Pump Up The Volume

I'm gonna hit 31 this year, but I still love the drama "Pump Up The Volume" from 1990. I shouldn't, especially since one of my favorite quotes was "society is mutating so rapidly that anyone over the age of 20 really has no idea"..

But I still love it..

Oh Spring How I Hate Thee

And in less than a week we went from a chilly almost spring kind of weather to a full out summer and that resulted in a huge and sudden increase of pollen here and everytime I went outside I felt it. Badly. When I walked to the train this morning, when I walked out for lunch and when I went home... I'd almost forgotten how much I dislike spring... but then again, as I was sitting at Fridays in Kungsan enjoying my lunch I was reminded of how wonderful spring can be too...

That's Right, I Stepped Up!

So you'd think that our WoW guild dying would make me stop playing WoW. Well, it kinda had the opposite effect since I stepped up and took on even more responsibilities and stuff to make things work.

I wonder if there's a WoW detox program somewhere...

Göra Persson Got Some Bonus Points!

I'm not a big fan of Göran Persson, our prime minister. He's been the prime minister of sweden for 10 years now which is both admirable but also too long. Anyway, the other day he was a guest in one of the more unusual talk shows in sweden and as a part of their test how hip he was they showed him a clip from "Big Brother" and asked him to identify the show. He looked at it for a while and then said the most accurate description I've ever heard - "Is this a real TV show? People actually watch this?". I thought that was hilarious. Got some bonus points in my book, but election is still a few months away.

When It Rains, It Pours

So not only is our WoW guild dying, but now one of my best friends is losing his job (downsizing - AGAIN!) and this woman I finally asked out is trying to patch things up with her ex...

Regarding the first one, you coul say "it's just a game", but it's become so much more. It's hard to describe to someone who hasn't been there, but it's another hurtful reminder that "all good things must come to and end". Regarding my friend losing his job, that's shitty but he's young and has tons of experience and certifications so he'll get a new one fast as hell, and he also has a girlfriend to comfort him. And the last one... well, I'm one of those "good for her!"-people so... good for her, whatever makes her happy!...

But I'm still depressed... Oh well, I have plenty of cookies!

Time To Grab Life By The Horn

Our WoW guild is dying out now, think we've been pushing it a bit hard and people have just woke up and realised "hey, I'm almost 31, maybe I should do something else than play computer games". And yeah, I'm people... thing is, I'm not very good at taking on huge tasks like for example cleaning my apartment that is in serious need of a good cleaning crew... nah, just one more Rend-run (WoW talk)..

I'm Not Slipping In My Old Age!

When I landed in Prague last friday and met the team ("Eventyr") that was gonna take care of us during the weekend I noticed one of the girls and thought to myself "I so know her!". Unfortunately you can't just go up to a beautiful woman like that and say "don't I know you?" unless you wanna get laughed at. At some point during saturday morning it hit me - she worked for one of our companies in the building next door back in the old "Min Dator" days, like 8 years ago!! So I finally got it and talked to her and indeed, it was her. But then she kicked me in the nuts when she had no clue who I was...

Sooner Or Late They All Come To Me

During the conference we had a teambuilding exercise and the most interesting thing that happened was when we were gonna split up into small groups of like 8-9 people. Everyone knew me because everyone that has worked there for a while have talked to me so many times they know me and all the new people had their IT intro's with me so they knew me too. And I knew everyone for the same reasons. And I know when which lady got married since I had to change names and stuff in the network and I know when people transfer between offices. The problem was - alot of them didn't know eachother! And that put me in a kinda unique position during all this since I had to introduce people, team up the girls to talk about wedding preparations and stuff since one had gotten married just a few months ago and I could easily strike up a conversation regarding the pub around the corner of our office in Brussels since I know this guy just came back after working for 2 years in Brussels. That was fun and unexpected.

Report and pics from Czech Republic

Here you can find my report regarding what went down in the Czech Republic during the weekend and here you can find some pictures as well.

To put it mildly it was an awesome weekend! I was afraid it might turn out to be boring and "same old, same old" but it was just great fund and actually motivating!!

Back The The Czech Republic

Oh man what a party!! We left on friday morning (and I mean morning, sipped my first beer at 7 am!) arrived in Karlovy Vary at noon, spent some time in the town and had a wild friday night. On saturday it was time for a conference and some teambuilding activity (that was actually the most rewarding teambuilding I've done, and I've done alot!) and then the most posh dinner I've ever been to (got away with skipping the tie though!). Another wild night and today we took a 4 hour walk through Prague and then headed home and I'm exhausted...

BUT MAN WHAT A PARTY!!!!
(pictures coming up tomorrow)

Going To Prague!

Tomorrow morning I'm off to Prague! Yay, finally going out of the country again like the good old days :)

But this time I'm going with the entire lawfirm and it includes a posh dinner. I'll see how that goes. Will let you know when I get home which should be sunday night... SHOULD be...

New Design!

Ok, here's the new design. It's FAR from complete. Still need to do a cool logo and fill the content and write alot of stuff but I thought the old one was too old now...

Party Party!

The other day me and some friends went out for some beers and have something to eat and just enjoy a good night out. And it was really good, until around 12 when we were walking around looking for some place that was open, had beer and didn't have a queue to get in. So we ended up at Bullwinkles. I haven't been there for years but last time we were there it was a normal bar. But now it had been transformed to a meatmarket, pick up joint. After we'd checked in our coats, ordered the drinks and checking out the environment we realised just how out of place we were. Most of us where close to or over 30 which most of the other people (atleast the girls) wasn't, we had clothes that fit which the other people (most the guys showing off their pecks) didn't and none of us was looking to hook up. That was a bad way to end the night :(

V for Vendetta

Just came home from seeing "V for Vendetta". Awesome flick! Everything one could hope for when going to the movies. Great movie, great action, great dialogue, great script, great explosions, great music - and Natalie Portman. Ofc there was some less than perfect things in the movie, like Natalie trying to pull of a british accent, but overall an awesome movie! Go see it!

Women Are Amazing

You know how I say that me being so afraid of taking the initiative with women is one of the biggest reason I'm still single? Well, think we nailed another one today - I aim too high! Asked out one of the nicest and most beutiful women I've ever met today. Naturually I was shot down and I wasn't expecting anything else, and it was such a nice "no" I even went to bed with a smile on my face.

But to quote one of my favorite movies - if there is any other way to aim, I don't know how.

Pinata Burger!

Whoever came up with the idea of having nachos and salsa sauce on a hamburger should get a freaking medal! Best meal I've ever had on Burger King, which isn't saying much since most of the time I've been there I've been intoxicated. I doubt it's a coincidence they have restaurants at all the places I usually end up after a night out, but they've really nailed the spots - Medbrogarplatsen, Vasagatan, Plattan, Odenplan and Stureplan!

Technology Rocks!

Don't you just love technology? As I was sitting on the train to work the other day, bored out of my mind and out of battery for my MP3 player I picked up a newspaper and noticed something called Sudoku where the crosswords usually are. Tried to make sense of it by staring on the semi finished grid but couldn't really get a grip on it. So Blackberry (small PDA) on, WAP over to the National Encyclopedia's wireless service and look up what that hell it is. 3 minutes later I had it solved and one more new thing I learnt that day. And I'm kinda getting the impression I must've missed a craze by not knowing what tha hell it was in the first place.

But I love technology :)

Gangsta Natalie!

You know I love people who can make fun of themselves and see humor for what it is. Well, now I like Natalie Portman even more! She's always had this nice, clean princessy Long Island Harvard graduate-thing about her. Then she did "Saturday Night Live" the other day and did this rap. Didn't see that coming...

Spinning

I love it when the swedish newspaper have nothing interesting to report. Like last week, the day after it had been established that this current bird flu had hit sweden and people were all like "so?", the next day the published The List. The List of people, or rather positions/institutions, who was on some kind of priority list for vaccination should this mutate and kill people. I thought that was hilarious as hell, but from a journalistic point of view, what tha hell where they hoping to accomplish by that? Sow some seed of discension or what? Noone really cared it was here so why would anyone care if our King was very high on that list? And they had absolutely no reference to where the list came from or anything. But I found it amusing that the IT departments did get a special mention. Even if it was the governments and healthcare IT departments. Thing is, everyone there knows you can just order home your own supply of this vaccin on the net if you want to feel like the king...

WoW Again

Now I'm gonna force myself to play WoW less 'cause I've been putting so much stuff off in the past months that I have alot of stuff to catch up on. This place being one of them...
So 4 years ago we had all the expectations in the world to get some olympic medals and that didn't happen. So this year we didn't, but we did get tons of them. Think we ended up like 6th or 7th all in all. Biggest one ofc was the hockey, and now there's alot of legal issues with that because of the celebration party they had here in Stockholm. Since it was arranged by the swedish ice hockey organisation it had their logos and sponsors, not the official olympic sponsors which goes against some rule somewhere. I just love legal mumo-jumbo and there are even talks that it might disqualify our hockey team. Good luck with that :)