Dekurdagar í gúgúl
Jæja, þá er fyrsta vikan hjá gúgúl liðin.
Tímanum var mest megnis eytt í að sitja námskeið, koma mér fyrir á nýjum vinnustað og kynna mér hvað er í boði. Ég lifði þetta af stórslysalaust, en litlu mátti muna í einstökum tilfellum. Til dæmis þegar ég stóð við hlaðborð í einu mötuneytinu og raðaði á matarbakkann. Þegar ég hafði lokið mér af, sný ég mér við og rekst næstum því á annan af tveimur stofnendum gúgúl! Það munaði *svona* litlu [ímyndið ykkur þumalfingur og vísifingur nánast alveg saman] að ég málaði hann allan með “dim sum” matnum mínum og sushi rúllunum (og tilheyrandi soja-sósu og wasabi). Ekki það að ég hafi áhyggjur af því að hann hafi ekki efni á nýrri skyrtu (samkvæmt Wikipedia er hann yfir sextán milljarða dollara virði) heldur hefði ég það sem eftir er verið þekktur sem gaurinn sem á fyrstu vikunni sinni tókst að hella matnum sínum yfir Sérgei. Ég slapp þó naumlega við þau örlög. Hjúkk! 🙂
Þetta var annars í annað skiptið sem ég sá stofnendurna tvo með eigin augum (þriðja skiptið átti sér stað seinna um daginn) og það virðist sem þeir séu samvaxnir á mjöðm því ég sé aldrei annan án þess að hinn sé þar við hliðina á. 🙂
Ég þarf annars að passa mig vel á að ofdekrast ekki hérna. Á fyrstu vikunni komst ég aðeins í að prófa 6 af 13 hágæða gúgúl mötuneytum, en þau bjóða upp á ókeypis morgun-, hádegis- OG kvöldmat með heilsusamlegu hráefni (og fyrirtækið sér fyrir mat um helgar). Og þá eru ótalin snakkstöðvarnar sem eru á hverju horni, öll með tiltölulega heilsusamlegu snakki (ávextir og svoleiðis) sem og smá óhollt inn á milli eins og kartöfluflögur eða emm og emm með eða án hnetum. Ef ég væri feitari þyrfti ég að passa mig á að fitna ekki – hefði reyndar ekkert á móti því að bæta á mig nokkrum kílóum… og ég virðist hafa rambað á rétta staðinn fyrir það. 🙂 Það er kannski ágætt að það eru tvær ókeypis líkamsræktarstöðvar á staðnum. 🙂
Ég náði að prófa eitt af tveimur gúgúl þvottahúsum á föstudeginum. Mætti með þvottinn á bakinu, vasann fullan af “fimmtíu”-köllum og flösku af þvottaefninu okkar sem Hrefna sérvaldi sem lyktarlaust og gott þvottaefni sem er ekki jafn skaðlegt fyrir náttúruna og mörg önnur. Að sjálfsögðu er það fyrsta sem ég sé þegar ég geng inn eru hillur fullar af nákvæmlega sama þvottaefni og ég var að burðast með í vinnuna!! Hillurnar voru bókstaflega þéttsetnar af þvottaefninu okkar. Og ég hefði betur skilið klinkið eftir heima því að þetta var að sjálfsögðu allt ókeypis.
Svo er líka læknir á staðnum, sem og klipparar (þarf að prófa það í næstu viku), efnalaug, og nuddarar svo fátt eitt sé nefnt. Við fengum gjafabréf fyrsta daginn: heil klukkustund í nuddi. Bíllinn fær einnig jafn góða meðferð þar sem hér er fólk sem þvær bílinn og hægt að láta skipta um olíu á meðan maður er í vinnunni. Reyndar er þetta sem upp er talið í þessari málsgrein ekki ókeypis, en skratti gott engu að síður. 🙂 Og já, mér krossbrá þegar ég settist á klósettið í fyrsta skipti því sumar klósettsett-seturnar eru upphitaðar og á veggnum eru einhver stjórntæki sem ég þori ekki einu sinni að snerta – maður veit aldrei hverju maður á von. 🙂 Ég sé alltaf fyrir mér Sval og Val bókina þar sem Svalur (Valur?) endaði á Zorglúbb færibandinu sem spýtir út úr sér hlýðnum þegnum í réttum einkenningsbúningi. 🙂
Ég á enn eftir að prófa rafdrifnu scooter-ana sem maður getur notað ef maður fer milli bygginga en hef þegar prófað eitt af “almennings”-hjólunum sem maður má taka og skilja eftir við e-a gúgúl bygginguna.
Brátt verður maður svo spilltur að maður lítur ekki við farartæki sem maður þarf að erfiða við til að koma sér á áfangastað… 🙂
Last weekend
[Notes from the homeland… We had a very nice stay in the country house (all of 45 mins out of the city), by late afternoon on Wednesday the weather was gorgeous and we ended the evening in the hot tub (well, my feet had a nice warm time anyway). Thursday came wet and windy and we hustled into town around 3 pm. I then went to visit the ex-CAs Gudrun and Snorri who were celebrating Baldur’s 4th birthday. He sure has grown and so has Sif! 🙂
Then I got invited to dinner at Berglind and Styrmir’s who live very close by. There I got a good look at their new gorgeous daughter Isold and had a good time talking to Daníel Andri who’s chattering non-stop these days. The evening ended at Hulda’s and grandma’s with a short chat.
On to Friday, again good weather (blue skies) apart from a rather chilly wind. Went to the swimming pool in my old neighborhood (West-town) which looked pretty clean and rather freshly painted. It was weird though that the pretty water turned out to be either dirty or chock-full or oxygen, since it was kinda white and I couldn’t see across the 25 m pool although I could see the bottom at the deepest part.
I was bemused to find the same faucets and showers that were there when I was 10 years old, and it looked to me that early afternoon is the time where the 16 year old girls congregate to get a little tan in their bikinis (you see, a chilly wind can be stopped by protective walls, leaving just the sun). Then called Prof. Tyler to tell him the visa stuff was in order, and then it was on to Finnur’s family abode in Mosó to enjoy a fantastic dinner with the family.
Now it’s Saturday, another beautiful day in Reykjavik, with the usual chilly wind. I called my friend Hildur this noontime and caught her at the hospital where she’d just given birth to a baby girl the night before! I’m hoping to stop by her place tomorrow, and also to drop in on another friend who also had a daughter, very very recently. This is one fertile place!! 🙂
Tonight my family is having a family dinner in Beykihlid. Tomorrow is the last whole day, and on Monday I fly out again around 5pm. It’s been a really nice time, it’s spring-time, the trees are half-green and it smells wonderful. This is window-weather season, it looks wonderful outside but what you can’t see is the cold cold wind, although sometimes you can hear it. I must admit it’s been sometime since I heard the wind gust.
Finnur and Anna seem to be doing fine. They have a packed schedule for this weekend, and then it’s only Monday before I should be back. I think I land around midnigth on Monday evening.]
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