Small Little Update

I've been intending to make an update here but every time something else has come in between. But here I am... so what to type? My newly re-discovered allergies really don't wanna go away! I can use all the tablets and cortisone-cream that the doctors can throw at me it just won't go away. But I'm still hopeful in the "it'll blow over"-kinda way. As a result of all this I felt a bit down and tried a bit of retail therapy and bought myself a new set of speakers. So now my little corner of the universe sounds a little bit better!! Other than that ... same old same old...

All Good Things Really Do Come To An End

Got a bad reminder that all good things really do come to an end yesterday. I've been a Moby fan for years and when I saw there was a new DVD out with one of his concerts from his latest tour ("Hotel") I bought it and yesterday I had a chance to see it. It was... good. Which is rather disappointing. Usually his live shows had alot of energy and the spirit of "people jumping up and down and dancing till 5 am" (quote from the man himself during his "Glastonbury" performance). This one didn't. I don't know if it was the audience or that it was a smaller arena that did it. But it probably was that he'd changed pretty much the entire band, only one from the "good old 'Play'-days" was the drummer, Scotty. No "G-Strings" (the girls playing violins and stuff), no "RJ The DJ", no Paulo running around thumping his drums, no Greta on bass or Diane doing vocals. It wasn't as good as it used to be at all.

But what tha hell - it's friday, it's the first day of summer (according to me) and it's "Star Trek" and Formula 1 weekend! As the song goes - "things are going great and they're only getting better".

Horoscopes

Do you put much faith in horoscopes or anything describing you as a person through zodiacs? I haven't. From a statistical point of view, if you throw in enough crap there something is bound to be accurate and it's just been silly all along. But the other day as I was cleaning up a bit I came across one of these that was frighteningly accurate. Not only one or two things right, but everything in that very long text got it absolutely 100% dead on! And it really made my day. Unfortunately I can't really get into details because the source reference was a "Gemini"-sheet from the Museum of Erotica in Copenhagen that I picked up a few years ago, so that would be way too much information.

Rammstein

You know one of the best things about me is my open mindedness, my way of not pre-judging anything and if I do not being a stubborn asshole refusing to admit I was wrong. I've never been a big fan of metal. I go as far as Metallica and Nightwish but that's it. Well the other week I was out having more than a few beers with a few friends and ended up at Anchor, which is a bar mostly for head bangers. Which I'm certainly not. But on their TV screens they were playing the DVD of some Rammstein concert and it was a mighty impressive show. Didn't hear that much since we were there to be social, not to listen to Rammstein. But being the open-minded person I am I ordered the DVD and yesterday I decided to annoy my neighbours by putting it on. And man do those guys rock! Say what you will about the music (and since I can't understand the lyrics I can't say much about that) but the show was totally kick-ass! And the fact it was mixed in DTS made it sound that much better. Favorite number would be "Los" when they start off with an acoustic guitar and slowly build up to the balls-out climax.

This Is Not A Joke

Yesterday I went home to one of my best friends to do... absolutely nothing! Just hanging out, playing some x-box, talking through some more or less unimportant stuff... Anyway, at like 1am I thought I'd better get my ass home since it's a long drive and so off I went. It had gotten pretty chilly over the night and I was going a bit too fast through a twisty part of E18, but it's got 2 lanes and no traffic so no problem criss-crossing between the lanes. That was until there was an aqueduct, a pretty good left blind turn and all of a sudden one lane was closed for construction and at that point I lost the grip at about 90 kph thanks to the chilly road. But you know what? Thanks to me being a complete slacking computer geek I made it with two inches to spare! Me being a slacker = me still driving with winter tires. Me being a computer geek = I've mastered the art of drifting thanks to Need for Speed. Ok, the obligatory skid testing to get a license in Sweden might have helped too. So after sliding through all of that and very nearly going off the road I calmly drove the rest of the way home to contemplate my brush with death and said "missed me!".

It's All In The Head

Today I proved something pretty important - no matter what happens, if you have the attitude for it you can make a bad day great. I had a terrible start of the day with oversleeping a bit, train being canceled and next train being full and just a lot of things going bad. But then at around 9 I just decided that "today is gonna be a GREAT day, so there!". And the day continued to throw one problem after another at me, including Vodafones totally incompetent support and me having gotten all the way home before I realized I'd forgotten my keys at work and had to go back in, it didn't matter 'cause I had decided that "today was gonna be a great day". And it was! :)

Size Is A Funny Thing

About a year ago when I was out to buy some clothes again I was looking at the 42" shelf while buying pants, which was kinda embarrassing and also limited the choice of clothes I could actually buy (if I wanted to wear them that is). But after last July's awful exercise in laziness and me almost hitting 120 kilos I spent half of august and most of September going down and I almost reached 100 before I called it quits. It just wasn't fun and I enjoy food too much and when you're counting the calories while exercising it's kinda hard to enjoy a big dinner without thinking "how many hours is this on the treadmill". And yesterday was actually the first time I've been out shopping clothes since then and I can now squeeze into a 38" pants. That's sweet :)

And speaking of nutritional diets and tying that in with the talk about advertisements - Delicato, who makes really good but not that nutritious snacks and cookies, are doing a major PR campaign at the moment. And the point of them all is "our food isn't healthy"! My favorite is the one saying "Warning: May contain traces of vitamins and minerals".

Going out to a party tonight with some of the SoulCrusher gang. It's a warm-up to our 10 year anniversary party tomorrow. Not looking forward to Sunday...

People Are Idiots

My old saying "a person is smart but people are idiots" was proven once again today. I decided to go into Stockholm an hour earlier today to get some shopping done. I got to H&M and when I came in there was a sea of chicks there in front of me. Normally I wouldn't complain but these weren't the nice, gentle, fun and loving bunch of women, oh no, it was women out to get their piece of Madonnas' new clothing collection that premiered today. I've never witnessed this kinda thing before, always heard jokes about it. And it was so hilarious but pathetic at the same time how people who are normally intelligent behaves like a pack of animals like this... then I walked passed the lot and had the entire male section to myself.

And the other day I had a link to a hilarious commercial. Well today I have this link which is an ad for computer developers. It's fun in all languages but I can't be bothered to translate it all for you, but let's say it's full of irony, sarcasm and jokes at computer geeks expense. All good!!

Life Goes On

Same old same old... trying to keep my allergies and rash under control which I'm barely managing, think I may need another visit to the doctors for this soon. Had a kick ass weekend which included, but wasn't limited to, my sister, brother and nephew pulling an all nighter on Saturday to enjoy the F1 premiere from Australia. Loved it! And tonight I'm going out with my old employer "Pulsen" but as a customer for once...

Some movie reviews ; "The Prestige" - Weird movie that was hugely disappointing and was filmed weirder than "Memento". "Stranger Than Fiction" - I don't know if it's because I hit my 30's but all of a sudden there's a huge onslaught of movies about people asking "where is my life going?" and re-discovers themselves. Is that a sign or what? Pretty decent movie. And we finished off with "Eurotrip". No matter what mood you're in, that movie always works. It's a shame it didn't get any bigger than it was because it so totally owns.

Was That All There Was?

2 weeks ago we had minus degrees, we had snow and it was winter. Today I was walking around in the city in a t-shirt and wasn't the least bit cold. But I'm not complaining, the sooner we get this transition over with the sooner my allergies will settle down. Although it's pretty much under control at the moment.

Btw, LOVE this commercial. It's an ad for a Swedish internet provider and their slogan is "Our customers are used to going fast". If I wasn't already a customer I'd switch to them just for this commercial...

Mind Over Matter

You know I hate taking medication, right? I'm the guy that thinks twice before even taking a pill for a headache! So when I went to the doctors and got all this stuff to combat my allergies and especially that crap that I was suppose to put in when I take a bath I hated it. But now, 3 days later it's all under control and I only had to use 2 of the 4 prescription drugs I got - very strong cortisone lotions. Didn't need that crap in my bath fortunately...
But now, aside from a bit if itching, I'd say that's over. If only i hadn't waited over 2 weeks to see a doctor...

And I won another round of Scrabble. Don't ask me how I do it cause I really don't have a clue, I just seem to be good at it...

Going Back To My Youth

You know how I always say that things used to be better and I wanna relive my childhood? Well I take it all back today! A small part of my childhood was spent dealing with my allergies and stuff and bathing in some disgusting liquid that was suppose to make it all go away. I've surpressed most of that so it can't have been good. Well today I went to a doctor to check up on my allergies and she wrote prescription alot of stuff including this shit I have to bathe in again. Not sure I wanna do that. I mean the allergies are annoying but not to the degree I wanna put myself though that again.

Fin While It Lasted

I've had a good run health-wise for the past 2 years ever since I got rid of that damn headache. Haven't had much to complain about since then. Except now! About a week ago my allergies started acting up and bothered me but not too bad, it does that a little now and then. But now it's an all out war with rash all over! Think I may have to go to the doctor and get myself a shot of cortison if it doesn't let up soon because clarityn and lotion isn't cutting it anymore. This was one of the reasons I didn't go out, as was the fact I had just donated blood which means one beer has the same effect 5 has usually.

A Defining Day .. And I Screwed It Up

Ever had one of those days you feel was very defining, that had you done this things might have been very different? I had one of those yesterday. Probably should keep it to myself, but tha hell with it...

When me and my last "girlfriend" (it's a stretch to say that since we never got that serious) split it was under real good circumstances and both were totally cool about it and I even joked that next time we meet eachother at a party or something who knows. And I didn't wanna mess with fate too much so I didn't go out of my way to make that hapened. But that party was yesterday. Was I there? NO! For alot of reasons I said no to going out with a few of my friends and as it turns out they ended up at the same party. I have no idea what'd happened had I been there but as usual I wasn't there to find out. I'm a dork sometimes. And I could ofc blame them for not giving me a call but that wouldn't be right.

Oh well...

Back To The Bloodbank

Today I donated blood. Again. For the 10th time. And when you hit that mark you get your first pin. Me so proud :) Unfortunately it was a really bad day for the nurse who failed miserably at getting a good vein so my muscles are pretty sore and I'm bound to be a bit blueish tomorrow. Small price to pay I think.

And then the superficial part of me kicked in. The part of my brain I wanna turn off since it goes off on tangents with all kinds of crazy ideas and observations... don't read on if you wanna keep on respecting me... I may very well be spoiled with all the beautiful women at work and in Stockholm, I just need to walk around the block and I'll see atleast 10 gorgeous women... but I have yet to find the ward for beautiful women in hospitals. Seriously, where are they? Every time I've been to a hospital you may see a cute nurse or two but that's it.. Why is that? Does it mean beautiful women have superior DNA and doesn't get sick as much as the rest of us? Or is it because women aren't that beautiful before they got their make-up on (which most of the women at hospitals haven't bothered with)? Oh the great mysteries of life. To be continued...

Oooo, ice cream...

Media Coverage... sigh...

You know how sometimes you get so bogged up with your own issues and you check the news and realise that all your problems are small in comparison to the rest of the world.

Yesterday was the complete opposite! I chose to stay home and take care of some practical issues like changing locks and stuff in my apartment and blocking my old badges so whoever stole my jacket couldn't get in either at work or home and all of these small things that I blow out of proportion and then I turn on the news and the biggest issue of the day was... why did Britney cut off her hair?... seriously, who the hell cares???

A Good Evening Turned Bad

On friday we had one of those "pub evenings" at work, when people stay an hour or two after work, have a few beers and gets some snacks and just talk. Pretty fun stuff. After that we stayed a few hours more and played some poker, and then out and ended on O'Learys at the central train station in stockholm. Had a few beers and I started playing blackjack and everything was going swell. I won alot of money but after over an hour sitting there I had to go to the bathroom and when I came back someone had stolen my jacket. The jacket wasn't the problem, it was my keys and my new mediaplayer (an iRiver Clix) that was in it that I'm most upset over. Right now I can't even get to my car in the garage because the keys was in the jacket. Damnit, I hate stuff like that. Now I gotta take an afternoon off work to sort that out and then I gotta buy a new Clix for $300, not to mention a new jacket. That sucks... Careless for 5 minutes and that's what happens...

However... if you know me you know I have a tendancy to be positive so... for some reason I didn't have my wallet in my jacket which it is most of the time, and I didn't have my cellphone or my commuting card in the jacket either. And I had the good fortune of having my brother there who just happened to have a spare set of keys so I could atleast get into my apartment. So... could have been worse!

Not Alot Happening

Sorry, not much happening here at all. Life going on, doing my thing, contemplating life and the meaninglessness of getting up int he morning sometimes.

Not much to report...

Oh, redoing the photo gallery so it may be offline a bit. But when it comes back it'll be better than before. I hope.

Good Or Bad TV?

As I was playing I was also flipping around the TV channels without paying attention. It ended up on channel 5 that was showing some terrible reality show called "My Fair Lady". Now you know how I feel about reality shows right? The point of this one was that they had like 4 or 5 girls from the... shall we say "adult entertainment industry" that they were gonna convert to serious actresses by having them do Shakespeare plays. I wasn't really paying attention until one of them having failed a rehearsal of "Romeo & Juliet" and thought that she should do it her way and shoved her Romeo down on a chair and gave him a lapdance while doing the dialogue. It was pretty funny and the guy didn't know what to do. And I can't make up my mind if it's bad or good TV. I mean, most actresses can be quoting Juliet but doing it while giving a lap-dance, that's respect :)

Up And Down

This server has been acting very strangely in the past couple of days so I had to leave WoW for awhile to try to figure it out. Seems that someone had gotten access somewhere to this server and started putting up moves for download and that caused huge overload in this server. I removed all the files and hopefully capped the little security hole they go through and it should now work just fine