Present Perfect

Me

My name is Thomas. I live in Barcelona. I work in Barcelona. I work on GStreamer for a living. And I'm already different from who I was for it.

I got from my front door to my desk in just about thirty minutes. That's about 20 minutes of walking and ten minutes of subway. I am a lucky bastard.

Arriving was interesting. Blocking the sidewalk for two hours to unload stuff. Spaniards can be, contrary to popular belief, impatient. One was so impatient that he tried entering his garage by boarding the sidewalk, then trying a ninety degree turn with about fifteen centimeters to spare. We tried to stop him, but he accelerated, and badly scratched and dented the car.

He even tried to convince us it was our fault for blocking the entrance. I almost started believing him when our friend, who speaks Spanish well, started giving him grief for trying to take advantage of foreigners.

I still can't believe he actually thought he could pull that turn off.

My car is in some parking garage at 15 euro a day until I get the definitive parking spot close to home, and the truck is somewhere in the harbour (I hope it's safe) awaiting its return tomorrow when Tom and Tine, our truck drivers, go back home.

I'm getting ADSL sometime this week apparently, and am now trying to go through the motions of getting stuff arranged (Luckily, Kristien is at home taking care of most of it) to change locks, get a boiler installed so we have warm water, and so on.

But I'm still a lucky bastard.

And now, back to work. Work on GStreamer. Man :)

Me My name is Thomas. I live in Barcelona. I work in Barcelona. I work on GStreamer for a living. And I'm already different from who I was for it....