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So I found a clinic I can walk into without an appointment and wait in line for an unspecified time for a cholera vaccine, this very afternoon.

All the google reviews for this hospital say it's better to die at home with dignity than go here under any circumstances, but the lady on the phone was nice.

Worst of all I can't eat for 3 hours before the vaccine and an hour after, so obviously now all I can think about is the really great seitan salad baguette in my bag that I didn't finish at breakfast and will not get to eat for at least a few hours from now ;_;

Wish me luck in these trying times.

🏷 poland travel life health

Tue 9th of April at 1:52pm (+02:00)

Places.. coworking spaces, restaurants, hostels.. that play music in the toilet.. give it a break. Don't you know people need to go hide out there to get away from overstimulating environments? Why you gotta take away one place for peace and quiet, for empty undisturbed space to think for two fucking minutes?

🏷 life

Mon 8th of April at 6:20pm (+02:00)

Week in review: 1 - 7 April

• Ate and cafe worked around Krakow.
• Visited the museum at Auschwitz.
• Remotely attended a ODS Co-op OGM.
• Bussed to Warsaw to see friends.
• Ate and touristed around Warsaw. Visited for the second time the Warsaw Rising Museum, and the Palace of Culture and Science.
• Made plans for the rest of April, and half of May. Surprising plans. But leaving space for this to take shape explains why I was blocked on figuring out what to do after Warsaw for so long.

🏷 poland life travel tourism

Sun 7th of April at 7:09pm (+02:00)

I consider air travel only for emergencies and I generally have my own travel agenda, but what's the point of having me as your attachment-free digital nomad friend if I'm not going to drop everything and fly half way around the world to see you sometimes?

🏷 digital nomad life travel

Fri 5th of April at 10:46am (+02:00)

Week in review: 25 - 31 March

• Hung out in Budapest. Ate lots.
• Bussed to Krakow.
• Finished Expanse S3.
• Chilled and ate and wandered and cafe worked with Felicity and Maelle.
• Feeling kind of behind on everything.
• I love being back in Poland though.

🏷 poland life week in review travel budapest

Sun 31st of March at 11:59pm (+02:00)

(B)log update: I am having some adventures. Regular service will resume eventually.

🏷 travel life

Sun 17th of March at 1:03pm (+01:00)

Week in review: 18 - 24 Feb

• Jane and Felicity left. Went to Kerimeikos ancient cemetery.
• Walked up Lycabetos Hill.
• Got back to work on BODS internationalisation stuff.
• Wandered along the beach in Glyfada.
• Met cool people from the internet in Athens. Ate pizza. Went to a party in the hackerspace/squat. It was chill.
• Took a bus to Patras, and a ferry awaaayy..

🏷 life ferry tourism greece travel week in review

Sun 24th of February at 11:59pm (+02:00)

Welcome to Athens

As soon as I got off the ferry I was hit with chaos. Thousands of people, in the port, in the streets, spilling out of coffeeshops, flowing through the metro station. I queued up for a ticket and people are bustling, pacing, impatient. I bought a 2-trip ticket because I couldn't see 1-trip right away and the press of the line behind me was too much to linger. I took the metro and the rattle of every day life was like a slap in the face. Back to reality.

I walked out of the metro along a road and the stench filled my head. The traffic roared, the city was screaming at me.

I hate cities.

I was after 10pm, I had no food in. I walked 15 minutes to a vegan cafe, ate spanakopita and hot chocolate, late night on a Sunday. I was welcomed by smiling, warm staff.

I walked past bars, alive, filled with happy people and art and hipster decoration. The streets were lit, I felt safe. I was too tired to get groceries, but I could've.

I love cities.

Already I feel like the last two months of island life were just a dream. I miss the sea.

🏷 life athens travel

Mon 11th of February at 12:30am (+02:00)

how many greek people does it take to restart a router

In this particular story: 4. One to lock us out of the house with the router in, one with a key to the house but no English, or transport to get to the house, one to call and speak Greek the one with the key for me, and another to drive the one with the key to the house.

🏷 travel life

Wed 6th of February at 4:27pm (+02:00)

Hearing the ferry horns and knowing the time #islandlife

🏷 life travel

Mon 4th of February at 11:18am (+02:00)

Current status: Willow Smith is the most beautiful human being in the world and nothing else matters.

🏷 current status life music

Fri 1st of February at 6:18pm (+02:00)

Week in review: 21 - 27 Jan

• Finished The Disposessed, started Left Hand of Darkness.
• Enjoyed some lightning storms.
• Stayed in bed a lot. Finished Travelers, and some movies.
• Did some editorial work on the Verifiable Credentials and Decentralised Identifiers specs.
• Changed my end-of-Feb-March plans.
• Submitted a paper to Rebooting the Web of Trust 8.
• Started on internationalising the BODS documentation.

🏷 w3c digital bazaar ods work life week in review Rebooting the Web of Trust #8 standards decentralised ids verifiable credentials

Sun 27th of January at 11:20pm (+02:00)

I had a pretty good day.



🏷 life

Sat 26th of January at 7:35pm (+02:00)

Studio apartments are soooo good for the lazy. I love when I can reach the kitchen from bed.

🏷 life

Sat 26th of January at 11:28am (+02:00)

Greece is having some weather right now. Last night lightning fried the router, and it got replaced this morning just in time for the next storm.



And now I can enjoy it virtually and IRL thanks to lightning maps, introduced by @idlemoor.

🏷 weather travel life

Fri 25th of January at 2:44pm (+02:00)

I can't believe I'm only now* discovering Ursula K Le Guin.

One of my best friends in high school was always trying to get me to read The Wizard of Earthsea, but I never did. I think I borrowed it, but never finished it. Well, better I take that advice 15 years late that never.

I wonder if I'd be a different person now if I had, though.

* Update: figured it out. After high school I went straight into 8 years of university during which I read almost nothing that wasn't pertaining to my studies. Damn you, education. Making up for lost time now.

🏷 reading life

Mon 21st of January at 7:26pm (+02:00)

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