ok i ' ll do that . thank you <| sep |> What good is being a global power when your citizens are struggling to make ends meet ? <| sep |> I live in Orlando , which is a budding tech hub . but not nearly as good as the main ones . The greater Orlando area has 3 meetups for ML or Data Science , which is really cool . How far out of your city have you looked ? The meetup that I gave the talk at , it was about an hour and 20 away . I don ' t go to that meetup , personally . Haha . But sometimes driving can be necessary if you don ' t live in a big city . <| sep |> Leave her . Hit the gym , delete facebook <| sep |> I have a few stories Ryanair I can ' t believe I ' m writing about fucking Ryanair . I arrive at Charleroi airport after a weekend in Brussels and realise after searching and researching all my pockets and bag that I had left my passport in the appt . I had been staying in . I have no other ID so I go to the Ryanair desk and explain my situation . The supervisor listens to my story and makes a call and explains my situation . She passes the phone to me and this woman asks me my name , DOB , address and which school I went to and then asks me to pass her back to the supervisor . The supervisor then hands me this form to fill out which looked like it had been photocopied multiple times . I fill it out , she stamps it and tells me I ' m good to go . The Belgian immigration cops look at it bemusedly and wave me on and back to Dublin I get where I pass through Irish immigration with no problem . This was pre 911 and I still have no idea to whom I was speaking to on that phone . Another pre 911 and current refugee crisis story I was interrailing and arrived at Calais where I had been told on the interrail grapevine that it was possible to hitch across the English channel with a truck driver for free because their ferry ticket includes an ' assistant '. After a few hours waiting and asking every driver for a lift this driver agrees to let me ride with him on the ferry . I was stoney broke and starving and as soon as we set sail I went to the caf and asked how much two slices of toast were as I only had a few sterling coins on me . The chef then proceeds to load up a plate with a full English truckers ' breakfast and charges me only 50 p with the words We ' re all in the shit Paddy , let ' s take care of each other '. When we arrived in Dover I got a lift up to London with some crazy Italians in a camper van who dropped me off near where my friends lived . I borrowed some money off a mate to get the train and ferry home from London . An Post fecking legends . I was coming home from a course and saw the An Post delivery van pull away from my house and go into a nearby estate . I had been waiting for the delivery of a water butt so I legged it as best as I could with my dodgy back and caught up with him in the estate across the road . He said jump in which I ' m sure contravenes An Posts ' policy and drove back to my house with the water butt . A few weeks later I went to my local sorting office to pick up a package only to be told that the driver hadn ' t returned to the depot yet . As I was heading back home through the industrial park where the sorting office is lo and behold there ' s yer man parked up and eating a banana . He recognises me , gets out of the van and then sorts through all the packages in the van and hands me my Amazon package . Donegal Manor BB . I was up in Donegal for my cousin ' s wedding and stayed at the aforementioned boutique BB . After a late breakfast where I realised my cousins had gone into Donegal town without me I asked for the next bus into Donegal town . Don ' t be daft the owner said to me and summoned her husband who gave me a lift into Donegal Town .