Wow, that went by fast.
Again.
On Tuesday, I once again (I need to go through and actually figure out how many times it has been) got on the train to Malmö and this year's Øredev conference. Writing this, it is Friday evening and I am once again back on my own couch, dog snuggled up next to me, only just beginning to process the highly compressed injection of information that was three days and at the same time the blink of an eye.
Last year, I somewhat by accident filled almost all my time with podcast recordings. This year, I actually learned from the past (for a change) and actually left space in my schedule to both breathe and attend some talks. I have plenty more I want to catch once the videos are released, but it was great to actually be in the room for a change.
Otherwise, things went much like previous years. Above all, there were of course lots of great people - I think I ran into more people I knew to some degree than ever before, and talked to more listeners of Kodsnack as well. Plus I got to be someone else's spotting of a Hypercritical t-shirt in the wild, which is just great fun to be.
The coffee from Sandby kafferosteri was as great as always, and three bags of beans came along home with me.
My hotel room was on a higher floor than I recall having before, and this was mainly noticeable in serious waiting times during any type of rush moment. I and many other conference goers headed for the stairs when we happened to arrive at or leave the hotel in a large group, and even with nine stairs to climb I think I saved time. But I did feel it in my legs as I finally reached my floor.
I kept my morning routine of hitting the hotel gym's treadmill for a 20 minute run, followed by climbing all those stairs and then spending at least as long trying to cool down before showering and having breakfast. It is probably great that my body is this good at regulating its temperature, but it is a little annoying when you realize you hit the shower slightly too early for the third day in a row … Beside that annoyance, I find that routine to be great for me - starting each conference day feeling fresh and with a bit of circulation already going. (Plus breakfast tastes even better.) A strange detail is that I enjoy this despite never running first thing in the morning under any other circumstances. It helps that there is not really any other time of day that would reilably work during the conference, but it could still just as well have felt miserable the whole way through.
I brought plenty of Kodsnack stickers and a bunch of slop goblin ones too, and whenever I spread some out on tables they quickly disappeared. Printing and giving out stickers: I highly recommend it!
As for talks and interviews and stuff, there will be Kodsnack episodes. And I do not think I can get much more coherent thinking out of my brain today in any case.
Good night!