Monday

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-title: "Week 5, Monday:"
+title: "Week 5, Monday: Colt, Lumen, Level3, CenturyLink"
 date: 2024-08-26T21:55:00+02:00
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 {{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/jungletone.png" alt="Credit: Jungle Tone, Youtube" >}}
+
+I had a slow day today. After all of the hot weather in the last week or so, the temperature shot
+down to 19C or thereabouts, and I spent more of the day just rummaging around the house. I took a
+bike ride to the airport in the afternoon, and visited what was the remains of the 900 year
+celebration of Dietlikon city.
+
+Later this week, I'll be helping IP-Max move out of Equinix ZH4, a project called the _Equinexit_,
+and every customer and transit/long haul link has been moved, the last one being a Colt line from
+Zurich to Lugano in the south of Switzerland. There is already a redundant second link from Lugano
+to Geneva, so it would not be the end of the world if IP-Max ran without redundancy for a small
+while. That said, the cross connect has been delivered on both sides, so I bike over to NTT to plug
+it in. Just my luck: no light! I try a few different optics, a different patch cable, and swapping
+the RX/TX around, none of which helps me. The silver lining is that my telescoping pike fly swatter
+once again made it very easy to deploy this patch cable from the front to the back of the rack :)
+
+In the late afternoon, I take a few pictures of the west side of Zurich Airport - the airport itself
+is in a town called Kloten, something that always makes me giggle because in my native language that
+would mean "Sucks". I stare at the planes landing and taking off for a few, and then I bike home. My
+Stromer really does need to go to the shop, I have an appointment in early September, because the
+torque sensor in the pedals sometimes fails and blocks the motor. This happened to me on the way
+back home, also. The remedy is straightforward: turn off the bike, reboot it, calibrate the sensor,
+and it works again... for a while.
+
+I get to make R&ouml;sti when I get home. We're eating a classic: veal sausage with mustard, and 
+hash browns with applesauce. It's so simple but yet so good! Marina doesn't like making R&ouml;sti,
+so I take care of business. It comes out reasonably well, and it's gone before I think of taking a
+picture of it.
+
+In the evening, we watch a romcom with Jennifer Lawrence, who is very pretty. The movie is called
+'No Hard Feelings', which scores a 6.1 on IMDB, but I'm going to give it a +1.0 score, just because
+she's so darn cute. After the movie, I go downstairs to write my journal posting, with a good glass
+of Rioja. Later in the evening, I catch up with Brian from work, and we spend some time talking
+about how things are going and what the latest gossip is. Bummer! He'll be in Zurich in the week of
+NONOG+FRNOG, where I have 0 days in Switzerland. I'll have to miss him and catch up in the Bay Area
+some time.
+
+Perhaps today is my moral equivalent of _Sunday_, because I didn't ... do ... anything :)
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-26/IMG_0830.JPG" caption="The Church of Opfikon, visited on my bike ride from Br&uuml;ttisellen to Glattbrugg and R&uuml;mlang" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-26/IMG_0831.JPG" caption="The telescopig flyswatter trick helps me again, this time for a link to Bancadati in Lugano " >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-26/IMG_0835.JPG" caption="This rack is starting to really fill up, with only a handful of patch panel positions left over, and tonnes of CWDM waves lit, both to Interxion, Equinix, and several swiss and european cities." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-26/IMG_0837.JPG" caption="The outside of the NTT building as seen from the public street." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-26/IMG_0838.JPG" caption="The west side of the Zurich airport apron, a few private jets here and every now and again a big one takes off overhead." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-26/IMG_0839.JPG" caption="I bike home and snap a selfie. It does appear that I'm growing a second chin." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-26/IMG_0843.JPG" caption="The movie today is 'No Hard Feelings' with Jennifer Lawrence, who is incredibly cute." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-26/IMG_0845.JPG" caption="Marina is also incredibly cute - and I take this picture using a wine glass to encutify her even further." >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
+
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