Add Monday week 6, and pics for Tuesday

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-title: "Week 6, Monday:"
+title: "Week 6, Monday: 2x100G to Frankfurt"
 date: 2024-09-02T21:55:00+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/missmonique-02.png" alt="Credit: Miss Monique, YouTube" >}}
+
+At 07:00, which is way too early for me, I got a text message from DHL that they have a package for
+me from Prague. I'm a bit conflicted about this: on the one hand, hell-yeah the [[Prusa
+Mk4S](https://www.prusa3d.com/product/original-prusa-mk4s-3d-printer-kit)] is going to be delivered,
+and I've been wanting this one for a while now. On the other hand, 7am is clearly an invalid time.
+But I decide to snooze a bit so that if the doorbell rings, I can jump out of bed. The doorbell
+rings at 09:00, and I take delivery of (half of?) the delivery. I've also ordered a few upgrade
+parts for my aging [[Prusa Mk3](https://www.prusa3d.com/category/original-prusa-i3-mk3s/)], and if
+I'm not mistaken I also ordered an MMU (multi material unit). But, still happy with the package :)
+
+Marina is gone for the morning - she has a drawing course in Oerlikon on Mondays. JP and Nicole are
+busy bees upstairs picking up their belongings, because later today they will be on the move to
+Austria. We have breakfast together, and chat. The other day (Sunday morning), my buddy Fred said
+that the cross connect to the wavelength provider from Interxion in Glattbrugg to Frankfurt has been
+delivered, and it's already up and receiving light in Frankfurt. Today I get to light IP-Max's
+second 100G wavelength! I proudly put on my IP-Max socks for good luck.
+
+Moeke and Pepe go on their merry way just after Marina gets home, at 13:30 or so. It was really nice
+having them over for the last two weeks, but I'm also looking forward to having the house to
+my/ourselves again for a little bit. After a quick lunch we say our goodbyes, and blow a kiss behind
+the Volvo for good luck on the road.
+
+My good luck from the socks however, pretty quickly runs low, as my bike is -- aagin -- busted. It
+keeps on not being able to find the torque sensor in the pedals, which makes the whole bike jam up.
+Sometimes a reboot helps, and if briefly fiends the sensor again, but today no matter how hard I
+try, it does not budge. I've been waiting for almost two months for the appointment, which happens
+to be _tomorrow_.  OK, plan B: take the car.
+
+At Interxion, the _persontrap_ is busted, and I have a little back and forth with security who
+eventually let me in via the goods door; otherwise, I quickly retrieve the keys and make my way to
+the rack, plug in the 100G CFP optic, quadruple-clean the fiber tips on both the SC/PC side and the
+LC/PC side, and plug in the patch cable. Red LED turns Green immediately: great success! I inform
+the crew at IP-Max, and they bring up the link, putting it in service a few minutes later. They
+happily give me feedback that the circuit is passing 18.5Gbit of traffic a few minutes after that.
+
+Here's what I really like about this type of task: I go to a place, I do a specific thing (plug in
+the optic, plug in the patch cables), and get an immediate reward for my efforts (the red LED turns
+green, and traffic passes). IP-Max now hass redundant 100G paths to Frankfurt, and this one is even
+a little bit faster: 5.05ms round trip versus 5.80ms round trip on the other path. That's slick!
+
+Back home, I bring the MK4S package downstairs and start rummaging through the contents. I start the
+build, and chomp away at the gummibears that Prusa always puts in their kits. I've built a few Prusa
+printers before, but for the first time, something goes wrong! The Y-axis idler has a square M3 nut
+that is spinning inside the part, with a screw halfway inserted. Try as I might, and I try for a
+good thirty minutes, the screw does not come loose, the nut does not come out of the part, and it's
+completely wedged. Now, you would think: Crap! But this is a Prusa3D unit, and these folks put all
+of their plastic parts _online_ for me to download and print again. Yes, open hardware for the win!
+I download the part and print it on the trusty rusty MK3. There's something poetic about a printer
+printing parts for its replacement printer. I just don't tell the MK3 what this part is for, as I
+don't want to hurt its feelings, .. yet.
+
+It is 16:45 and I signal great success. In the mean time, Marina is outside in our back yard playing
+with a fully evolved [[Venusaur](https://www.pokemon.com/us/pokedex/venusaur)], which I manage to
+capture a super rare photograph of (see below). We celebrate with a cheap Ros&eacute; wine from our
+stash. It needs ice cubes, because it's _that_ kind of wine.
+
+Dinner is special - last week our neighbor's dog Maggie went on a walk through the forest and came
+back with 300+ grams of black truffles, and they were so kind as to give us a few of them. We know
+just the dish: tagliatelle with just a dash of cream, butter, salt and pepper, 30 month parmeggiano,
+and the truffle shavings. I carefully slice half of the truffles for toppings, and chop off the
+other half (mostly the stuff that I could no longer really slice), which will go in the sauce.  Such
+a simple meal - but so tasty indeed. All three of us thoroughly enjoy it and gobble up the whole
+pot, just short of 500g of pasta and ~all of the truffle. Thanks again, Maggie!
+
+Now that we have our normal three-person household, we revert to what we normally do after dinner:
+watch some Netflix. Marina has a series on her list called "V Wars", which is about some viral
+infection that looks earily like a corona, except it was from before the pandemic: whoa! It turns
+out it's a vampire-esque series, and we watch the pilot episode together. Afterwards, we decide this
+will be a fair investment of our time, so we mark the show on the Netflix deck and will work through
+it.
+
+I am somehow bushed, not quite sure from what (it was certainly not the bikeride, because I never
+did that!), and tomorrow I have the appointment at Stromvelo at _Bucheggplatz_ for a much needed
+service. I am already dreading schlepping the bike on foot all the way there, as I do not have much
+faith in its operation for the moment. So, I will go to bed early so that I can get up early and
+make my way to the shop before it opens, giving them the whole day to try to repair it.
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1085.JPG" caption="The Prusa MK4S package arrived, and I'm wiggling on my seat to get it built." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1089.JPG" caption="I put on IP-Max socks today, as I'll be lighting a second 100G wave to Frankfurt." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1090.JPG" caption="The sad news of the Stromer display: cannot find the torque sensor, bah." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1091.JPG" caption="At the datacenter, the 100G link immediately comes up, yaay! Redundant 100G link from Zurich to Frankfurt achieved for IP-Max." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1092.JPG" caption="The Prusa MK4S kit in a disassembled state. All of these boxes and bags somehow fit together to make a full functioning 3D printer." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1096.JPG" caption="Marina is hanging out with a Venusaur pokemon, but for the moment he's friendly." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1098.JPG" caption="The broken part (Y idler) with the stuck screw, and a newly printed part (left) with two screws that cleanly go in/out of the part. Yaay for open hardware designs, you can just download these parts of the Prusa website!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1100.JPG" caption="The sliced black truffle (left) and chopped truffle (right) for our Pasta tonight." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-02/IMG_1101.JPG" caption="A snapshot of our absolutely fantabulous tagliatelli with black truffle and aged parmesan cheese." >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
+
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