diff --git a/content/blog/wk2day1.md b/content/blog/wk2day1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8dbe2c3 --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/wk2day1.md @@ -0,0 +1,96 @@ +--- +title: "Week 2, Monday: Hugo 'meats' Aligro" +date: 2024-08-05T19:21:19+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +draft: false +--- + +{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/missmonique.png" alt="Credit: Miss Monique, YouTube" >}} + +# Morning + +You know what? Today there simply _was no morning_! Quinn had to get up at 05:00 to get the 05:22 +bus to work. I went to bed not too late yesterday, I think around 01:00 or so, but I slept really +poorly last night. I also had this weird dream about me visiting some person who had a large yacht +but kept it indoors in a huge garage. It didn't make any sense to me, and it was frustrating waking +up thinking my dream was somewhat unresolved. I woke up because the mailman dropped off a package +and run the doorbell at 09:00 or so -- which luckily for me, Marina accepted. Thanks, Marina! :) + +I feel back asleep and woke up at 11:45. So much for the morning! I walked over to Marina and asked: +"Hey, weren't we going to go to Aligro today?" and she said yes, but after lunch please. We do *not* +want to get caught up in Aligro when hungry, as we'll come back with way too much sweets and food! +_Aligro_ by the way, is a _Costco_ or _Makro_ of sorts; large portions, cheap, and made more for +companies and restaurants than individuals and families. But during the pandemic, they opened up for +the public so we go there from time to time. Like today! + +# Afternoon + +I made a sandwich with turkey using the fabulous hamburger buns from yesterday. Just before lunch, +Marina and I take a look at some schwag that I might get for IPng: lanyards and cotton tote bags, +and she thinks having a few flags or banners would be nice. I take a look at +[[vistaprint.nl](https://vistaprint.nl/)] as I'll be going to the [[Frys-IX](https://frys-ix.net/)] +barbecue in September, and I am planning on bringing some goodies for our members. I quickly discuss +some financials with Arend - I'm really looking forward to visiting Jubbega and Frys-IX HQ! I think +I'll amke some pins, for both myself as well as for FrysIX. I hope folks like them! + +We then go shopping at about 14:00 or so, and we really take our time. We have a small shopping list +with things we need to get -- you know, the stuff that you can only get in particular stores or +shops. But we both know the list is gratuitous, and we stock up on candies, red wine and gin, we buy +5.5kg (12lbs) of popcorn, and we buy about 12kg (25lbs) of assorted beef, pork and chicken. We'll +individually package these in vacuum sealed baggies and freeze them. + +Back home at 16:00, we spent a good hour bagging and vacuum sealing our food. It's a huge stack, and +we puzzle a bit making it all fit in the freezer, but Bert (we call our fridge Bert!) has lots of +space and Marina places it all in the fridge without too many problems. + +Now I have two things I want to do this afternoon. First, I want to make some pins and order that +Schwag to have it delivered to the Netherlands so that I don't have to mess around at the border. +The pins are actually more of a Marina thing, as she's a little bit better with the drawing tools +and has a template to line them up. I'll make 150 pins in total. I've done it before, once with the +Google folks and the P2020 robot and suite logos. Those were popular! + +Secondly, and this is what I choose to spend the rest of the afternoon on, is finish the +[[IPng.ch](https://ipng.ch)] website. I started moving it from Jekyll to Hugo yesterday, and while +the main structure (layout, CSS and Markdown) are OK, there's a few things I end up doing, including +creating a Hugo docker image for Drone (which is super cool, that way every time I `git push` a new +set of changees, _Drone_ will automatically build, test and distribute the website to a cluster of +NGINX servers. I also futz around a little bit with _Content-Security-Policy_ headers, to allow for +my spiffy [[Asciinema](https://asciinema.org/)] screencasts to render directly on the page. + +I publish the [[IPng.ch](http://ipng.ch)] website with Hugo for the first time at 18:15 or so, and +I'm very happy with the result! + +# Evening + +For dinner, I help make sticky cubes of tofu with lemon and Sriracha, mungo beansprouts, carrots, +bellpeppers, and bokchoi, together with glass noodles (the _ONE_ thing we had on our grocery list +for Aligro!). We nom it, and ask Quinn about his first day back at work, which was uneventful and +fine. His claim: I was not more tired at 05:00 than I would've been at 11:00, so 👍 from him. + +After dinner, Marina and I take a walk in the forest behind our house. It's really pleasant out, as +the sunset rolls in, the skies are heavenly blue and it's very peaceful out. We talk about +this-and-that, enjoy the stroll and each others company, and get home at around 20:00 or so. Tonight +is what we call _Knutselavond_ in Dutch, or _Arts-n-Crafts Evening_ in English. That typically means +we each to our own room / basement and rummage around or work on projects. For me, it's the CSS and +Javascript on [[IPng.ch](https://ipng.ch)] website. And of course writing my journal for the day. + +At about 22:00 I'm done for now, the website is up and looks great, and I'll be backporting the CSS +and styling to this website as well. I watch a movie downstairs, called "#Like", some thriller movie +about a girl that decides to take matters into her own hand. It's OK, not great. + +## Pictures of the Day + +{{< gallery-category >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0528.JPG" caption="I'm making pins for the Frys-IX barbecue. Sssssht, don't tell anyone!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0530.JPG" caption="I made a lovely turkey sandwich for lunch with the leftover hamburger buns from yesterday" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0533.JPG" caption="We went to Aligro for 'bulk' shopping, and we got a lot of food!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0534.JPG" caption="Got meat? We vacuum-sealed all twelve (!) kilos of it." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0535.JPG" caption="With all of that meat frozen, we took to a vegan dinner: Crispy tofu, glass noodles, and lots of veggies." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0537.JPG" caption="The evening walk was very relaxing today, although my left ankle hurts a little bit." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0538.JPG" caption="The sunset over the fields in our village. I love Switzerland!!" >}} +{{< /gallery-category >}} + +{{< gallery-modal >}} +{{< gallery-script >}} + diff --git a/content/gallery.md b/content/gallery.md index bbd0cf8..627ae76 100644 --- a/content/gallery.md +++ b/content/gallery.md @@ -95,6 +95,27 @@ menu: {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-03/IMG_0502.JPG" caption="Mains: Grilled Beef filet on a bed of Spinnach with pistaccio, Chianti-reduction and Taleggio cheese on young potatoes" >}} {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-03/IMG_0503.JPG" caption="Dolce: Crema Catalana and Panna Cotta with Mango and berries" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0504.JPG" caption="The Gowin 19 inch rack mountable server has 2x 2.5G, 3x 1G and 2x 25G as well as RJ45 serial. It is a pretty cool machine!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0505.JPG" caption="The inside of the Gowin server is a small but very modern board, using an Intel i3-N305 with 32GB of LPDDR5 and a bunch of IO on board." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0512.JPG" caption="The case is passively cooled, with a large heatsink over the CPU, its ribs are flush with the top of the case. I'm not sure how the dissipation is with a rack full of these ..." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0513.JPG" caption="They added an OCP 2.0 breakout which can house any number of 1G, 2.5G, 10G, 25G network cards. Pictured here is the Mellanox ConnectX-5 with 2x25G." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0517.JPG" caption="Brunch at Bagle Boys - our three bagles posed for a picture before being inhaled :)" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0521.JPG" caption="Here is the kneeded dough ready for its first task. Like Alexander Hamilton, it will rise up!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0522.JPG" caption="The formed boules with sesame seeds, ready for their second rise." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0523.JPG" caption="The baked hamburger buns, golden brown but not crispy -- Marina demands soft buns!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0524.JPG" caption="Closeup of a hamburger bun with sesame seeds, cut in half to show the breadcrum" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/IMG_0525.JPG" caption="My burger with salad, cheese, onions and pickles. It was godly." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-04/website.png" caption="A screenshot of the work-in-progress IPng.ch website in Hugo. It's looking really good!" >}} + + + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0528.JPG" caption="I'm making pins for the Frys-IX barbecue. Sssssht, don't tell anyone!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0530.JPG" caption="I made a lovely turkey sandwich for lunch with the leftover hamburger buns from yesterday" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0533.JPG" caption="We went to Aligro for 'bulk' shopping, and we got a lot of food!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0534.JPG" caption="Got meat? We vacuum-sealed all twelve (!) kilos of it." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0535.JPG" caption="With all of that meat frozen, we took to a vegan dinner: Crispy tofu, glass noodles, and lots of veggies." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0537.JPG" caption="The evening walk was very relaxing today, although my left ankle hurts a little bit." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-05/IMG_0538.JPG" caption="The sunset over the fields in our village. I love Switzerland!!" >}} + {{< /gallery-category >}} {{< gallery-modal >}}