Came back from Barcelona on Thursday, completely wiped from that trip, the weekend went to pretty much recuperating and napping. Despite worrying about COVID-19 pretty much all the time and the fustration of being mocked by my collegues constantly for being vegetarian, the trip was actually pretty nice. Barcelona is a pretty cool city to be honest. Walking around at night I couldn't help but admire all the lights.

The city has a dark side too. Homelessness is quite visible, as is the strife of people just trying to make a living. I remember seeing a guy just puking on the side of the road on a sunny day by the sea. And all the people there, it's just a volume of people that I could never get used to, just thousands upon thousands upon thousands, all the time, everywhere. I saw a really sad "Missing" poster when we were by some large castle or something, I had to take a picture of it. I can't help but wonder about that guy, where is he? What happened? Did he just wander off or is something more insidious at work? I guess I'll never know.

The last days in Barcy left little room for touristy stuff. The work thing I had was at a 5-star hotel. I've never been to such a nice hotel before, the level of service was a bit intimidating, like it was aggressively polite. People would look you in the eyes, smile, and try to give you something, anything, even just a glass of water. Creeped me out. The food was amazing, vegan food every day and it was just looked amazing and tasted great as well. Due to the virus the large tower hotel was pretty much empty.

The last cultural thing I got to do in Barcelona was when I stumbled by complete accident into a Banksy exhibit. It prob wasn't an "offical" one by the artist themselves but it was pretty well done nonetheless. It looks like it was made up of actual purchased works that were from Banksy and then life-sized recreations of his best known stencils. I really liked seeing them up close, you can really get an idea of how the work was made and how it was executed. I was gaga over Banksy when I was like 20 and I've had a facination with stencils ever since. The modern art museum I went to in Barcelona had a book on sale with "activist stencils" that you could actually use. They were too simple to be honest, nothing like the stencil book I saw 10 years ago in Kiasma. When it comes to stencil art, I don't think I lack the technical skill anymore, just the courage to grab a can and fuck shit up.

So back to the grind I guess. Got a new game to work on my typing skills, they made a new version of "Typing of the Dead". At least this way I can pretend to be developing myself as I play mindless games.

Speaking of self-developing games, I made it through "Human Resource Machine", that game that uses Assembly commands. My work collegue saw me playing it on the airplane back and really got into it and bought it himself. The last level of the same is really good, you have to write a sorting algorithm. Big O notation is really clearly visible there, you can try to impliment different sorting algorithms and see how they speed up the whole process and what not.

So it's back to the grind I suppose. I got an email from my boss that he's sick with the flu so I'll have to see how that develops. Maybe the whole office gets COVID-19. Who the fuck knows.