On Kvantum there was sale on nice meat, actually cheaper than minced meat so we bought some extra and minced it ourselves when we got home. We were a bit tired from out long bike ride yesterday so the tempo wasn’t to high. We minced about 2KG meat which we fried before putting into the freezer. This meat tasted so much better than pre-minced meat from the store. For lunch we had spaghetti with meat sauce. It was good as always. After lunch I was just relaxing on the porch, surfing, having water wars with Tovah. I finally decided that my old photo album software wasn’t enough so I found Gallery which I installed. So far it looks very good and it seems to do almost everything I want it to do. It even allows pictures to be uploaded directly from XP explorer which is nice.
Johanna was active all afternoon, she pulled some weeds, washed the bike cart, repaired the lawn mower which was later used by Tovah. Indoors Johanna cleaned her room and installed a drape so she could hide her messy shelves.
The terminator didn’t make it today and he will show up tomorrow morning instead. We have killed a number of ants today. Tovah is very good at killing with a spoon.
My family has now been home for almost a week and it feels very good. It is nice to have them here. Tomorrow we are heading down to Hamnkalaset
Right now we are watching Terminator 3.

My fiber to the home connectivity saga continues and here is a summary:
1) Last winter the computer support division at the University (DC) tells me that there isn’t any problem in buying a VLAN solution via LuNet between my home and the University. Great. I order the fiber.
2) During the spring I get informed that this is no longer the case due to DC thinking it is to much hassle to take care of it. Instead I should order normal Internet connectivity via e.g. Tele2 and during or after the summer local peering will be arranged.
3) Last week I get my fiber and the I have to decide which ISP to choose and now DC tells me that it doesn’t really matter as none of them have local peering and there are no immediate plans for local peering. Sigh.
Yes, I get upset with this. Solution 1 is technically simple to arrange as LuNet already have a switch inside the main switch room at the University. Why cannot service organizations be more service minded?
I know I am saying negative things about DC, but I feel that they disappoint their customers so often it is validated. And I have worked there as well so I know the inner workings, or actually the inner “non-workings”.
Anyhow, good morning everybody.
I tried the Google’s News Alert on a tip from mymarkup.net and it seems to work OK. I tried Parnes, nanotech, marratech and Luleå. The latter didn’t work though as it seems to look for “lule” instead and that matches some activities in Africa.
Today the Anticimex “terminator” is coming after lunch to kill off all our horse ants. Stay away from my house, you critters. Before lunch the family is taking a bike ride to Kvantum for some food shopping.
But before that we need breakfast. “Guggemux” and the. A salad consisting of tomato, cucumber, egg (loads) and sour cream (“gräddfil”).

I spent the the morning with Tovah cleaning the wood behind the wood. After she moved the first 70cm stick she said, “Sigh, that was hard work.” 🙂 She is 3. Anyhow we started a fire and burned about 2 m^2 of sticks, leaves and other woody things. For lunch we had pasta with meat (kassler) in red curry sauce with a green salad. Yummy.
After lunch the whole family went for a bike ride around town. First stop was the playground at the Arcus Camping. Me and J were sitting under a tree reading and T was climbing and running around the place. Tovah is a good climber, so good she makes her father’s heart stop from time to time when she is really high up and her father is afraid that she is going to fall down. Hint, father = me. I was reading my first nanotech book. That is an interesting area. Anybody have nanotech job for a assistant professor in computer science.
After about two hours, T said she was hungry and wanted a hamburger. Of we went and on the way we stopped at Inneting. They have some really nice decorating things there and I will definitely go back soon.
We headed into town and bought a hamburger and fries at McDonalds for Tovah and cycled on to Casablanca where we bought a large family pizza. Just as we left the pizzeria with the LARGE pizza box in Tovah’s lap it started raining. Where can one hide from the rain and eat a pizza? Hmm, we headed to the southern harbour and ended up on a loading dock where we had a nice small picknick with hamburgers, fries and our huge pizza.
Then home we went but we did a quick cruise around S.O.D.A. where there was a gathering of big American cars (raggare) and I wasn’t really sure if they were looking more at our cool cycles or we on their cars 🙂 That was fun. Yes, I am an exhibitionist.
We got home at 20.00 and after watching Dharma and Greg it is now time for some reading in bed. The story in “Ont blod” continues about the American serial killer in Sweden.
Update: added images above.

test of azure
Azure is a Java based blog client that allows me to post from my Palm and my phone. The latter remains to be tested. This is written on my Palm Tungsten C.
breakfast time…

A fun episode today, I wanted an ice cream and I asked Johanna if she wanted a “G” as in glass which is Swedish for ice cream. Anyhow, before Johanna gets a chance to answer Tovah says, “I want ice cream”. So much for speaking in code.

We just got back from 7 hours down town. We had lunch at Baan Thai, Swirleys at the northern harbour, 6 visits to the bathroom with Tovah, and way to much time shopping time. We didn’t actually buy that much. Johanna bought a Esprit top, a piece of metal net for her lamp we bought in Egypt, 1l milk and 1l sour milk.
20 of the 40 roses I bought for Johanna last week withered after 1 day so I complained about it and guess what, I got 20 new roses. That is nice service. Or as Tovah would say: “Oj”.
“Pappa, jag måste bajsa. ….. Det kommer inget…. ” times 5.

It is my fathers birthday today!