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Not back yet. (Not king yet!)

Getting online briefly while waiting to leave for the airport.

Tired. Very, very tired. Not terribly unlike going to a con, actually. I think I got more sleep than _that_ though - if nothing else but because I was trying to _not_ die of the cold I've had for a week and a half. Which I may have managed to not infect the rest of the company with.

Fun. Actually, kinda surprisingly so. Overly scheduled, but I kinda expected that. Not enough time for engineers to get together with their groups intentionally, and vaguely difficult to _find_ people in a crowd of over 600 people.

I think more people intro'd themselves to me based on my nametag than I did to them. Useful things, name tags. And sorta useful the fact that I have to talk to _so_ many people as part of my job, through email (more people to have reason to meet me).

Got to hang out with one of our sysadmins, which was fun. I really miss having sysadmins _in_ my office, though! Sysadmins make me happy, just about on sheer principle. Yes, I know, I'm strange. Y'all should know this by now!

Did not pick up any accent, since there were just too many of them floating about. I've said "y'all" since spending a week in Alabama for Space Acadamy over 20 years ago - and I _did_ pick up that accent. To the chagrin of my younger brother at the time.

Apparently I look sufficiently German that one of our German co-workers introduced herself to me in German. Which I understood, but because it was midnight the first night here, my brain _refused_ to cooperate well enough to figure out what to say _back_ (I don't speak German). She finally asked, in English, if I spoke English or German. That, my brain was kind enough to let me answer! (English, but I understood her, though I did not catch her name)

I have an awful lot of names and faces that I don't remember, but the name tags (and therefore _seeing_ people's names) helped greatly. Which reminds me of the person at a random party I went to almost a year ago who, upon learning that I need to see names, wrote hers in the dirt. I remembered it then, but no longer. *amused*

'K. Must go find my bags and head to the airport. And maybe nap on the flight!

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Not back yet. (Not king yet!)

Getting online briefly while waiting to leave for the airport.

Tired. Very, very tired. Not terribly unlike going to a con, actually. I think I got more sleep than _that_ though - if nothing else but because I was trying to _not_ die of the cold I've had for a week and a half. Which I may have managed to not infect the rest of the company with.

Fun. Actually, kinda surprisingly so. Overly scheduled, but I kinda expected that. Not enough time for engineers to get together with their groups intentionally, and vaguely difficult to _find_ people in a crowd of over 600 people.

I think more people intro'd themselves to me based on my nametag than I did to them. Useful things, name tags. And sorta useful the fact that I have to talk to _so_ many people as part of my job, through email (more people to have reason to meet me).

Got to hang out with one of our sysadmins, which was fun. I really miss having sysadmins _in_ my office, though! Sysadmins make me happy, just about on sheer principle. Yes, I know, I'm strange. Y'all should know this by now!

Did not pick up any accent, since there were just too many of them floating about. I've said "y'all" since spending a week in Alabama for Space Acadamy over 20 years ago - and I _did_ pick up that accent. To the chagrin of my younger brother at the time.

Apparently I look sufficiently German that one of our German co-workers introduced herself to me in German. Which I understood, but because it was midnight the first night here, my brain _refused_ to cooperate well enough to figure out what to say _back_ (I don't speak German). She finally asked, in English, if I spoke English or German. That, my brain was kind enough to let me answer! (English, but I understood her, though I did not catch her name)

I have an awful lot of names and faces that I don't remember, but the name tags (and therefore _seeing_ people's names) helped greatly. Which reminds me of the person at a random party I went to almost a year ago who, upon learning that I need to see names, wrote hers in the dirt. I remembered it then, but no longer. *amused*

'K. Must go find my bags and head to the airport. And maybe nap on the flight!

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I'm home. I live. I must go pass out after a few things of randomness:

-I have been granted the title of honorary foreigner, because I am such a terrible typical USian. I have great glee. And I wanna be an alien!
-I think I disturbed (as well as entertained) the co-worker from the UK who was sitting next to me on the plane to Logan. Me tired and bored and not able to sleep, _bad_. I successfully managed to only play with innocuous parts of the plane. And sorta napped. And played with the snack they gave us, because it was in interesting shapes, and I am really bad at eating when exhausted.
-I must remember to pay one of my bills before vanishing for the weekend!
-I have no idea how I'm going to manage to schedule time to visit the visiting anklesnake and tacit with my brain in this state, and only having tomorrow night and Thursday night available.
-I visit shadesong Saturday!

OK. I go die now. After I take yet more anti-evil-cold pills.

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I'm home. I live. I must go pass out after a few things of randomness:

-I have been granted the title of honorary foreigner, because I am such a terrible typical USian. I have great glee. And I wanna be an alien!
-I think I disturbed (as well as entertained) the co-worker from the UK who was sitting next to me on the plane to Logan. Me tired and bored and not able to sleep, _bad_. I successfully managed to only play with innocuous parts of the plane. And sorta napped. And played with the snack they gave us, because it was in interesting shapes, and I am really bad at eating when exhausted.
-I must remember to pay one of my bills before vanishing for the weekend!
-I have no idea how I'm going to manage to schedule time to visit the visiting anklesnake and tacit with my brain in this state, and only having tomorrow night and Thursday night available.
-I visit shadesong Saturday!

OK. I go die now. After I take yet more anti-evil-cold pills.