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Wednesday: Roasted Chicken	2024-07-31T21:12:53+02:00			false

Morning

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I woke up before my alarm at 08:00 this morning - yesterday was a bit of a shorter sleep so I thought I'd probably spend more time booting, but my body was ready to go - it helps that I didn't imbibe yesterday -- except for the one Mattei we had. Morning ritual was pretty straight forward, a sandwich with a few cups of coffee, and then off to the dump again to bring a second load of junk from the basement. This time it was only recyclables, cardboard, some batteries, metal and lots and lots of power, serial and network cables. I am not kidding when I say I had north of 200 or so RJ45-DB9 Cisco serial cables in a box. I say: had, off they go - Marie Kondo would be proud.

I also have two large boxes of aging lithium batteries down here - that's going to change now. I'll bring a few ones that are somewhat P. Diddy to the dump later, but for now I'm sorting them into usable / unusable stacks. Oh, and when we moved in, I "temporarily" stored a P-40 Curtiss plane [ref] in my basement. This thing is pretty big, wingspan is 1'700mm, with landing gear, flaps, 6S with 60A ESC, the works! I should really fly this thing some time. But for now, it's moving to the garage - I took a picture of it against the hedge, it's really a nice one - see it fly [here].

I'm planning quite a few trips over the summer - last week we visited Helsinki, and further I'm going to go to Eindhoven and onwards to Jubbega, the Netherlands, I'll spend a few days in Luzern, Switzerland, then I'm off to Oslo, Norway, immediately followed by Paris, France (after their hangover from the Olympics, I hope), but then also to Piacenza and Milan, Italy, a party in Geneva, Switzerland and finally a trip to Amsterdam and Almere (and probably Eindhoven again), in the Netherlands. To plan the logistics, I made this paper printout of the months, so I can scribble my notes before settling on travel dates and who comes with (sometimes, I will travel solo, sometimes with Marina, and sometimes with Quinn and Marina). I'm very much looking forward to those trips! But in August, I'm planning on mainly staying home. I took a picture of my scribbles.

Afternoon

I ate a cheese melt with a cup-o-noodles for lunch. Quinn gave me the packet and I had a surprise because I was expecting chicken, but it was curry flavored. I thought you'd like to know. Then I went back to my underground lair (I did not find Dr. Evil there!) and mested out my closet, once again finding cables and things that, 20 years ago, I thought maybe could ome in handy some day. Notable finds: a set of SCSI cables, a parallel ATA ribbon cable, a few dozen SATA cables and power splitters, and a dozen or so fans and power supplies for PCs that I will never build again, and if I will, they will have changed :) for now, Summer (a 😍 HP Pro Mini 400 G9) and Jessica (the 🥰 Mac Studio from yesterday) will be all I need™.

There is one thing that I wanted to show, though -

jessica:~ pim$ traceroute6 hvn0.nlams3
traceroute6 to 2001:678:d78:506::2 from 2001:678:d78:50b::32, 64 hops max, 28 byte packets
 1  msw0.chbtl0.net.ipng.ch  2.155 ms  2.082 ms  2.113 ms
 2  msw1.chrma0.net.ipng.ch  1.932 ms  1.846 ms  1.792 ms
 3  msw0.chrma0.net.ipng.ch  2.086 ms  1.733 ms  1.894 ms
 4  msw0.defra0.net.ipng.ch  7.518 ms  7.535 ms  7.607 ms
 5  msw0.nlams0.net.ipng.ch  13.580 ms  13.657 ms  13.585 ms
 6  hvn0.nlams3.net.ipng.ch  13.017 ms  12.777 ms  12.849 ms

pim@hvn0-nlams3:~$ iperf3 -c jessica -P 10
...
[ ID] Interval           Transfer     Bitrate
[  5]   0.00-10.01  sec   351 MBytes   294 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[  8]   0.00-10.01  sec   266 MBytes   223 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[ 10]   0.00-10.01  sec   283 MBytes   237 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[ 12]   0.00-10.01  sec   298 MBytes   250 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[ 14]   0.00-10.01  sec   339 MBytes   284 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[ 16]   0.00-10.01  sec   256 MBytes   215 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[ 18]   0.00-10.01  sec   280 MBytes   234 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[ 20]   0.00-10.01  sec   270 MBytes   226 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[ 22]   0.00-10.01  sec   326 MBytes   273 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[ 24]   0.00-10.01  sec   227 MBytes   190 Mbits/sec                  receiver
[SUM]   0.00-10.01  sec  2.83 GBytes  2.42 Gbits/sec                  receiver

I love IPng Networks' AS8298, and I love my carrier IP-Max - having a private 10G network from my basement through Zurich, Frankfurt to Amsterdam is really fun. I know it's a bit of a humble-brag, but I know many people who have 10ms of latency to their cablemodem headend. For me, it's 12.7ms end to end to a hypervisor running at Equinix AM3 in Amsterdam. It's just plain delicious!

The other day I received two Arista 7280-SR-48C6 switches, which I'm eager to test. Also, David from GOWIN sent me a 19" rack mountable unit to compare notes with the [R86S] that I tested a while ago. Once this cleaning is over (and, cautiously I think it will be over tomorrow, which I'm happy to prove with a video!), I think I'll do some playing around with those machines, but I will post my findings on the IPng site, not here. Separation of concerns, and all that.

Back to cleaning - I applied some cable management to the rats nest of power, network, fiber and USB cables at my desk. I'm happy with the result - I took a picture, maybe you agree? In the closet where I found the stone aged computer parts, I also found an assortment of bags of screws - some for PC motherboards (which, once again, I do not think I will ever use again, so I trimmed them quite a bit), some for disk caddies, or SSDs (because why would you use the same screws ...), lots of chassis screws for Supermicro, and a few kilograms of assorted 19" cage nuts and screws. I sorted them all into little baggies, which took a surprising amount of time.

Evening

I biked over to IKEA one more time to fetch another set of Dröna boxes - I really like them as storage containers, and they fit snugly in the Kallax. Even if I put 220V C13/C14 cables, or network cables in them, they still visually close the shelf, so it doesn't look as chaotic. I bought another eight of them, for a grand total of twelve now in the basement. Six of these will go at my computer desk, which has two nice 4K screens attached to a 3x4 Kallax as well. I guess you could say that my desk and serverroom are now a matching pair. At IKEA, I take the shortcut, through the cashiers you can to directly to the hall to pick up the stuff, I was in and out in a matter of 10 minutes, which was nice.

I got home and the sunny afternoon was replaced with clouds that were dark and gloomy. Marina and I were going to take a walk to the next town over, Dietlikon, to get our Schweizer Gügeli (rotissery chicken), but she warned of oncoming bad weather - we looked on the radar, and it would be a very bad idea to walk home in the pouring rain with a few roasted chickens, so instead we drove to pick them up.

I made Rösti and Marina/Quinn prefer Ofenkroketten (for reasons beyond me). We nommed on the chicken, and it rained a little bit, not quite as much as the radar had predicted. So after dinner, we took our chances and Marina and I took a little walk down our town, we took a look at the 55 new apartments they're building down the road. I'm not sure I like them... and then over the fields back home, when we got to our street, we saw a kitty lounging on the side walk. A walk around town is not complete without a kittycat, so we said hi to each other. She was super friendly, and gave us both attention for a few minutes, and then got bored of us and took off. Thanks, Mrs Kitty!

We watched one episode of Stranger Things - in Season4 they are getting quite long (the one we watched was 1h41m), after which Quinn said his goodbyes, and Marina and I watched another series that we started the other day: Dear Child, in original language (which is German). Considering Forbes said it is not worth watching, that's exactly what we will do. For now, I think it's intriguing enough to continue.

At 22:30 I went downstairs to enjoy a little bit of liquid drum and bass by Dee Camù on YouTube, notably [this set].

Pictures of the Day

{{< gallery-category >}} {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/IMG_0444.JPG" caption="This P-40 Curtiss Warhawk has been in my basement since we moved in - can you believe it?" >}} {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/IMG_0446.JPG" caption="I'm using a paper calendar to scribble my travels; lots of fun places to visit" >}} {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/IMG_0447.JPG" caption="I folded the laundry - a bunch of M, L and XL IPng polos, they are pretty schmick!" >}} {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/IMG_0448.JPG" caption="When I clean, I CLEAN! I have sorted a few thousand screws, small, medium, large, cagenuts+bolts, and so on. It was worth it, cathartic!" >}} {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/guegeli.JPG" caption="These swiss chickens are to be eaten with Rösti Kroketten, at all times." >}} {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/IMG_0450.JPG" caption="After dinner, Marina and I took a little walk through our neighborhood" >}} {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/IMG_0451.JPG" caption="We saw a kitty, and she was very friendly, we both spent a few minutes hanging out with each other, and then she got bored and took off!" >}} {{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/IMG_0453.JPG" caption="Cablemanagement! I've rerouted all cabling of Summer and Jessica, and I am pretty happy with the results!" >}} {{< /gallery-category >}}

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