It have been a bit quiet here for the last days and the reason is that I have started working again, only on one of my jobs Marratech but still. My work hours are dynamic at Marratech but the target value is 4 hours per day. Just working 4 hours per days is something new to me and I have a hard time relaxing in the afternoon without thinking about work issues. Or not really, I don’t think about the job but I have a hard time relaxing and just being. It only took one day to reach this “normal” state of mind again 🙁
My knee is getting better and now it only feels like a skin wound. Perhaps I can cycle today. That would be good as I feel rather restless and I have to do something physical.
Yesterday the terminator arrived and he found a nest in an old tree stump. He went to work on them with his poison and that should keep them away until the winter.
During the weekend we introduced Tovah to the concept of finding cans and returning them to the store. The first time we bought candy for the received money, but that turned out to be a huge mistake. The next time we went to the store all she wanted was to buy more candy. We convinced her that it might be better to save the can money and buy toys instead. We agreed on that on Saturday we would go to the toy store and see if we can buy a “fart bag” (“pruttkudd”). The deal includes that we double her money if she buys something else than candy. It seems to work. Yesterday afternoon we spent the walk to Björsbyn looking for bottles and cans and found about 10SEK worth.
Yesterday I ordered a scanner so I can scan all my old analog photos as well.
Now it is time for lunch, Chili con Carne. Catch you all later!

My knee hurts very much and I woke up several times during the night. Ouch. Yes, I know, Be a man and shut up. 🙂 Wounds can look rather ugly. Of course I had to take a photo of Tovah’s blister as well. Due to my knee hurting we are staying home today and that means we will miss the Mora Träsk concert. I had been looking forward to that. Dancing with Tovah. Instead I put on some Beatles bootlegs with some rare tracks and this is what happens then.
I think I have forgotten to mention that we have a new pet, a larva that I think is a caterpillar. We have him in a glass jar and feed with fresh leaves every day. He seems to feel well as he is growing nicely.
Yesterday I found out that my mothers web hotel has lost everything known about her company, ParnesInterior and this morning I have moved it to another temporary sever.

Tovah woke up around 8.45 and for the first time in a week I actually was already awake before her. I had been reading for a full 5 minutes. Got up, showered, had breakfast and waited for the terminator. At 10.15 I gave up and called Anticimex and they tell me “Yeah, I was just about to call you. The terminator cannot make it today and the next opening is on Tuesday.” Thanks for not calling me earlier.
Installed the Anki & Pytte, the bottle cap hunting game. Tovah was thrilled and sat with it until 11.30 when it was high time to head out for the Molly Maguire concert. We packed up and then it happened. On the way down the hill next to Erisoft/TietoEnator I had bit too high speed and and when I braked at the end of the hill I fell. OUCH. I banged up my bike, bent the disc on the rear brake, and worst of all I banged my right knee. Tovah was in the bike cart and she just looked up and continued to read her book. Not to worried about her dad. We headed up to work and cleaned the wound and headed down town.
We got to the concert 30 minutes after it started and the acoustics were so bad so it was much better to listen to them from the middle of the park. Anyhow, we got tired of them after 5 minutes and bought some lunch. Langos times two. I got a Bomba and Johanna a Vegitarian. They were quite good but rather fat. Tovah got a lollipop from the Langos maker which she consumed with high energy after lunch.
After lunch we went for a walk and waited for the childrens’ circus that was going to start at 14.00, but know what? They cancelled it 🙁 This was Tovah’s high today so we ended up on the playground just next to the scene. Johanna didn’t join us until 15.20 so we spent 1.5 hours there. As the circus was cancelled there was a kind of flash mob on the play ground which was really crowded. Tovah slid down the high slide that is for children 6 years or older. Tovah is 3 and she loved it and she played on the “cycle train“.
We got home and quickly prepared for Sonja’s 30 year party. We had some very good sandwich layer-cake. Sonja got a home made necklace that Johanna had made for her. On the way home Tovah showed me some new ways of riding her stroller.
I have been publishing my photos immediately instead of once a month and today’s bunch starts here with a picture of my favorite jeans, now ruined.
All in all it has been yet another nice day with the family. It is nice to have them home 🙂

I am feeling fat. I have been eating way to much in the last week. Take yesterday e.g. both a cooked real lunch and pizza for dinner. I am used to only eating one cooked meal per day so I guess I have to cut down on the amount of food I stuff myself with.
Just watched episode one of Coupling. That is a great show and I just love it.
Now it is time for some reading in bed. Have to see how my serial killer is doing today….

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.