2009-07-29

Re:

Regarding the update frequency:
It is not that the inspiration is low, nor that I don't have anything to write about. It is just that it is really hard to get a time long enough when I can sit and formulate my thoughts into a readable mass instead of this kind of jumbled mess. There are times of peace and quiet, but I must confess that those are often spent recuperating (in front of whatever is on the TV).

Regarding what's on TV:
Most of the time there are something that I can watch without hating myself, but at about five in the morning there is really nothing worth watching. I have even found myself watching 'Ellen'... It is bad.

Regarding the Lions:
It is quite fun to live in a place where you hear Lions roar (I do deny the fact when Kristina tells me to listen. I say that it is an MC with problems, which always earns me a stern look... (but just between you and me, I do know that it is a Lion))

2009-07-17

Procrastination

I tend to procrastinate. In the old days back at uu there was nothing strange about it, I mean, that what a PhD does. Check email. Check dn on-line. See if there is something new up on wired or slashdot. Scan through the rss feeds to see if anyone has updated their blogs. Read phd comic, ctrl-alt-delete and get fuzzy, frazz and pearls before swine on comics.com. And It was all good. A welcome break... But now? I don't have 20 articles that I should have read last week. I don't have data that I should have analysed and understood some time ago. I don't have a thesis to write. I am just home being a dad. And yea, I understand that a few laughs is great as relaxation between periods of screaming and or diaper changes, and it is fun to keep updated on what's going on in the world. But why do I almost manically watch if I have received any new emails when the fact is that I get one perhaps every other day (at most)?

2009-07-06

More needle work

Of course the kid needs his name on the sheets in the perambulator.

Eskilstuna

I have long been meaning to write about my current home town. What I think of it. I do not think very much of it. It is rather crappy in many ways. (And here I would talk about all the things that I think sucks, it would go on for pages and pages and include bike lanes, pedestrian crossings, gravel, shopping etc. etc. but I will spare you, or maybe save it to a later post...) But then you find something that makes you smile.



Do you see it? I have walked and biked past this place daily for more than a year now and noticed it only a month ago. I do not know if that is cause it was not there until then or if I just did not see it. Anyhow, it was something that I did not expect to find in this culturally deprived place called Eskilstuna. Nerdy guerilla street art.