Vazeny pan premier Slovenskej republiky, Robert Fico, VITAJE

Loosely translated, I think the title means "All hail President Scroob!" Actually, it's Slovak, and welcomes the Prime Minister of Slovakia Robert Fico to the Hyundai R&D Center, since he was in town for a tour today. Turns out Hyundai has what sounds like a State-sponsored manufacturing facility there, which somehow led to the PM visiting today. I have officially been within 100 feet of a head of state. Not even remotely thrilling, and somewhat annoying. I have begun to go for walks twice a day when we are at the R&D center, it's about the only exercise I get over here, since by the time we get back to the hotel it's dinner time, and then it's time for conference calls back to North America. Anyways, we were not allowed to leave our building from 2pm - 5pm, so I figured I would take my walk a little earlier than usual, at about 1:30, giving me 15 good minutes to get the blood flowing and plenty of time to avoid any unnecessary international incidents. Alas, my coworkers freaked out because I disappeared and was outside when I shouldn't be, so I got a frantic phone call about my present whereabouts. I explained coolly that I didn't have to be back in Cell Block 3 for 25 more minutes, but this didn't go over well. So while I didn't get to finish my walk, I did get the fun roller coaster ride from "happy to be walking" to "mildly annoyed" to "indignant" to "righteous anger," all within the span of about 7 minutes. Clearly my American individuality was bubbling to the surface. I wanna be a cowboy!