diff --git a/content/blog/wk5day1.md b/content/blog/wk5day1.md index 289e654..1eba20a 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk5day1.md +++ b/content/blog/wk5day1.md @@ -1,7 +1,59 @@ --- -title: "Week 5, Monday:" +title: "Week 5, Monday: Colt, Lumen, Level3, CenturyLink" date: 2024-08-26T21:55:00+02:00 -draft: true --- {{< 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 Rösti 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 Rösti, +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 Brüttisellen to Glattbrugg and Rümlang" >}} + {{< 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 >}} + +{{< gallery-modal >}} +{{< gallery-script >}} diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-26/IMG_0830.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-26/IMG_0830.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..ee9ac5e --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-26/IMG_0830.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:0f3c5559e7cae205e732bd3ac54f90af8f0df0ced915cc365eed739cf14b13c9 +size 908208 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-26/IMG_0831.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-26/IMG_0831.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..60d9667 --- /dev/null +++ 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