diff --git a/content/blog/wk5day4.md b/content/blog/wk5day4.md index b2df4ea..f743021 100644 --- a/content/blog/wk5day4.md +++ b/content/blog/wk5day4.md @@ -1,7 +1,101 @@ --- -title: "Week 5, Thursday:" +title: "Week 5, Thursday: Pepe" date: 2024-08-29T21:55:00+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/ben-c-kalsx-live.png" alt="Credit: Ben C and Kalsx Live, Youtube" >}} + +My parents in law, Jean-Paul and Nicole, have their birthday two days apart, Nicole on the 27th and +JP on the 29th of August. Sometimes, Nicole would call Marina on the phone with a "hey don't forget +your dad's birthday tomorrow", eliciting some guilt-filled "oopsie" on the part of Marina. But, this +year, we forgot neither birthday!! + +In the morning, post-brunch truffles are served. These belgian pralines are pretty great, so I +cheers Marina who has a dark one while I choose a white chocolate one. A truffle a day, ..! After +the brunch I ask Marina if she's willing to bring me to the datacenter, because parking in the +daytime can be quite difficult, but I figured if she is willing to circle the block a few times, I +can retrieve the IP-Max treasure. And thus, we went on our way to arrive at the datacenter only to +find that (a) there were plenty of parking spots available and (b) the local parking police were +writing out oodles of tickets to folks who had parked either too long, or didn't pay, or were not +neatly parked in their respective parking bay. This is Switzerland, people, and we like our cars +parked orderly, and our bundles of paper bound neatly, thank you. + +I casually schlepp two ASR9001s, an ASR920, a Cisco 2960 switch, a handfull of CWDM muxes, and two +APC power strips out of this facility. I have accumulated so many horror stories, from being denied +access, being locked up on the floor, but overall somehow even after eighteen years of access, every +other time its "you do not appear to have access to this location" followed by a 45 minute +song-and-dance with escalations, and somehow magically "oh yes, here you are" is the result, full +biometrics have to be redone, a new badge needs to be created - because this has only happened +thirty times before. A smile on my face appears as it will be unlikely that I ever have to step +foot in this particular building again. By the way, I hear - from employees that work here - that +this datacenter company is the best company in the world - did you know?? + +Bon, bloodpressure lowered as I put the equipment in an ever growing stah of IP-Max equipment in the +IPng Networks carrier hotel - all of this stuff is slated to deploy later: these ASR9001s and +assorted equipment will go to _Stollen_ in Luzern in September, while the bigger ASR9010 will go +live a productive life in Frankfurt in October. Marina is pouting as I put stacks on stacks of +equipment, but I know that deep down inside, she possibly still loves me. + +To take our minds off of the enormous stack of nerd, we go to a local Portugese winebar, where we +sit outside on the patio and order a jug of white Sangria. To nosh a little bit, we also order house +made tapanade and some olives and bread. We spend a while watching the world slide by on the road +and roundabout here, and overall I find it incredibly relaxing. We'll be taking the bus home, so no +need to rush: the busstop is literally across the street from the terrace. + +The Sangria is nice for a summers' day, and I find it easy to convince Marina to have some in the +back yard later. What is a bit more difficult, is to convince her that my iPhone's selfie camera is +so much better than her Samsung one. It's because her argument is that holding the phone (with a pop +on the back) and being able to move the shutter button on the screen, makes it much easier to take +pictures -- especially if you have nails. My argument is: eff that, press harder and with your thumb +at a 112 degree angle, and benefit from the pixels and sharpness of the iPhone. We're both +wondering: the selfie of us down below: was it made by iPhone or Samsung? No peeking at EXIF! + +After our delectable Apéro, we make our way back home with the bus and start at dinner. In my +household, there's a pernnial disagreement on the potato krokettes: I really like them to be +hashbrown or rösti style (as pictured here), and Marina/Quinn prefer the softer _Duchesse_ +style. Leave a comment down below to let me know what your opinion is. Oh, wait... + +We chop up a bunch of garden vegetables and yeet them in the steam oven, and Nicole makes some +delicious turkey filet, nicely seasoned and very tender. Yum! After the dinner, one last thing comes +up, a birthday "cake", although Marina does not think it's much of a cake, JP and I do! It's a +_Quarktorte_ (sort of a cheese cake, not baked). My bigger issue is that I find raisins in the cake. +Luckily they are in the bottom, so I muster the mental strength to consume a piece (which, I cannot +tell a lie, is actually very good despite the polution). + +Then at 8pm, just as I'm moving the last bite of cake into my face, Tim pings me on Telegram +"meeting time!". The [[Coloclue](https://coloclue.net/)] association has a monthly meeting with the +network and systems admin committee, of which I am a member. Very glad I went, because we had a full +contingent, everybody came, including two new folks: Jaap and Erwin, who are looking to chip in and +join the team. We talk about bits and bobs, a new set of core switches, some action items (including +a new OOB platform, and upgrading our VPP routers from Debian Bullseye to Bookworm), and our desire +to deploy Akvorado with VPP -- which reminds me of an ongoing thread with the folks from +[[Inmon](https://inmon.com/)] about their proof of concept to add _sflow_ to VPP, which excites +Rogier and me greatly. We immediately make a date: September 6th, we'll take the code out for a +spin, possibly seeing if/when/how we might deploy this to the routers at Coloclue. Considering the +machines will have to reboot with the Debian upgrade, that would be an excellent time to add or +remove VPP plugins as well, limiting the number of dataplane restarts to, essentially, one. By the +way, VPP is running pretty well at Coloclue AS8283. The last dataplane restart was on March 5th when +there was a power failure at the facility and up ever since. + +I have to say, my favorite part about the meeting is the _afterparty_. We get to know each other, +ask curious questions of Jaap and Erwin, and I crack open a bottle of Rioja (a _Gran Reserva_ cuz I +ain't playing around), and all of the sudden it's 1am. This suits me fine as I will be gearing up +for a night shift this Saturday at Zurich Open Air (which is slated to run until about 3am). After a +fun evening of catching up and making new play dates for Coloclue, I turn in a happy camper after a +quick midnight snack (of cup-a-noodles). + +## Pictures of the Day + +{{< gallery-category >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-29/IMG_0896.JPG" caption="Marina and I cheers with a truffle in the morning. As the famous saying goes: One truffel a day, keeps the doctor gay!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-29/IMG_0901.JPG" caption="Marina chauffeurs me to the datacenter in Zurich where I decommissioned stuff yesterday, to pick up the equipment. Nice trolly!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-29/IMG_0903.JPG" caption="(part of) the haul for IP-Max: a few muxes, two ASR9001s, a Cisco 2960G and an ASR920. I think I'll loadtest this stuff later!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-29/IMG_0904.JPG" caption="In the afternoon we take an apero with white-wine Sangria at a local Portugese watering hole" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-29/IMG_0908.JPG" caption="We have some tapanade and olives with this rather delicious sangria" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-29/selfie.png" caption="Marina and I have an argument over whose cellphone takes better selfies. Mine has a better camera, but hers has a pop so you can hold it more comfortably. We agree to disagree." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-29/IMG_0910.JPG" caption="In the evening, we eat fried turkey with steamed veggies and rösti kroketten. Lekker!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-29/IMG_0911.JPG" caption="As desert, Pepe requested (and therefor, got served) a Quarktorte, which had raisins :(" >}} +{{< /gallery-category >}} + +{{< gallery-modal >}} +{{< gallery-script >}} diff --git a/content/gallery.md b/content/gallery.md index 799feda..3cd8821 100644 --- a/content/gallery.md +++ b/content/gallery.md @@ -325,6 +325,14 @@ menu: {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-28/IMG_0890.JPG" caption="Dinner - buffalo mozarella with beefy tomatoes, much like yesterday." >}} {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-28/IMG_0892.JPG" caption="Dinner - Beef Tartar, with toast, egg and red onion." >}} {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-28/IMG_0893.JPG" caption="I click a few trillion cookies for Quinn." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-29/IMG_0896.JPG" caption="Marina and I cheers with a truffle in the morning. As the famous saying goes: One truffel a day, keeps the doctor gay!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-29/IMG_0901.JPG" caption="Marina chauffeurs me to the datacenter in Zurich where I decommissioned stuff yesterday, to pick up the equipment. Nice trolly!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-29/IMG_0903.JPG" caption="(part of) the haul for IP-Max: a few muxes, two ASR9001s, a Cisco 2960G and an ASR920. I think I'll loadtest this stuff later!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-29/IMG_0904.JPG" caption="In the afternoon we take an apero with white-wine Sangria at a local Portugese watering hole" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-29/IMG_0908.JPG" caption="We have some tapanade and olives with this rather delicious sangria" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-29/selfie.png" caption="Marina and I have an argument over whose cellphone takes better selfies. Mine has a better camera, but hers has a pop so you can hold it more comfortably. We agree to disagree." >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-29/IMG_0910.JPG" caption="In the evening, we eat fried turkey with steamed veggies and rösti kroketten. Lekker!" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-29/IMG_0911.JPG" caption="As desert, Pepe requested (and therefor, got served) a Quarktorte, which had raisins :(" >}} {{< /gallery-category >}} ### Playing with OBS sound (August 8th) diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-29/IMG_0896.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-29/IMG_0896.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..5883b7e --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-29/IMG_0896.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:b56a7751dd1bb96f4c53d718fed931e55072f2f3cf3aa7b5a6b39086255cfeba +size 1223213 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-29/IMG_0901.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-29/IMG_0901.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..a2f2673 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-08-29/IMG_0901.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:2549b37def1de73c60538d31d15fcc208dbf679e96954c426f291e6bbea5d65e +size 1426858 diff --git 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