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Look into my eye, does it look like I give a %#&¤?

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It has been one of those days, but rather than dwell on it, I thought I would continue my tradition of hotel posting while travel for work. I was going to head out with the camera tonight but, the weather turned into this:

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Which was shot out the back of the taxi as my contact person and I headed back to the hotel. The streets were flooded and I didn't bring shoes, jacket, umbrella, swimsuit for this kind of weather.

Where am I? I will give you a hint based on a sign I saw today.

https://i.imgur.com/q3qmUz6.jpg

Fancy a beer @gtg? Although I claim false advertising with the sun in the logo. 

I will give another. 

https://i.imgur.com/YhphVMI.jpg

Yep, back in Poland and so far, it hasn't been nearly as fun as the last time I was here for SteemFest3 - although I am not in Krakow either, I am in Lodz, a city about 150 kilometers from Warsaw and from the little I have seen from the taxi, while the buildings are quite rundown in some areas, it is quite beautiful. I am hoping that the weather and timing is better tomorrow so I can go for even a small walk along the streets to capture the feel of it. 

It is nice to be in good hotels, but I am bot the kind of person to care much and would much rather be in a crappy hotel with time to see the sights than sleep on the finest thread count and be trapped inside. 

It looks like this is going to be a "trapped inside" kinda trip, though soon we are going to head out somewhere for dinner, and hopefully it is better and cheaper than the meal I had last night. The hotel is in a fancy area (customer picked it) and the prices while not bad compared to Finland, are not great in Poland and the food was blah.

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*First world problems* I know, but when in Rome. 

>Perhaps I should have done a @tasteem post instead for that meal ;D

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The hotel itself is quite lovely inside and as I said yesterday, there is a lot of industrial-ness around the place,with bare concrete and exposed brick. It is an old converted textile factory and got renovate some decade ago.

The room has a lovely large, arched window in it and looks out to a shopping center I am hoping to visit tomorrow to try and find a token travel present for @smallsteps. I never really thought I would be travelling like this for work, let alone care about getting token travel gifts, but she really likes getting them, no matter how useless and cheap they are.  

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A couple months ago I went on a work trip and forgot to pack underwear, this time the thing I forgot was my toothbrush. Reception was able to rustle me up one someone had left behind, so it is okay.

https://i.imgur.com/HLeJFON.jpg

You can see it in the picture above, strategically placed next to a gin and tonic I enjoyed while I was working last night in the lobby bar. These trips are a lot of work for the most part and there are unexpected surprises. Like today, I was giving technical admin training for software that the clients didn't have access to - *F#N*

But it is okay, because I got a cookie.

https://i.imgur.com/1LL0FyH.jpg

If you can't read the text, it is basically saying that if you don't want your room cleaned, hang this bag on the door and it will be filled with a surprise for helping reduce environmental impact. I do not know what they are expecting me to do in here but, I always like surprises which I assume are sweet food related so, chose to be environmentally friendly. 

>The cookie was pretty good.

Polish people are really nice and at least the younger ones have *fantastic* English skills which means that we can not only talk, but have some fun and joke around a great deal. It is much nicer (especially when they didn't have the tools they needed) to be able to laugh it off with some silly joke and move on. 

The training issues today are all their side, so I am pretty much in the clear, regardless how it all goes however, I am going to spend the evening redesigning tomorrow's training session so that they can get at least something out of it. There are a few options available and while not perfect solutions, they are workarounds that can at least close some of the knowledge gaps the training was meant to fill. 

>Looks like a late night ahead... such a surprise.

I am still planning on adding another Steem post though tonight because I think that it is needed for me to clear my head after the day. As I have said before, writing these things out provides the mental space and energy to process whatever has been going on and hopefully even add something of interest to others for a change of pace.

Well, now it is off to dinner or drinks or something, and since I haven't eaten since breakfast 12 hours ago, I better make sure something goes into my stomach before a G&T.

Taraz
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