Home from Prague!
This past week, for the first time in some six years, I flew out to Europe to meet with folks from the company I work for. As the company is significantly larger, it wasn’t a company-wide thing, only the technology department, and the scope was smaller too - we were there for two days and three nights, and this time it was in Prague, Czechia, instead of Budapest, Hungary.
I was supposed to go a couple years ago, but managed to miss my flight, so this time around there would be no such silliness. First, I switched flights out, opting for one leaving at night instead of the middle of the day. I double-checked my ticket, and then added two and a half hours to that, arriving at around 5pm for a 10pm departure. I bought Mum and Dad dinner for driving me down, and then once I was checked in they left.
This time I flew through Dubai instead of Doha, which was a relief given the bullshit that just happened there, though I still dislike any of these regimes, I don’t buy the ticket so I don’t get to refuse - the only other option involved a five-legged flight with six legs on the trip home, going via Singapore and London, which no thank you, I would rather stay home.
The event itself was pretty good, lots of talking to other teams, putting faces to people I’d only seen on video calls, and one team building exercise that I theorize was basically a bunch of college history nerds’ side-hustle involving a scavenger hunt around the city. My team cheated, we partially solved the puzzle, cracked the padlock (which I very nearly did by feel at first, but the first two digits were both off-by-one, but we ended up solving enough of the puzzle to get the first two digits then I brute forced the rest) and then we used math to resolve the rest of the puzzle, finishing physically second, but after skipping all the bonus stuff we finished 5th of 6 overall. Oh well, for a team that decided early on we would not be competitive, we did fairly well.
I bought some candy and other knick-knacks from both Prague and Dubai airport, and made it home safe after nearly a week of traveling (I flew in at around 10pm on Friday night, so Sabriena booked a motel room at the airport and Mum and Dad picked me up on Saturday morning). I’m utterly exhausted, and naturally appear to have caught the sniffles on the plane.
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