diff --git a/content/blog/wk13day1.md b/content/blog/wk13day1.md index 3552d6b..bde0953 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk13day1.md +++ b/content/blog/wk13day1.md @@ -1,7 +1,53 @@ --- -title: "Week 13, Monday:" +title: "Week 13, Monday: Recovery and Relaxation" date: 2024-10-21T21:55:00+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/9T9_DnB-02.png" alt="Credit: 9T9 DnB, YouTube" >}} + +I took the time to sleep in late this morning, and I'm still upstairs in the guest room. There's +something quite relaxing about this bed and the room, and also not having small interruptions in the +night like bathroom breaks from Marina or alarm clocks from Quinn or the bustle of folks getting up +at 05:00 in the morning. It's great to be able to sleep in late! + +In the morning I drink my first cup of coffee. Last night I started watching Lost In Space, a 1960s +television series depicting the Robinson family on their epic voyage through space. Looking back at +this stuff is nostalgic: the video quality, the story line, and the acting are all not great +compared to the slick production quality of a good TV show in the 2000s, and it's in black and +white. I don't remember this series being black and white growing up, but it turns out it's only +season one, because S02/S03 are indeed in _technicolor_. + +In the afternoon I have a rerun bowl of soup from the weekend. Marina was so kind as to make me this +soup as it always helps me (my spirits at least, if not as well my body) when I am under the +weather. On Saturday, I added a lot of chicken stock, until the carton was all gone, and it was +_still_ watery. Today, I get to taste what I really made; a quite salty soup, indeed! I've added a +cup or two of water to it. It just reminds me how vivid the taste is, and how bland/removed the +taste was when I was battling COVID. Lunch is this chicken soup and a few soft-boiled eggs with +bread. They as well taste a treat. + +After lunch, I further launch FreeIX Remote. I add a bunch of folks from Community IX and CHIX-CH +who could benefit, and who understand enough to be able to appreciate, what the project is doing. +This takes me a few hours of building, pushing, and testing. I'm still taking it easy because it's a +new configuration and I am not convinced I got all the details right. That said, things seem to +propagate just fine, so I consider it a win. + +Marina made chicken and hoisin sauce with broccoli and cashews for the evening meal. Wow, that's +great. I appreciate that she's here for me and having home cooked meals (that I do not necessarily +have to cook myself!) is a huge help. The dinner was delicious, and I can tell that Quinn also likes +it, because at the end of the meal, almost the whole pan has evaporated. + +After dinner I watch some news (there's not much going on in the world), and end up my evening with +a few more episodes of the Robinson Family in _Lost In Space_. I've canceled my trip to Amsterdam, +and instead will focus on Barcelona later this week. Considering I'm free of fever, tomorrow I'll +have a test and see if my viral load is sufficiently low such that I can visit ESNOG at least. + +## Pictures of the Day + +{{< gallery-category >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-21/IMG_2153.JPG" caption="Lunch: Chicken soup, soft boiled eggs and bread" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-21/IMG_2154.JPG" caption="Dinner: Chicken with hoisin sauce, broccoli and cashews. Omm nom!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-21/IMG_2155.JPG" caption="Lost in Space from 1965, 4:3, analog film, black and white" >}} +{{< /gallery-category >}} + +{{< gallery-modal >}} +{{< gallery-script >}} diff --git a/content/blog/wk13day2.md b/content/blog/wk13day2.md index c8f9af2..cd4b013 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk13day2.md +++ b/content/blog/wk13day2.md @@ -1,7 +1,61 @@ --- -title: "Week 13, Tuesday:" +title: "Week 13, Tuesday: NLNOT" date: 2024-10-22T21:55:00+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/astralthrob.png" alt="Credit: Astral Throb, YouTube" >}} + +Today I got up early so that I could join NLNOG, in spirit at least. It starts at 09:00 but the +content will be only half an hour later at 09:30. The NLNOG has a special place in my heart, as I've +been a member of this community since the 90s and well before it was an official _thing_. The board +are all staples and fixtures in the Dutch internet community, and I really enjoy re-connecting with +the group as I started working more on open source routers like [[VPP](https://fd.io/)]. + +After the opening, Yurii Polovyi of RETN discusses wavelength division multiplexing, CWDM/DWDM and +(R)OADM solutions in the industry. It's an interesting overview. Next, Leroy de Vos (from AMS-IX +NOC) gives a touching story about his own career from humble beginnings to the NOC of one of the +largest internet exchanges on the planet. + +In the coffee break, I start up the flight simulator and decide to fly my Cessna 172S skyhawk from +Belp to Annecy in France. However, I'll plan a route over the alps this time, so I get to fly at +11'000ft. In the process, I learn about the fuel mixture settings (lean during taxy, rich during +takeoff <3'000ft, lean over 3'000ft). It's really amazing how well this simulator is programmed. As +I touch down in Annecy with a straight in final approach, the NLNOG conference has already +continued. + +On stage are Ondrej (RIPE), Arjan (Event Infra), and my buddy Andrew (Cisco) talking about how to +make events networking uneventful. Each brings their own perspective, from outdoors venues (with +_Datenklo's_) to huge indoors venues and a single room with 6000+ people in it. I also learned that +the equipment sits in some storage room somewhere and weighs seven metric tonnes. Heh. + +Teun Vink takes us to a serious topic - specifically for those of us who have aging family members - +and discusses our digital legacy. It's a presentation of pictures and the story it tells really +spoke to me. Teun leads us in to lunch, and I as well have a sandwich and a cup of tea. I also fly +my plane from Annecy to Dijon and I touch down on runway 02 and park the plane. + +After lunch, Rudi van Drunen shares a view into critical Dutch infrastructure with Networks at Air +Traffic Control the Netherlands. On the heals of that, Bert Hubert brings 'part four of the +triology' of social life lessons with Life long learning: dealing with change. We all drink some +coffee, and I take a cup also, as I type away some of my e-mail backlog. + +After the break, Robin Gilijamse has a story with A Case Against Automation - I feel a little bit +uncomfortable with the speaker venturing into aerospace investigations and drawing some conclusions +that I would not have necessarily drawn. After Robin, Ties de Kock of RIPE NCC shares details of the +key management of RPKI HSM. What is possibly my favorite story of the day is from Frank van Vliet, +Debugging the impossible: the bit-flipping story. After his talk, one of the folks who lined up at +the microphone was a senios engineer from KPN itself, saying thanks for the elaborate debugging :) + +I do not participate in the kahoot quiz, as doing so remotely will give me a transmission delay and +I'll miss all of the questions. But, I do monitor it form afar, and I appreciate the quirky +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. + +## 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-category >}} + +{{< gallery-modal >}} +{{< gallery-script >}} +