We've now lived here for one week, and it's slowly starting to look like home. We've unpacked half of the boxes and assembled most of our furniture. We even have some curtains, although not quite enough. And we've painted one wall; the rest are still all white, we are going to paint three more walls at some point.

The new place is farther from city centre than the previous apartment, but I've discovered it's not quite as bad as I thought it would be. With luck and good timing, you can make downtown in less than half an hour. The commute time varies a lot: I've made it in something like 35 minutes, but it's also taken an hour once.

Reading Planet GNOME recently, I'm reminded of something a co-worker said while we were in Prague: It didn't take more than the invention of the digital camera to turn this bunch of engineers into Japanese tourists.

I was one of the people who was snapping pictures all the time.

Went to Prague last weekend on a company trip. Fabulous city, cheap and decent beer. Culinary side of things wasn't that impressive, although it was better than Lisbon where we were last year. Main point of excitement on the trip was four people of our group getting their luggage stolen two hours or so after our plane landed, when they left them in our minibus and the driver wasn't guarding it.

We went to see Faust in a black light theatre. It's apparently a local speciality. As a co-worker put it, it was slightly worse than a piece of shit. We were all in agreement. Never, never again.

Also went to see the Czech - Germany world cup hockey match, which wasn't anything to write home about (not that it prevents me from blogging about it.) The result was clear from the start, even though the Czech team played a lazy game. They did win 8-2 or something like that, going on pure routine. It was the second time in my life I've been to a hockey game, and the commercialism was something painful, with multiple ad breaks in the middle of the periods. The tackiest moment of all was someone proposing (and apparently getting yes for an answer) to his girlfriend in the middle of the game, with the whole arena watching it on the screen. I thought that happened only on Friends.