Awake on Zurich time

Saturday afternoon I left for Zurich! Flew Lufthansa, which is a good airline overall, much better than US companies for the price, except this flight was...special.

For the second time in a row on a flight from the US to Europe, I was asked to switch seats with someone for their convenience. The first time it was to accomodate a woman who wanted her older mother to sit with her, and this time it was because a mother had brought her baby, and wanted the seat in order to put the baby down when meals came. In both cases I was very nice about it, I really don't care which seat I'm in as long as I get to pass out.

The seat I was given this time around was in the very back, next to the lavatories, which sucked because people were constantly brushing past my arm in order to get down the aisle. Gah!

We got into Zurich Sunday morning, and had enough time to check into the hotel and get settled before I passed out from exhaustion. I'm quite disappointed in myself because I wanted to walk around a little but ended up sleeping Sunday away.

Now it's Monday, I'm in the office, and to be honest, I'm way more excited to be working than if I were to spend my time traveling Zurich...

I just had lunch with Dennis Hwang! He's the one who used to do all of Google's homepage Doodles, and now manages all of the Webmasters globally. The nerd that I am is quite star-struck - this is one of the first Google employees and probably worth his weight in gold and then some. When Mark introduced Alex and me, Dennis said that he had heard a lot about us and that we did great work...Holy Crap. It's good to know that my work, even if it is small and relatively unimportant, can still be noticed by someone you don't expect. It just means I need to stay on my toes even more.

I get to go to a design review with the webmasters today - should be pretty interesting since I have no idea what goes on there. I probably won't even be able to talk about the things that go on in there...