Add Sunday, COVID recovery day

content/blog/wk12day7.md

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-title: "Week 12, Sunday:"
+title: "Week 12, Sunday: Recovering COVID"
 date: 2024-10-20T21:55:00+02:00
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-{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}}
+{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/desiredvibes.png" alt="Credit: DesiredVibes, LoFi, YouTube" >}}
+
+Good news, everybody! This morning I woke up (almost) completely free of fever at a 37.2C (98.9F)
+and in good spirits. All that hanging out in the guest room watching Young Sheldon is paying off!
+I haven't had a coffee in three days, so I wonder what it'll be like. Curious, I wander downstairs
+to make myself a cup of Joe, and it tastes thick and rich. Yaay. Go, tastebuds!
+
+I'm feeling really behind on ~everything right now. Of course rationally I understant that this is
+not terrible because one has to be sick at some point, but at the same time it's quite out of
+character for me to do nothing but sit in bed and watch time go by one episode at a time. As a note
+to future work-returning Pim: **you need stuff to do, buddy :)**
+
+Speaking of stuff, I have not had the energy to write my journal since Tuesday, what with the
+all-day sleeping and all. But this morning, coffee on the tongue and caffeine raging through my
+veins, I'm all for it. So I spend some time writing about my drive home from Geneva on
+[[Wednesday]({{< ref wk12day3.md >}})] and my sugar run and bikeride to the airport on
+[[Thursday]({{< ref wk12day4.nd >}})]. Writing these does make me feel a bit better as well, with a
+feeling that I should do more stuff.
+
+First, I assemble the _copious_ amount of pictures (by which I mean pretty much _none_) that I took
+on Friday and Saturday. With those in hand, I decide to think a little bit about how I'm going to
+write my COVID story. I've found that writing about my day is much easier if I have a visual aid:
+where I've been, what I was doing, and so on. With pictures of the thermometer and the view from the
+guestroom bed, and so much sleep going on, that becomes much more difficult. By the way, this bed is
+super comfortable 🥰. So, I write about my weekend, and put that behind me.
+
+The rest of the afternoon is spent binge-watching the rivitting story of George, Mary and their
+kids. My heart dropped when I saw the episode of George's death, and I may have had a "Sterk spul
+he, dat Fishermans Friend" [[moment](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_IzKuS18umM)] or two. By the
+way, don't come to this place if you can't take spoilers.
+
+After dinner, I watch some news with Marina, but even though my fever broke, I'm still going to stay
+mostly upstairs. I decide to take another look at the FreeIX Remote project, which I got stuck on
+this last week [[Thursday]({{< ref wk12day4.md >}})]. Thinking back, this will likely have been
+because I was already coming down with COVID even on Wednesday and Thursday of last week. It would
+explain my sluggishness (beyond my usual stupidity) and sleepiness (beyond my usual laziness). 
+
+One of the things I was planning on doing in Amsterdam is deploy a fiber cross connect between my
+Coloclue hypervisor and the FrysIX switch, in order to run the AS112, IXPManager and possibly the
+RS2 virtual machine there. The SSDs in the Equinix AM3 hypervisor are slow and may fail at any time.
+However, I won't be going, and even if I would, I understand from Jelle that only Asimo and ERITAP
+are allowed to do this. So I ping my buddy Max, who lives just down the road from me, and will be
+going to NLNOG tomorrow, and ask him if he can mule this kit.  He says yes (Thanks again, Max!) so I
+mosy over to his and drop a baggie into the milkbox.
+
+Looking back at my git commit history, the refactor took about two hours and was in at 21:45, and
+generated the same configuration as it did before I started, which is good. A good fourtyfive
+minutes later, the to-members filtering was done, and a first canary for my buddy Antonios' AS210312
+was live. By midnight, I had set up a complete canary with Sam's AS35202, Jurrian's AS212635 and
+Antonios in various configurations of propagation and inhibits. Tomorrow, I plan to write an IPng
+article about the implementation. It was a fun puzzle!
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-20/IMG_2148.JPG" caption="Good Morning: I'm back in the green" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-20/IMG_2149.JPG" caption="The view from my bed: Young Sheldon on one laptop, Hugo website on the other." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-20/IMG_2151.JPG" caption="The after-dinner desert is a treat: stroopwafel! They barely fit on my tea mug :)" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-20/IMG_2152.JPG" caption="A package for Arend: 30m of fiber, 2x Intel branded SFP+, for Qupra" >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
+
+{{< gallery-modal >}}
+{{< gallery-script >}}