The Most Terrifying Force of Death

Please don’t wake the man who wants to be left alone.

Charlie

As of Thursday night, they still do not have the shooter in custody. They have confirmed they have good video of the shooter. They believe they have his firearm. A Mauser in 30-06. They have released an image of a person of interest.

There are statements being presented as fact that the cartridges had things written in them indicating a trans or antifa motivation. This has not been confirmed by official sources. The different media reporting this might very well be circle sourcing.

Iryna

It has been 20 days since she was murdered. The look of stark fear in her face after she was stabbed is burned in my mind. I am waiting for the trial to end to find him sentenced to death.

Networking

It’s working. Shhh, don’t spook it.

Race Conditions

In computer science, a race condition is when two threads act on the same value at the same time, with the results of one thread being overwritten by the other.

Consider a database with a value in it; call it the number of visitors to the site. Simplistic code would read the data from the database, increment it by one, then write it back to the database.

This works if there is only a single thread. But if there are two threads, between the time one thread reads the value and writes it back to the database, another thread reads the same value. The value will be incremented in the database by one, when it was supposed to be incremented by two.

In this simple case, we can use a monoatomic action to do the operation: UPDATE options SET value=value+1 WHERE key='site-counter'

This SQL statement reads, increments, and writes the results back in a single operation.

The other method is by using a transaction. db_start(); $row = db_query("SELECT * FROM options WHERE key='site-counter'"); $value = $row['value']; $value += 1; db_query("UPDATE options SET value=$value WHERE key='site-counter'"); db_commit();

The framework I am using uses a crass and simplistic ORM (object relationship model). You don’t normally access the database directly. There is no method to start a transaction using the ORM. This would not be an issue except the framework actually has a critical section where a race condition can exist and is being hit on a semiregular basis.

And my last explanation to the client, this being the fifth time she’s asked what this thing is happening, was met with “I don’t speak your language. When will it be fixed?”

Question of the Week

What is the most touching thing you’ve seen since Charlie was assassinated?

You may think I’m rude, But I don’t care. – by Ian, 07Sep2025
https://thelawdogfiles.substack.com/p/you-may-think-im-rude

Civil War 2.0 Weather Report: Mass Deportation Is The Moderate Position – by John Wilder, 08Sept2025
https://wilderwealthywise.com/civil-war-2-0-weather-report-mass-deportation-is-the-moderate-position/
The Wilder Countdown to Civil War II™.
1) Things are going well.
2) People begin to create groups.
3) People begin to look for preferential treatment.
4) Opposing ideology to the prevailing civic ideology is introduced and spread.
5) Those who have an opposing ideology are considered evil.
6) People actively avoid being near those of opposing ideology.  Might move from communities or states just because of ideology.
7) Common violence. Organized violence is occurring monthly.
* 8) Common violence that is generally deemed by governmental authorities as justified based on ideology.
9) Opposing sides develop governing/war structures.  Just in case.
10)Open War.
* where we are now
I have kept the Clock O’Doom to 8., given the open support of criminality in Blue cities becoming clearer by the day with their own words.  They feel the violence in Chicago and Baltimore and New York and Los Angeles is justified

Things Are Not Alright – By John Wilder, 10Sep2025
https://wilderwealthywise.com/things-are-not-alright/

3 strikes and you need to be out – career criminality and the social contract – by el gato malo, 08Sep2025
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/3-strikes-and-you-need-to-be-out

Why the Right to Keep and Bear Arms Is Fundamental – By Llewellyn H. Rockwell, Jr., 08Sep2025
https://www.lewrockwell.com/2025/09/lew-rockwell/why-the-right-to-keep-and-bear-arms-is-fundamental/

Submit or Die. – A Liberal view of what to do with others. – by Miguel Gonzalez, 08Sep2025
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/submit-or-die
(WATCH the videos – they want you DEAD – They will try to kill you. – Believe what they are telling you, it is nolonger just hysterical words – whitness the increase in mass shootings done by TDS diven liberal leftis –  jlr)

College Students Across the Political Spectrum Support Shouting Down Opponents by J.D. Tuccille, 08Sep2025
https://reason.com/2025/09/08/college-students-across-the-political-spectrum-support-shouting-down-opponents/

The Guardian Freaks Over GOA’s Assault on NFA – By Tom Knighton,08Sep2025
https://bearingarms.com/tomknighton/2025/09/08/the-guardian-freaks-over-goas-assault-on-nfa-n1229816

Imam Warns Store Owners To Stop Selling Pork, Alcohol, Lottery Tickets, Threatens Consequences – By Pamela Geller, 08Sep2025
https://gellerreport.com/2025/09/sharia-in-texas.html/?lctg=92233992
A Muslim iman in Houston, Texas is warning store owners there that they have 30 days to stop selling alcohol and pork, or face repercussions.
No coverage from the sharia-compliant media, of course.

“We Have To Respond… We Have To Be Vicious”: Trump Rages After Charlotte Subway Stabbing – by Tyler Durden, 09Sep2025
https://www.zerohedge.com/political/blmers-launch-gofundme-subway-stabber-charlotte-mayor-urges-video-censorship

Trump Calls for Death Penalty After Ukrainian Refugee Murdered on Charlotte Train by Repeat Offender by By Noah Stanton 10Sep2025
https://istandforfreedom.com/trump-penalty-refugee-charlotte/
The federal government is now pursuing charges that make Brown eligible for execution. The Department of Justice has classified this as an act causing death on a mass transportation system—terrorism charges, essentially.

Magistrate Teresa Stokes Must Be Removed and Decarlos Brown Needs to Die – You won’t believe Stokes’ conflict of interest by Susan Daniels, 10Sep2025
https://susandaniels.substack.com/p/magistrate-teresa-stokes-must-be
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Charlie Kirk Shot During Event in Utah, in Critical Condition – by Matt Margolis, 10Sep2025
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/09/10/breaking-charlie-kirk-shot-during-event-in-utah-n4943528
(see #8 on Wilder’s CW2 time line above – jlr)(video – 00:00:05 – https://x.com/i/status/1965853739564282371)
The video has been 404 holed @1951CDT – Hmm…this page doesn’t exist. Try searching for something else.

MSM Reactions to Charlie Kirk Shooting Are as Sick as You’d Expect – by Matt Margolis, 10Sep2025
https://pjmedia.com/matt-margolis/2025/09/10/msm-reactions-to-charlie-kirk-shooting-are-as-sick-as-youd-expect-n4943531
(UnFB – jlr)

Charlie Kirk Dead at Age 31 After Being Shot at Event
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-charlie-kirk-dead-age-31-shot-event/

I want you angry.- And I want them afraid enough to seek political refuge in Canada –  by Miguel Gonzalez – 10Sep2025
https://miguelgg.substack.com/p/i-want-you-angry

MSNBC Makes Multiple Disgusting Claims in Immediate Aftermath of Charlie Kirk Shooting
https://www.westernjournal.com/msnbc-makes-multiple-disgusting-claims-immediate-aftermath-charlie-kirk-shooting/

They’ve Got the Suspected Shooter – FBI Dir. Kash Patel Makes Announcement to the Nation
https://www.westernjournal.com/breaking-got-suspected-shooter-fbi-dir-kash-patel-makes-announcement-nation/

Watch: House Democrats Loudly Object to Moment of Prayer for Charlie Kirk
https://www.westernjournal.com/watch-house-democrats-loudly-object-moment-prayer-charlie-kirk/
video – 00:00:56 – https://twitter.com/i/status/1965886297140244838
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The Weatherman: Some Brief Thoughts – by Chris Bray, 10Sep2025
https://chrisbray.substack.com/p/the-weatherman-some-brief-thoughts
First, the murder of Charlie Kirk is just the next level up the behavioral chain from the way Robert F. Kennedy was just treated in front of a Senate committee. (See #8 of The Wilder Countdown to Civil War II™. above)
Second, the transition to radical violence is a reflection of the events that followed the death of the radical dream of the 1960s New Left. After the hippies, the Weatherman and the Symbionese Liberation Army.
I know this message will seem strange in this moment, but the violent lashing out isn’t a sign of strength. It’s the sign of cultural death, and evidence that the people who want to destroy disagreement are deeply, painfully aware that they cannot convince.
There will be more infliction of pain as they face that collapse.

Ally is in tears. I’m angry. I haven’t been this angry since somebody tried to take my kids from me 15+ years ago.

We are seeing a breakdown of our societal norms. We are no longer a high-trust society. As the Magic Eight Ball used to say, “All signs point to yes.”

My father used to say that he was made colorblind by an act of Congress. By this he meant that as an officer in the US Navy, he was legally bound to ignore race when interacting with those that reported to him.

In my entire life I believe I’ve only seen one reaction from him or my mother that was race-based.

In 4th grade I asked my parents if my friend from school could come over. They agreed. The parents were in contact with each other, and Mom and I went to pick up my friend.

He climbed into the car, and we had a great playdate. Afterward my parents said something about, “We weren’t expecting a black kid.”

In all my descriptions of my friend, I never mentioned his race.

I feel like I remained colorblind until middle school. In high school I was exposed to N* for the first time. They enjoyed picking on the white kids. They were crass, rude, mean. I hated the bus ride, I hated school, and I hated everything to do with the N*s. But here’s the thing: I use that word today; I didn’t at the time. Those monsters destroyed my opinion of black people. It took years before I recovered.

I did recover. I was able to look beyond race and judge people by their actions. I didn’t see racism until I was at University and was introduced to the term “Oreo” by a friend. He was describing how N*s described him.

Even when I was living with Section 8 people, the people were people. The N*s dealing drugs across the street from me and my family? Not so much.

The other day, an evil monster with black skin was riding the light rail when he decided to murder a young white woman. He took a lockblade from his pocket. He opened it. He then prepared to leave the car at the next stop.

As the train stopped, he stood, took a step to his right, leaned forward, and stabbed Iryna 3 times, murdering her before walking off the train saying, “I got that white girl.”

I have been seeing videos claiming that Iryna deserved it, because she was white. There are images out there of this evil black monster with a crown on his head and red glowing eyes praising his actions.

And I’ve seen videos made by blacks calling the white people that refuse to sit in front of them “racist.”

I’m sick of it. I’m sick of being told that I’m evil and uncaring and attempting to silence people who are saying everything they think out loud and in public.

I’m not willing to make a fuss or call them on their hate-filled screeds. It isn’t worth it.

Charlie was willing. Charlie was very good at it.

He would debate anybody who came to talk with him. Ben Shapiro is good at winning debates. He isn’t nearly as good as Charlie was at bringing people to the right.

Ally watched more of Charlie than I ever did. I didn’t watch because I can’t stay that calm in the face of such idiocy.

Today we lost Charlie.

And I’m scared. There are people from the middle that are running from the far left loons as fast as they can. They aren’t conservatives, they are not right leaning, but they sure as hell aren’t with them.

I don’t know who shot Charlie. I’ll wait to find out. I am passing judgment on the reaction of the “left.” I’m passing judgment on the rhetoric of the left, of how they constantly use the language of violence against the right.

I don’t hate them; they are not worth my energy. They say they hate me.

What am I scared of? I’m scared the light switch has been flipped in far too many people.

The left treats violence as a dimmer switch; they turn it up until it starts to look like it might be too much, then they turn it down. They use it to keep things at a low boil without things boiling over.

Unfortunately, the response isn’t on a dimmer switch. It is on a toggle switch to 20,000 volts.

It is the people who are comfortable taking 300 yard shots with Grandpa’s old hunting rifle.  It is the people who walk into a place and understand egress planning as well as sight/shot lines. It is people that respond without thinking to threats as if they had been in dance class together.

These are the people who go silent while they make target lists. These are the people who will spend the time and effort to plan every part of their operation to the final degree.

And that target list is huge. It would include people who wouldn’t dream they would be on someone’s target list.  They are just a talking head on MSNBC or CNN or any of the other outlets that spew hate and lies. It includes all the low-level politicians who aren’t relevant enough to be on a target list.

There is a powerful scene in Unintended Consequences where two hunters are out deer hunting. They look across the river into the backyard of a politician. They decide that they want to become part of the resistance.  So they line up to take the shot, just as if it was a deer. It was an easy 250-yard shot.

They then just walked out of the woods, another pair of hunters.

How many opportunities will present themselves over the coming months to people who have had the switch flipped?

I pray for all of you to do the right thing. Stay strapped; keep your head on a swivel. Stay away from stupid people. Stay away from stupid places. And don’t be there at stupid times.

Charlie Kirk has died. I’m more than PISSED.

I am so angry right now.

Keep your head on a swivel. Stay strapped.

So everyone occasionally shares a rumor. Most of us catch onto a good one and speculate among ourselves, making sure everyone we talk to understands IT IS A RUMOR. Rumors are not truth, and I suspect that everyone on Vine of Liberty and most conservatives are quite aware of that fact. Liberals in general and Democrats in particular are less sure of this distinction.

Rumors I have heard this week on social media:

• Trump is dead.
• Trump is being defeated in the courts.
• Trump is giving massive tax cuts to the rich and forcing the poor to pay for everything.
• Able bodied people dumped off of food stamps and other gov’t funded charities will die.
• Republicans are racist, homophobic (and/or hate gay people), misogynistic, etc.
• JK Rawlings is a racist, homophobe, etc.
• Trans people are dying because of Trump’s rules and laws.
• Gay people are losing their rights.
• Trans people are losing their rights.
• People of any ancestry other than “white” are losing their rights.
• Women are losing their rights.
• We’re on track to be in an episode of The Handmaid’s Tale.

I could go on, but I know you’ve heard it all before, too. And I could sit here and refute most of the above without even having to look stuff up, but why bother? Even when I present factual, irrefutable proof that their rumors are actually untrue, they continue to believe.

Most of the rumors I hear are bullshit, and I treat them as such. I just skim onward, ignoring them. There’s simply no point in giving them any traction, and there’s no way to weed them out. They’re teflon, because people on the Left have such strong belief that it’s … well, unbelievable.

And then there’s the recent set of rumors (I refuse to call them facts, but I have no other word to use, so we’re going with “rumors”) that Pew has put out. I’m disappointed in them, by the by. I normally consider their stuff to be not too bad, but this really got me.

They did a survey of Americans, asking what their opinions were on the economy, and a variety of economic factors. Now, even red states have a low view of the current economy in certain areas, because we’re recovering from four years of Liberal spending and waste. That’s to be expected. But the headlines that came out of it was stuff like “Economic failure in sight!” and “Trump’s Economy Problem is Threatening his Entire Agenda.”

The Left is all excited that Trump is apparently disliked by most people. They miss that the polls only polled people who would answer a certain way. The outcome is one of opinion, not fact. Someone a few weeks ago was explaining (mansplaining) to me that the economy was shite, that everything was becoming so expensive that it wasn’t affordable to eat, businesses were failing, and the world was going to sink under massive debt. I looked over at the lowest gas prices I’ve seen in years, and the cost (expensive but affordable) of the sushi dinner I had with my partner last week, and how the price of my groceries has dipped by about a third since Trump came into office. I tried to explain that to the person, but was rebuffed. I don’t understand economics, they said. They’re correct that I’m not great with economics, but I know how to make a budget and I know I’m coming in UNDER budget for most things for the first time in years. So… I guess they don’t understand economics either.

Everything presented by the Left lately is based on opinion. Now the Right does that sometimes too, but most of the time the Right manages to rightly label something as opinion. They don’t put opinion out as if it’s fact. They don’t say the economy is bad because people think it’s bad. That is literally what’s happening right now on the Left. They can’t point to facts to show how bad things are going, so they’re polling people who are “proving septum ring theory” and presenting it as fact. By that, I mean that they’re proving that septum ring theory is correct.

I’m tired, folks. I’m worried about a lot of things. I’m worried about vaccines (because I know most vaccines work and I don’t want to see the baby thrown out with the bath water). I’m worried about the economy (because if Vance doesn’t get in for 2028, the economy is going to circle the drain). I’m worried about books in schools (while I don’t see anyone banning any books, I do wish some books were more readily available in schools and I worry that the Karens of the world will spoil school libraries for everyone). I’m worried about the posting of Christian-only religious materials in public schools (because I’ve long held the opinion that either it’s “everyone gets to” or “NO ONE gets to”). I’m worried about the next generation being able to manage the world (because other than the few successful kids I personally know, all I see out there are slackers who think that working more than 7 hours in a day is some kind of abuse, and they’re damn vocal about it). I’m worried that the ideal of personal success is gone. I’m tired, and I’m worried. The rumors don’t help; they make it worse.

I read Reddit because there are some useful groups within. Mostly technical. Unfortunately, like most social media, the woke left has taken over large swaths of the site. I recommend CourtListener.com to anybody who is interested in following court cases. I’m acquainted with the leader of the Free Law Project, who runs CourtListener.

In other words, I’ve had multiple personal conversations with him. Even going so far as to talk about Second Amendment issues. He is a “good” person, but he is driven by feelings of conservative evil. They dropped their X account because of Elon’s “Nazi salute” and only use BlueSky for social media announcements.

That is the sort of thing that drives many Reddit groups. A level of TDS and hatred of all that is not lockstep leftist talking points.

When I heard about the Claremont school district (SAU-6) having a budget shortfall of over $5 million, I read some articles. Every article rapidly descended into hate for Republicans, Trump, and anybody to the right of Marx.

These postings were in the New Hampshire sub-reddit. Since I read one article, the algorithm gave me more. Which led the algorithm to recommend r/messachusetts. Which was pure leftist drivel and a constant stream of hate.

The article that led me here was a picture of a new ICE vehicle. Since it was new, there was hate about that. They hated on the fact that the car wasn’t a beater. They hated on the paint job. They hated on money being spent on ICE and not burnt at the stake of “ending homelessness,” “universal healthcare,” “low cost healthcare,” and anything else they could think about—free housing, free transportation, free everything.

About every 10th comment was, “Did you report it to LUCE?”

From context, I knew LUCE had to be a group actively involved with protecting criminals.

And of course they are. “Think you see I.C.E. in your area? Call: 617-xxx-xxxx”. They have operators ready to take calls and texts in English, Spanish, Portuguese, French, Haitian, Creole, Mandarin, “and more to be added!”

Their entire media presence is built around conflating immigrants with criminal aliens. They talk about the evil of Trump and his plans. Of attempting to install fear in the “immigrant” community.

They are absolutely tone-deaf to what we on the right are thinking about dealing with.

Here we see a criminal animal sitting behind an immigrant. The immigrant had a job, was well-liked in the community, and was on her way home from work. She was killed by the criminal animal who had been released multiple times for multiple felonies.

She is an immigrant that we, on the right, support. She seems to have done everything correctly to enter and stay in the United States.

I will say that I had originally written that the animal that murdered Iryna Zarutska was a criminal alien; it turns out that he is just an American born animal.

As I get older, I find the songs I once sang along to have a different meaning and a different feel.

Is he really singing about his nanny sexually abusing him “before he left his nursery?”

Note from Allyson: We were calling this The Daily Dump, but due to r/l things, JLR doesn’t have the ability to write every day. So we’ll take ’em as we get ’em, because they’re good! Enjoy. 🙂

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Just things that me go No S*it shirlock or OMFGs

Liberals are still pushing an insane Trump conspiracy theory from before the election by Carlos Garcia, 02 Sep 2025
https://www.theblaze.com/news/liberal-conspiracy-theory-trump-election
(do I hear the echo of ” RUSSIA, RUSSIA, RUSSIA? – jlr)

pathological identity as political praxis – selecting the worst as an emergent property of cowardice – by el gato malo, 02Sep2025
https://boriquagato.substack.com/p/pathological-identity-as-political

Liberal Women and the Destruction of American Civilization By Steve McCann, 02Sep2025
https://www.americanthinker.com/articles/2025/09/liberal_women_and_the_destruction_of_american_civilization.html
There is a direct correlation between the accelerated decline of American civilization over the past forty years and the rise of the outsized influence of unenlightened and supercilious liberal women.

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If ‘words are violence,’ why won’t the left own theirs? – by Gates Garcia, 02sep2025
https://www.theblaze.com/columns/opinion/if-words-are-violence-why-wont-the-left-own-theirs
When a shooter scrawled ‘Kill Trump’ and fired on a Catholic church, the left didn’t blame extremist political rhetoric — they blamed the rifle. Then they moved on.

Federal Judge Finds Trump Admin’s L.A. National Guard Deployment Violated Posse Comitatus Act
https://redstate.com/smoosieq/2025/09/02/breaking-federal-judge-finds-trump-admins-la-national-guard-deployment-violated-posse-comitatus-act-n2193483
In a 52-page decision, Northern District of California District Court Judge Charles Breyer has rendered his judgment in the case involving the Trump administration’s deployment of the National Guard to Los Angeles in June and found that the administration violated the Posse Comitatus Act.

Illinois Discouraging Its Residents From Getting Real ID? You Already Know the Answer.- by Matt Vespa, September 04, 2025
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/09/04/is-illinois-discouraging-residents-from-getting-real-id-to-protect-illegals-in-chicago-n2662748

The Number of Mass Shooters Identifying as Transgender Since 2020 Is Quite Alarming  -by Matt Vespa, September 03, 2025
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/mattvespa/2025/09/03/the-number-of-mass-shooters-since-2020-identifying-as-transgender-is-quite-alarming-n2662673

Lefties Again Prove There’s NOBODY They Won’t Defend If It Means Being Opposed to Trump – by Doug P., September 03, 2025
https://twitchy.com/dougp/2025/09/03/lefties-again-prove-theres-nobody-they-wont-defend-if-it-means-being-opposed-to-trump-n2418356

British Court: Migrants Officially Supplant Natives in ‘Hierarchy of Rights’ – by Benjamin Bartee,05 Sep 2025
https://armageddonprose.substack.com/p/british-court-migrants-officially
… so-called “asylum seekers” (read: economic migrants) do enjoy superior rights to British people in Britain because… something, something “non-derogable fundamental human rights” as defined by the European Convention on Human Rights.(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Derogability)

Britain’s Descent Towards Civil War is No Accident – by Michael Rainsborough,03 September 2025
https://dailysceptic.org/2025/09/03/britains-descent-towards-civil-war-is-no-accident/

Federal judges criticize Supreme Court for overturning rulings and siding with Trump – By Victor Nava,04 Sep, 2025
https://nypost.com/2025/09/04/us-news/federal-judges-criticize-supreme-court-for-overturning-rulings-and-siding-with-trump/

“Avoid crowds – Get Out of the Cities. – NOW.  A year too soon is better than a day too late” – John Wilder @  https://wilderwealthywise.com/
“God created all men, but Samuel Colt made them equal.” – Unknown
“A Smith & Wesson does more for empowering women than Feminism ever could” – Greg Gutfeld 29 Jul 2017
Don’t Do: stupid sh*t, with stupid people, in stupid places, at stupid times. – paraphrasing John Farnam, firearms instructor
“An armed society is a polite society” – Manners are good when one may have to back up his acts with his life.” ― Robert A. Heinlein
“People sleep peaceably in their bed at night only because rough men stand ready to do violence on their behalf.” – Eric Arthur Blair (AKA – George Orwell)
“If your plan is to come to my house when things get bad, you need a better plan”- like being invited, having a useful skill, bringing food, or ammunition – jlr76380
“On a long enough timeline, the survival rate for everyone drops to zero” – https://www.zerohedge.com/

When I was younger and still living at home, my father would take me out once in a while for dinner. Mom didn’t really cook, and we often had take-out, but dad and I had a special bond at that time. We always went for something mom didn’t like. Something garlicky, or with big sausages, or meat that wasn’t “standard” (ie mom ate beef, chicken, pork, and turkey, and not much else). There was a Greek place he’d take me to once in a long while, and there, I learned to love souvlaki. It’s easy to make, delicious, and relatively healthy (depending on how you make it).

Ingredients for lamb souvlaki:

• 1.5 to 2 lbs lamb shoulder, boneless, cubed
• 1 medium red onion, cut in half circles
• olive oil (for drizzling)
• juice of one lemon
• souvlaki seasoning: oregano, thyme, and rosemary, garlic, paprika, cumin
• salt and pepper to taste

Your lamb should be boneless, though technically you could rub a whole shoulder with the bone in and cook it that way. Trust me and get boneless butterflied leg of lamb. It’s expensive, and entirely worth it. Aldi has it for a reasonable amount. Your cubes should be about an inch across, and all close to the same size so they cook right.

You can buy Aldi brand or other brand souvlaki seasoning, and just sub it in for the dried herbs mentioned above. You want to be heavy handed, which is why I didn’t put amounts in. For 1.5 lbs of lamb, I use about a quarter cup of spice, and I mix all of the souvlaki seasonings mentioned above “about equally.” Salt and pepper I add at the end, and I tend to go lighter (the mixes may have salt and pepper in them, so check before adding those). You want to dump the seasoning on the cubed lamb and slivered half circles of red onion, add in a drizzle of the olive oil and the lemon juice, then get in with both hands and squish it around. Coat everything fairly evenly, but not so thickly that it’s like sawdust. Cover with plastic wrap and stick your meat in the fridge for a minimum of 1 hour, and a maximum of 8.

Make yourself some tzatziki while the meat is marinating.

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The battle is real, at least in my head.

My physical network is almost fully configured. Each data closet will have an 8-port fiber switch and a 2+4 port RJ45 switch. There is a fiber from the 8-port to router1 and another fiber from the 2+4 to router2. Router1 is cross connected to Router2.

This provides limited redundancy, but I have the ports in the right places to make seamless upgrades. I have one more 8-port switch to install and one more 2+4 switch to install, and all the switches will be installed.

This leaves redundancy. I will be running armored OM4 cables via separate routes from the current cables. Each data closet switch will be connected to 3 other switches. Router1 and two other data closets. When this is completed, it will mean that I will have a ring for the closets reaching back to a star node in the center.

The switches will still be a point of failure, but those are easy replacements.

If a link goes down, either by losing the fiber or the ports or the transceivers, OSPF will automatically route traffic around the down link. The next upgrade will be to put a second switch in each closet and connect the second port up on each NIC to that second switch.

The two switches will be cross-connected but will feed one direction of the star. Once this is completed, losing a switch will just cause a routing reconfiguration, and packets will keep on moving.

A side effect of this will be that there will be more bandwidth between closets. Currently, all nodes can dump at 10 gigabits to the location switch. The switch has a 160-gigabit backbone, so if the traffic stays in the closet, there is no bottleneck. If the traffic is sent to a different data closet, there is a 10-gigabit bottleneck.

Once the ring is in place, We will have a total of 30 gigabits leaving each closet.  This might make a huge difference.

That is the simple stuff.

The simpler stuff for me, is getting my OVN network to network correctly.

The gist, I create a logical switch and connect my VMs to it. Each VM creates an interface on the OVS internal bridge. All good. I then create a logical router. This router is attached to the logical switch. From the VM I can ping the VM, the router interface.

I then create another logical switch with a localnet port. We add the router to this switch as well. This gives the router two ports with different IP addresses.

From the VM I can ping the VM’s IP, the router’s IP on the VM network, and the router’s IP on the localnet.

What I can’t do is get the ovn-controller to create the patch in the OVS to move traffic from the localnet port to the physical netwrok.

I don’t understand why, and it is upsetting me.

Time to start the OVN network configuration process over again.