From 3d059cf8ebe334993d1f3eb8eb7357c7af6cd1e7 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pim van Pelt Date: Fri, 2 Aug 2024 23:38:07 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Add day5 - publish it --- content/blog/day5.md | 90 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- 1 file changed, 88 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff --git a/content/blog/day5.md b/content/blog/day5.md index b647a8b..b409fc4 100644 --- a/content/blog/day5.md +++ b/content/blog/day5.md @@ -3,16 +3,102 @@ title: 'Friday: Sushi and Dougie' date: 2024-08-02T22:27:18+02:00 Tags: [] Categories: [] -draft: true +draft: false --- +## 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 Fréres_, 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 Hör 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 `{{}}` 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!" >}}