diff --git a/content/blog/wk13day2.md b/content/blog/wk13day2.md index cd4b013..571cdbe 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk13day2.md +++ b/content/blog/wk13day2.md @@ -50,10 +50,18 @@ I'll miss all of the questions. But, I do monitor it form afar, and I appreciate questions Peter and Pieter put in. What happens next in Amsterdam, I will have to miss: the drinks, food, hanging out and exchanging stories will all be for a next time. +Considering I will be traveling to Barcelona tomorrow, and I have a few minutes to spare, I drive +over to the Interxion datacenter and do some pending maintenance for IP-Max: the current 100G link +from Interxion to Frankfurt is suffering from what seems to be _electrical_ issues in the CFP cage. +So I move myself to the floor at 23:30 when traffic is calmer, drain the link, and move the +connection to both another optic and as well another port. I am successful: the occasional frame +corruption is entirely gone. So that's at lease one productive thing I did today :) + ## Pictures of the Day {{< gallery-category >}} {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-22/IMG_2160.JPG" caption="Flying from Bern to Annecy over the alps." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-22/IMG_2164.JPG" caption="I moved this 100G link from Zurich to Frankfurt to another router port and optic." >}} {{< /gallery-category >}} {{< gallery-modal >}} diff --git a/content/blog/wk13day3.md b/content/blog/wk13day3.md index a12c83f..f373291 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk13day3.md +++ b/content/blog/wk13day3.md @@ -1,7 +1,56 @@ --- -title: "Week 13, Wednesday:" +title: "Week 13, Wednesday: Zurich to Barcelona" date: 2024-10-23T21:55:00+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/cosmicgate.png" alt="Credit: Cosmic Gate, YouTUbe" >}} + +This afternoon we'll be on our way to Barcelona and I feel pretty good about that. Apart from a bit +of a stuffy nose and a nasal voice, I feel fine! After a quick breakfast with coffee, I take some +time to clean my basement. Although, now I have a Roomba so I can auto-clean, or at least +auto-vacuum my room, and IPng's serverroom too. As the iRobot, which I've called _Suckel_, is +zooming around, I clean up cables and optics and various bits and pieces from the maintenance I +performed for IP-Max yesterday. + +After lunch, I connect a bunch of new users at [[FrysIX](https://frys-ix.net/)], a small internet +exchange that I operate together with my buddy Arend. The users come online in the quarantine VLAN +and start configuring their kit. Two of them have a bit of an issue, they are a _reseller_ customer, +with its supplier transporting the FrysIX via a switch to their router. Unfortunately, that switch +is sending ethernet frames (perhaps spanning tree, or LLDP, or some other traffic), so I cannot move +those two new members to the peeringlan. I'm sure the reseller will eventually figure it out, so I +move on. + +At 15:00 we make our way to the Zurich Airport. I'm still very pleased that we settled in +Brüttisellen, which is to the NorthEast of Zurich city, and about 8km (5mi) away from the +airport. It's easy to get there by bus, train, car and bike. I've even jogged to and from it from +time to time, it's that close! + +We have some time to kill before our flight at 18:55, but I make good use of it by writing my +journal entries for earlier this week. The flight boards on time, leaves roughly on time, and makes +it to Barcelona smoothly. We land there at 20:30. Instead of taking a car, Marina has scouted out +how we might use the metro. Our hotel is in _Upper Diagonal_, which is just a few minutes walk from +the terminal station of the T9 subway train, which goes from the airport directly to _Zona +Universaria_ without any changes. + +It is a one hour commute though, and it seems SpongeBob is a bit nervous. He gently pops out his +face from within my shoe from time to time. There's nothing to fear, little spongebuddy, and we +arrive at 21:30, perfect time for a spot of dinner. We don't have to go far, because our hotel +itself has a little restaurant in it. We settle down and ask for just what the Doctor ordered: +tapas with red wine. + +Our hotel room is gorgeous, a king bed with a terrace! We got lucky on this one, I think! Tomorrow +at 09:00, the ESNOG two day conferrence starts. Marina will be hanging out in the city as she has +(pre-)bought tickets for the Picasso museum. She will visit a few museums and take in the +architecture, while I nerd out and practice my Spanish a bit at ESNOG'32. + +## Pictures of the Day + +{{< gallery-category >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-23/IMG_2165.JPG" caption="Zurich Airport as seen from the inside." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-23/IMG_2170.JPG" caption="Spongebob socks, he is so cute <3" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-23/IMG_2171.JPG" caption="Our hotelroom in Upper Diagonal is not too shabby!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-23/IMG_2173.JPG" caption="Our dinner is tapas and wine - a staple for us when in Barcelona" >}} +{{< /gallery-category >}} + +{{< gallery-modal >}} +{{< gallery-script >}} diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-23/IMG_2165.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-23/IMG_2165.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..1cece49 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-23/IMG_2165.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:3148e56dcc8d9efbf1eb2b2f76f089f0995e7aaa89d60c40d1b296eeb74fb441 +size 1487484 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-23/IMG_2170.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-23/IMG_2170.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..54a5097 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-23/IMG_2170.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:eb3c869054b26fe7ff63b3b52d2a485c6c5a39a42d074e8274eff194f7f3bc8d +size 1315885 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-23/IMG_2171.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-23/IMG_2171.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..49a4e8a --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-23/IMG_2171.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:52cce8cb7158d6225a886148c9c0e384bbd4f4b6c131693c08313e2b8bc5c9c3 +size 498371 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-23/IMG_2173.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-23/IMG_2173.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..0f36d29 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-10-23/IMG_2173.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:ba738fd5d621b1c09473fa9cf5794df69cc553839dc1050285ad11a90b7105b6 +size 1168049 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-23/IMG_2165.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-23/IMG_2165.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8744d90 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-23/IMG_2165.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:bfdbfa823a74115da7fed4a8a3823f1320ec867d472e501d3b93d1cfb1c65c4a +size 53638 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-23/IMG_2170.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-23/IMG_2170.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..001cac1 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-23/IMG_2170.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:2ab2a160e58d18c3ce1b6d9e0266826a397a4622066ab8474b44a3abe872176d +size 40465 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-23/IMG_2171.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-23/IMG_2171.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5c1aeaf --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-23/IMG_2171.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:4131e8e868bc43494d8132afa59eb9aa501b9ec6e461a92ad2b9cf9c128beadb +size 24101 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-23/IMG_2173.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-23/IMG_2173.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a6bd52b --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-10-23/IMG_2173.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:eb8f2efe8c231e237baf235e4ada8a1d4b30a539f70191851ace4f9fa7e07e3f +size 46034