Youtube sucks

Yesterday was great. A small stone chipped a piece of my windscreen on my way to the gymn, but compensating for it were my friends at my destination, we had a great time there, and actually managed to work out some too.
Nevertheless, it's amazing, how just little can be done over such a long period of time. Okay, we still got our pecks pumped...
I also had time to go to the hairdresser, I kind of looked like someone with a helmet on, so it was really refreshing to revert to the shorter style again.

Today I got the windshield fixed, but the man doing it felt somewhat unprofessional. The result is so-so, and it's still a visible defect, but I hope it will hold. I even went to another shop to check with them what they thought. Anyway, the next time I won't be using this dude.

To this post, I wanted to upload two video clips but damn it, Youtube (that I guess is handling all videos for Blogger, since Google owns both Youtube and Blogger) really sucks donkey. I attached one clip, perhaps 20s duration, 1,2MB, and since it still hadn't finished to process after two (!) hours, I discarded it. Really useful function to be able to blog a clip, if it takes hours to complete. Do I have to upload to my blog in the morning, to be able to finish it in the evening?! Go figure...
So, I say thank you vimeo.com, feeding you two clips showing you why you should get kids.

Bargains deluxe

We went to buy new blankets (or rather duvets) today, and wound up with one only. How do you know how warm blanket you need? I'm pretty warm, so I prefer thinner than the Mrs. for example. So we'll try this one, and buy another later. Depending on how warm this is, we'll see which one of us get this.

Also, in the bargain section, we found another less useful item...

We brought her home, and fed her, she seems to like it here so far :D

My new Ixus 870

Well, either my old camera will never show up, or it will take quite some time.
So, I had no choice (ehhum, hehe...) but to open the box, and pick up my new camera, which I bought this Monday. The shiny and sexy Ixus870, gold of course, not silver version.

It's so good, I can't believe it. OK, so I haven't checked the picture quality yet (I trust the reviews, for example dpreview.com and kenrockwell.com).
I have only toyed with it for two hours, but it's fast, powerful and smart. Controls are laid out in a perfect manner, some buttons can be set to do what you find useful.
Focus can be set to Face detect and Servo AF (a high end SLR feature!), so it tracks faces and should give perfect focus on moving subjects.
The 3" screen with awesome colours is viewable from ridiculous angles.
I don't know what more to say... oh yes, if you do not have a camera yet, or your old one needs to be replaced, buy one!

The cutest thing I've read

Two kids wanted to run away together and get married... :D
Read the story here

Going to Budapest this summer

Just bought the whole family's tickets on Wizzair. First thing that comes to mind is, fuck 'em. Tickets that start out as low as 700SEK for a round trip, quickly escalate due to:
Luggage? Oh, so you do not want to go naked? OK, add another 94SEK per suitcase per direction (!). Well no shit, of course I want to take my crap home too.
The kid, we will charge you 235SEK for taking your kid, although she will sit in your lap all the time. Double this if you like to bring your kid back home too. (Actually, I know of some relatives that could imagine us leaving Klara behind for them to take care of, hehe. )
Wait, do you want to pay for the tickets?! Sure, then we charge 50SEK PER PERSON! If I pay one payment, Wizz does not have to pay Visa three times, they pay once, but I pay Wizz 3x50SEK. That's bullshit. In Hungarian we'd say: A jó kurva anyátokat szájba édeseim. How the hell can they be such fuckers? I wanna piss on them actually, but since they may still be in business and be able to take us there delayed no more than 4 hours, which is normal for Wizz, all I can say is "fuckers".

So we are shopping

And seeing this almost brought tears to my eyes. Have to hurry home to eat a sandwich. Only problem is, no way it's gonna taste like the real thing, 'cause we don't have Hungarian bread at home :(

Don't watch this movie

Pineapple express is the shittiest movie I have seen for quite a while. How did it get 7.5 on IMDb? Do all folks there smoke weed? Seth Rogen has to be looked out for, if he has the main character in a movie, it will blow. Superbad was good, but this waste of time... of two hours, more than a half could have been shaved off. Knocked up (7.6 on IMDb) was also horrible, good first half, then tremendiously bad second half.
Seems like he's one of Hollywood's favorites, but why?

Skates and frost

It's been cold for a while now, and our pond is usable for other things than swimming. Actually, swimming in it isn't possible, but I rode my bike on it...

Retrospective

Looking back at 2008, the last really crappy thing that happened was the loss of my Ixy900 (called Ixus850 here) on New Years eve. Somehow it disappeared between our front door and the car. I got it in Seoul, Korea almost exactly two years ago, trading in my Ixus700. Damn it, I valued this camera... Also, the extra battery pack was in the small bag, which will set me back another couple of hundred. :(
One thing to hope for is that the police arrested a junkie nearby, in his car were lots of stolen goods, so after the holidays I can check with them if they got it.
Shopping for a new camera is fun, but not this way...

Happy new year

I got to stay with Klara at midnight, making sure she wasn't scared of the fireworks. I don't mind, she was the best thing that happened to me this year, and this year was really good...
I wish you all a great 2009!

Back ache and dinner

Got a real nice migraine today, so I tried to work it off at the gymn after work. It turned out quite well, but I hurt my lower back in the process... so it's really hard to tie my shoes, put socks on, lift Klara up and so on. Oh, wiping my ass is no picnic either. :D


Later this evening, Saga and her parents came over, we had dinner and drank some wine, played with the kids and had a really nice time. Seems like the kids learn from each other every time they meet.

Saga is a bit ahead in the standing/crawling area. Klara and Saga had a small race around the kitchen island a couple of laps. Then Klara just did a Cannonball run.
Rounding things up, my head is all ok, and my back is almost there too. And tomorrow it's New Years eve!

On a small side note, Klara took two steps on her own, holding on to the table and sofa...

Just too adorable

I have got to get me a fox...

The Christmas sale has started

Began the day at 7am (or so) with feeding the kid, then acting as a barf collector, as she enhanced the morning with throwing up on me. So I hit the shower, and managed to fall asleep again, only to get a rude awakening from the Mrs. at 9am. Apparently I was late, we were late. How can one be late for a relaxing day in the city?
Anyway, we got on our way to mom, left Klara there so we could enjoy a day just the two of us, and mom and dad enjoy a day with Klara.
No trip to the city is complete without checking in and out at IKEA, so we got that done, then headed to New York pizza, they make the best pizza I know of. By the way, the shop is run by a Hungarian family. :) After a giant pizza, we took on the shopping round.
The plan was to do Triangeln and the shopping street, then see "Yes man" with Jim Carrey and eat dinner out. After Triangeln, we still had one our until the movie would start, and all of a sudden we realised, that we wouldn't see Klara for another three-four hours. By the time we would have gotten home with her, it would have been time for her to go to bed. Also, I was pretty exhausted (real men don't do shopping well) and we got tired of the crowd and the shops turned upside down by shoppers. The parental hormones kicked in, we skipped the movie and blazed home.
Great day all in all, huh? Not even close to the fun, relaxed, romantic idea we had of today. At least Klara had fun, and mom and dad were thrilled, so I'm still happy.

Gombóc

Mom sure knows good stuff...

After the gymn

Since my head was about to explode, I went down to the gymn and got down with the weigts to some good progressive house from Coronita. My head is still attached fortunately, so I'm rounding things off with good food at Thai way right now.

Konbanwa

Just came home from a concert in the small church close to us, all in all pretty okay. The best part was the conductor, she was Japanese. So after the concert, I went over to her and practiced my beginners Japanese. Awesome. A mistake was to say "nihongo ga amari hanasemasen", so she started talking to me in Japanese :D
I really should stick to using "nihongo ga wakarimasen" for a while.

Dinner, a small party and Christmas incoming

On Thursday Robert came over for dinner. It's been a long time since we hung out a little, though we meet every day at work, and almost always have lunch.
He seems to be great with kids. ;)


Yesterday we had a small get-together with some of our other friends. It's really nice to have small parties, we always have lots of fun. I "reused" a game from Wednesdays party at work, but our friends are to disorganised apparently, it took twice as long as it should. :)


So, after sleeping longer than usual, we got up and started preparing for Christmas. We got a big ass spider off the tree and the Mrs. freaked out.


Klara didn't see the problem with her helping us in her own lick-anything-you-reach ways, and soon our fake, save-the-Christmas-trees tree was ready.

Section party

So, our slightly economically challenged section party kicks-off.
View of the city, check.
Wii, check.
Food incoming, check.
Merry beverages, check.
Music, check.
All the people at a meeting, check.
Okay, so we're not quite there yet. :)

Earthquake

Early this morning an earthquake, which is a relatively rare occurrence here, shook the southern parts of Sweden. I thought Klara was awake, and jumped around in her bed, causing the bed to bang against the wall. So I told the mrs. to get up and make her breakfast, then I want back to sleep. Wonder how I could mix up a 4.7 earthquake feeling as if a lorry had hit the living room, with a kid (barely able to stand up on her own) jumping in her bed, but anyway...

Safety first

Precautions again. While it effectively stops Klara from falling down the stairs, I have to remember to open the gate not to fall over it. :-P

Still not well

The cold isn't letting go of it's grip, so I'll have to skip the gymn this week too I guess. No training the boobies with Mr. Andersson :(
And next week it's Christmas... we all know how that will go.

Robyn

...is one of the best artists I know, a Swedish superstar.
She opened the Nobel Peace Prize for 2008, performing two of her songs, and it was just unbelievable. Her record is the only one I thought was worth giving money for in the last couple of years. Check out the two tracks on YouTube, With every heart beat and Be mine

Party with the neighbours

Tonight we had a small get together with the neighbours in the new building outside of our house. We ate a sh*tload of homemade cookies after pushing down a pizza and some beer. Glühwein was also on the menu.
We had a really great time, all the kids made a lot of noise, I threw balls on them and chased them around, just for fun.
Finishing off the night with some poker, which I don't master, but I came out almost winner after two buy-ins. :P
Everyone should have neighbours like ours...

Ms Santa

Sale...

A computer store is bankrupt, all items will be sold out. But it's freezing cold outside, despite lots of clothes I'm shivering and it's still 50min until they open. As there are 300+ people ahead of me, I doubt I will get wait I want, and waiting 2hrs for that is not my idea of fun. Wonder what the 200 people behind me think. I gave up.

The new party drug

I think the DEA in Hungary would be interested in the origins of this fruit.

Light's up

Finally it's solved. 3m up in the air, the damn architect thought it would be nice. That may be right, but getting anything up there is a nightmare. Fortunately, we could borrow the neighbour's long ladder, and with inches to spare, it was possible to use. Long useless pieces of shelves came to use yesterday.
Yeah, I put a long-life, low-energy bulb in there.

Cut-downs at work

Just got the news this morning, our team is "safe". While it would have been a bit surprising to find out that's not the case, it's still good to hear the official news.

Cold

Damn it, feel like Klara has done a proper job in providing the cold she has a new host, namely me. My throat feels a bit sore, and I really need to get some more sleep. At least it's not the flu. That one is pretty tough this year, I heard.

Grandmom made lunch

The world we are living in

Not the regular kind of post, but a sad education in the truth.
US of fuckin A...

A long story

It all started with Klara shoplifting stuff at Willy's supermarket. When we weren't looking, she streched and got hold of a pack of baby wipes. Sneaking it into the packed cart was not a problem. Just as we had paid for everything and were on our way from the register, we found it next to her. Back and pay please. None of us realised that the other didn't put it in there, and we didn't even discuss it until we got home. Klara didn't come forward of course. Here she is later, denying it all. Feels like a Winona Ryder deja-vu.


I had a feeding frenzy, eating two slices of bread with salami, and a little later seven (7) buns with salami. I was almost rolling away from the table. Laying on the sofa for half an hour was just what the doctor ordered.


Eventually, Klara fell asleep on my belly, and Cilla wanted to take a picture, she was so cute she said. Unfortunately, she forgot that her husband is a whacko, and when she saw the picture, she cracked up. Haven't seen her giggle like crazy for a while. Can't see why...


She couldn't really stop, which made me start laughing really hard, and of course Klara bounced around on me and woke up. She was quite puzzled by what was happening. Falling asleep with us were always a safe and cozy way. Life is a tough teacher.

Yes it was this big...

or something, I wonder what I was explaining. (Picture from yesterday)
Anyway, it was a long day today at work. Yesterday major work was at home. No rest, I find that life was easier when I was younger. Less work, more play. All work and no play makes Jack a dull boy. Luckily, I'm still far from that. :)

The blood bus

Not called so in English, but anyway... it was time to donate.
Now I just hope that it doesn't go to some prick that doesn't deserve it. Can I write this? Yes I can, and well, just did.

Winter and new houses

Soon there will be new students living across the lake.
(hahaha a little exaggerating?)

The winter has arrived

Yesterday night the ground was covered in hail. In the morning everything was covered in ice. Now snow...

It's like heaven

She fell asleep 15min ago

Timetravel for dad

All that was left to do for him after the party











Post added by Klara

Going home

All was good, until Tiga started playing. He sucks. Big time. So we're going home. Damn it. :@
So, this was at quarter past one, the train was supposed to leave at 01:51, and that we made. Unfortunately, the train was 50 minutes late. Great. By the time I got home, I had spent 4 hours on and waiting for transportation. Taking the car next time sounds pretty good... Ok, first of all, it didn't rain and it wasn't cold, and the company was great, that made the trip home good.

Update: The post-event movie is up right here along with photos.

This is one half

Behind the globes and the water, there's the other half of the crowd.

Erick E

Almost like Bed Beach

Sofa king great

Yes. Finally in

Crazy lots of people