Tim leaves, byebye

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+Ah, geez, this whole week has gone by so quickly. With Tim around, I've really been maximally active
+in and around Br&uuml;ttisellen. There's so much more to do, but he has to get back home to his
+loved ones, and thanks for letting him go out on this advenTOUR with me! I join the gang fashionably
+late, as I have had a fabulous sleep that ended only at 11:00 or so. Tim and Marina are downstairs
+hanging out and chatting. The nice thing about getting up at 11am is that I can immediately think of
+what to eat for lunch. Winner!
+
+I have most of the ingredients for a noodle soup, but we happen to have stolen my mushrooms, wo off
+to the _Denner_ I go, of course I commandeer Tim to go with me. He obliges and we grab the shopping
+list. There's only one thing on it that we can't find. We find a whole assortment of beans, but
+there not being black beans, I find, is somewhat racialist of _Denner_. So, we buy everything but
+that.
+
+At home, I pair down the veggies and start making my beef udon soup. It smells great, but somehow
+Marina is not a fan of it. She thinks it's too sour (but she's wrong). She is also not a fan of fish
+sauce, I think. But, at lunch TIm eats a medium sized bowl, and I eat a giant sized trough of the
+stuff. Because he'll be on a train, I offer to make it "not so spicy", and we toy around a little
+bit on what a linear scale of one to ten, what spicy means: Sambal Oelek would be a three or so,
+Tabasco might be a two. I'll make it a three by adding just a touch of hot chillies. This way, Tim
+doesn't have to find in the middle of the night that there is an .. ehh .. exit burn. How
+considerate of me! I, howwever, have no respect for my bowel, so I add a bit of _Last Dab_, as I
+have to practice for tomorrow, when my buddy Brad and I are going to eat a _Hot Ones_ episode.
+
+After lunch, I carefully ask for a review. Tim gives it an 8.5 out of 10, so I have found yet
+another datapoint that Marina is being overly harsh on the ingredient list of my Udon :) Then, I go
+to the basement and Tim finds me there shortly after. I really need to write my journal, so I
+carefully backtrack what we did this week and start writing [[Tuesday]({{< ref wk10day2.md >}})].
+Tim pretty quickly tempts me with small side quests, but I tell him to knock it off: his FrysIX
+IPv4/IPv6 addresses will be assigned _after_ Tuesday is written. Shut up, and let me write!
+
+Tuesday is quickly written and pictures annotated. In the meanwhile, the good news arrives that
+Tim's better half is enjoying the writing. Thanks for that! So I quickly assign Tim his FrysIX
+addresses as a treat, and move on to [[Wednesday]({{< ref wk10day3.md >}})] and [[Thursday]({{< ref
+wk10day4.md >}})].  In the mean time, Tim rummages a little bit on his fancy
+[[AS214380.net](https://as214380.net/)] website and we listen to liquid Drum and Base all over the
+place. Marina at some point comes to ask if Tim is already going crazy with my choice of music. Ha!
+Joke's on her, it's **his music**!
+
+Tonight we'll be eating some home made pita and kebap. Marina is already Marina-ting the meat (I
+apologize, but Dad jokers gotta Dad-joke) and I yeet some milk, herbs, yeast and flour into a
+pot and mixed/kneeded it together for a flatbread, which will be ready to bake at around 18:30.
+
+Evening quickly arrives, but before dinner, we still have an important task. We drive over to _Glatt
+Zentrum_, walk straight past the LEGO store this time, and get some gifts for the home front. While
+we're in the mall, we see some break dancers with slick music and a DJ spinning. At some point, some
+dude slides a good two meters on his noggin - it's really cool to see!
+
+The gifts in hand, we make our way back home to prepare dinner. Having something as simple as kebap
+with flat bread really does float my boat. It was super tasty and well seasoned. I can tell that Tim
+enjoyed it, because he finished out the whole pan. Happy times, because when I make the flatbread
+normally a few pita's are left over because there's only three on our household. Balance was brought
+to our input/output food chain.
+
+After dinner, we also receive a treat! Tim has brought _Luxemburgerli_ from a place called
+[[Spr&uuml;ngli](https://spruengli.ch/)], so we sample a few while drinking our evening coffee. We
+have hazelnut, vanilla, strawberry and pistaccio. A lively debate ensues which one is best, and we
+agree to disagree. But then, our time together comes to an end and Tim has to get to Zurich main
+station to catch the night jet back to Amsterdam. Of course, his _sleeper_ traincar is not
+available, again, and it is a _couchette_ instead. We drive to Zurich and his track is right at the
+drop-off point. As I drive away, the train pulls in: perfect Tim-ing! (Oh snap, I did it again,
+didn't I?)
+
+Back home, Marina and I hang on the couch and watch episode two of a documentary series about Arnold
+Schwarzenegger. The first episode is about his body building years, and this one about his acting
+career. The third and final one will be about his political career, which is inspired very much by
+his marriage with Maria Kennedy, a little factoid that I had not yet known!
+
+Marina turns in at 23:00 because she'll be going to Zurich Comic-con tomorrow. Me, I'm not much into
+_furries_ and fake _Katana_ swords, so I decide to play with my brand new Flight Simulator. There's
+a legit flight instructor course with basic handling, things like taxiing, level flight, a few
+exercises like climbing while in a turn, keeping altitude while reducing speed, and controlled
+landings both with yoke as well as with power only. It's fun to learn this stuff and I'm so so
+grateful that this project turned from a dust-gathering heap of electronics into an actually
+working and fully tricked out simulator.
+
+After the flightsim time, which I limited to ninety minutes or so, I write my journal for today
+(Friday), and this is the first day in weeks that I've finished on the same day. Along the way, I
+also read and reply to a bunch of e-mail, and find one cool thread from Neil McKee from
+[[inmon](https://inmon.com/)] as he is ready for his `sFlow` plugin to be reviewed by the VPP
+community. I boot up the LAB but it'll be on Brad's patio tomorrow, that I do these last loadtests.
+
+Tomorrow, I get to practice _Heatonism_ with Brad and I intend to as well bring a sizable _Limousin_
+steak. Brad has hiked _Kungsleden_ in Sweden this year and will have lots of stories to tell.
+Myself, I have lots to catch up on with him as well and tell him all about my sabbatical, which is
+the best thing I've done this year, by far.
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
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+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-04/IMG_1805.JPG" caption="Denner has all sorts of beans, but no black beans. This is arguably racionalism..." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-04/IMG_1806.JPG" caption="The beef udon has a healthy addition of Last Dab, which allows me to practice for tomorrow" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-04/IMG_1808.JPG" caption="I'm making pita bread for the kebap tonight. Yeast, Flour, Milk, Water, Salt and Herbs" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-04/IMG_1809.JPG" caption="I write many journal entries (Tues, Weds, Thu and Fri) behind my desk today. I'm finally caught up, and my smile says it all!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-04/IMG_1810.JPG" caption="At Glatt Zentrum, a breakdance demonstration is provided, and it's pretty cool to watch" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-04/IMG_1811.JPG" caption="The kebap are completely overloading the pita bread, but my lord is this stuff tasty" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-10-04/IMG_1812.JPG" caption="Marina and I cheers with a set of Luxemburgerli, provided by Tim!" >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
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