I finally connected to the internet in iran via a proxy today and I am now one of the 12% of connected people I didn't have internet for the past 2 weeks and it was pretty shit and boring
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Last week was crazy lol
I had a great weekend in Berlin but that's not the story. I won the "fail for it again" award... supposed to book two Deutsche Bahn ICE (Germany's high speed rail) connections with a 25-min transfer back home. The first train was delayed for 30 minutes on departure, and a whopping 87 minutes on arrival... no more train connections by the time I arrived at the middle stop. There were like 20 of us stranded there so DB ended up hiring taxis to carry all of us back
Something similar happened just two weeks ago, somehow also involving Germany but with Flix. Apparently there are lots of people doing illegal crossings between Salzburg-Munich, so the bus was stopped for a passport check, and someone on the bus had an issue that delayed the bus for 45 minutes... just in time for me to miss the connection by 2-5 minutes. I'm still waiting for one of the reimbursement checks from Flix for that
Also I think the flu season might have hit me. Not sick enough to call off from work but annoying enough that I couldn't do much else outside of work... Just hoping to get better quickly
My week was better than the week before. Grateful.
Could've been better, today is the first day in a while that it's not been pissing it down today.
I didn't really get anything done. After coming back from a trip I just scrolled in bed for a few days. Occasionally doing the dishes