So today the sun is shining, there are no clouds and you can actually walk outside without a coat. It's about time! ;-) So now I can finally see why this city is called Mountain View. Those gray spots in the far distance you see most of the time, they're actually mountains! ;-) Now that the clouds are gone and the sky is clear, I can finally see and recognize them.
Today we'll travel around a bit, most likely to San José. So maybe I can finally go to Fry's and spend that pile of money they all told about. And back home I can then worry about how I can ever take it all back home. :-D
Work is going well, I finally started to do some useful things. Couldn't do too much so far because I didn't know how and didn't have the privileges to do them. Slowly I'll be able to do more and more though, and I'm glad. It makes going to work more interesting and it makes me feel more useful.
This post says it's 4:00. Well, in Ireland it is, but here it's 20:00. Certainly not a time to go to bed. :-) Arrived here yesterday, got through the customs reasonably quickly (even with a family of retards in front of me who, even though we were told to do so in the airplane already at least three times, were filling in their immigration forms on the spot...). Found the hotel (well, it's not the usual kind of hotel, the rooms are all in little 4-apt houses), saw some colleagues around here already. Went outside for dinner a short while ago and found a supermarket where I could buy some stuff for in the evenings.
Weather isn't that great right now. You can see it on the right (please ignore the error message, I don't know where it comes from exactly and might fix it later). The sun shines from time to time, but there's also rain, and more rain than I ever saw in Dublin so far. :-)
I think I don't have a very strong jetlag this time, fortunately. Although I am getting a bit sleepy already... So who knows what will happen.
Tomorrow it's time for work again, but this time in the headquarters. Will be cool, I hope. :-) Oh yes, I also found
my current home on Google maps. It's in the group of four houses somewhere in the middle (the group further away from the big street). It's probably something like 2-4 kilometers away from
the Googleplex. Fortunately there are shuttle buses from here to there. :-)
In about six hours a taxi will pick me up here and take me to the airport. In these six hours I have to finish packing my bags and catch a little bit of sleep. At last, I'll get to know this thing called jetlag. Here it's nine o'clock now, in Mountain View it's one in the afternoon. Quite a difference for sure.
My flight leaves at six in the morning, will have a 2.5 hour stop in Amsterdam and meet some family there, that's very nice. :-D Around noon (Dutch time) I'll continue my trip, a direct flight AMS->SFO, takes about ten hours. And hopefully not too boring...
Got everything sorted out, I hope. Printed some instructions, including phone numbers to call in case of panic and/or emergency. Will stay in a hotel for two weeks before I can get into my apartment there (there are more visiting employees than apartments ;-)).
Anyway, time to put everything that isn't in a bag already, into a bag. And hope that it'll fit.