Category: Sweden
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Day 31
Today is the last day of work before the Easter holiday in Sweden. Good Friday and Easter Monday are national holidays. Banks are closed (but, heck, they are closed most of the time already), and most other businesses will be on holiday. One of the interesting things here. In the US, when there’s a national…
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Day 30
Wow. I’ve been here a month. It seems like it should feel like a long time, but it actually has zoomed by. I got my actual Swedish ID card today, which is basically my ticket to social services across the EU. On the way home, I stopped by the bank and got set up for…
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Day 26
Wait. Really? 26 days? Wow. When you start actually working, and get pulled into work in a big way, and you realize that you just closed out week 3 on the job, time flies. So, Lördag. You already saw the bit about the farmer’s flea market. On Friday, I went in to the office (which…
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Saturday Morning
I have noticed in my Saturday morning rambles that Mårtenstorget has a small combo farmers market and flea market on Saturday morning. Lots of white vans flanking a mix of food, stuffed toys, novelty hats, and used books. I wonder how old this market square tradition is? And, I look at the pic, it IS…
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Funny little language quirk
The package simply says “american lobster”.
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Day 18
So, yeah, kind of gap there. Ended my second week of work with sharing my plan for next steps with the job. It is very weird to start a job in the midst of a global pandemic, and the remote-working-ness of everybody makes it hard to get traction fast. But, it’s worth noting that when…
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Day 14 – Tisdag
So, yeah, I forgot to blog yesterday. The problem with remote working is that you work a lot more. Day 14, of course, means that I’ve been in country for 2 weeks. This is Day 7 of working, however. Tomorrow is payday. I get paid once a month, around the 25th, so that there’s time…
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Day 12 – Söndag
Sunday is laundry day. After laundry I went for a walk. It’s clear and nice again. Kind of chilly, but a small trade-off for no rain. I snooped around the neighborhoods of houses that I’m interested in renting (house 1 and house 2). Pretty nice. I also did some grocery shopping at a different store.…
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Day 11 – Lördag
Nice clear, sunny Saturday today. So I decided to take a little trip out to Lomma. Lomma is a little seaside town about 10 km (6 miles) from Lund. I was going to bike it, and then decided I was lazy, so I took the bus. But first I had to get to the bus…
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Day 10 – Fredag Yo!
Friday! In case that wasn’t clear from the title. Still lots of meetings, which are typically back-to-back. Which I’m used to because that’s how UHG is. But, at IKEA, there was a lot of “guys – take care of yourselves, make the time to breath and walk around outside”. This literally coming from the CEO.…