No More Cells On The Train

Interesting thing happened the other day as I was going home on the train. My cell phone rang and as usual I answer since I'm on call and have to answer. And as I'm explaining to this clueless lawyer how to install a new printer a guy comes up to me and asks me to hang up. Why? Becuase there's a ban on cell phones on commuting trains now - apparently? I had no idea they did that, but I politely informed him that these things are in the same category as "give up your seat to an elderly so they don't have to stand", it's more of a recommendation & courtesy than actually being illegal. He didn't like that but couldn't argue and left me alone. And the guy was sitting like 10 meters away from me so don't know how me talking on the cell annoyed him...

But generally I agree - sitting next to someone who's talking on the phone with their friend talking about stuff I have no interest what so ever about is damn annoying...

Too Funny To Ignore

I went to the shop to re-stock some stuff after a week in scotland and one of the things I had to buy was shower gel. And I saw Axe has a new (for me anyway!) shower gel out there called anti-hangover with the slogan "Brings you back to life - no matter how short the night was". So I just had to buy it, can't wait to try it :)

Scotland

That was a few busy days in scotland, but now I'm back and settled in again and took the chance to upload some pics from that little semi-improvised trip. We didn't have any plans of anything really but it's been over a year since we last saw each other. Unfortunately we just missed Amy's husband Paul who was offshore again but it was still alot of fun and as usual, coming back with alot of goodies that we don't get here (still don't know why they discontinued Salt & Vinegar crisps!).

Expect a day by day event report soon, meanwhile, enjoy the pics.

I'm Such A Guy ...

I'm so lazy that I haven't done my laundry in a few weeks. And then i realised that "hey, I'm going to scotland on monday, wouldn't hurt to have some clean clothes for that". But I'm so lazy, and my schedule is totally full, that instead I went out and bought new clothes... I'm such a guy...

Not Much Happening

Hate to sound boring but there really is nothing happening. Working and playing WoW is pretty much it right now. But I'll break that pattern this weekend when I'll be busy doing other stuff and then head off to Scotland to check what's happening with the relatives over there. Oh, gay pride week again but for once I haven't noticed it at all!

I was born too late - into a world that doesn't care

Oh god I've got another song stuck in my head now. "I wish I was a punkrocker". Pretty ok song, damn good and funny lyrics, especially since I'm one of those "I remember when I was a kid"-people.
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Finally Over

Phew, finally the soccer championship is over. And what I'll remember most about it is all the tied matches, and the fact that so many play-off matches where decided on penalties so it was kinda appropriate the last match was decided on penalties. Another thing I reacted on this time was how much the referees can screw up a game. I know it's lame to blame a loss on a referee, but sometimes they were just downright fooled and duped and somtimes just made horrible calls.

It's the little things in life you treassure

As I've said so many times, it's the little things in life that I really enjoy! Today I had to go into work and move my office abit (I knew I had to do, just pushed it as far as I could!) and it sucks having to go into work during your holiday, right? Well it only took an hour. Then I spent an hour in Kungsträdgården enjoying an old style vanilla ice cream and when going home I took a huge detour around the central parts of stockholm. And everyone who's been there this time of year knows why.

Donating blood, when did that get expensive?

I'm on holiday right now from work. That means I'm just sitting at home doing all the things I usually don't have time for since I can't be bothered to go anywhere. So today my schedule (not as bad as it sounds!) said "donate blood!". So I filled in the "free parking" note that we blood donors get, took the car up there and got tapped for a pint. Then I got back to the car and ... yeap, got a parking ticket! Why? Because I hadn't put the not up against the windshield! It was in the passenger seat so whoever that parking attendant was should have seen it, but nope. THat cost me 300 SEK :(

More moral problems

As you may remember, a few years back in this blog I made a small reference to Tone Bekkestad, a norwegian chick doing the weather on TV4. In case you haven't seen her, she's hot but in a classy way. And the readers of Slitz, a very guyish magazine in sweden, agreed and voted her as # 42 on their top sexiest women in sweden. And she agreed to do a few photos for them. Now, they do very good photos, not that pornographic or explicit, they still leave alot to the imagination, just the way I like it. And TV4 fired her for it. All of a sudden she's not "credible" to present the weather. Talk about pretentious since this is the woman who educated most of her collegues and actually has the credentials and title to do it :)

Moral dilemma

Oh boy, have I gotten myself into a moral dilemma now. As I was doing disaster recovery of a crashed computer I scanned the documents to see which were salvagable. Nothing new about that. Only this computer used to belong to one of the people in human resources. And as I was going through documents one caught my eye since it was about someone I consider a friend and it was about her expressing some unhappiness with her workgroup she was working in and some stuff she wasn't happy with. At that point I closed it and said "salvaged!" without reading any specifics. But I kept thinking about it and here's the dilemma - do I talk to her about these things in an attempt to make her feel better or try to be supportive, and thereby telling her I've seen a document I probably shouldn't have seen or read? Or do I play stupid and act like I don't know what's bothering her?... I'll see what happens, if I do end up in a remotely deep conversation with her I guess I'll have to bring it up.

Can't This Be Over Soon ...

Even though I'm not trying to watch that many football games I still find myself semi-watching every one. You know, one eye on the computer playing WoW and the other one watching the game. And sweden scored one goal and all of a sudden the media are discussing how far we can go. But england will put them down to earth again.

Wanna Hear Something Sad?

Yesterday was a glorious swedish summer and how did I spend it? Inside a movie theater watching Star Trek. But that's not the sad part, the sad part was that it was the last time we had our Star Trek event in that theater. We've been there once a month for 9 months per year for 9 years now! Seriously, it was 9 years since we had our first event there (and ofc I remember it like it was yesterday). 'All good things must come to an end' indeed...

And today was another glorious summer day and I spent around 1 hour of it slacking in the sun. Then played WoW for the rest of the day :)

Tired Of The Football

Damn I'm so tired of all the football shit that's going on everywhere. I just don't get what's so big about it. And in sweden people are actually expecting our boys to go anywhere. Just setting themselves up for disappointment again. Sure, the european championships was good, but didn't go that far. And now it's world championship?! Can't wait for it to be over!

Happy Birthday To Me

31 years old. Or 30-something... man I'm getting too old for some of the stuff that I'm doing. But I'm just having too much fun so I'll just keep it up :)

This really made my friday (only in swedish though).

Oh What A Mess ...

And now the mess grows, even as far as white house (or so they say in swedish media) as it seems they were preassuring the swedish government to have the Pirate Bay closed. Which I actually don't see that much problem with, because the site was too anarchistic for my liking. But when they even take DNA samples of the people suspected of a crime of a digital nature, one has to wonder what tha hell this mess is about and how it could happen and if it was done legally or what? Fortunately our media isn't letting this one like they did the one last year!

When Good Things Go Bad

So finally our authorities, preassured by the lobbyist from the big multimedia megacorps, got enough of PirateBay and raided their server datacenter. It was a good idea I guess, I mean Pirate Bay has certainly made it easier for everyone to download movies with BitTorrent, but afaik they haven't done anything really illegal. But this good idea is turning worse every hour because they didn't only take the Pirate Bay's servers, they took all the servers they could find, including tons of servers running "normal" sites, and worse of all, some politcal parties had their websites there too. And the police just took it all. And then we're getting into one of the fundamental issues of a democratic society when they do that. Not to mention if they open them up and try to get at the information stored there!

And the even worse part of it is that they'll probably not be able to prosecute them at all since hosting torrent-files that anyone can submit isn't illegal, and that's bad legal precedent to set.

Master Of Useless Information

The other day, me and Ricki was invited home to Eva's place. It's been awhile since we got together just to slack a whole day and being uselss. They had bought a new game called "master of movie" which was kinda like trivial pursuit but all movies all the way. When she had played it with her husband and friends it took them a few hours to complete. But I won it in less than 45 minutes. Then during the weekend I did another round of trivial pursuit with my family and by the time I called it because it was getting late I was a close 2nd. If only I could fill my head with usefull things like they are trying to teach me at this MS Exchange course than I'm attending right now...

Any Excuse for A Party

So for no good reason I was sitting at work yesterday not really wanting to go home. I didn't leave until 17.15, 45 minutes after I could and guess what I ran into? The huge homecoming crowd preparing for a party in Kungsan to honor our hockeyplayers. Eventually they showed up, Carola did her thing and it was a pleasant event.

Then today as I'm sitting questioning the meaning of existence a woman comes in with her digital camera. "I hear you're good at these things?" "Yeah...?" "Good, 'cause I was at this party last night and I have some pictures I was hoping you could mail to me". And sure enough I loaded them over and I can't help but to take a sneak peak... does this guy look familiar? That's the coach of the swedish hockey team in full swing after winning olympic gold medal and the world championship in the same season! "I was at this party", yeah, understatement of the year... it was like THE party...

I guess we're good at hockey!

Yesterday sweden pulled of a first ever by winning both Olympic gold medal and world championship in ice hokey!! I guess that means we're really good at it, huh? Well, any excuse to throw a party I guess :)