From f42d84cd23f707cba4ecff3134cb63c9f7797980 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Pim van Pelt Date: Mon, 29 Jul 2024 23:46:20 +0200 Subject: [PATCH] Article for the first full day of my sabbatical --- content/blog/day1.md | 98 +++++++++++++++++++ static/img/day1/kushsessions.png | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0410.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0417.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0418.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0421.JPG | 3 + static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0422.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0410.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0417.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0418.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0421.JPG | 3 + static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0422.JPG | 3 + 12 files changed, 131 insertions(+) create mode 100644 content/blog/day1.md create mode 100644 static/img/day1/kushsessions.png create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0410.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0417.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0418.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0421.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0422.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0410.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0417.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0418.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0421.JPG create mode 100644 static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0422.JPG diff --git a/content/blog/day1.md b/content/blog/day1.md new file mode 100644 index 0000000..7b65eaa --- /dev/null +++ b/content/blog/day1.md @@ -0,0 +1,98 @@ +--- +title: 'First Day!' +date: 2024-07-29T22:12:53+02:00 +Tags: [] +Categories: [] +draft: false +--- + +## Morning + +{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/day1/kushsessions.png" alt="Credit: Kushsessions YouTube" >}} + +This morning I put the alarm at 08:30 -- you should know that normally I go to bed quite late, as I +finish work at 22:00 or so, take some time to wind down, maybe drink a glass or two of vino, watch +some Netflix, and before I know it it's 02:00. But yesterday I went to bed early because of all the +schlepping I did in the basement. More of that today! + +Marina and I gathered some stuff around the house (not only my basement, I swear!) destined for the +dump. We decided to drop that stuff off first, and then visit the local IKEA for some shelving or +storage space, because the junk that is in my room, I mean the junk that is not junk, will still +need a place to live. + +After a quick breakfast I started loading stuff into the car, and we managed to stuff it completely, +old matrass and all, and made our way to _Remondis_, where I threw away north of 50kg of old +computer gear, cables, chargers, and some old metal slingshot that I built for an RC flying wing +once, and whatever else that was recycleable. With the remainder, which still managed to be a grand +total of 51kg, we paid the guys, and they hauled it off into /dev/null for us. + +Off to the IKEA - did you know that the main reason they sell you CHF 1,- hotdogs at the end, is +that psychologically, if you end a task on a positive note, you are more likely to remember the task +positively? Well, sucks for us, because (A) we made our way through the entire IKEA maze, (B) ended +up buying *way* more stuff than we came for, and (C) did not eat the hotdog because they are utterly +gross. But, a few hundred Francs later, and I was the proud owner of an assortment of Kallax +shelving. That'll come in handy, to store all the non-junk junk that I have laying around in heaps +all over my room. Remember: the _reduce_ phase of my MapReduce is still ongoing! + +## Afternoon + +We get home for lunch and eat some leftovers. Quinn needs to bolt as he has an appointment with a +tattoo artist, and he's all excited for that. I retreat to the basement and go hard assembling the +furniture. I do it without yelling (there's nobody to yell at), and besides, I have an electric +screwdriver with high torque, so I don't need to screw all those things by hand. Life saver!! + +There's a bit of moisture on the ground sometimes in the basement, and I think this is maybe because +we removed like 10 trees from the backyard, and those trees tend to suck up a lot of groundwater per +day. So I'd rather not put the Kallax directly on the ground. I make a run around Jumbo to get a few +rubber feet for it, and am very pleased with my results. + +At 2pm I have a quick call with my buddy Hugo and we talk about LACP/MLAG, OSPF and BGP. He just +bought two Arista switches (7060SX2-48YC6), and so did I i(7280SR-48C6), so we compare notes for his +new network design. It was a fun hour, but now work beckons, and I don't want to spend my whole +Sabbatical cleaning up my basement :) + +I finish the shelving, and it looks schmick. Now that I have the space, the _reduce_ phase goes +really quick. I help Fred a little bit with an Ansible issue for his NGINX cluster at IP-Max, but +an hour or two later and (almost!) everything is in its final place. If there was a law that +goverened how many containers and _döskes_ one is allowed to have, I'm pretty sure I am +breaking it. But with everything in its own little _döske_, the place looks good as new, and +I am very proud of my first few days of work here! + +## Evening + +I *love* warm weather - any temperature between say 15C and 30C is great for me. Marina is a bit +more ... picky, and she likes it in the wide dynamic range of 22.1C - 22.4C, anything warmer than +that, and a torrential rain of complaints is emitted. Anything colder than that, and she donns a +sweater, pullover, jacket and mittens. I love her though, and especially today because she made +me dinner! Because it's warm, she has decided to make a gorgeous salad, with lots of mixed toppings, +some dressing, home made croutons (which I baked!) and some nicely seasoned chicken. + +After dinner, Quinn takes a shower and we hang out outside for a little bit. When he comes back, we +watch a few episodes of Stranger Things -- we're in S04E03+04, and Vecna is being quite the asshole. +At about 10pm, Quinn turns in for the night, and I go downstairs to enjoy the cool air in the +basement, grab myself a bottle of Rioja, pour a glass, and write my little story for the day, while +listening to [[KushSessions](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Fjl6A8gKDBw)] on YouTube. + +Small bummer, the Mac Studio never came! I checked on the tracking, but it said that it was being +handled for damaged packaging, with new delivery date tomorrow. _Le Sigh_! I will have to keep my +two monitors powered off for one more day as I type this on my laptop. + +Tomorrow morning I'll bike to NTT Rümlang for IP-Max, to patch in a new Swisscom CES link, so +we can migrate customers from Equinix ZH04 to NTT instead. Also, Fred ordered two new 10G links from +NTT to Stollen - a really cool datacenter in Luzern that we're moving in together in September. More +on that later! + +## Pictures of the Day + +{{< gallery-category >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-29/IMG_0410.JPG" caption="" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-29/IMG_0417.JPG" caption="" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-29/IMG_0418.JPG" caption="" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-29/IMG_0421.JPG" caption="" >}} + {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-29/IMG_0422.JPG" caption="" >}} +{{< /gallery-category >}} + +{{< gallery-modal >}} +{{< gallery-script >}} + + diff --git a/static/img/day1/kushsessions.png b/static/img/day1/kushsessions.png new file mode 100644 index 0000000..c53e345 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/day1/kushsessions.png @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:1d02c61abe92fccb5a7ac95cb7def76a895a2acd9537e7adcb61f92555b034c6 +size 763021 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0410.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0410.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..2fee2f9 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0410.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:76e7a48e1723b64ddd31d31e2a1da42f177f6bf81d0f7513f26a4ad4076ca1be +size 2767058 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0417.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0417.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..b7e7c0c --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0417.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:2e0e04a9d79b717c6c32c7501824570094c781602434bb3bde5eacdaae6c2619 +size 1310508 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0418.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0418.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8d82424 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0418.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:e472c6d69278bc56a981444534b5f879052e6ee55e92542a1c34f480ed1b2886 +size 1095238 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0421.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0421.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..521981d --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0421.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:5efbeb095540c8d041221458007b385815e111e909cba7982c1c18e6c53328a8 +size 1628069 diff --git a/static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0422.JPG b/static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0422.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..765dcc6 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/fullsize/2024-07-29/IMG_0422.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:b069e3f1cab256d719152239a2961c10af23e600b61c52124ce2f3191bb74651 +size 1276573 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0410.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0410.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..e861699 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0410.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:f28b8d827c53d0c0f66c5fa3e018e1d9ee53ccbe819578f058b3e7ab5a846a4e +size 46045 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0417.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0417.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..86bac71 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0417.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:406cbf526bed357251c8621c5159535fce4d348b19aa7173e562151495c83db6 +size 30550 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0418.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0418.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..29f92c6 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0418.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:a1e5b82d1e92e813b58278b7ff7c696ec20d606d33ebfc4ada1d9fb853518dea +size 29106 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0421.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0421.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..f1df127 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0421.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:d474e91097b6e560353f298789599f06aa4486d3533465d43a8d920bfa75038c +size 41054 diff --git a/static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0422.JPG b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0422.JPG new file mode 100644 index 0000000..503f4a0 --- /dev/null +++ b/static/img/thumbnails/2024-07-29/IMG_0422.JPG @@ -0,0 +1,3 @@ +version https://git-lfs.github.com/spec/v1 +oid sha256:b749d02e2f36a2fe7538de60d644807ff8b24cb3f2e6cae9ccd27eac73f23813 +size 37012