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We had almost no time to do anything except for the conference since October 22 afternoon, especially because Boris doesn’t see anything in the dark, and my night vision is also far from perfect. We ventured out during the day just once when there was a last-minute speaker’s cancellation, and we visited the archeological site of the Zuess Temple.

The most impressive thing about the temple is it’s former size. I know it’s had to imagine how a size can be impressive when the temple itself is not there, but it was!

I complained about “once again, no sign and no explanation of what it is, and Boris said that usually it helps when you start reading outlous. I told him that there is no way I would understand because there was no separation between words and no punctuation, but when I started to read out loud, it actually helped!
There is a large map pf the public baths where they say where was the warm water, and the cold water, and where was a changing room,.

And we went to Plaka a couple of times, ones in the dark – for the late night ice cream :), but only after we figured out the way at the daylight.

The night Plaka looked fantastic, and I knew it was a sacrifice on Boris’ part because he does not like to be in places like this, and I usually enjoy it. However, I ended up not buying anything there. When I checked out the sandals, they said they do not carry wide width – never, and I didn’t want to purchase any silver there because it’s hard to check the quality. Also, how many silver rings can one person have?!

Summary. When we decided that we would go to the PgConf.EU, regardless of whether any of my talks will be accepted, I thought it would be a mini-vacation, and it was not. And it’s not because the conference was crowded and there were many talks to attend and many conversations I wanted to be a part of, but also because there were multiple things I worried about all the time. Most of them were community-related, some personal, like when I saw a text message from mom’s caregiver who was supposed to be there during the physical therapist visit that she couldn’t come, and others that I do not want to talk about right now.

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My name is Henrietta (Hettie) Dombrovskaya. I was born in Saint-Petersburg, Russian (actually, back then – Leningrad, USSR) in 1963, and immigrated to the United States in 1996. I love Saint Petersburg, the city I was born and raised in, and I think it’s one of the most beautiful places in the world. Similarly (but differently) I love Chicago, and can’t imagine myself moving somewhere else in the observable future. I have three children, Igor, Vlad and Anna, all adults living on their own, and one (so far) granddaughter Nadia. I also believe that my children are the best thing that happened in my life. As for my professional life, I am working in the field of Information Technologies. When I was twenty, I’ve declared that the databases are the coolest thing invented and that I want to do them for the rest of my life. Thirty plus years later, I still believe it’s true, and still, believe that the databases are the best. These two statements together imply that I think a person can have it all, and indeed, I think so! Keep reading my journals to find out how I did it.

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