Add Thursday, cheese-day

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-title: "Week 4, Thursday:"
+title: "Week 4, Thursday: So much cheese"
 date: 2024-08-22T21:55:00+02:00
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+Today was all about cheese. JP and Nicole arrived yesterday from Geneva, but they stayed in a hotel
+in France just over the border, and what are the French known for? Great wines, great cheese, and
+terrible taste in cars. Old friends of mine will remember the term _LFKA_, which I will not write
+out in full here, to protect childrens' eyes.
+
+In the morning I started with the prepwork for _Kramiek v2.0_, a flemish raisin bread. Last time it
+was a bit dense, so despite Quinn giving it a 10 out of 10, Marina requested it to be a bit more
+fluffy this time. Okidoki, chief! Floof, it shall be. I mixed up the dough and gave it a kiss before
+sending it on its way in the first rise.
+
+In the afternoon we went grocery shopping at the Coop.  We make a list of, say, ten things we need
+to get. We then arrive to _Coop_ (or _Aligro_), and about 20 minutes later, we have a cart full of
+stuff, and zero things crossed off the list.  Not sure if I'm the only one this happens to? Perhaps
+it's a clever trick that Big Grocery employs to sustain consumerism? Either way, the gin, wine,
+candy, random office supplies, and such will come in handy, at some point.
+
+On the way back from the _Coop_, we zig-zag through our neighborhood because they've started road
+works on the main road, a project that is going to last for several months and costs CHF 8'500Mio
+which is rather absurd considering the stretch of road they are fixing is maybe 300m long... but as
+a silver lining, the detour shows us a very large muster of maybe fifty or so storks circling
+overhead. There's big storks (who deliver babies), and baby storks (who deliver kittens?), and we
+think they may be rouding up the phalanx to migrate. It was an impressive sight! A little further
+down, I yellowjacketed road worker stopped the car and asked if we need to be in this neighborhood
+because, and I quote "the residents have been complaining that there is too much traffic here now".
+
+Well well well, how the tables have turned. Two cute things come to mind: Firstly, I mentioned this
+very exact thing to Marina yesterday, that gosh now that the roads will all be closed, the only
+reasonable route is through our neighborhood -- and you would think that perhaps the folks who
+organized this whole mayhem would've considered it? But secondly, and this is even more typical
+Swiss, the roadworks started, what, three **days** ago, and will be lasting for three **months**, and
+the residents are already upset and complaining. And I'm glad to report that I was one of the
+complainants, as I mentioned in my first point. Oh geez, Rick, I'm _swissing_!!
+
+Back home, I go downstairs a bit, and see that @benjojo has posted a new tool he wrote for
+[[LONAP](https://lonap.net/)] to do multi-flow round trip time measurement. I immediately see this
+tool's usefulness in [[AS8298](https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2021/02/27/ipng-network/)] as well: some
+of the underlying circuits are MPLS switched, and the underlying [[AS25091](https://ip-max.net/)] at
+times uses ECMP or LACP so that traffic can go over multiple parallel paths. If one of those has
+either _packetlo_ or a latency excursion, this can be tricky to find. Ben's solution to this is to
+have each node send 16 different UDP streams to each other node, so that underlying network topology
+might hash the streams to different physical connection. Works a treat - but I notice that the
+`-cfg.path` flag doesn't work, so I send a PR to address it - see
+[[ixp-xping](https://github.com/lonap/ixp-xping)] for the tool, and his
+[[article](https://blog.benjojo.co.uk/post/ixp-xping-better-ix-monitoring)] for the rationale. I
+create an Ansible role for `ixp-xping` and roll it out to all hypervisors at IPng.
+
+The cheese ritual is starting at 17:30, and my contribution is freshly baked _Kramiek_ and
+_B&uuml;rli_. The cheese is delectable and we spend a few good hours consuming it, with figs,
+mustard, cashew and (unsalted) peanuts, but with salted butter and all of the breads we gathered
+along the way. At the end, we seemed to have consumed less than half of the available cheese, which
+is good news, because it means we get to go again. While eating, Quinn tries to undo my shoelaces,
+successfully I might add, so I re-tie them and make it more difficult each time. But, patience is a
+virtue, and he repeatedly undoes them. Good work, Quinn!
+
+After dinner, we retire to the back yard, and when the sun sets I light our firebowl and so do our
+neighbors. We spend the evening outside, patting our stuffed bellies, and switching between chatting
+about this-and-that, and nosing into our respective iPhone, Android or iPad. At 22:30, the fire is
+mostly done for the evening, and I've finished the _Tintafina_ bottle, so there appears to be
+nothing left for me today but to head off to bed.
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
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+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-22/IMG_0766.JPG" caption="Ingredients for the Kramiek - butter, milk, raisins, flour, yeast and sugar." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-22/IMG_0770.JPG" caption="The finished Kramiek - the verdict is that it is tasty but a little bit too fluffy. I haven't won, yet!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-22/IMG_0771.JPG" caption="We bought a pair of Portugese wines - one is a lady called Tintafina, and the other is called Machoman. The bottles and branding is fun! The wine is fair." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-22/IMG_0772.JPG" caption="Let there be cheese - JP and Nicole bring a bunch of cheeses from France, and Marina -- obviously -- buys a bunch more from Switzerland" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-22/IMG_0773.JPG" caption="Some of the more tasty cheeses - two Morbier, one Gorgonzola, and a piece of Gauda" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-22/IMG_0774.JPG" caption="Marina also made a red beet and pickes salad, with goats cheese mouse. Good stuff!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-22/IMG_0775.JPG" caption="Quinn and I play a game: he unties my shoe laces using only his feet. I make it more difficult as time passes, but he consistently wins!" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-22/IMG_0776.JPG" caption="Outside in the yard, this plane flew directly overhead. Perhaps a missed approach from LSZH." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-22/IMG_0779.JPG" caption="In the evening we light the firebowl and it's nice and cozy outside." >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
+
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