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+title: "Week 2, Saturday: Zurich Street Parade"
+date: 2024-08-10T20:21:19+02:00
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+
+# Morning
+
+{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/streetparade.png" alt="Credit: Pim van Pelt, Street Parade" >}}
+
+Today is Zurich's [[Street Parade](https://www.streetparade.com/)]! I get up at 10am, and in the
+morning spend a little time with Fred on his desire to pinpoint the source of some traffic that is
+saturating an internet exchange port. He has an Akvorado instance running, but it doesn't show
+sourece and destination AS numbers. I poke a bit at the code and documentation, and find the missing
+configuration option for his Cisco IOS/XR router platform. We add it to the IP-Max _Kees_ (a network
+automation tool coming originally from [[Coloclue](https://coloclue.net/)], and wheel over his
+routers. IP-Max has a lot of them, so with a progressive rollout (right, Ben?) we canary on two,
+then go slowly through the fleet. Rollout successful!
+
+# Afternoon
+
+We have a quick lunch; there's a bunch of left over veggies in the fridge, so I decide to make a
+vegetable soup with _julienne_, angel-hair _vermicelli_ and beef stock. It's healthy and delicious,
+and because I'm slowly _swissing_, I also add a bunch of _Aromat_ (a salty, somewhat spicy and super
+rich flavoring). Marina also cordons off and then eats some veggies, the potatoes and mushrooms from
+yesterday, in a pretty tasty looking omelette. We nom.
+
+I have been promising Marina that I'd make her a _Krammiek_ which is a belgian sweet and fluffy
+yellow bread with lots of raisins. Now, personally, I find raisins super disgusting, and I think
+this is on account of a childhood traume in California where every day I had to eat one of those
+Sun-Maid raisin packets. After 1'000 or so packets of those, I was cured. But I'm a good sport, and
+I make a dough that looks a little bit more like cake batter (with two eggs, 200g milk, 50g sugar,
+500g flour, 4g salt, and a healthy glob of Dougie), and to that I add 250g of raisins, because the
+pack I bought was 500g, so I figure if I mess it up today I can always give it another go. I mix,
+kneed, contort, push and punch the dough (take that, you gross raisin, and that! **AND THAT**!!!1).
+
+I put it in a cool place for a slow rise, because I have places to be, people to see, and music to
+hear. At 14:00 or so, we take off to Zurich, the Street Parade starts at 13:00, and Zurich typically
+is a host to roughly 800'000 guests that day. Today is super sunny and hot, so we are expecting many
+more. We get off the train at Stadelhofen, make our way through the hoards of people to the
+_Opernplatz_ where the main stage is. It's a pretty big one, and from a distance you really have to
+work hard to find the DJ. We catch _Monolink_ finishing his set.
+
+Street Parade is two things, mainly. First, there's a literal _parade_ of floats with DJs on them,
+called _Love Mobiles_. There's a *lot* of them, 28 in total, and they make their way through the
+inner city of Zurich, each playing their own sets and styles. For us though, rather than standing
+still in the beating heat listening to beats, we decided to do the second thing: there are six
+large stages with each their own style. The stages are arranged around the north shore of Lake
+Zurich, spanning the 2.5km or so from Stadlhofen to Rote Fabrik on the other side.
+The Stages: the (main) Opera, then a beautiful Center, a happening Clubbing, a small but super nice
+sounding Innovation stage, and finally the Zurich Sound Stage smack in the middel of
+B&uuml;rkliplatz.
+
+The weather is so gorgeous, but people are clearly overheating, as you can see every place on the
+street where there's shade cast, it's full of people, right up to the line where the shade ends. And
+beyond that? That's where I have all the room I need to walk around!!
+
+# Evening
+
+Marina and I take off as my left foot still hurts, and she is melting. We tag-team with Quinn and
+Liv who are just leaving for the evening party while we arrive home. Marina and I get very lazy
+food-wise, and *drive* to the Burger King (which is, I am ashamed to admit, less than 500m or a
+quarter mile away from our house). We clog our veins with A+ fastfood, and make our way back home.
+We have the house to ourselves, so we decide to watch a movie. Marina somehow thinks of _Elektra_,
+which we both watch but it's not great. It also has 11% on rotten tomatoes and a 4.8 on IMDB -- for
+once we all agree with the critics on the Internetz.
+
+After the movie, I finish off the Akvorado rollout with Fred. I'm still interested in running this
+for IPng, but after playing around a little bit with VPP's _flowprobe_ exporter, I do see it sending
+ipfix packets, and Akvorado does do something (because I see it subsequently SNMP scraping the VPP
+routers' SNMP), but it does not show any flows on its UI. I think this will have to wait for a
+dedicated timeslot where I can give it some more concentration.
+
+Its Sergio's birthday today: clearly the ~920'000 people that Zurich city reported at the Street
+Parade today, are all sillybrating his birth date. I decide to send him a picture of a cat dressed
+up as _Optimus Meow_. But he doesn't respond, because he's lame.
+
+I end up poking and prodding the _Kramiek_ bread for Marina, but I can't decide if I want to use a
+bread pan, or make a hand formed loaf. When in doubt: do both! I chop the dough in two, and with one
+I form a baguette like loaf, and I stuff the other one (lovingly!) into a small bread pan. I leave
+it for a second rise (40min) followed by a bake at 180C for 35min. I put a timer so that 15min
+before the end I can glaze it with eggyolk, that makes the bread look nice and browned.
+
+I enjoy a bottle of _Campo Viejo_ (Gran Reserva, none of that Crianza BS), vintage 2016. I like!
+
+Then, at 23:55, in the knick of time, the _Kramiek_ is done, and I get to take a picture of it.
+We'll see tomorrow if Marina approves or not. One thing you should know: when she promised to make
+me New York Cheese Cake, I rejected maybe 10 or so cakes before I said "this is the one!". Something
+in me hopes that she does not return the favor. Raisins are gross.
+
+Also, speaking of the knick of time, Sergio responds! We have a nice birthday GVC and we talk about
+all manner of thisses and thats. He's making an elaborate plan to buy a CNC router to make
+furniture, mostly because he's upset at the price of a non-IKEA dresser or cupboard. I can relate!
+And at the same time, I tell him about the Sabbatical and all of my plans. We compare notes Google
+to Apple. We decide to compare some more notes in September and October.
+
+With that, it's 01:00 again -- how does this happen ?! The good news: it's Saturday, and the better
+news: I am on a Sabbatical - I have hardly any requirements, and can spend as much or as little time
+hanging out with Sergio and writing articles as I'd like. And I like that.
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-10/IMG_0585.JPG" caption="A chewy dough which is chock-full of raisins" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-10/IMG_0589.JPG" caption="We land at Stadelhofen, ready to immerse ourselves into Zurich Street Parade 2024- there are about 920'000 people in Zurich today!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-10/IMG_0591.JPG" caption="The main stage in Zurich's Opera square; techno is booming through the sound system here. It's quite nice to hear, see and feel music." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-10/IMG_0594.JPG" caption="Marina and I walk over the Quaibr&uuml;cke from Bellevue towards B&uuml;rkliplatz - normally I would not be able to walk here (trams and lots of cars), but today it's completely pedestrian only!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-10/IMG_0598.JPG" caption="The Center Stage at Zurich Street Parade, with a mellow drum and bass session" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-10/IMG_0599.JPG" caption="The Clubbing Stage at Zurich Street Parade." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-10/IMG_0600.JPG" caption="The Generations Stage, small but really good audio quality here. This is literally across the road from where my buddies Eric and Barbara live." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-10/mainstage.png" caption="A closeup of the Opera Stage - it's a big contraption but I'm somehow missing a screen to see the DJ spin." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-11/streetparade.png" caption="Here's what roughly ~half of the 920'000 people look like, between Zurich Opernhaus (bottom right) and General Guisanquai (center left). Credit: @streetparadeofficial on Instagram." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-10/IMG_0602.JPG" caption="We unapologetically eat Burger King tonight." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-10/quinn.png" caption="Quinn stays a bit longer with his buddy Liv, and they take this rainbow colored smoke picture at dusk. It's really nice." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-10/salvi.png" caption="I wish Salvi a happy birthday with a cat wearing an Optimus Meow suit" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-11/IMG_0603.JPG" caption="The Kramiek (raisin-)bread loaf I made for Marina. If it tastes as good as it smells, it's going to be a good one." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-11/IMG_0604.JPG" caption="The hand-shaped (and a little bit weirdly oven-risen) Kramiek (raisin-)bread I made for Marina. Tomorrow I will know if it was good or not!" >}}
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