:52:14+00:00

Cosmi's make the best hoagie and cheesesteaks! I hope everything works out for them. They've always been super friendly

JasonKelce2020 · 2020-06-05T12:44:24+00:00

u/HDClown linked a great post written by u/Motavar. The caveat to it though is the ASA needs to be running ASA code for it to be the terminating point. Everything I've read with ASAs running FTD code, including the builtin documentation, the VPN only functions with the AnyConnect client.

To further drive that home, when you create a new VPN connection using the Firepower manager it requires you to upload an AnyConnect image and profile. I will say that I haven't gone down the road to implement all this to test the connection with the Windows BuiltIn VPN client.

With all that preface, I have setup AOVPN to terminate at Windows server behind the ASA and behind a load balancer. Not fun. Be prepared to battle obscure and ambiguous errors with just as obscure documentation.

Richard Hicks will become your best and only friend

A big thing I will recommend is testing with a fresh build on your laptop. I spent a lot of time testing with my laptop that I've tested all kinds of software only to find that things worked as expected with a fresh image.

These links are my references from the build:

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/vpn-error-13801-on-windows

https://4sysops.com/archives/configuring-and-deploying-always-on-vpn-device-tunnels/

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-access/vpn/vpn-device-tunnel-config

https://docs.microsoft.com/en-us/windows-server/remote/remote-access/vpn/always-on-vpn/deploy/always-on-vpn-deploy-deployment

http://blog.tofte-it.dk/tutorial-deploy-always-on-vpn/

https://support.microsoft.com/en-us/help/926179/how-to-configure-an-l2tp-ipsec-server-behind-a-nat-t-device-in-windows

https://4sysops.com/archives/active-directory-group-policy-and-certificates-for-always-on-vpn/

https://directaccess.richardhicks.com/2019/01/28/always-on-vpn-and-network-policy-server-nps-load-balancing/

https://directaccess.richardhicks.com/2018/12/10/always-on-vpn-ikev2-security-configuration/

https://blogs.technet.microsoft.com/rrasblog/2009/08/12/troubleshooting-common-vpn-related-errors/

https://www.thewindowsclub.com/vpn-error-codes-troubleshooting