Add Friday, all back up to date again

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-title: "Week 5, Friday:"
+title: "Week 5, Friday: Loadtesting ASR9001"
 date: 2024-08-30T21:55:00+02:00
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-{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/todo.png" alt="Credit: " >}}
+{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/method-drumbass-mixes-02.png" alt="Credit: Mtehod D&B, Youtube" >}}
+
+I had plans for today, but due to different planning, those plans changed. Originally, I was to do
+the IP-Max Equinexit today, but I moved that up to [[Wednesday]({{< ref wk5day3.md >}})] instead. So
+now I have a whole day left over, and whatever shall I do?? JP and Nicole decided to visit Luzern
+today, so they're off early on a train. Since I went to bed at 2am yesterday, and I had an absolute
+terrible sleep, waking up at 03:00 with a head full of snot, and again at 04:00, then at 05:00 when
+Marina said "hey now that you're up, how's about you rattle Quinn out of bed", and then once again
+at 07:00. It was a very unpleasant night. I'm tired already and it's only 10am.
+
+In the morning, we do some weeding of the front yard. Marina binds the bulbous _Hydranchea_ flowers
+together, now that they've  really grown big and heavy and are starting to sag over our walkway.
+It's been pretty favorable weather, lots of 30C temperatures and every few days a good rainshower to
+feed them much needed water. So, they've grown quite a bit. As we chat with Andrea, our neighbor, we
+trim and cut back the flowers so that they look a bit less like a jungle. The trimmings we decide to
+keep, as we can propagate them. The trick is to remove the leaves at the bottom of the cutting, and
+then snip it just under a joint where the leaves shoot from - there are hormone pockets there, and
+it's more likely that roots will shoot out from such a location. I advise Marina, a plant biologist
+with an ironic deficit of not being able to keep plants alive, and she makes good work of it. I'll
+check back in in a few days (maybe 7-10d or so), to see how those went. Perhaps we can plant a few
+more in our back yard, that would be nice.
+
+Then we have a spot of lunch - Marina is taking some of the steamed veggies from yesterday and
+making an omelette out of them, and I am taking the leftover onion sauce and sauteed onions and
+turning it into a salty onion soup. Both go down well - and for once Marina finishes lunch before I
+do: a rare sight! 
+
+After lunch I decide that I'm going to take the ASR9001 from IP-Max out on a date to the IPng lab. I
+rack it, boot it (which takes absolutely for ever by the way), and find myself stumbling around the
+serial, super tired, mostly possibly because of my interrupted sleep from yesterday. Marina however
+cheers me up: _cr&egrave;me-schnitt_ time! I enjoy mine with an espresso coffee, which gives me just
+enough of a pep to be able to wire up 12x 10G SFP+ and XFP betweenb one of the loadtesters and the
+ASR9001. The loadtest itself is exciting, notably because it does _not_ do line rate small packets.
+However, I'll leave the larger technical description for an IPng article, later on next week.
+
+Tonight, we're eating sticky tofu with sticky rice and steamed broccoli. It's a recipe we have from
+Hello Fresh, but one that really got Marina to liking tofu recipes. In her mind, tofu is that white
+stuff you get in Miso soup, and she was until recently not convinced that you can also have firm
+tofu. Her special trick (which I don't think works) is to press out some more water by placing the
+tofu blocks between two cutting boards and loading something heavy on top. Oh well, my dear, if it
+works for you, it certainly works for me :-)
+
+We bought ros&eacute; wine, unfortunately the pretty bottles with the sharp artsy edges we bought
+were all gone, so we made do with "just" normal bottles. This one is a fair bit more dry than the
+facetted-bottle-one, and because I'm just a little bit tired I decide to limit myself to one tiny
+glass. Dinner is had, and bellies explode. We eat a lot of this tofu stuff! A totally veganistical
+meal!
+
+AFter dinner, we take a walk up the hill, and both of us notice that even halfway up the path, we
+need to take a little sit down to recover. Geez, Rick, I'm really not energetic today! After the
+schlepp up, which is really only 30 meters (100ft) of elevation gain, the walk _back down_ is not
+terrible at least. It's nice weather out, not too hot, and still bright blue skies. I love Summer,
+so much.
+
+Back home, we reconnect with JP and Nicole who have returned from Luzern. They executed their whole
+plan without flaw - train to Luzern, boat around the lake, up mount _Pilatus_, down with the
+cogwheel train, and overall had a very enjoyable time in and around Luzern. Great! But now all of us
+are tired, each for their own reasons [admittedly, mine being the lamest reason].
+
+We plop on the couch and watch a belgian movie: _Mijn Papa is een Saucisse_ (My dad is a Sausage,
+[[IMDB](https://www.imdb.com/title/tt5939328/)]), with Johan Heldenbergh alongside young Savannah
+Vandendriessche (gotta love those Belgiansurnameswhichareallinoneword). Another actress in the movie
+is Hilde De Baerdemaeker, also a classic use of the double -ae- there!) who we just saw in the
+flemish police series _Coppers_. The movie is a real feel-good family drama about a stressed out Dad
+called Paul, who quits his banking job to become an actor, without any support from his family
+except his daughter Zo&euml;. It's entirely predictable, but for me it really worked. I enjoyed it.
+
+At 22:00 everybody skedaddles and I am left thinking that I still want to move my day up a little
+bit, because of tomorrow's Zurich Open Air. So I go downstairs to do a bit more loadtesting on the
+ASR9001, and at around midnight I decide that I will call it a night. I can always take a nap
+tomorrow afternoon, being the old geezer I have clearly become.
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0914.JPG" caption="Marina lovingly holds the hydranchea cuttings, which we will try to propagate" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0917.JPG" caption="I do a bit of emergency balloon repair of our 'Happy Birthday' balloons, the -r- is -r-ipped, and some kapton tape comes to the rescue." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0919.JPG" caption="I prepare a loadtester with 6pcs of dual 10G NIC, because the ASR9001 I am loadtesting has 12 ports." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0920.JPG" caption="Some energy and relief is given by this nice cup of espresso and creme schnitt." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0921.JPG" caption="Here's an MPA4X10G module for the A9K, we use these all over the place, but can they do 4x 14.88Mpps and 40Gbps of throughput?" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0922.JPG" caption="Marina's trick to get dry tofu is to squeeze it until it stops moving." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0923.JPG" caption="We enjoy a glass (just one, today!) of ros&eacute; wine" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0926.JPG" caption="After dinner, we crawl up the hill in slow motion. But it sure is pretty up here." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0930.JPG" caption="The movie for tonight is: Mijn Papa is een Saucisse, here Zo&euml; is Ms Tofuball, don't ask." >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
+
+{{< gallery-modal >}}
+{{< gallery-script >}}

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   {{< 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 r&ouml;sti 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-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0914.JPG" caption="Marina lovingly holds the hydranchea cuttings, which we will try to propagate" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0917.JPG" caption="I do a bit of emergency balloon repair of our 'Happy Birthday' balloons, the -r- is -r-ipped, and some kapton tape comes to the rescue." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0919.JPG" caption="I prepare a loadtester with 6pcs of dual 10G NIC, because the ASR9001 I am loadtesting has 12 ports." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0920.JPG" caption="Some energy and relief is given by this nice cup of espresso and creme schnitt." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0921.JPG" caption="Here's an MPA4X10G module for the A9K, we use these all over the place, but can they do 4x 14.88Mpps and 40Gbps of throughput?" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0922.JPG" caption="Marina's trick to get dry tofu is to squeeze it until it stops moving." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0923.JPG" caption="We enjoy a glass (just one, today!) of ros&eacute; wine" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0926.JPG" caption="After dinner, we crawl up the hill in slow motion. But it sure is pretty up here." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-30/IMG_0930.JPG" caption="The movie for tonight is: Mijn Papa is een Saucisse, here Zo&euml; is Ms Tofuball, don't ask." >}}
 {{< /gallery-category >}}
 
 ### Playing with OBS sound (August 8th)