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title: "Week 13, Monday:"
title: "Week 13, Monday: Recovery and Relaxation"
date: 2024-10-21T21:55:00+02:00
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{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}}
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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
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title: "Week 13, Tuesday:"
title: "Week 13, Tuesday: NLNOT"
date: 2024-10-22T21:55:00+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/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
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