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4 comments

  1. I’m not sure if this should be a separate thread on its own. I’m wondering how Europeans working for an American company are doing. I can imagine things might have more complicated lately. 

  2. For some reason, I just started to crave [herring cooked over coals in one of these thingamabobs](https://www.domnik.net/photos/pic/000/big/059.jpg). My grandfather used to make them when I visited him as a kid.

    Think I’ll have to find some herring and go for it. There’s a place for barbequing nearby and I’ve got a “halsteri” = gridiron (?) already. The availability of herring is not something you can take for granted in every supermarket.

  3. I have a bit of a longer train ride ahead today, and the whole wagon is full of chatty teens (I guess they’re going on a school trip). The good thing is, I have a bit of a superpower. In addition to going through more isopropanol at home than anyone else that I know, I am pretty immune to noise. The hell can be breaking loose and I can concentrate and work/read/sleep and I don’t even hear it. Once we had a construction in our building at work and I didn’t even notice in (unless people complained, which was a lot. I guess growing up in a noisy country and spending a couple of years in university dorms helped.

    Let’s see if I can get some busy work done. It’s quite cosy, actually.

  4. I live in Geneva and recent current events (mainly Trump) have a big part of the city’s population on edge as thousands of jobs are being cut/terminated. There was an article last week that said that over 40,000 families could be affected which would have huge ramifications to the local economy. Though the impact on a global scale is even more pronounced.

    Oddly, there are a lot of people that think all these International Organizations are useless and welcome the cuts.

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