Internet through GPRS!

Damnit, it's a shame I have no Internet service in my apartment. Yesterday, I tried something a bit odd. Since I have a COM-cable for my old cell phone, I tried downloading the Samsung software for Internet Access, and then used the GPRS service for my mobile service supplier to connect my PC to the net. It actually worked! Really slow though, loading the newspaper online took about a minute. Gah, need to get myself a real supplier. Rumours says that the students are working on some huge intranet that will be connected to the Internet aswell, but when will it be ready? Perhaps soon? :)

Melle on the dogwalk!

Heeeeere's Melvin!



Such a beautyful dawg. When me and my fiancé decided to take him for a longer walk, we ended up in my apartment. My neighbours must have asked themselves what the strange noise came from, 'cuz (especially during dinner) Melvin cried out endlessly, apparentely in the great quest for food :)

However, we took a handful of pictures to share with y'all.





He can't wait till the next time he'll be in the highlight.

Best Eastern ever!

Life on the countryside...

We've been here for a day, and it feels really greot. The everyday clouds get out of reach for a while; and it all seems very clear. While we're here we've put up a law against communication devices such as a laptop. Therefor I'm typing these lines on my Palm™ device!

When we first got here I could barely chill down, I was so amazed about the house we were about to stay at. You see, it was huge. No, I mean really huge! It took just about the whole Thursday, just learning the internal geographics. So, when the evening came, we took a walk to the conviniance pizza hook, where both of us chose the exclusive "Ånäset Special". The pizza man told us that he had a history in the town up north were I spent all those tough years in the army. The pizza was OK. The rest of the evening we spent on the DVD player, watching the first season of Oz..

Also, I took the opportunity of running a machine wash on
the old piece of Canadian jacket that an old friend from the army gave me like two years ago. Anyways, the jacket is still filling it's purpose.
Plus, when the machine was done, it actually looked like I was holding a brand new jacket. Still, I found a big wound. It had to be fixed.
So, me and my fiancé pulled up the sewing machine, which I must say was decades more modern than the ones that learned me how to sew, back in elementary school. My sewing wasn't flawless, but the textile wound were right under the arm so that no one will notIce it unless I show it to them. Some people needs regular jacket updates, due to the popularity demand. I'm not one of those persons. The hood fur couldn't be machine washed, so I gave it a very cautious three-phase handwash.

Now we've been here for two long days, and I'm really having fun. From now on I'll refer to this building as a mansion, 'cuz it's really that big. Yesterday, l enjoyed a wonderful bubble bath with my beloved lady. We just laid there, and it felt like time stood still for an hour or so.
She snaped a couple of photos, cause the moment was like Kodak. I'm hoping to get more pictures from the house..two old friends over the phone, so that I got up to date on the latest gossip from up there. Not that it's ever anything interesting. Just the same ol', same ol'...

Oh, so friggin' nice, we just got back from the best sauna bath ever.
A wood-fired engine, can you imagine. I attach two photos; one on the exterior, one on the interior..

Today, Sunday, we cleaned out the sauna, aswell as took the trash
out to the local recycle dumpster. Right now She's doing the usual Eastern preporations/decorations around the mansion. Tomorrow Monday the family that lives here is coming back, and I will finally get to meet Mrs. Sahlin and the others. I'm a bit nervous, but of course it'll be
great!

I wish that I had been more of an help in the decorating (the only
thing I did was handing Her a box from a cabinet near the roof, plus hanging up the big chicken in the window), but I guess me not being so
enthusiastic is about my existetial beliefs. Not that I don't believe in Him, because I do; I just don't believe in the importance of some
celebrations..

A tough day with new Venetian blinds!

Yeah, yesterday was tough, really tough. The bad things started coming as early as before lunch, not a good start, not a good start at all. Not until late on the evening things started to get easier. Gah.



The only good thing about yesterday was that I found really cheap Venetian blinds. Around SEK 100 is to be considered a paltry sum for blinds. Damnit, until now my apartment must have been a dream to window peekers. Heh, I must admit, at first I thought I was about to lose my mind, trying to tighten those small little metal pieces which is supposed to attach the blinds to the window. Then when I finally found the way of making them snatch to the right place, it was this much a relief.

Havn't dropped dead!

Nope, still alive and ticking like clockwork!

It's just that the schedule > the time, which I once though was limitless. However, you really have to adjust to make the best out of your time. For instance, on Saturday me and my fiancé spent approx. seven hours on a bus, just to go up north to fetch a few left-overs from my belongings. However, it was definitely worth it. Now I have my PSTwo unit with lots of games to interact with when/if I ever have/get spare time.

So, back to black. Monday is de facto and the snow is back in town. Had a couple of days when there was almost raw asphalt for my bike's tires to roll on. This morning the ground was messy. I hate it when the nightly freeze-up has created sharp edges and cuts for my wheels to bump across. I can almost feel the pain that my bicycle suffers from it. Gah, can't wait till summer get's here..

Yesterday's Dinner!

It was MARVELOUS! You won't even imagine. Too bad I hadn't the camera ready to shoot a photo or two. Anyways, it was delicious. Lots of garlic of course, and some other spices. Yum, we went to bed so filled up that we even forgot to set the alarm.

Netgear's WGT624 is crap!

It did not satisfy my beloved fiancé's needs. It frooze several times during one day, needed to be reset manually by pulling the plug. A disaster. Today I called the supplier and told them to act right. By accord of buying another wireless router from them, I got the return order card sent to me. Now, we'll go for a D-Link DIR-615, a wireless gateway that has gotten much greater reviews.

Her new WAN router!

Finally, my finacé gas got her own router. Until now all traffic has went through another (the living gateway phenomenon) computer; this one with an old 11MBit WAN interface moreover, locking transfer rates to 11mbits, although the ISP supplies her with 100MBit.

Isn't this a beauty? An outstanding machine. I've seen it before, so I know it will measure up to a high standard! Now not only can she optimize her bandwidth, but also finally secure her network with WPA encryption. We're living in the age of data - everything is oughtta be 100% secure!

A cold morning!

Not too fun getting my two wheels out for the daily ~5 kilometre spin.
But a man's oughtta do,, what a man is outta do.. ^^

"Feels like: -22°C"

My rear tire almost fell of..

CRAZY!

It was so wicked! Earlier in the afternoon; I got to my fiancés apartment. I was just about to lock my bicyle (I'm using a chain with a padlock, for it's shiny glance), when I sense that my rear tire is sort of loose. I alter it, ramshackled. Damn, afraid that a dose of bad luck has run over me so that the bearings in the tire is worn out / in need of expensive replacement, I make a final alter on the screw nut. Wtf, I can turn it using only my bare hands. It's loose! Oh my lord, the whole rear tire is loose. For how long has this been the case? For how long have I been riding the streets with a wicked tire? Shiznit! I hit Mc D to quiet my sadness with a (three) cheese burger(s), then I go to the close by everything-in-handy-store, to buy myself the needed equipment.

My purchase:



So, I got to work on the bike for a while. Erhm, well, for quite some time actually. Stranded the bike [upside down] outside her building, adjusting the nuts. However, I never seemed to get satisfied. Either a little bit too much to the left; or right. Gah, after like an hour of fine tuning we were on the road. We went to my place, ate some pitepalt (yummy flour/potatoe balls), watching Grannfejden about north-Swedish farmers not getting along about how to plough their village. A laugh riot..

Bike disaster the other day..

Yeah, yesterday my jurney from the suburb and into the city was a living hell. First of all, I decided to stop by Willy's to get some grosserys. Then, when I roll up at the entrance, I hear this familiar sound: the sound of my bike's tire sliding over a sharp piece of glass. Oh no, I havn't had a flat in a real long time, this was not the right time. I spend like five minutes, analyzing the shape of my tire, looking for possible cracks. I didn't find any, although my front tire (the one that had ran over the glass piece) was really low on oxygen. Was it a flat, or just me being lazy with the ordinary refill. I couldn't be sure, since I know the fact that my front tire has a sloppy valve that lets out like half the oxygen in a period of two to three months. Well, no visible crack in the tire, so I had to assume I had been blessed by some angel from the sky. I went inside. Potatoes weight heavy, so it all added up to two bags, which I didn't think would be much trouble bringing; one on each bike steering handle.

However, I had assumed that the pedestrian/bike-path would be snowscraped, but no. My bike skid left and right all the way, plus the food bags dongled, I thought that they were about to burst at any time, which made me feeel not too good. So, when I'm like this close to the city; I meet, guess what.. Of course, the tractor. As soon as we haver crossed our paths, I let go of the steering wheel and keep my focus on one bag in each hand instead. Worked much better.

This was until I decided to take the bags all the way to my apartment, with no pitstop at my girlfriend's apartment. Gosh, this would become a big deal. I'm still not too familiar with the road to my part of town, so I zig-zaged my way thru. When I got to the University hospital, I tried crossing it. Bad move! I ended up dazed and confuzed, plus I burned approx. 30 minutes of time which I could have used for quality time with Her. Damn! When I finally knew I was on the right way, and began to eaze down, I was so angry that I just kept on swearing loudly about that I hate the winter, plus a few [not so rational] statements about that the climate changes should go on, so that we got rid of all this shitty snow, end up with only water masses (my bike won't skid on water; that part is for four-wheel vehicles).

Anyways, I finally got home. Made time for a cup of coffee before I was once again on the road, heading for the city lights.

Palm Pilot Tungsten T3

My second helmsman gave it to me as a gift.

"You'll probably have more use for it"

Talk about kind gesture ;)

The weekend in a nutshell!

Fantastic! Increddible! Voila!

Friday night my beloved one pulled another homemade pizza. It is one of her specialities, in my opionion. We were out of Onsala sausage so this time the main charge was garlic salami. Delicious, I can tell you that much. She was full after only like one and a half pizza so I had to eat almost three of our total four pizzas all by myself. But that, of course, was not a problem :)




Weee! Now it's Sunday and we're back in my fiancés apartment downtown. She has cleaned out the larder (which is gonna get chopped up to make space for a bigger fridge), while I've built a
drawer. I'm getting kinda good on building furnitures by blueprint. Of course, they are not _that_ complicated, but it still feels nice when you've reach the stage of completion. What you see here, is when I was like 87% thru with the building process.




Lalalalaa..

Bed installation complete!!

Wow, it's amazing, increddible, outstanding! I'm so happy! The bed is PERFECT. To be honest, when the DHL guys came with the delivery, I thought it looked so small that it just couldn't be complete. There just had to be a few parts missing, lost. Oh pretty funny by the way, those delivery guys couldn't get all the way to my door approach with their car, so they had some sort of sledvagon that I saw them come running with - pushing - outside my window. So, I thought perhaps some bed part had just fled it's own way under the sled, or something like that.

Anyways, they managed to crush my vacuum cleaner's mouthpiece with the large bed package, when dragging it into my appartment. I wasn't 100% sure that it had suffered internal damages, but I was pretty sure though, judging from the sound of it. Anyways, I didn't have time to either arguee or care. I just wanted to get started. So, the young delivery-pilgrims were off and me and my beloved one could get started.

Well, first took the bus in a rush, went to her places to get the camera and a couple of other things we'd forgotten. Anyways, THEN we were off to go. So, the whole building took us about one and a half hour, but whereas the progress, my worries was less and less a problem. I started to realize that this was it. The bed would get complete. And, tada, now it stands there. 160x200, a real family bed. It's so beautiful. Like my fiancé tells me, it's gonna get real beautiful when we have a little baby to have between us ;)


So, this was the stage of progress. Wonderful, isn't it?




Footnote:
Today we got up early, going on a between-markets-tour to see where we can get two cheap kitchen chairs. So, when we passed the central bus stop, a couple of bums adressed us about spare change. So, well, I don't usualy do this kind of things, but I happened to spare the lady a ten coin. A few seconds later, I realized she would probably just use it to buy herself another Fluid of forgets. Yeah yeah, well, whatever..