Travel Day, Part 2

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To finish travel day stuff...

The flight from Raleigh-Durham was long but uneventful. Sat next to an AI engineer from Lenovo, and we discussed how AI can be a miracle and a curse for humanity - ultimately we agreed that we will be okay as long as we keep in person connections. We also agreed that these are becoming less and less common already and that the outlook is not good. Before long, Ambien overcame the stimulating conversation, and I slept off and on til landing at 0630 local time.

The line at customs took 40 minutes for a 1 minute conversation with border patrol. A very kind Heathrow engineer (in charge of managing winter weather) showed me a quicker path to the underground. Would probably still be walking to it right now without his help.

Since I can't check into the Airbnb til 1500, took an hour long trek on the tube and bus to Kensington High Street. Right now am at Gail's, a wonderful bakery by Holland Park, enjoying a breakfast of scrambled eggs on Russian rye sourdough, salmon, a sweet roll, and coffee. First real food since lunch with Sabrina on Thursday. No more starving here!

Will spend the day wandering around and counting the minutes til Alex joins me on Saturday. All in all, just really happy to be here!

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