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title: 'Wednesday: Roasted Chicken'
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date: 2024-07-31T21:12:53+02:00
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## Morning
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{{< image frame="true" width="17em" float="right" src="/img/headline/deecamu.png" alt="Credit: Dee Camu YouTube" >}}
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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
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thought I'd probably spend more time booting, but my body was ready to go - it helps that I didn't
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imbibe yesterday -- except for the one Mattei we had. Morning ritual was pretty straight forward, a
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sandwich with a few cups of coffee, and then off to the dump again to bring a second load of junk
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from the basement. This time it was only recyclables, cardboard, some batteries, metal and lots and
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lots of power, serial and network cables. I am not kidding when I say I had north of 200 or so RJ45-DB9
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Cisco serial cables in a box. I say: had, off they go - _Marie Kondo_ would be proud.
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I also have two large boxes of aging lithium batteries down here - that's going to change now. I'll
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bring a few ones that are somewhat P. Diddy to the dump later, but for now I'm sorting them into
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usable / unusable stacks. Oh, and when we moved in, I "temporarily" stored a P-40 Curtiss plane
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[[ref](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curtiss_P-40_Warhawk)] in my basement. This thing is pretty
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big, wingspan is 1'700mm, with landing gear, flaps, 6S with 60A ESC, the works! I should really fly
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this thing some time. But for now, it's moving to the garage - I took a picture of it against the
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hedge, it's really a nice one - see it fly [[here](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gtFSkkF9dCs)].
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I'm planning quite a few trips over the summer - last week we visited Helsinki, and further I'm
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going to go to Eindhoven and onwards to Jubbega, the Netherlands, I'll spend a few days in Luzern,
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Switzerland, then I'm off to Oslo, Norway, immediately followed by Paris, France (after their
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hangover from the Olympics, I hope), but then also to Piacenza and Milan, Italy, a party in Geneva,
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Switzerland and finally a trip to Amsterdam and Almere (and probably Eindhoven again), in the
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Netherlands. To plan the logistics, I made this paper printout of the months, so I can scribble my
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notes before settling on travel dates and who comes with (sometimes, I will travel solo, sometimes
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with Marina, and sometimes with Quinn and Marina). I'm very much looking forward to those trips! But
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in August, I'm planning on mainly staying home. I took a picture of my scribbles.
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## Afternoon
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I ate a cheese melt with a cup-o-noodles for lunch. Quinn gave me the packet and I had a surprise
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because I was expecting chicken, but it was curry flavored. I thought you'd like to know. Then I
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went back to my underground lair (I did not find Dr. Evil there!) and mested out my closet, once
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again finding cables and things that, 20 years ago, I thought maybe could ome in handy some day.
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Notable finds: a set of SCSI cables, a parallel ATA ribbon cable, a few dozen SATA cables and power
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splitters, and a dozen or so fans and power supplies for PCs that I will never build again, and if I
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will, they will have changed :) for now, Summer (a 😍 HP Pro Mini 400 G9) and Jessica (the 🥰 Mac
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Studio from yesterday) will be all I need™.
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There is one thing that I wanted to show, though -
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```
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jessica:~ pim$ traceroute6 hvn0.nlams3
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traceroute6 to 2001:678:d78:506::2 from 2001:678:d78:50b::32, 64 hops max, 28 byte packets
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1 msw0.chbtl0.net.ipng.ch 2.155 ms 2.082 ms 2.113 ms
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2 msw1.chrma0.net.ipng.ch 1.932 ms 1.846 ms 1.792 ms
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3 msw0.chrma0.net.ipng.ch 2.086 ms 1.733 ms 1.894 ms
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4 msw0.defra0.net.ipng.ch 7.518 ms 7.535 ms 7.607 ms
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5 msw0.nlams0.net.ipng.ch 13.580 ms 13.657 ms 13.585 ms
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6 hvn0.nlams3.net.ipng.ch 13.017 ms 12.777 ms 12.849 ms
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pim@hvn0-nlams3:~$ iperf3 -c jessica -P 10
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...
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[ ID] Interval Transfer Bitrate
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[ 5] 0.00-10.01 sec 351 MBytes 294 Mbits/sec receiver
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[ 8] 0.00-10.01 sec 266 MBytes 223 Mbits/sec receiver
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[ 10] 0.00-10.01 sec 283 MBytes 237 Mbits/sec receiver
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[ 12] 0.00-10.01 sec 298 MBytes 250 Mbits/sec receiver
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[ 14] 0.00-10.01 sec 339 MBytes 284 Mbits/sec receiver
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[ 16] 0.00-10.01 sec 256 MBytes 215 Mbits/sec receiver
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[ 18] 0.00-10.01 sec 280 MBytes 234 Mbits/sec receiver
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[ 20] 0.00-10.01 sec 270 MBytes 226 Mbits/sec receiver
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[ 22] 0.00-10.01 sec 326 MBytes 273 Mbits/sec receiver
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[ 24] 0.00-10.01 sec 227 MBytes 190 Mbits/sec receiver
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[SUM] 0.00-10.01 sec 2.83 GBytes 2.42 Gbits/sec receiver
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```
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I *love* IPng Networks' AS8298, and I *love* my carrier IP-Max - having a private 10G network from
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my basement through Zurich, Frankfurt to Amsterdam is really fun. I know it's a bit of a
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humble-brag, but I know many people who have 10ms of latency to their cablemodem headend. For me,
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it's 12.7ms end to end to a hypervisor running at Equinix AM3 in Amsterdam. It's just plain
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delicious!
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The other day I received two
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Arista 7280-SR-48C6 switches, which I'm eager to test. Also, David from GOWIN sent me a 19" rack
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mountable unit to compare notes with the [[R86S](https://ipng.ch/s/articles/2024/07/05/r86s.html)]
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that I tested a while ago. Once this cleaning is over (and, cautiously I think it will be over
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tomorrow, which I'm happy to prove with a video!), I think I'll do some playing around with those
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machines, but I will post my findings on the IPng site, not here. Separation of concerns, and all
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that.
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Back to cleaning - I applied some cable management to the rats nest of power, network, fiber and USB
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cables at my desk. I'm happy with the result - I took a picture, maybe you agree? In the closet
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where I found the stone aged computer parts, I also found an assortment of bags of screws - some for
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PC motherboards (which, once again, I do not think I will ever use again, so I trimmed them quite a
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bit), some for disk caddies, or SSDs (because why would you use the same screws ...), lots of
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chassis screws for Supermicro, and a few kilograms of assorted 19" cage nuts and screws. I sorted
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them all into little baggies, which took a surprising amount of time.
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## Evening
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I biked over to IKEA one more time to fetch another set of _Dröna_ boxes - I really like them
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as storage containers, and they fit snugly in the Kallax. Even if I put 220V C13/C14 cables, or
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network cables in them, they still visually close the shelf, so it doesn't look as chaotic. I bought
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another eight of them, for a grand total of twelve now in the basement. Six of these will go at my
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computer desk, which has two nice 4K screens attached to a 3x4 Kallax as well. I guess you could say
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that my desk and serverroom are now a matching pair. At IKEA, I take the shortcut, through the
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cashiers you can to directly to the hall to pick up the stuff, I was in and out in a matter of 10
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minutes, which was nice.
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I got home and the sunny afternoon was replaced with clouds that were dark and gloomy. Marina and I
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were going to take a walk to the next town over, Dietlikon, to get our _Schweizer Gügeli_
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(rotissery chicken), but she warned of oncoming bad weather - we looked on the radar, and it would
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be a very bad idea to walk home in the pouring rain with a few roasted chickens, so instead we drove
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to pick them up.
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I made _Rösti_ and Marina/Quinn prefer _Ofenkroketten_ (for reasons beyond me). We nommed on
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the chicken, and it rained a little bit, not quite as much as the radar had predicted. So after
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dinner, we took our chances and Marina and I took a little walk down our town, we took a look at the
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55 new apartments they're building down the road. I'm not sure I like them... and then over the
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fields back home, when we got to our street, we saw a kitty lounging on the side walk. A walk around
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town is not complete without a _kittycat_, so we said hi to each other. She was super friendly, and
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gave us both attention for a few minutes, and then got bored of us and took off. Thanks, Mrs Kitty!
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We watched one episode of Stranger Things - in Season4 they are getting quite long (the one we
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watched was 1h41m), after which Quinn said his goodbyes, and Marina and I watched another series
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that we started the other day: _Dear Child_, in original language (which is German). Considering
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_Forbes_ said it is not worth watching, that's exactly what we will do. For now, I think it's
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intriguing enough to continue.
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At 22:30 I went downstairs to enjoy a little bit of liquid drum and bass by Dee Camù on
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YouTube, notably [[this set](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZJoLKS4t5yw)].
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## Pictures of the Day
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{{< gallery-category >}}
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{{< 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?" >}}
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{{< 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" >}}
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{{< 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!" >}}
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{{< 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!" >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/guegeli.JPG" caption="These swiss chickens are to be eaten with Rösti Kroketten, at all times." >}}
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{{< gallery-photo fn="2024-07-31/IMG_0450.JPG" caption="After dinner, Marina and I took a little walk through our neighborhood" >}}
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{{< 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!" >}}
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{{< 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!" >}}
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{{< /gallery-category >}}
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{{< gallery-script >}}
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