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-title: "Week 9, Thursday:"
+title: "Week 9, Thursday: Zurich to Paris"
 date: 2024-09-26T21:55:00+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/mixmag.png" alt="Credit: Mixmag, YouTube" >}}
+
+After a good night's sleep, I tend to the house a little bit. We've been gone for five days, and
+just before that we've been gone for seven days. Quinn has been home and has done a really great job
+keeping the house in one piece, and he's cleaned up the kitchen regularly, I can tell! We got home
+yesterday and there was a box of cookies on the counter with a post-it "Please eat me!".
+
+In the morning I tended to some chores: the cameras on the exterior of the house stopped working,
+very likely because I unplugged the PoE switch in the guestroom [which turned out to be the case]. I
+also needed to pay some bills, and do a quick round of book keeping for IPng. I made a keep-list of
+the things that I needed to do, and worked through them methodically. Mostly, so I wouldn't forget
+and accidentally disappoint a family member waiting on an outcome.
+
+Marina and I went grocery shopping and wanted to buy food for the next three days, and importantly,
+vegetables for our "oep met ajje", which is not even Dutch but a infants way to say "Soep met
+Ballen" -- vegetable soup with meat balls, we share a passion for this soup. We went to the _Coop_
+and Marina got venison, a meat I'm not particularly fond of. A standing tradition in my house: when
+I travel alone, the family eats all the things they really like but I don't :)
+
+We got home and I started chopping veggies, while Marina rolled the meatballs one by one. Our soup
+has carrots, onions, rutabaga, leeks, cellery and stock. Later, we parboil the meat and I also make
+some vermicelli. All up, this is a delicious soup, made even more delicious (and a tiny bit less
+healthy) by adding a copious amount of _Aromat_. If anybody still believes I'm a foreigner, I will
+do my best to eat it with even more of my dishes.
+
+After lunch, we do some cleaning work. Marina makes her way through the bathroom and downstairs
+toilet, and I give the kitchen a deep cleaning. Normally, we're somewhat disappointed by the
+cleaning activity because we then proceed to filthify the kitchen again in the evening as we cook.
+However, today is a special day&trade;, because we're having d&ouml;nner delivered, which means the
+kitchen will stay clean for one extra day :)
+
+In the morning I had printed and cut twentyfour IPng badges. After the cleaning, I went downstairs
+to flash them. Each pin has an NXP nTAG which contains a URL; and the webserver that does the
+redirector makes each URL point to a new destination every week. This way, curious readers can
+surprise themselves by scanning the tag every week or so to keep updated on my ramblings on
+[[IPng.ch](https://ipng.ch)].
+
+The flashing works out pretty quickly, which leaves me the larger part of the afternoon to make my
+presentation for [[FRNoG](https://frnog.org/)] in Paris. In Oslo I had 45 minutes to deliver my
+storyline, but in Paris I have been assigned 20 minutes only - not to worry, I have designed my
+narrative such that I can remove and/or shorten parts of it. I end up rewriting one part and
+dropping another, leaving me with an ~18 minute presentation, by still reusing most of the slides.
+Mission accomplished!
+
+The doorbell rings, and UPS is there in the rain with a large cardboard box. In the box, are four
+smaller cardboard boxes. In those boxes then, are trays and trays and trays full of fiber optic
+transcievers (SFP+, aka 10Gbps). I have them in all sorts and sizes: every CWDM channel (from 1270nm
+through to 1610nm), bidirectional ones, and _normal_ 1310-LR optics. Each of them are 20km with a
+good sensitivity, and I really needed them because I ran out of optics after the [[Stollen]({{< ref
+wk8day4.md >}})] deploy last week. I unpackage and oragnize them into IPng's stock (aka: the
+basement).
+
+At around 18:00 I emerge from the basement, presentation in hand, basement cleaned up and tidy (I
+did promise myself I would keep that up, and I am still keeping my promise). My buddy Pereira stops
+by on Signal and says the gang missed me in Zurich this week. My favorite team, P2020, had a leads
+summit. Were I not to have been in Oslo, I would've certainly stopped by to say hi and emit some
+🥰 emojis.
+
+Dinner is ordered and arrives fashionably late. How long should it take to make some
+d&ouml;nner-boxen?? Anyway, we're watching Black Mirror, the _White Christmas_ episode, which is
+pretty gnarly. I enjoy the dinner, and chuckle a bit because our "Get home and have an _AVG_"
+apparently lasted exactly one day.
+
+After dinner, Marina drives me to the airport. Zurich is a super efficient airport for security, and
+a few minutes later my bag is fished out of the xray machine: I guess having two rolls of 25pcs of
+38mm round nTAG with electronics and magnets and so on, trips the machine. It did so also with the
+stuff left over from Oslo. Fun :) but the guy saw pretty quickly what I had in my bag, and I was
+free to go!
+
+At the gate, I take a picture of the 21:40 departure time of LX646. Two minutes later, I receive an
+e-mail from Swiss: flight is delayed, next departure is 20:00. Well, the good news is that in that
+extra time I just bought myself, I can write my journal entry for the day!! I think there's probably
+something wrong, perhaps with a weather front, as on the screens almost every flight is delayed.
+
+Mine ends up leaving at 22:15 but guns it to Paris, and lands there only fifteen minutes late. I
+hail an Uber and Mohamed, the driver, practices his English as I practice my French. The drive into
+the city is pretty short, and arriving at WS Op&eacute;ra, I make use of the handy e-mail I was sent
+to enter not one, but four different passcodes on various keypads in an old building. Good news: the
+room door opens and there's a bed there. I think the room is maybe 5x2m and a 1.5m2 bathroom. It's
+_sm&oslash;l_ for sure, but that's OK. I'll only be here for two nights and only to sleep.
+
+Speaking of which: goodnight!
+
+## Pictures of the Day
+
+{{< gallery-category >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-26/IMG_1589.JPG" caption="Printing and cutting the IPng pins on the Cameo v5" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-26/IMG_1590.JPG" caption="Cutting and pairing the veggies for our huge pot of soup" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-26/IMG_1592.JPG" caption="A nice bowl of vegetable soup with meatballs and toast (and Aromat)" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-26/IMG_1593.JPG" caption="The kitchen is spotless after a deep cleaning activity from your's truly" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-26/IMG_1594.JPG" caption="I am flashing 24 new pins with IPng articles; it's a pretty simple but repetitive process. I like those" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-26/IMG_1595.JPG" caption="The transcievers from Starry Optics arrive. There's a good 225 of them here, and a bunch of 40G to 4x10G and 100G to 4c25G DAC breakout cables too" >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-26/IMG_1599.JPG" caption="Almost all of the flights in Zurich are delayed this evening. I wonder what's up. My plane, LX646, left at 22:15 which is 35min late." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-26/IMG_1602.JPG" caption="The airBaltic Airbus A220-300 is small, but bigger than yesterday's Embraer E195." >}}
+  {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-09-27/IMG_1603.JPG" caption="If I stretch my arms wide, I can (almost) touch both left/right walls of this hypersm&oslash;l apartment. But it'll do!" >}}
+{{< /gallery-category >}}
+
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