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+## Morning
+
+Yaay, overnight Tim has committed his travel and will be staying at my place from Sep 30 through Oct
+4, and he'll be taking the night train over - so grab your laptop and a movie or two, Tim, and I'll
+see you before then at the FrysIX barbecue on Sep 14th. I'm looking forward to visiting Jubbega in
+the beautiful province of Friesland in the Netherlands. For some reason, I made it to 2am again
+yesterday, after writing my journal entry - I made some spicy noodles and added some extra spices.
+
+This morning I woke up to a second burn, and because I did not set an alarm, it was about 10:30 or
+so when I woke up from the beeping sounds of the mailman delivering packages downstairs. No packages
+for me today, although I am expecting one from Digitec tomorrow. 
+
+We were going to have lunch at Bagle Boys in Oerlikon, but Quinn can't make it beacuse Liv is coming
+over. It's all mayhem on the rails though, as some train has ripped through the electic overhead
+lines and made some gnarly damage. It's easy to take for granted, but we do have an electric railway
+system here. No stinky (and loud!) diesel guzzling trains over here! Because of this stressful bit,
+Liv will be at our place later, so Marina and I decide to jet.
+
+## Afternoon
+
+For me the day starts at Yooji's in Glatt Zentrum, a local shopping mall a few kilometers from where
+we live. Marina wants to do some _specialy_ shopping, getting those types of ingredients and
+condiments that you can't find at our local Coop or Migros. But considering it's lunch time, we
+treat ourselves to some sushi at Yooji's. Marina marvels at the variety of dishes on the
+sushi-train, that are normally not available when we go there at dinner time. She quite enjoys
+herself, including taking home three Mochi (green tea, vanilla and Oreo) for later.
+
+I come home and remind myself that I was going to be baking bread during my sabbatical. I start two
+starter cultures from a little bit of yeast I had lying around in the fridge. Why buy blocks of
+yeast, if you can keep an evergrowing culture? I create one and lovingly call it Dougie. I used to
+have a california sourdough culture called Dougzilla, but sadly he got infected a few years ago, and
+I tossed it. This one only has to last for a few months though.
+
+Downstairs I am reminded of another (somewhat more annoying) thing: the reason why I have this
+clothing closet in my basement workroom. Marina wanted to get rid of it when we moved into the
+house, mostly because its drawers kept on drooping open. But for a storage cabinet in my room, I
+thought it was _not just good, but good enough_ (hoi, North of the Border!). Now is the time to fix
+that shit! I whip out Fusion360, and I grin seeing how blazingly fast this runs on the M2 Ultra with
+24 cores and 64GB of memory. I draw a few pieces that are supposed to hold 20x10x2mm neodymium
+magnets. They are quickly printed and while the second batch is printing, I bike over to Jumbo to
+get some smaller 2x10mm screws, as I dond't want to push through the drawer fronts. Back home, the
+print is finished, and the drawers are quickly magnetically closed and tucked away.
+
+{{< image frame="false" width="5em" float="left" src="/img/init/sidequest.png" alt="The SideQuest logo" >}}
+
+But what is this I see? Crap, junk and more debris in all of these drawers. Something in me is a bit
+addicted to cleaning up by now ... so I decide to weed through all of these things, and find eleven
+24V power bricks (for Mikrotik's CRS305 switch), a bunch of LSI raid and IT _HBAs_ from when I was
+scratchbuilding my storage tanks, a few dozen NICs (including a few 25G and 100G ones, nice!), and
+many many, many patch cables. I do the nerdy #OCD thing and sort each cable by type (multimode,
+singlemode), connector (LC/PC, SC/PC, LSH/APC, and MPO) and length (I have 50cm, 1m, 1.5m, 2m, 2.5m
+and 3m). I also make note of a few attenuators which I just *knew* I had, but at some point lost
+track of. Nice work, Pim! Of course, this takes way longer than I had originally planned to spend
+time on, but a good few hours later, and every cable is accounted for and sorted. 
+
+## Evening
+
+Liv is still hanging out with Quinn and she'll stay for dinner. Marina and I cut a boatload of
+green stringbeans, and we're smug because we got a few sausages from our local Coop -- they have a
+promotion where you get scratch tickets to _win_ stuff. So our protein tonight will be at a good
+rebate -- as a proud Dutchman I can't say I would reject free stuff. Hah, maybe that's why I had so
+much crap in my basement?
+
+We make dinner and chat with Quinn and Liv at the table. I like Liv, she's chatty and funny. After
+dinner, I drive her to Winterthur train station because there are still delays beacuse of the
+overhead powerline failiure earlier today. I make my way to the station, kick her out, and Quinn and
+I make the 15min drive back home. We watch the penultimate Stranger Things episode, and when Quinn
+takes off (trying to re-adjust to early wakeup after his vacation break), Marina and I watch one
+more episode of _Dear Child_ on Netflix. The plot there is thickening!
+
+I make myself a mug of tea from the house of _Mariage Fr&eacute;res_, a brand of tea that my buddy
+Fred introduced me to when we were in Paris last year. It's super delicious! While I listen to
+_Andre Dancekowski_ at the H&ouml;r in Berlin, I first do a little bit of feature work on this
+website: I add a Hugo _shortcode_ for Asciinema, so that I can simply host any asciinema recordings
+directly on the site using a tag like `{{</* asciinema src="/foo/bar.cast" */>}}` and see it
+automatically load the player and so on. I'm slowly starting to learn the ropes in Hugo, and I
+intend on replacing Jekyll with it on [[IPng.ch](https://ipng.ch)]. So far, I am very pleased with
+the elegance and simplicity, although the templating language is taking a bit of getting used to.
+
+It's now 23:35 and I've finished with that feature and written the article for today. Tomorrow I get
+to cash in my _Bagle Boys_ raincheck, and we're also going out to dinner at night, sort of a
+celebration at the end of Quinn's vacation. Maybe tomorrow afternoon then I will take that GOWIN
+rack mountable N305 router (with 2x25G, 2x2.5G and 3x1G + POE) out for a spin. I paid the import
+duties for it, after all :)
+
 ## Pictures of the Day
 
 {{< gallery-category >}}
   {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/IMG_0474.JPG" caption="Marina and I went out to lunch in Glattzentrum, we had sushi from Yooji" >}}
   {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/IMG_0475.JPG" caption="I had a bit of sashimi, which was really tasty" >}}
   {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/IMG_0479.JPG" caption="This drawer is the reason why Marina gave me this closet, some 8 years ago. It is time to fix this bug! While I was here, I weeded through all 8 drawers, sorted the contents in keep versus toss, and ended up with two empty drawers!" >}}
-  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/IMG_0480.JPG" caption="I drew a few magnet holding brackets in Fusion360" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/stopper.png" caption="I drew a few magnet holding brackets in Fusion360" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/IMG_0480.JPG" caption="And then I printed a few magnet holding brackets on the Prusa Mk3" >}}
   {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/IMG_0481.JPG" caption="Some one hundred fiber optic cables, many different lengths, multimode and singlemode, MPO as well as just normal LC/PC and some older SC/PC and E2000 cables." >}}
   {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/IMG_0482.JPG" caption="I sorted all of the SMF patch cables in lengths, from 50cm, 1m, 1.5m, 2m, 2.5m and 3m in length" >}}
   {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-02/IMG_0483.JPG" caption="While I was working, I also started a yeast culture, lovingly named it Dougie, and intend to bake some bread in the upcoming period!" >}}