diff --git a/content/blog/wk9day4.md b/content/blog/wk9day4.md index 9d75116..c9e30fe 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk9day4.md +++ b/content/blog/wk9day4.md @@ -1,7 +1,92 @@ --- -title: "Week 9, Thursday:" +title: "Week 9, Thursday: Zurich to Paris" date: 2024-09-26T21:55:00+02:00 -draft: true --- -{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}} +{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/mixmag.png" alt="Credit: Mixmag, YouTube" >}} + +After a good night's sleep, I tend to the house a little bit. We've been gone for five days, and +just before that we've been gone for seven days. Quinn has been home and has done a really great job +keeping the house in one piece, and he's cleaned up the kitchen regularly, I can tell! We got home +yesterday and there was a box of cookies on the counter with a post-it "Please eat me!". + +In the morning I tended to some chores: the cameras on the exterior of the house stopped working, +very likely because I unplugged the PoE switch in the guestroom [which turned out to be the case]. I +also needed to pay some bills, and do a quick round of book keeping for IPng. I made a keep-list of +the things that I needed to do, and worked through them methodically. Mostly, so I wouldn't forget +and accidentally disappoint a family member waiting on an outcome. + +Marina and I went grocery shopping and wanted to buy food for the next three days, and importantly, +vegetables for our "oep met ajje", which is not even Dutch but a infants way to say "Soep met +Ballen" -- vegetable soup with meat balls, we share a passion for this soup. We went to the _Coop_ +and Marina got venison, a meat I'm not particularly fond of. A standing tradition in my house: when +I travel alone, the family eats all the things they really like but I don't :) + +We got home and I started chopping veggies, while Marina rolled the meatballs one by one. Our soup +has carrots, onions, rutabaga, leeks, cellery and stock. Later, we parboil the meat and I also make +some vermicelli. All up, this is a delicious soup, made even more delicious (and a tiny bit less +healthy) by adding a copious amount of _Aromat_. If anybody still believes I'm a foreigner, I will +do my best to eat it with even more of my dishes. + +After lunch, we do some cleaning work. Marina makes her way through the bathroom and downstairs +toilet, and I give the kitchen a deep cleaning. Normally, we're somewhat disappointed by the +cleaning activity because we then proceed to filthify the kitchen again in the evening as we cook. +However, today is a special day™, because we're having dönner delivered, which means the +kitchen will stay clean for one extra day :) + +In the morning I had printed and cut twentyfour IPng badges. After the cleaning, I went downstairs +to flash them. Each pin has an NXP nTAG which contains a URL; and the webserver that does the +redirector makes each URL point to a new destination every week. This way, curious readers can +surprise themselves by scanning the tag every week or so to keep updated on my ramblings on +[[IPng.ch](https://ipng.ch)]. + +The flashing works out pretty quickly, which leaves me the larger part of the afternoon to make my +presentation for [[FRNoG](https://frnog.org/)] in Paris. In Oslo I had 45 minutes to deliver my +storyline, but in Paris I have been assigned 20 minutes only - not to worry, I have designed my +narrative such that I can remove and/or shorten parts of it. I end up rewriting one part and +dropping another, leaving me with an ~18 minute presentation, by still reusing most of the slides. +Mission accomplished! + +The doorbell rings, and UPS is there in the rain with a large cardboard box. In the box, are four +smaller cardboard boxes. In those boxes then, are trays and trays and trays full of fiber optic +transcievers (SFP+, aka 10Gbps). I have them in all sorts and sizes: every CWDM channel (from 1270nm +through to 1610nm), bidirectional ones, and _normal_ 1310-LR optics. Each of them are 20km with a +good sensitivity, and I really needed them because I ran out of optics after the [[Stollen]({{< ref +wk8day4.md >}})] deploy last week. I unpackage and oragnize them into IPng's stock (aka: the +basement). + +At around 18:00 I emerge from the basement, presentation in hand, basement cleaned up and tidy (I +did promise myself I would keep that up, and I am still keeping my promise). My buddy Pereira stops +by on Signal and says the gang missed me in Zurich this week. My favorite team, P2020, had a leads +summit. Were I not to have been in Oslo, I would've certainly stopped by to say hi and emit some +🥰 emojis. + +Dinner is ordered and arrives fashionably late. How long should it take to make some +dönner-boxen?? Anyway, we're watching Black Mirror, the _White Christmas_ episode, which is +pretty gnarly. I enjoy the dinner, and chuckle a bit because our "Get home and have an _AVG_" +apparently lasted exactly one day. + +After dinner, Marina drives me to the airport. Zurich is a super efficient airport for security, and +a few minutes later my bag is fished out of the xray machine: I guess having two rolls of 25pcs of +38mm round nTAG with electronics and magnets and so on, trips the machine. It did so also with the +stuff left over from Oslo. Fun :) but the guy saw pretty quickly what I had in my bag, and I was +free to go! + +At the gate, I take a picture of the 21:40 departure time of LX646. Two minutes later, I receive an +e-mail from Swiss: flight is delayed, next departure is 20:00. Well, the good news is that in that +extra time I just bought myself, I can write my journal entry for the day!! + +## Pictures of the Day + +{{< gallery-category >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-26/IMG_1589.JPG" caption="Printing and cutting the IPng pins on the Cameo v5" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-26/IMG_1590.JPG" caption="Cutting and pairing the veggies for our huge pot of soup" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-26/IMG_1592.JPG" caption="A nice bowl of vegetable soup with meatballs and toast (and Aromat)" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-26/IMG_1593.JPG" caption="The kitchen is spotless after a deep cleaning activity from your's truly" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-26/IMG_1594.JPG" caption="I am flashing 24 new pins with IPng articles; it's a pretty simple but repetitive process. I like those" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-26/IMG_1595.JPG" caption="The transcievers from Starry Optics arrive. There's a good 225 of them here, and a bunch of 40G to 4x10G and 100G to 4c25G DAC breakout cables too" >}} +{{< /gallery-category >}} + +{{< gallery-modal >}} +{{< gallery-script >}} + diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1589.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1589.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..3dc6820 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1589.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:308787be8288818bf3a01ad349d2150a0b3186407544c376c7a5edf7f1317187 +size 1227496 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1590.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1590.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5a39235 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1590.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:a0bb2ed823e1fd91d470d2305d83f841208ffe98a484961b505a98bddc079e57 +size 1624920 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1592.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1592.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..287466e --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1592.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:72032342cbfe131b96093844e747ed877b2672f7669425a2e8bc2e5bdf38ed6f +size 1345143 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1593.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1593.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..4302657 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1593.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:76b73d0142da868f7bb1c177cfc22b8d6dc63d19e429cb4b80914888c7c4ed15 +size 999690 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1594.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1594.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2ae48b9 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1594.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:c1e75d23538f9950eed47be2567810485db7a4396aa0c2e3be50afda728fcb32 +size 1138793 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1595.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1595.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e72df92 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-26/IMG_1595.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:be4921fdf571d38799ef140256986c6a65054d024b1fb8dbc1eb8a036ba687a8 +size 1484675 diff --git a/static/img/headline/mixmag.png b/static/img/headline/mixmag.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e435abe --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/headline/mixmag.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:10bbf667683483b6f94a36b3aa225208863e5951a0fb3f10e5a871775a9fde42 +size 109663 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1589.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1589.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a381787 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1589.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:931076a4ff202f297805d99af32a203d9e7ee55cfa7950a854a6e7e98cdc75a3 +size 38368 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1590.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1590.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..777ff05 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1590.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:9b74d08b451485563c105196b7ee9158a5ed9592fade30802cea4ef75afd7eec +size 54961 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1592.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1592.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..66c1e09 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1592.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:4cf361d0a2273699191d2fd09e9e8436b1c5ee09bd15d8cbbb859aa80a59e9a5 +size 46364 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1593.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1593.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..138165d --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1593.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:cb8d07dfff36b23547aa316da234b5f1da24e7dde1540542dedb61f427218fab +size 43002 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1594.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1594.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..cdfe251 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1594.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:0fcb88f0046430783d6c4613f768c6dfa0afc016f185592349964c8fc445e691 +size 43760 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1595.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1595.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c2b6c59 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-26/IMG_1595.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:2c37dffd0a6ea10477701f2f4f40ae7e08156a00c03910a708fea1d876c8b51c +size 49745