On holidays
This year was in many ways unique and special. So the same stays true for my Christmas holidays. I usually end my lab work on 20ish of December and plan to return to the lab no sooner than New Year ’s day. Well, this year I accumulated bunch of vacation days, that I had to completely use up before the end of 2019, as I am moving to Vienna to work as a synthetic chemist at BOKU. With this excitement of taking my skills and passion to Austria, I had to quickly close the projects I was involved at the Institute of Microbiology, Czech Academy of Sciences. Long-long hours, sleepovers at work, moving to Bratislava, finalizing lab reports and paper to publish, passing my know-how to my substitute, long-distance relationship with my wife and daughter. Uneasy, but we made it and are alive! Baking-my other synthetic passion Well, some of the work did not terminate as I left the work with bags of stuff my last day (Dec. 12 th , 2019). I continued to finalize our about-to-be submitted