Active Solution, my employer-to-be, invited me to participate in a workshop (about networking in Azure). I have a ton of unused vacation days and flex hours at tretton37, so I said yes. The workshop sounded useful, but mostly I just wanted to start getting to know people, and for them to be at least slightly familiar with me by the time I start.

The workshop was a disappointment (for everybody who was present) but it was very nice to meet my future colleagues. I am somewhat face-blind so I can only connect maybe four or five names to actual faces (two of which were women, handily distinguishable from each other by their hair colour, so that’s like two freebies) but it’s a start.