Archive for the ‘Life in general’ Category

Hay-fever

Wednesday, May 17th, 2006

It's that time of year again. Hay-fever time. When I was younger, I only used prescription drugs, but as I grew older, I found that the non-prescription ones worked just as well. This year I've been trying out a new pill, but I can't tell the difference really. I'm "lucky" ...

A bit tired…

Wednesday, January 25th, 2006

Yaaaaaawn! I've been working since around 8am. Yesterday. You know how it is. Planned server maintenance at work. Everything looks fine until suddenly a very important server won't boot up. 28 hours later, there you are. New server in place and all services restored. Zzzzzzzzz....

What’s up?

Thursday, December 22nd, 2005

Christmas is only a few days away. Here in Sweden we celebrate on Christmas Eve, not Christmas Day. Anyway, music making has been non-existent for the last couple of months. However, I've renovated my kitchen from the ground up the last two and a half weeks. New floor, new ceiling, ...

Floaters

Friday, September 9th, 2005

Hehe, I've always had them... but never bothered to search for an explanation. Today I found a link (on digg.com) to an excellent Wikipedia article explaining what they are and why they appear. (Floaters are blurry, dark "shapes" that can be seen before your eyes sometimes. They float around and can't ...

James Doohan - R.I.P.

Wednesday, July 20th, 2005

Today, James Doohan, more known as the original Star Trek series Scotty (you know, the Scottish engineer? "Beam me up, Scotty?"), passed away at age 85. I was never a fan of the original series. Star Trek TNG (The Next Generation) was more my cup of tea. Nevertheless, he was ...