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-title: "Week 4, Sunday:"
+title: "Week 4, Sunday: Day of Rest?"
 date: 2024-08-25T21:55:00+02:00
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+In the morning I decided to make good on my promise-to-self that I'd clean up the basement every now
+and again. I vacuumed the floor and mopped it with soapy water. The previous two times I've done
+this, the water that came out of the bucket was as dark as a black hole; but this time it was merely
+a darkish tint of grey. Yaay, progress!
+
+In the morning I had a chat with my buddy Antonis who is preparing some equipment to deploy in
+Amsterdam. He's on a power budget and has found an EPYC 4464P aka _Raphael_ that runs ~20W idle despite
+having 12 cores, 64MB L3 cache and DDR5 memory with NVME controllers. It looks like a really great
+machine! He's also looking for an equally power-efficient switch, and I have a few older Mikrotik
+CRS317s laying in storage. I measure their consumption and it's about 14.2 Watts - so he will be
+taking one of these off my hands to deploy in NIKHEF.
+
+I myself also do some shopping. I've ordered a batch of 84 CWDM/Bidi 20km SFP+ modules with Starry
+Optics (the same club I get those sweet, sweet, Centec switches from). I also through in 8pcs of
+40G-to-4x10G breakout DACs, as my switches typically have unused 40G ports which I'd then rather
+repurpose to 10G ports for local machines. Those optics are ordered, and Raphael gets on the
+assembly and shipping for me. Nice work, Raphael!
+
+In the afternoon, I have a task! Yesterday I created a third link into IPng's switch+router in
+_Plan-les-Ouates_ Stack GEN01 datacenter. I did this so that I could safely tinker with the other
+two links (one to Paris, and another to Zurich). Fred meets me online - he's physically at the
+datacenter, and will move my connections from the IP-Max ASR9k router ports, to more economical
+switchports. And I will take the opportunity to reconfigure these leased lines to terminate in
+Zurich on the new Aristas. Fred makes quick work of it (thanks again, buddy!) and I end up
+completing the task without having to use an emergency OOB connection: the third link from Geneva to
+Zurich takes all the traffic, and BGP sessions don't even notice, as traffic is rerouted. About 20
+minutes later, both the link Geneva-Paris and Geneva-Zurich are back online, and I have full
+redundancy again. I love it when this stuff works as designed :-) This summer I hope to have a few
+talks at NONOG, ITNOG(on-the-road), FRNOG, and possibly NLNOG, DENOG about this network which runs
+mostly entirely on IPv6 linklocal despite carrying IPv4 traffic!
+
+With my darling `msw0.chplo0.net.ipng.ch` redundantly connected at N+2 to the rest of the _IPng Site
+Local_ network, it's time for me to get drunk, I mean, it's time for me to have one drink. Marina
+somehow is not keen on Gin today, so she drinks an &Tonic, while I drink a Gin&Tonic, it's with a
+light gingerbeer, and I like it. We try on some white gloves, for reasons I am now completely
+blanking on, and proceed to make dinner.
+
+I'm outside barbecueing 1000g of pork sausage, for which we've bought one of those cute clamps.
+Marina is inside making _Luikse Salade_ (salad from _Liege_, Belgium), which is potatoes, string
+beans, bacon, boiled egg and a mustard vinaigrette. The sausage rounds it off for some much loved
+proteine, and overall the whole table falls silent while we all inhale the stuff. However, Marina
+has had an accident! She poured the boiling water from the beans over her left hand, so she gets to
+wear the white glove with burn cream for a little bit. Too bad, but she takes it in stride.
+
+After dinner, I do a visual inspection of Quinn's eyeball. It is still intact, and roughly in the
+place where it's meant to be, and I take some photographic evidence. Then, Marina gets to choose the
+movie, and she chooses one with the Nespresso guy (elsewhere known as George Clooney), and the
+_breedbekkikker_ (roughly translated from Dutch: a frog with a very wide mouth -- a loving slur for
+Julia Roberts). It's called _Money Monster_ and it's actually pretty good! 
+
+After the movie I turn in for the night. Somehow, this day was full of interesting work - but I feel
+somewhat relaxed and rested despite being so busy!
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/IMG_0820.JPG" caption="I put on a Freddy Mercury impression, and I want to break free! ... and vacuum my room." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/IMG_0821.JPG" caption="I have this really cool Rick and Morty tea-mug, which reveals a colorful diorama when it has hot liquid in it." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/IMG_0822.JPG" caption="I test this Mikrotik CRS317 switch for Antonis, it's coming in at 14.2 Watts idle. Hoping he'll be able to put it at NIKHEF in October." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/vpp-ospf3.png" caption="I'm rolling out EoMPLS circuits for AS8298's IPng Site Local, between Geneva and Zurich, and Geneva and Paris. Shown here: reconfiguring the link chplo0 - frpar0, and pinging Paris VPP router on linklocal." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/IMG_0823.JPG" caption="The Gin&Tonic today is with a gingerbeer tonic and a blackberry Gin which is completely colorless." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/whiteglove.png" caption="Marina and I give each other the white glove treatment." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/IMG_0824.JPG" caption="Dinner: Luikse Salade with BBQ'd pork sausage. It tasted better than the picture gives it credit for :-)" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/IMG_0825.JPG" caption="Marina is cooling down her hot-watter scorched hand, with the white glove, a chickenglove and a cold compress. She'll live, don't worry." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/IMG_0826.JPG" caption="Quinn passes the eyeball inspection with flying colors. In the reflection you can see that he finished his plate of Luikse Salade." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-08-25/IMG_0828.JPG" caption="George and Julia play another movie together; it's Money Monster, and I enjoy it." >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
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