Consultant? Me?

I'm traveling to Minneapolis to put together a consulting proposal with a company there. Not sure how this is going to work out. Read more

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June 23, 2024
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Coming back in from the cold
June 23, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
It's 2.5 months since I left my job. I didn't really search for this possibility, an amazing friend set it up. So we'll see how it goes. Feels strange to be traveling again.

Trystan brought me to the airport, and it's his birthday today. What a hero.

Thanks, Tryst!Read more
TravelerTrystan such a great person! Happy birthday to your son and you too! Hope you'll find your passion in consulting, or maybe somewhere else.
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Bad karma
June 23, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 66 °F
Crap. A 2.5 hour delay already. My love for SFO (sarcasm) is renewed. Truly my favorite airport (more sarcasm). Off to find some overpriced snack 😁
TravelerUS internal flights. Always delayed...
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Things to do when you're stuck in SFO
June 23, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 68 °F
Only 2 more hours to go
Traveler10k steps though! Kudos
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Flight UA 2262, Seat 21A
June 23, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌙 57 °F
Finally boarded. Expecting to land at 3am now.
TravelerSafe travels, Mark
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TravelerLanded at 3am
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Life is short. Stay awake for it!
June 24, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 79 °F
One more off my coffee bucket list. Minnesota's Caribou Coffee. For some reason it exists only in Minnesota and across the Middle East, in countries like Turkey.
TravelerInteresting, I should find it in Turkey next time
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Lunch spot, before visiting the client
June 24, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 82 °F
One of the many, many Minnesota lakes.
TravelerBeautiful place to relax a bit
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The world's biggest shopping mall
June 24, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
The Mall of America, it's definitely huge. Lots of air conditioned space to get my 10k steps tonight.
TravelerI’ve always wanted to visit there, just to say I did! Della wants you to buy her something tasty.
6/24/24Reply
TravelerHonestly, me too. Well that and that it wasn't far from the hotel. Della has shown a remarkable lack of enthusiasm for foreign foods. I think wants to avoid Delly Belly.
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Traveler Ooh, scary!
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TravelerA lot of screaming above as I walked through the shops
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Dinner at (Mark) Walburger
June 24, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ⛅ 82 °F
Well, why not?
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Red Skies at IKEA
June 24, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
Remarkable sky
TravelerIKEA. Oh, one day they might come back to Russia 🤷‍♀️ the sky is beautiful
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TravelerThat sky is gorgeous
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My office view today
June 25, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 77 °F
Intense day of meetings, but it's lovely outside. It looks a lot like Ireland.
TravelerGrey skies in Ireland though.
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TravelerI was going to say, except that it's hot and humid
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TravelerBeautiful view! Haveva great working day
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After work wander
June 25, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 82 °F
Pulled over on the way back to the hotel to have a quick walk in a place called Baker Park Reserve. There's a lot of flooding from last weekend. I tried three different trails and each was impassable after a few hundred yards.Read more
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Will I regret it?
June 25, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 81 °F
I've ended up going to an "Authentic" Irish Pub near the hotel for dinner.
TravelerYummy 😋😋
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Traveler 😋
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TravelerNever
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TravelerHa! True!
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Traveler 🤣
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American Aldi
June 25, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 81 °F
I wonder do they take dollars?
TravelerAldi is a British supermarket, right? I think we had Aldi near our staying place in Birmingham
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TravelerI think it's German, but yes there are Aldi everywhere across Europe - Germany, France, Ireland, etc.
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Traveleroh, I might mixed up 2 names
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TravelerThe big UK one is ASDA
6/27/24Reply
TravelerASDA! Yeah, that one we had near Delcam, now Autodesk, office
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Minnehaha Falls
June 26, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 79 °F
A quick visit to the Minnehaha Falls
Traveler That's beautiful!
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TravelerBeautiful. So wild
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Fear the cheese
June 26, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 77 °F
Minnesota's most famous hamburger, the Jucy Lucy..

Live up to the hype? 80%
Tasty? 85%
Messiness? 5 Napkins
Burn my mouth? You betcha!
TravelerI follow Joshua Weissman on YouTube and he was traveling through US to try every burger in US. I remember Jucy Lucy from his video but don't remember the score 🤷‍♀️
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Traveler🍔
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TravelerThat's amazing that you've heard of it
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TravelerI know too much about US 😂
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Crossed the river
June 28, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 64 °F
I took a different route this morning and crossed the Mississippi into St. Paul.
TravelerHow long is it? Mississippi is huge I heard
6/28/24Reply
TravelerI think it's about 3,800 km. It runs north to south, so it's kind of a divider in the USA. So you get expressions like the best burger, this side of the Mississippi 😂
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TravelerIt's shorter than the Lena River.
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TravelerShorter than Lena?! But still, Mississippi is remarkable river
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TravelerWell, , not shorter than our Lena 🤣
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TravelerHaha 😁😂
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It's raining 😁
June 28, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 63 °F
It's turning out to be a beautiful day.
Traveler Is that a rabbit?
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TravelerYes 🐰
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Even the coffee...
June 28, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 64 °F
.... is Minnesota nice!
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St. Croix River
June 28, 2024 in the United States ⋅ 🌧 64 °F
I'm straddling both Minnesota and Wisconsin asking the St. Croix river. Beautiful, but there are so many Mosquitos.
TravelerSuch a beautiful place. Squirrel is looking at you 😁
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Time for a Culvers
June 28, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 72 °F
Something else we're deprived of, in California.
TravelerThe burger with bacon 😋😋😋 But I don't get why Americans prefer cold drinks after fat food, I wood take tea with burger 🤷‍♀️
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TravelerCrazy Russian! You need ice, ha, ha
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TravelerIt's not healthy. I just watched a video about Russian diet 😁 we have lowest blood sugar in the world. Well, the guy thinks because of buckwheat but I think it's because of tea 😂
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TravelerHa, ha, well there's a lot of tea drunk in Ireland too, I must check to see if there is a blood sugar problem.
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TravelerI don't think a burger is ever going to be a healthy meal with hot drinks or cold drinks, ha, ha
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TravelerYou're right, I actually was surprised by that video. But we do drink a lot of tea, I think even more than UK and Ireland. from the healthy fast food, doctors saying that shawarma is the best, pizza was of the table 🤷‍♀️
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TravelerYes, middle eastern and Mediterranean foods like schwarma are the recommended here too, alongside sushi of course, which is sometimes a fast-ish food 😂
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TravelerYou should try Russian sushi 😂with mayo 🤦🏻‍♀️ it's an absolute fast food here
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TravelerNow I wish I'd known that, when I was there
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TravelerI was about to order sushi when I forgot to order the lunch 🤦🏻‍♀️
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Second chance
June 28, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 75 °F
Checking out oddities and such in North Saint Paul
Traveler They look like antique books..
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TravelerNot antique, but all used before, at least once.
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Traveler 1000% agree
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TravelerRaining outside, with a tea or coffee to drink while you wander through the shelves, and sit down to read a bit of some books.
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TravelerSuch a beautiful picture😊 Might be your state to live in
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Homeward bound
June 29, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 63 °F
Back in the airport, and one last Caribou coffee. Mainly to get another fix of Minnesota nice before I board.

No direct flight available this morning. I'm connecting through Denver.
TravelerThe long way home
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TravelerSafe travels back home. I hope you'll find something interesting for yourself in Denver
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United 1125, Seat 20F
June 29, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 66 °F
Boarded. First stop Denver
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My pilot's name is Ted Striker
June 29, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☀️ 66 °F
Anybody who has watched Airplane the movie, will get the reference.
TravelerOmg, how often do you think he hears that joke?
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TravelerI would have changed my first name at least. It's a shortened name anyway
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Voodoo onto others
June 29, 2024 in the United States ⋅ ☁️ 66 °F
... Before they Voodoo onto you.

Trying to grab some Voodoo for Trystan.
TravelerWhat ones did you buy?
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TravelerThey have pink boxes for 6 now, so I filled one of those. 2 x Old Dirty Bastards, 2 x Voodoo Dolls and 2 x Homers
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TravelerYummy 😋
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