I'm back in BraaaaaTisLAVA (don't ask, long inside joke) and I have an hour to kill before my flight. Interestingly, there's free, open wi-fi. I don't really dare log into anything sensitive, but livejournal should be a safe bet, or so we hope. My firewall and virus scanner should stop anything too intrusive.
I'm glad the conference is done and over. It was interesting, but I think I'll limit my conference attendances to Javapolis and other tech-related ones. The scientific ones just have way too much waffle and I'm realizing that I'm just not as interested in it as I used to be. I'm more interested in ways to store, manipulate and handle data as to having long talks about What-It-All-Means.
We had a few hours to spare in Vienna in the afternoon, so I managed to convince a few people to go to the Haus Der Musik, an interactive music museum. It was a nice send-off from Vienna. Had one final ice cream cone on the way back to the hotel to pick up the bags and we headed to the bus stop where we'd be taking the shuttle to Slovakia. There was already quite a crowd of people trying to get on the bus. Thank god we had pre-booked seating. They actually checked my passport this time at the Slovak-Austrian border, but they barely glanced at it. At times, I really, really like travelling with a Canadian passport. It's nice that most countries like us.
If all goes well, I should be getting home at 1:30 or so. I've realized that I've done something daft and forgotten my earplugs in the hotel (at least, I think they're there – they might be in my shaving kit). End result is that they're not in my bag. This would normally be bad bug I've recharged my ipod and my earbuds will block out most of the plane noise.
I'm looking forward to being home and the feeling of normalcy it entails. To quote a co-worker, “I need a bit of TLC”.
