After getting to the train this morning, it turns out that there was some sort of power outage (or something... Paris metro authorities are not very clear on what the actual cause is) so trains were not really running this morning. Technically they said they were just "congested" but the TV monitor at the train station just had two close stations listed (aka not anywhere near my station way out in the boonies), with notes saying they did not have an estimated time available, and a gigantic crowd of people waiting. So I just hopped right back on the metro back home to work from home.
Unfortunately our upstairs neighbors are completely gutting and renovating their flat, so occasionally there's some ridiculously loud hammering or something going up there. Thankfully it's at least during daytime hours (and not the middle of the night) but we had to go tell them to stop when I was in the middle of a conference call and they started up again. Kara was impressed she knew enough French to get them to, and that they agreed to wait 30 minutes.
Our other adventure today involved Kara's laptop charger as it was accidently forgotten in her Mom's carry-on bag. We looked at FNAC first but they wanted 60€ for a universal adapter! Looking on Amazon France, it was only 23€, so we went with that and figured she can use my tablet and laptop in the meantime. The cool part was discovering that Amazon Prime in France means one day shipping for free, not the normal 2-day like in the US! Very unexpected! Oh and Saturday delivery is considered part of that 1-day. Unfortunately the selection of Amazon France is not near what you would find in the US, but it has the basics.
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