From 897145a2a59cfeea5c6da4659f8b5918621a2412 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pim van Pelt Date: Wed, 2 Oct 2024 18:24:59 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Monday, Tim Arrives --- content/blog/wk10day1.md | 81 ++++++++++++++++++- static/img/fullsize/2024-09-30/IMG_1702.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-09-30/route.png | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-30/IMG_1702.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-30/route.png | 3 + 5 files changed, 90 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-) create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-09-30/IMG_1702.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-09-30/route.png create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-30/IMG_1702.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-30/route.png diff --git a/content/blog/wk10day1.md b/content/blog/wk10day1.md index aa92082..ef9030a 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk10day1.md +++ b/content/blog/wk10day1.md @@ -1,7 +1,82 @@ --- -title: "Week 10, Monday:" +title: "Week 10, Monday: Tim Arrives!" date: 2024-09-30T21:55:00+02:00 -draft: true --- -{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}} +{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/noraenpure-07.png" alt="Credit: Nora en Pure, YouTube" >}} + +The ÖBB night trains (and in general, Austrian trains) are a bit fickle when it comes to +punktuality. I heard that the Deutsche Bahn was barred entry to the Swiss railroad system due to +their complete lack of timeliness. I hope that Tim's train arrives on time, though, because his +original time was 08:39am on a Monday, and his new time was supposed to be 08:05am, but then also +his train waggon which was a sleeper waggon was replaced with a _couchette_ waggon, and also the +train had a 27 minute delay in Basel. + +To be on time for any eventuality, I put the alarmclock at the completely invalid time of 07:10 so +that I can be at the station for 08:05. Of course, this is completely uncalled for, because in a +strange turn of events, the new arrival time of the train ends up being 08:35, in other words the +original time but after the new earlier time which was "compensated for" by the delay in Basel. Get +it? + +I pick up Tim at Zurich HB, and we make our way to our place. I give a tour of the house and ask +about our activities this week. There's a few things we have planned (and Tim also has a few +meetings in the evening), but since the original idea was to work out the flightsim issue I have, we +get right to work. + +I have an unused Ryzen 7950X with PCIe v4 and NVME ready to rock. We dust off (quite literally) the +cockpit, inspect its wiring, repatriate the raided USB hubs, and hook everything up. Nothing works. +We install Windows 11 on it, which in itself is a pretty quick affair, and we get to installing +X-Plane 10, which I bought in 2016 but originally comes from 2011, and is meant for "Windows Vista" +and this WIndows called XP. I may have jynxed it by being thoroughly convinced it would not even +work. + +My buddy Sabri has his PPL (_Private Pilot's License_) and is a big fan of Microsoft Flight +Simulator. Looking at the situation, the Saitek flight controls I have do have support in MSFS +version from 2004, 2014 and a new one is coming out in 2024! I try my very very best to purchase +this game on the Microsoft Store, but it is being a complete asshole to me, and refuses to take my +money, saying, and I quote "Your country is not the same as the Microsoft Store country", with a +button "click here" which goes, and I kid you not, to "support.microsoft.com" **landing page**, I +mean: how the hell am I supposed to figure this out if you give me absolutely no hint on what my +country really is (could be NL, BE, US, CH), or what a "Store country" even means. Sheesh. This is +why I'm so happy that Tim is here, as an emotional support animal, he is less pissy when it comes to +Microsoft, and he relieves me of my misery. Things will be fine. + +In the afternoon, we go shopping a little bit. We need to get some fancier food (cheeses, truffles, +and so on), but for today, Tim is making dinner. It'll be salmon, fried in a garlic infused olive +oil, capers, white wine and fettucini pasta. It's delicious! Marina prohibits Tim from throwing away +the fried garlic, as we will be nomming on that separately. With the rest of the white wine, we +enjoy a meal together. + +Every now and again one of us goes downstairs to insert the next DVD for scenery in X-Plane. But we +also enjoy each others' company and open a Faustino _Gran Reserva_, which has a super taste. As +X-Plane is finished installing, it promptly tells me it has an upgrade. As I click on the 'upgrade' +button, the machine freezes and reboots. Oh boy. I do complete this upgrade though, and low and +behold, it starts up and finds the yoke, rudder and quadrant! But, all the radio and instrument +panels are still dead. + +After messing around with the analog joystick channels (switching rudder, switching throttle), we +manage to take off in a Cessna 172S. As Tim climbs out, the simulator crashes and some super helpful +(not) nvidia driver popup tells us to go get help, on support.nvidia.com again, but this time at +least it shows some cryptic error code, which we find is utterly useless. The helpful suggestions +are 'reinstall the driver' or 'reboot the machine' or 're-seat the video card'. None of this helps. + +At around 23:00 or so, we give up; the flight sim time between crashes is not even enough to get +into a circuit around an airport, and none of the instruments work. We're disappointed and punt +until tomororow. Instead, we sit upstairs and Marina joins us for a little while. Tim and I drool +over an idea for next year to rent a plane (Tim has his license) and fly the ring of IPng, landing +at each city and doing "maintenance". In total, that would be about 1'800km or so. It would be an +adventure, done right. + +## Pictures of the Day + +{{< gallery-category >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-30/IMG_1693.JPG" caption="The train timetable at Zurich HB, it's main station, in Zurich, Switzerland" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-30/IMG_1699.JPG" caption="Tim and I are starting to install Windows 11 in order to install X-Plane 10 and Microsoft Flightsimulator X, using the Saitek cockpit" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-30/IMG_1701.JPG" caption="Tim made a fabulous dinner with salmon, fettucini, garlic and capers" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-30/IMG_1702.JPG" caption="After dinner we celebrated each other's company with a Faustino Gran Reserva" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-30/IMG_1703.JPG" caption="Tim is plotting a route for us to fly the IPng Ring with a plane next year, that'll be fun!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-30/route.png" caption="Tim is plotting a route for us to fly the IPng Ring with a plane next year, that'll be fun!" >}} +{{< /gallery-category >}} + +{{< gallery-modal >}} +{{< gallery-script >}} diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-30/IMG_1702.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-30/IMG_1702.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..dd57a16 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-30/IMG_1702.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:7d76f0067b06a1aea7e79b014e44e3ed69b4c9690f8f42dc728216296f9dab90 +size 764471 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-30/route.png b/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-30/route.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e3a4f56 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-09-30/route.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:1a3457c1265a53b8c3d7f0835645f61f873763876ff44171eaa5fbaeb195ca1d +size 568751 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-30/IMG_1702.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-30/IMG_1702.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f82b16c --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-30/IMG_1702.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:fffcc395776a10b32fc6718b88591fb9e6a8631abdd6f13875ce9e56bb7f05c1 +size 33251 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-30/route.png b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-30/route.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e9e5853 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-09-30/route.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:417505c5bb7ee7318f219abae49f1b2f67f7982c4b22dfcc160a2c371902a29f +size 367134