Day2

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+title: 'Tueday 3D Print Day'
+date: 2024-07-30T09:12:53+02:00
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+
+## Morning
+
+{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/day2/noraenpure.png" alt="Credit: Nora en Pure YouTube" >}}
+
+I went to bed at about 03:00 yesterday, and I finished that bottle of wine. I had the foresight to
+turn off my alarm (which usually tries in vain to wake me at 08:30), but I woke up at 07:00 with a
+bit of a headache. I've been having headaches for the last two months, the Doc doesn't quite know
+what to make of it, but this headache was perhaps a little bit of a hangover? I took some aspirine
+and snoozed until 09:30 or thereabouts, and got up.
+
+With the warm weather, despite the window open at night, I am a bit hot, and my scalp itches. One
+thing that I know helps is a buzzcut, so off I go to put the _tondeuse_ to work. It's always
+somewhat of a pleasure for me to know that people pay easily CHF 50,- to get their hair cut, and I
+spend all of 4 minutes with a 20 year old trimmer - it's done in no time. After a good shower, I am
+ready to start the day!
+
+In the morning, I take to Fusion360 to design a cable guide of sorts. I love Fusion360 so much -
+as with most of this stuff, it has a steep learning curve, but once you're over that initial
+investment, drawing anything my mind can think up is a breeze - the object you can see in the
+gallery below consists of two sketches with four extrusions and one fillet. That's it! I took a
+screenshot of the cross section so you can see what it's trying to do: Yesterday at IKEA we bought a
+few hangers, those things that you put on the door and hang your nightgown or robe on, and I drew a
+bit of a bracket (see pics in the gallery below). It was fun, and what's more: I got it right on the
+first try! I put the printer to work on four of these, and will print another set of four in the
+afternoon.
+
+## Afternoon
+
+Just as we were preparing a salad and some fried eggs for lunch, the mailman came, yaay! The Mac
+Studio that was apparantly damaged in transit and had to be repackaged by Swiss Post. The box was
+full of tape on the outside, but the inside was pristine. This is going to be fun - this Mac is
+super fast - with an M2 Ultra, 24 cores, 76 GPU cores, 64GB of ram, 2TB of NVME storage, and 10G
+network. It can drive up to eight 4K screens with its six TB4 connections, and immediately proves to
+be blazingly fast. 
+
+{{< image frame="false" width="5em" float="left" src="/img/init/sidequest.png" alt="The SideQuest logo" >}}
+**Side Quest Time**! I get to install all of my apps on this fresh new machine, which I find an
+enjoyable activity. Fusion360 runs so much smoother, as does Gimp and video transcoding and Open
+Broadcaster Software. The previous Macmini (still Intel based) was struggling with 4K video, but
+this one does it with room to spare. I'm gonna like it -- and in the thematic world of _Rick and
+Morty_, I decide to call this one _Jessica_.
+
+I do a little bit after lunch, and then I bike to a datacenter at the Zurich airport to help IP-Max
+out. They've been moving out of Equinix datacenters and one of the connections that needs to moved
+is a Swisscom CES interconnect. Swisscom has already installed their _CPE_ for this, a Cisco ASR920,
+but we still need to hook it up to the IP-Max router. Armed with an XFP, SFP+ and some patch cables
+and cleaning pen, I make my way to the facility. It's absolutely gorgeous weather today! Biking
+through the _Hardwald_ is refreshing, but out on the road and in the fields with the Sun directly
+overhead, it's pretty hot.
+
+I get to visit one of my favorite routers: `er01.zrh56.ip-max.net`, and quickly make the patch to
+find no light coming from Swisscom. Ludo does me a solid and calls the Swisscom hotline, and they
+_no shutdown_ their side, and I see link. Great, job well done, and thanks Ludo! All in all I'm out
+of the facility within 15 minutes, and make my way back home. Once there, I find another package has
+arrived! This time it's 2x100G linecard and optics for the second 100G wave from Zurich to
+Frankfurt. Soon, my beloved AS25091 will have a 100G triangle Zurich-Zurich-Frankfurt, and from
+there, the obvious next step is to upgrade the Zurich-Geneva links and the Geneva metro to be 100G.
+But, one step at a time. I'm uncomfortably excited for Fred and the IP-Max crew. I put the line card
+in the (newly very clean!) basement, and start a second batch of _cable guides_ in my trusty rusty
+Prusa Mk3.
+
+## Evening
+
+At around 17:30 I send Marina a Signal DM to invite her for a nice drink out in the back yard.
+Yesterday she had this Mattei, and today I think I'll join her in that drink! After the drinks, we
+make our way inside for a spot of dinner - tonight we're eating saut&eacute;ed spinach with garlic,
+creamy mashed potatoes with a dash of cream cheese, and a really nice piece of salmon. 
+
+After dinner, we retire to our family couch position, and Marina Quinn and I watch two episodes of
+_Stranger Things_ on Netflix. After the second, Quinn retires further to his bedroom, and I go
+downstairs to finish the job installing _Jessica_ and writing my blog post for the day, while
+listening to _Nora en Pure_'s purified episode #414 on YouTube. This afternoon while I was biking to
+the datacenter, I saw they were building a large stage for Zurich OpenAir, where she will play a
+session for 25'000 folks. Maybe I'll treat myself to a ticket :)
+
+Tomorrow I really should go to the municipal dump, because I have a huge stack of cardboard from the
+Kallax cupboards, and the Mac stuff, and the linecard -- I'm such a consumer, and I love it!
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0423.JPG" caption="Starting the day with a good buzzcut. No more itchy scalp!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0425.JPG" caption="The Mac Studio arrived -- completely undamaged" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0426.JPG" caption="Biking to the datacenter in 31C weather" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0430.JPG" caption="My favorite router in the world, now with +10G to Swisscom CES" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0432.JPG" caption="I'm in front of a datacenter in Zurich!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0437.JPG" caption="Biking back home through the fields - Stromer ST5" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0438.JPG" caption="Another package arrives: 2x100G linecard for ASR9k" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/cableholder.png" caption="Design for a cable holder, Fusion 360" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/cableholder-crosssection.png" caption="The cable holder, cross section showing the inside" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0442.JPG" caption="My trusty Prusa Mk3 printing a batch of cable holders" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0439.JPG" caption="A finished batch of 3D printed cable holders" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0441.JPG" caption="The cable holders doing their best work" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-30/IMG_0443.JPG" caption="Prost! Drinking a Mattei with Marina" >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
+
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