On Sun, Dec 6, 2015 at 4:15 AM, Charles R Harris <charlesr.harris@gmail.com> wrote:


On Sat, Dec 5, 2015 at 4:49 PM, Jaime Fernández del Río <jaime.frio@gmail.com> wrote:
I'm alive and well: trying to stay afloat on a sea of messaging protocols, Java and Swiss bureaucracy, but doing great aside from that.

Jaime


Glad to hear it. I was beginning to worry...

Java? Poor soul. Anything special about the Swiss bureaucracy? Reminds me of the old joke

Well, if you don't have a suitcase full of $100 bills, opening a bank account in Switzerland is surprisingly difficult, especially if you are moving here from the U.S. If immigration then decides to request from you documents they already have, thus delaying your residence permit by a few more weeks, the bank ends up returning your first salary, just about the same time you have to pay a 3 month rental deposit for a small and ridiculously expensive apartment. Everything is slowly falling into place, but it has been an interesting ride.
 

Heaven and Hell

Heaven Is Where:

The French are the chefs
The Italians are the lovers
The British are the police
The Germans are the mechanics
And the Swiss make everything run on time


Hell is Where:

The British are the chefs
The Swiss are the lovers
The French are the mechanics
The Italians make everything run on time
And the Germans are the police


The trains and trams do seem to run remarkably on time, but I don't think Eva would be too happy about me setting out to test how good lovers the Swiss are...

Jaime

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