dx �as you might have heard: i'm going to argentina
i'm on my way to the airport and doing that thing of "oh i could have packed [thing]"
hiiiiii there was wifi for 10 or 25 eur (both aggressively restricted) and i failed miserably to use iodine (90% packet loss, huge delays, didn't get to finish a ssh handshake). i got more packets through by picking up 4g at 4000 meters altitude
anyway hola spain. i'm passing by again
co2 levels went down to 2800 right after i posted that pic and stayed in the range 1400-1700 during the flight. not as horrifying as i expected
but yeah trying to make internet work where there's a small chance is a reliable way to get me to have a bad time
this airport is brutal, you got these signs saying you gotta walk 30 mins to reach zone B
ah, a classic: delayed by 1h55m (not two hours because they'd have to handle more passenger rights)
it's definitely over 2h now but we're boarding yay. apparently "the plane broke" but they found a replacement plane but the crew went home before that and they had to call them back
ah heck people started caring again about enforcing mask rules so i was asked to downgrade my hf-800 (valved) to an aura ffp2
hiiiiiii i just spent $1160 on two burgers
my parents are shorter than me now???
the airport bus is weirdly similar to the munich buses, probably literally the same model, with the biggest difference being that this is shaky as hell because the roads are bad
my mom said that they started skipping dinner to which i reacted nooooOOO
but it turns out there's one meal at 6pm that stopped being a thing when i moved to europe because we have dinner around that time, so this changes nothing i think
all the ads on this subway are by the city, not any private company. this ad is trans
also they added some really useful stops to line E!!! going from retiro to independencia used to suck
also both buses and trains have signs on the windows saying that they open the windows to improve air circulation, which, whoa, i thought no one in charge of public health picked up on that yet
it might seem like public transport improved a lot since i left but actually i left right before they finished all the good shit
oh right, people selling stuff on the train are extremely common here, not sure i've seen that anywhere else with this intensity?
and it's weird to hear them say "one chocolate bar for only 500 pesos" like i knew the currency went to shit but damn i really gotta treat pesos like yen. my 5/10/20/50 pesos bills are now pretty much coins (if they aren't that literally already)
some of my relatives asked open-ended stuff like "what do you like/dislike the most about germany" and damn those are hard questions. i don't really care about germany it's just the place where i happen to live
(but i told them i'll think about it and have some stuff to say the next time we meet (which might just be tomorrow, it's mother's day))
also i meowed a lot. my parents already got used to it
woke up 2am to drink water, noticed room co2 went down despite door/window being closed. rooms here really are Built Different huh (for summer not winter)
yeah no i didn't miss the mosquitoes
talked to my dad for one hour and he's already given me, unprompted, three different reasons to be concerned about things that might kill him and/or set the house on fire
demize