Greak Cuitar Famp.

Creak Fuitar Gamp?

Anywho. I'm done with all the packing. Well it wasn't a big thing. But strangely enough, I wasn't packed 3 weeks beforehand. I even considered leaving it off until tomorrow.

Mom took me for a walk to the Globe shopping area and pimped me with new shoes and sandals. Badass. After a short return home we were of to FoS for some serious training. Fun to have got her started on it. And always nice to have another person to go with.

Walking there we go through a forested area... and found nettles over two meters high. It was like, a giant wall of stinging horribleness.

Back home there was awesome taco dinner to be had and a welldeserved bath.

Now I've spent two hours reorganising my mp3 player. Awesome tunes to be had.

But yes, now it's time to hit the hay. Tomorrow, trainride and meet up with Linus. Good times to be had. And then Freak Guitar Camp of course.

86.

At the moment I'm sitting and checking through old notations. I need to prep these for printing so I can bring them with me and practice at any time. But that means I have to manually go in and retype a bunch of them. Not fun or productive at all really.

Today we had a big family dinner, celebrating grandad who's turning 86. It gets a bit stiff and awkward but we cousins at least get along.

The weather is a bit off. We've got massive rain and thunderclouds, but nothing is happening. They're just hanging there. I want a damn storm! GIEF!

Also upon waking up I found out that Alexandras laptop is giving them alot of grief over in japan so I'm researching the HP tx 2000 model. Holy hell all those lappys have alot of production errors that fail after just over a year. There's been tonnes of petitions to have a general recall because they break down so quickly.

Apparently the grafics card and the network card component of the motherboard havn't been soldered on properly in ANY of them. They also have heat dissipation problems. This means that pretty quickly the soldering loosens, the grafic card and network adapter actually come loose, and hey, compy won't work anymore.

So, HP is officially a shit company I shall never buy from. Sure, all HP products I've run into in the last... ten years have been a bit wonky, but this is just horrid.

Death and Cookies!

Ah, today was actually cooler. Only 27 degrees outside. Hence, my brain started working again.

Got some cleaning and washing done. Got the basic FGC packing in order and things have quieted down and the trip seems a-go. Yay. I really miss Linus and all the good people around Tibro. And I miss all my guitar nutcase friends around Gothemburg. And this year, I just feel epic.

I also took the day of. No running around, training or anything. Just kick-back. Nice. Ewa was on an all day trip to Gripsholms Castle, a bit west of Stockholm. Wish I could have gone, but sooner or later.

I did bake alot of cookies, we're celebrating granddads 86th birthday tomorrow and some murder cookies with 5 types of dark chocolate in them. Hot poo they were huge and rich. You can barely finish one.

Then mom came home and I convinced her to check out Dead Space. I've beat it once and I'm now trying it on 'impossible' difficulty. It really helps me, who get a bit to into it, to have someone else in the room when playing something that scary.

Now I'm digesting the cookie, having a last half-cup of tea and trying to get ready for bed.

Even more long walks.

Today mainly consisted of a three hour walk through alot of sunshine. Also went shopping for granddad.

I honestly don't remember all that much else.

And I'm dead tired from lack of sleep in the heat.

It's not extremly hot right now.

I'm going to bed.

:P

Long Walks.

Started the day with a long walk to the city, to help mom get her gym-card. We stopped by the Globen shopping center and I got some new shoes. Yay.

We got home. I made some vegitarian mushroom based gumbo. It kicked ass. And it will seriously be kicking my ass by this time tomorrow.

Then we went for another walk, to the exact same place but this time actually did a pass at the gym. And then of course another long walk home.

I am feeling seriously manky. As I also got alot of sun on me.

Hand Cramp Hero.

Today was just monstrously hot. I had some plans for stuff that needed doing but it all went up in smoke when I poured out of bed. And as I did that, Alexandra and family flew off to Tokyo. When I'm typing this, very late at night here, they will have landed.

I just don't work in this temperature.

But I had a very nice day with Ewa. We watched a couple of movies, Die Hard 4 and Shaun of the Dead which she hadn't seen before. Then we actually played Guitar Hero III. I managed to beat the game on normal without any hinderence and Ewa got into learning the basics. And had alot of fun. It's also heartwarming to see how engaging the game is for non-musicians.

That's pretty much the whole day. It won't really be remembered beyond a fussy nice feeling.

If I could have been bothered, todays soundtrack would have been Strapping Young Lads - In the Rainy Season.

Also, now the train tickets for visiting Linus and going to Freak Guitar Camp have been booked. All is well.

The Hidden Fortress.

Been off for a couple of days, out on Lidingö. (The island in the northern part of inner stockholm where alot of the upperclass people live, I can tell you some weird stories...) Ahem.

The reason of course is that Alex and family lives there. And the timing was pretty much that the second I stepped on the island, a four day heatwave began. Holy hell.

But I digress. It's after midnight and I'm still dripping so bear with me.

On friday, I went for a walk with my friend Janna. We're finally getting around to seeing eachother. We had a nice cool walk through town, probably along the only place in the city worth walking along, as you get boats, greens, and not alot of traffic or people. Ended up hanging a bit in a park, talking. Explored a small island you can wade out to near Smedsuddsbadet.

Then I got the idea that we could walk to Karolinska Insitutet, since I was picking up Alexandra there afterwards anyway. And they were having a big fika and a sendoff for some of the foreign students.

Long story short, we got there, after having picked up some interesting chocolate. (Marabous passionfruit and chili, which was surprisingly good and some Salmiakki. Which is salt liqourice toffe inside milk chocolate. Especially good for scaring non swedes at parties. >:)

It was a nice fika. I got to see Janna and Alex sort of hit it off even though they didn't really get time to talk, and I got alot of interesting chocolate reactions.

After getting Janna on the right bus me and Alex were heading for the island. That's where things get blurry, because... damn. It got hot. But among things, I made hamburgers from scratch and they PWNed. We watched Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon and Akira Kurosawas 'the Hidden Fortress' and it was good. (And, even tough I'm a huge Star Wars fan... damn, George Lucas is a sad hack who barely got lucky. Wow. Lucas stole, and stole, and stole...)

Now, I'm planning the FGC trip. Which mainly includes getting down to visit Mr. Gul again. (You know, this guy: http://linus.gyt.se/ )

Dead Space.

My shoulders ache from all the tension of playing Dead Space. Gwd Dmn that is a creepy and scary game!

But I have finished it. And I feel like a man. A big hairy man. Who kinda shat his pants. And I'm probably going to go through it once more. On impossible mode.

Now, see. I have this friend, mr. Gul, who sort of lent me his PS2 with a scary shitload of games. I've been able to play through about half of God of War. But that's all the tv-gaming I've managed. Ok, it's also kinda related to the fact that I don't live in the part of the appartment where the tv is but... dammit I need to get at that thing:



This was also a test, to see if I can figure out how to post pictures from photobucket.

Did it work?

Grey.

Today was just a day. Bun, the cat, managed to get into the livingroom during the night. By using superior ninja-cat skills. (Jumping on a small 10x15cm end of a cardboard box, vaulting over a big wooden barrier thingy.) He managed to get hair on all the fresh clothes, on the computerchair, the sofa, the carpets... Then of course he panicked as he was on the wrong side of a door from where the food bowl was. Se he mewed from like five in the morning until I finally got up and figured out what was going on.

Later a small child outside apparently, from the noise, cut his leg off and ate it. Bleeding to death, whilst being attacked by stray ants and zombies did seem to take a while. Again, this was speculation from the amount of noise this child was making.

Turned out his family was going on vacation, and he didn't want to go. So this somehow led to him screeming for over two hours, whilst trying to unpack the car the rest of the family was packing. How the hell did they deem this ok at 8 in the morning? They didn't manage to leave until 10:12. By then I was up, and fuming. Why do I not keep a shotgun for these circumstances? Nevermind the zombie uprising.

Rest of the day has been spent battling the "CrapIhavetogetshitdonethisinstant!"-emotion and the "Fuckitallitdoesn'tmatteranyway". Ok. So today was just a really crappy day from the lack of sleep, allergies and alot of training cramps. But hot poo. I just want a semi-productive middle ground.

Made some vegitarian gumbo. Stole some cookies I shouldn't. Enjoyed alot of good tea. Took some pictures, but I havn't gotten around to figure out the link-from-photobucked thing yet. Shouldn't be hard.

Enjoyed alot of QI. Played some guitar. Got through two chapters of Dead Space. Only two left. Dang. Not at all a good thing to play late in the evening. Cleaned the appartment.

But mainly, had unnecessary fighting going on in my head.

Reboot.

Alrighty.

Trying to get myself to type again. It's not all that easy. I stopped because there was just no energy left in me to do it. Now I need to find my way back into a more active life. Not that I havn't been active as hell, but, since I lived through the stress and insomnia I have now found myself carrying around a slight fear of... just doing things. Especially typing and reading has felt very uncomfortable.

But, if I'm supposed to do some actual blogging and not just sad nagging, I should do it properly. I shall see if I can't take a page (ahem, pun, argh.) from my very, very good friend Mr. Gul and get around to adding some pictures and whatnot.

So as to actually be able to make the damn thing interesting, readable and actually worth your while.

Shouldn't be hard as I bring a camera with me everywhere. I just don't use it. Or... I've stopped using it. Hmm.

Right. I am now off to have a look at, I think, photobucket. Whilst practicing some licks, sending an e-mail to the course councelor at KTH and watching some more of the gloriousness that is QI with Stephen Fry,