I did a grep -v and got rid of the junk for now. Here is this piece in the log
Jan 11 12:26:02 OpenVPN openvpn[698]: user/1.1.1.1:1194 PUSH: Received control message: 'PUSH_REQUEST'
Jan 11 12:26:02 OpenVPN openvpn[698]: user/1.1.1.1:1194 SENT CONTROL [user]: 'PUSH_REPLY,dhcp-option DNS 192.168.0.1,dhcp-option DOMAIN local,route 192.168.0.0 255.255.254.0,route-gateway 10.10.0.1,topology subnet,ping 10,ping-restart 120,ifconfig 10.10.0.5 255.255.255.0,peer-id 3,cipher AES-256-GCM' (status=1)
looks like it is not even attempting to push the new 10.0.0.0/8 route