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| Week 9, Thursday: Zurich to Paris | 2024-09-26T21:55:00+02:00 |
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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™, because we're having dönner 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].
The flashing works out pretty quickly, which leaves me the larger part of the afternoon to make my presentation for [FRNoG] 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 dönner-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!!
Pictures of the Day
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