150 år bakåt i tiden..

Befinner mig just nu i Lögda, Fredrikas äldsta by (1762) där vi har vårt sommarhus..

Till skillnad från de flesta dagar här uppe har denna dag på ett mycket påtagligt sätt visat hur beroende jag är av den teknologi som jag normalt anser vara normal.

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Tromberna slöt idag upp över Norrbotten och Västerbotten och om jag förstår saken korrekt så var över 15000 hushåll utan elektricitet idag.

Nu har jag självklart varit utan el förut. Jag har inte kunnat slå på spisen, inte kunnat haft lamporna på eller framförallt kunnat använda mina datorer eller andra elektroniska “leksaker”.

Vad är då skillnaden idag mot andra gånger då jag upplevt strömavbrott?

Vatten..

I stugan jag befinner mig så tas vatten från en brunn och detta vatten pumpas upp i systemet med hjälp av en vattenpump. Du gissade rätt – en _elektrisk_ vattenpump…

Jag har alltså förutom avsaknad av elektricitet också varit helt utan vatten. Inte bara vatten att dricka (finns dryck på burk) utan också vatten till toaletten..

… Och hur ska vi laga mat, i skogen där vi är, utan spis? (Bristen av lokala pizzerior i Norrlands skogar är total) ;)

Jag har inte haft några problem med att anpassa mig till dagens problem, men jag har däremot fått mig lite av en tankeställare..

Livet för inte så länge sedan var definitivt lite mer komplicerat än vad det är nu. Man hade för 150 år sedan inget vatten och ingen el i huset. Mitt “äventyr” idag var gårdagens vardag.

Vi lagade mat i vedspis och pinkade i skogen. Ok för en dag, men varje dag?

Sverige för 150 år sedan, stora delar av världen idag.

Jag är glad över att leva 2011. Jag är glad över att vara så bortskämd med värme, elektricitet och vatten att jag har svårt att klara mig utan detta under en enda dag utan att känna behovet av att klaga.
Jag är glad över att vara född svensk. Jag är glad över att ha möjlighet att ha tillgång till elektronik så att jag kan skriva om mitt korta besök till Sverige anno 1861. Jag är glad…

Allt detta för ett par tromber….

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The Lonely Island

A couple of days ago I listened to the radio and heard this song ‘Mother Lover’.

I am 43 years old… I NEVER get excited by new music anymore…

But.. This got me going..

It was a long time ago I got this excited by listening to a track and naturally I had to find out more about this group ‘The Lonely Island’..

After researching a bit I found out that this group weren’t so ‘new’.. Actually they are quite ‘old’ and have had a few hits already.

The Lonely Island is apparently a comedy troupe and band working on Saturday Night Live. They’ve created among other songs ‘Dick In a Box’, ‘I Just Had Sex’ and now ‘Mother Lover’. As I understand it they are a regular feature on SNL called ‘Saturday Night Live’s Digital Shorts’.

How could I have missed them for so long? They are great!

I spent over an hour this morning browsing YouTube videos of The Lonely Island doing musical comedy together with a bunch of famous people. Loved it !

My recommendation for the week is: ‘The Lonely Island’ and ‘Mother Lover’ ;)

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Clear Channel – Slut på huvudvärken – nu tar SvD över hela Stockholm på cykel – MyNewsdesk

Clear Channel – Slut på huvudvärken – nu tar SvD över hela Stockholm på cykel – MyNewsdesk.

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A good idea at the time…

I really thought it was a good idea at the time..

My wife had her 40th birthday. Her friend Efva was becoming 40 as well in a few weeks. Me and Efvas husband were talking.. Why not give them a trip to London for a few days? Phantom of the Opera, Guinness, party and London shopping !

It sounded like a wonderful idea! Surely we would win a few bonus points doing this that we could use later on.

Wonderful ! Great !

But…

I somehow suppressed the fact that we have three children, two dogs and that I currently had a few really important and time consuming projects going on at work!

The day before her trip this all came back to me.

Woe me.

Now – three days later – I am finally able to sit down by the computer for some Benny-time.. I’ve got about 2 hours of it since one of the kids is at a birthday party and the other two are focused on some game at the computer..

I sincerely hope that the bonus points are worth it !

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Personally not so much fun, no…

Great kick off in Åre last week-end!

Copperhill Mountain Lodge, Skiing, snow-mobile, great dinners, great company, good and informative conference and Petter as surprise musical artist!

I would guess that everybody should be quite happy about the event except for – yes, you guessed it – myself.. :-(

As the party started to go into a higher gear yours truly was confined to bed, freezing my ****’s off.. The flu, regular cold, tonsillitis or whatever it was had downgraded me to a small 4-year old boy lying in bed feeling sorry for himself.. ;)

Happily enough I still had one and a half day before the crash came, so I did have some good time. My immediate plan was to get some good photos out of the event, but since we experienced some really bad weather, landscape photography was totally out of the question.

I did get some nice photos from the snow-mobile tour I managed to join up on friday though. Nasty horisontal winds carrying ice and snow, completely dark outside and being up on an unknown mountain didn’t give me much to work with, but I do like the following photos.

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Time for Åre!

Late night packing for a trip to Åre, the Swedish Mecka for skiing, tomorrow…

The whole company are going to Åre for the spring kick-off and I am packing my photo-gear..

“Photo-Gear”, you say? to Åre? What about skis?

Well, if you know me you know the answer… For you other people: Imagine a cannonball crashing into a barn and you will be very close to imagining what it would look like if I ever got some skis on ;)

Ok, I’m off to bed, but I am really hoping that you will be able to see some Åre photos here in the next few days.. (Maybe even a report of how it’s goin’) :)

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Osprey

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I had to try out one of the new Android apps I’ve downloaded and this is the result after playing around with one of the photos I took last summer.

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Ok, so what now?

Ok, so I’ve decided on engine for the domain (WordPress), I’ve decided on language on the site (English with a small bit of Swedish) and I’ve set everything up.

What now?

Oh, I must fill this space as well!

With What?!

Well, its not as desperate as it sounds.. My plan has always been twofold – show some favorite photos and tell the relatives a bit about what’s happening in the family..

Planning… Execution… Something COMPLETELY different ;)

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Decided…

Ok, I’ve made a decision regarding language of this site…

I will for the most part create posts in English so that my international friends and colleagues are able to read what I am writing. Afterall, I don’t know anyone here in Sweden that does not understand English, but I’ve met a lot of people abroad that doesn’t speak more than a few words of Swedish ;)

Ok, English it is..

With that being said.. I will most probably still be writing some posts in Swedish, especially when the text is regarding something local… ;)

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Språk?

Nu när jag skriver olika postings inser jag att jag inte riktigt bestämt om jag ska använda engelska eller svenska i min text…
Engelska känns mer rätt då jag har en del engelskspråkiga vänner, men samtidigt är jag ju svensk och det är ändå lite underligt för en svensk att skriva ‘dagbok’ på ett annat språk än sitt eget…

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