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Day 8
Whew – I’m caught up! These will probably drop off from daily after the first week of work is done … We’ll see. Today was pretty basic work. I went into the office again. It’s dead there, so it’s easy to get and camp out in a conference room. IKEA calls all office buildings “meeting…
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Day 7
So, wow, day 2 at work went by fast! Clearly, because I didn’t post Day 7 on Day 7 … What did I get done today …? I got a Swedish phone number from work (and I’m just fine letting them pay for it). I switched my US number to the T-Mobile Digits “virtual” app.…
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Day 6 – First Day At Work!
So, I went into the office today, got my badge and orientation video, and then sat in a conference room on the phone with all my colleagues who were working remote. ¯\_(ツ)_/¯ Of course, all badge photos are bad … I think fully 2/3 of my colleagues were either sick, or had sick kids. Not…
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Day 5
Sunday (Söndag) means “laundry day” to me. So, after a little sleeping in and loafing with coffee (and the “Honey Cheerios” noted below), I gathered up my dirty clothes and marched downstairs to the laundry in the hotel to begin the next step in my naturalization. Of course, there’s some interesting twists on mundane things.…
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Surprisingly hard adjustment …
As I mentioned earlier, I have my work computer in hand and have been working a little bit on it. Which. Is. Killing. Me. And I want to tell you all why. Full disclosure – there’s a lot of whining ahead. My work computer came with a Swedish keyboard. Even though all the work is…
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Even if it looks similar …
So, this box of cereal looks like ”Honey Nut Cheerios”. But, looking carefully (after having put the first spoonful in my mouth) reveals that it’s “Honey Cheerios”, which do NOT taste like “Honey Nut Cheerios”, and have a much stronger honey flavor than the HNC that I’m used to. Not bad, but def made for…
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Day 4 (Saturday, March 14)
Happy Pi Day! (it’s “3.14” for those who order their dates that way). Slept in a bunch this morning. I think that staying up to match some times in the US is skewing my internal clock too far. After I finally got out the door a little before 10, I decided to do a full…
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Book Club Fun
My friend’s suggestion for book club tonight. We’ll have to read Love in the Time of Cholera and drink our Quarantinis!
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Day 3.5
I’m still really unclear on bikes here … Also, totally un-related, there’s a really interesting quote in this Kottke article. He says “America is a rich country that feels like a poor country”, based on the way individual wealth is valued over everything else. A few days living in a different part of the world…
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Day 3
Actually opened a Swedish bank account today! And put some money in it! Woohoo! Now I have someplace to deposit my paycheck in Kronor! So, about this COVID-19 thing. I came a long ways to start a job, only to have the world shut down on what was supposed to be my first week in…
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