Rain, go away.

It’s been raining for the past three days, which puts a real damper (haha) on my time here in Milan.  Who wants to walk around the city in the rain?

Before the re-emergence of what I’m told is a typical Milan winter, I went out to Como, a town in the mountains about an hour away from Milan.  I’m told it’s a favorite summer destination for the people of Milan looking to escape the heat.  It’s a pretty little town, although it would be nicer if the trees weren’t all dead.

Como is also the birthplace of Alessandro Volta.  Nerd me rejoices.  As the more astute of you may have guessed, the electrical unit ‘volt’ is named after him.  I swear I did not know the historical significance to electrical engineering this town held before I started planning the trip, but once I found out, I had to go pay my respects at his temple.

Volta...not Mars, Alessandro

The nerdiness continued on Sunday when I went to the da Vinci Museum of Science.  It was pretty cool, but standard museum fare, so there’s really no need to go into detail.  Except laughing at these old cell phones.

Motorola StarTac!

One more week.

Random bits and pieces, continued:

-         one of the engineers here asked me who my project lead is in Calgary.  After I told him, a look that can only be described as saying ‘You poor bastard’ – in English – was given to me.  I decided to explore this reaction.  He told me he had never seen my lead smile.  I countered that I saw him smile.  Once.  My lead also kinda looks like Anthony Hopkins in ‘The Silence of the Lambs’, so I don’t know if that’s a good smile or not.

-         I accidently sat in first class on the train ride back from Como and was politely asked to move to second class.  I sat in a seat that was exactly the same as the one I exited, so I don’t know what the difference between the two classes are.

-         Two words that are written the same way in English as they are in Italian, but mean completely different things: camera and piano.

 

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