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.
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 🙂
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!
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).
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!
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.
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…
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…
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 🙂
You know how I keep saying that I’m not 20 anymore? Well this weekend I kinda felt it! First we had a spring part on friday evening with classy dinner and then free bar open till 3 am. Got home around 4. Then up again at 12 and out to my parents to celebrate my fathers birthday. Then starting it up again at 6 when I met up with a few friends in a pub watching the hockey and having a few beers. Got home around 2 am. And then up at 10 am on sunday and felt GOOD!!!
I miss those days when that was an ordinary weekend for me…
I saw Flatley’s new danceshow Celtic Tiger on DVD the other day. I loved “Lord of the Dance” and “Feet of Flames” but I had no idea what to expect out of this. Since it’s the same guy & crew I knew it was gonna be some of the same stuff….
At first I was wondering what tha hell this was and if there was a story anywhere but after a few number it really picked up speed and by the time it crossed the atlantic I was so digging it and it just got better. Some awesome numbers in there and the 2 favorites where the dance-mixing that made the producers of “Let’s Dance” feel like newbies, and the stepping to rock music number that felt very original. Overall a good investment and I’m sure my neighbors agreed cause it was loud…
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..
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…
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…
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.
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!
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)..
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…
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.
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!!