It's been a while...

November last year? Seriously? OK, I have indeed neglected this blog and probably I could have written something in the last five months. I promise, I'll be better. Seems as if Dublin has become so normal to me, that I haven't had anything I found interesting enough to write about. But now is California time - So without further ado, here is my first blog post from San Francisco.

I suppose I don't even have to mention that my never ending story with the U.S. border control followed me on this trip too. Yes, I have spend 45 minutes in a side room. I have walked a blue line with an officer behind my back. I have been interrogated about what I am doing in the USA, what I am doing with Google and most importantly, when I am going to leave again. It did not help that this time I was blessed with a ten-year multiple-entry visa. In fact, I felt like this made it worse as it only amplified the officer's fears that the caucasian male standing in front of him is either an immigrant planning to stay and seek permanent employment - or - like the last time, a one-man terror cell trained on countless trips to the Middle East to seamlessly blend into the American society and then, whenever no one is suspecting him, plan evil attacks against the nation that has granted him asylum from the unbearable circumstances under which one is supposed to live in the European Union.

So much for the negative part. Apart from the border control: I loved my first days! The weather is great with around 17 degrees (Celsius that is), I got a nice corporate apartment (there is a pool in the complex) and I already realized that on my last trip here I have only scratched the surface of all the awesome things that San Francisco has to offer and all the wondrous perks that my employer can come up with. So these are things that I will blog about in the next few months. As well as trips and maybe the odd "This is American - This is European"-blogpost. And of course I have brought my camera. So I will support my investigative journalism with corresponding pictures.

So stay tuned...