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Day 30
Wow. I’ve been here a month. It seems like it should feel like a long time, but it actually has zoomed by. I got my actual Swedish ID card today, which is basically my ticket to social services across the EU. On the way home, I stopped by the bank and got set up for…
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Day 26
Wait. Really? 26 days? Wow. When you start actually working, and get pulled into work in a big way, and you realize that you just closed out week 3 on the job, time flies. So, Lördag. You already saw the bit about the farmer’s flea market. On Friday, I went in to the office (which…
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Saturday Morning
I have noticed in my Saturday morning rambles that Mårtenstorget has a small combo farmers market and flea market on Saturday morning. Lots of white vans flanking a mix of food, stuffed toys, novelty hats, and used books. I wonder how old this market square tradition is? And, I look at the pic, it IS…
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Funny little language quirk
The package simply says “american lobster”.
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Day 18
So, yeah, kind of gap there. Ended my second week of work with sharing my plan for next steps with the job. It is very weird to start a job in the midst of a global pandemic, and the remote-working-ness of everybody makes it hard to get traction fast. But, it’s worth noting that when…
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Day 14 – Tisdag
So, yeah, I forgot to blog yesterday. The problem with remote working is that you work a lot more. Day 14, of course, means that I’ve been in country for 2 weeks. This is Day 7 of working, however. Tomorrow is payday. I get paid once a month, around the 25th, so that there’s time…
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Day 12 – Söndag
Sunday is laundry day. After laundry I went for a walk. It’s clear and nice again. Kind of chilly, but a small trade-off for no rain. I snooped around the neighborhoods of houses that I’m interested in renting (house 1 and house 2). Pretty nice. I also did some grocery shopping at a different store.…
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Day 11 – Lördag
Nice clear, sunny Saturday today. So I decided to take a little trip out to Lomma. Lomma is a little seaside town about 10 km (6 miles) from Lund. I was going to bike it, and then decided I was lazy, so I took the bus. But first I had to get to the bus…
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Day 10 – Fredag Yo!
Friday! In case that wasn’t clear from the title. Still lots of meetings, which are typically back-to-back. Which I’m used to because that’s how UHG is. But, at IKEA, there was a lot of “guys – take care of yourselves, make the time to breath and walk around outside”. This literally coming from the CEO.…
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Day 9
It’s Thursday. Not really much to say except that it was gloriously sunny and (relatively) warm. Work day. I will be basically thru all my critical “intros” by the end of next week. And in a week or so after that, the hammer will come down. I missed my train for the commute home by…
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