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Last couple of weeks have been very busy. It´s been a lot to do at school and I estimate the average sleep to perhaps 5 hours per night. Well, things are gonna be better now.

I´m up to a interesting future (talking about interesting, check out interesting.org, my idols) I´m on my way out into the business world and corporation SIFI. I really would like to use my language skills so that I don´t forget how to use them. I´ve been calling around and I´ve think my bate is good.

First of all I have to finish school, I´ve got one exam left and then Examination Project for 10 weeks, and then...we´ll see. Actually I´ve already started my ex-project today, I´ve been taking it soft planning my work and thinking it through. I´ve got a packing idea that I think could be very interesting to the retail business that sales electronic devices. The challenge is to draw the construction and calculate the best materials, that don´t harm the environment. It woul be fantastic if I could develop my idea so that it would become a commercial hit. Then I would feel that I´ve contributed with something to society.

My former employer called me and offered me a part-time job. The work is done by internet at home, when ever I want. I sit here and do my best, upload to a server and then at the end of the month I send my bill and get some good money, cause my economical situation is surly nothing to brag about, not even worth mentioning or discussing or even to write about or even worth reading.

We went to the park today, after Emma's work, eating a pastasallad letting the cat smell the spring. It´s fantastic in the sun, and freezing cold in the shadow. We finished the pic nic with a bike ride to Norrtull and then home again.

I´m planning a trip to Berlin next week, seeing my old buddy Max there, and of course it´s a thermoscopical valuation of how well I´ve been studying at my German courses.

We´ll it´s time for work, c ya!

Haha, it´s surely quite funny. I was completely sure that the winter was over last week when we had 8 deg. and a shining sun. The sun does a lot for this frozen people, after a couple of sunny days you really notice how people change and that they are smiling a lot, I´m smiling a lot, everyone is happy that we got through the winter, but “aaaa” not yet. Suddenly snow fell from the sky again covering every inch of ground with snow. Not only that, it even got freezing cold. I sit and hope that this is the last winter occupation.

My last employer called me and asked if I could help out with some things and I agreed. So now I´ve got a terrific amount of stuffs I´ve got to do, but it sure feels good getting some money, cause I´ve got a lot of depts.

I was thing about war this morning. The idea was somehow that when people like us disagree we first argue and then we try ignorance until we can´t handle the nagging voice inside our heads, that is eating us up from the inside, so we then try to chop of an-others head. Since have doing things this way the last couple of decades we discovered that we can make financial war. Let say that US doesn´t agree with some stuff that happens on Swedish soil, they send there corporate soldiers with their political friends behind their back demanding from the Swedish government and threatening with a financial terror otherwise. Or maybe it just looks like it I don´t know.

Of to some science lab now and then of to German courses,  

My head is completely full or more clearly it´s stocked with thoughts that have not come out. Only problem is that I don´t have time to really understand these thoughts. Well I´m sitting here with my cat on my lap trying to get some substance and recollect some.

First of all I think people are stressed in a very unhealthy way. They don´t finish the first thing before encountering the second, that´s bad. I really try not to fall in that same trap, cause what is anything worth if you´re not able to taste and experience all that you do. I look at my cat and he seems quite unbothered cause he doesn´t live in the past or in the future, maybe some bit in the future, fantasizing bout food, but still not in the past. He doesn´t build his heart up with revengal thoughts or agony bout current past.

Second I think it´s impossible to fight this mayhem of stress that surrounds us, it´s inevitable and that is scary. I mean if you don´t like it, become a misfit that for ever will be misunderstood. However, there is no easy solution, only a hard one; just like it as it is, don´t bother, give the bank you money so they can do more money on your money. Do your homework, but not to well. Speak when you are spoken to. Listen only when you are supposed to, during commercial breaks that is.

Third, where is the appreciation among the common people. I really feel that I´ve slipped on that one many times, but I try to better myself. Sometimes it´s only indolence but sometimes it´s just not there, touché.

It´s time for bed, I don´t have the time sitting up during nights anymore. I have to rest too.

Cat says : krrrr krrrr

So, the internship is over and am back in school.
There´s not that much to say than that it´s quite nice to be back. I´ve still got a lot left to do at SJ and I´m in somekind of moment 22. But I will figure something out I guess. That doesn´t bother me as much as that I have to find a place to do my graduation project... not easy in these times I tell you.

Days are getting longer and a lot lost power is returning, injecting energy and spirit through the whole body.


Something me and Jenny Själin did

A couple of conspiracy thoughts have been wrestling with my mind last two days.
The financial crisis has put a lot of strain on companies throughout the world and there are layoffs on daily basis. Now, who can benefit on this and why?
Yeah, you´re right it´s the greedy stockbrokers who bought and sold useless stocks and banks that mortgaged more than 9 times their own value.
alright, this we already know...

"Who´s going to make the biggest profit on a coming depression?"

McDonnalds and the insurance companies course!

What do people do when they don´t have enough money for food?
They buy cheap food, unhealthy and un-environmental products.

What do people  do when they tend to get fat? (there are lot of answers on that one..)
They get sick, get hospitalized and have to eat drugs instead of food.

Isn´t it cruel? Well, it´s probably only a good story for some coming best seller by some Michael Moore dude but similar actions have been made in the past by such companies, so don´t get too surprised.

For more conspiracy thoughts I can recommend the movie Zeitgeist Addendum, and if you haven´t seen the first one, do it!

Have a great weekend!

Today I discovered how easy it is to convert a avi-file into flash, it´s so simple in CS3 that I wonder what those webdesigners must have cursed when converting before and probably feel a terrible relief at the same time as they feel a cold breeze throughout there spine.
 
Now when it´s so easy anyone coluld do it...but those that feel that kind of chill should relax, ActionScrpit is still a hell (when you don´t know it).

it´s time fore some brainstorming whith me and myself, I must find a new angle to approach my work so that I don´t forget anything.

My office space:

Last Thursday something awful happened, my computer crashed and I was afraid that 2 weeks work was wasted. The truth is that the computer did not completely crash it just kept rebooting over and over and it seemed impossible to login to windows. I read at different forums at the internet that could help me and I got quite a good idea of what the error was. Sometimes windows can damage its own files during compressing "old files" and I think that was what happened.

 I tried for almost over a day to somehow recover the files that were damaged in windows so I could get all my files in a safe place before re-installing the OS. Suddenly windows started in a safe mode, quickly and fast I copied all my documents to my external HD. I fixed all that I could fix in windows and everything seemed to be promising but I was wrong.

The next day windows didn´t start and the rebooting occurred almost before I even could get in to the setup.

Today everything is gone from my C: and the old XP-os is replaced with Vista and I hope it will function better this time. I´ve been re-installing  every single program that I had before the "Crash" and it has taken its share of time, no actual work has been done. But hey, there are heaps of people working only with this kind of solutioning and re-installning.

AND...lesson  has been  learned, I got to make back-ups more often.   

Alright!
Today the first party train with Sj Event up to Åre departs. A lot preparation and planning for this trip has been done, although most of the staff has been up to Åsarna between Mon-Wed on a training camp preparing for the Stafettvasan. Everthing went smooth up there accept for Mazdaks knee that got terrible twist and resulted in a funny limp and some agony.

I've been doing a couple of menus that are going to be displayed on the Åre-train. Everything has been done in rapid speed with blueprints send to the printer company yesterday and the goods ready and delivered this morning already. I´m glad I had a Pre-Press course just before this internship, because it gave me some really good basics that I could apply and of course reduced a lot of friction that bad blue prints/originals would have caused.

I´ve been asked to come along on this train to åre but I seriously don´t have time and that would only make me uninspired while I´m away. I´ll probably go with a train week 12 when the internship is over and hopefully everything is a bit cooler.

Otherwise I´ve been trying to develop my skills on guitar by sitting up until 2 o´clock. Then of course the german studies has been taken up from its hibernation, and wow I tell ya, it´s cool as when the teacher only speaks german now and I have no problems at all understanding or anything, I´m actually able to listen to her while I´m writing or thinking of other stuff. Nice!

So, das war denn alles für dieses gang! Vielleicht, soll ich in deutsch schreiben, oder auch in finnish?

Etwas muss tun, so tchüss!

Goosh, it´s already Friday and as usually time has flown a bit to fast. I just don´t get it. I´ve been working quite late every day but still I think I might have to freeze time for only a couple days so that I could catch up some in my work but even more in my personal life.

This week has been a lot of drawing and modelling. To get the best conditions me and Maz went to Hagalund train way pit-stop for measuring and picturing. I must say that the pit-stop is gigantic, it probably took us 15 min to get from the first tracks to the last ones. I´ll take a picture of the corridors there next time so you can see what I´m talking about.

Besides the "gigatisim" the pit-stop was filled with trains from the 40´s up to present times unreleased models. The word is that if you work at SJ you´re probably have a fetish for some "chu-chu" and I must admit that I´ve becoming more and more neardy when it comes around trains(and I that totally ignored toy trains as a boy).

This Wednesday we had a hockey fight, did not go that well even though I assisted to two goals. I was so frustrated that I ran 8 km home after that game. This Saturday we will fight against Viggbyholm and there going to be a lot commotion with a sauna-pool for 17 gents & ladies and a free bar for the whole audience. Se more at: http://www.belehockey.se/

This week we have booked a new demo-taping with my band Varför?. We´re supposed to record two songs but I hope for three.The recording will occur in the beginning of February.

Have a nice week-end and let´s hope for some snow!

ps. The title of this blogg entry is an old hit with The Easybeats - Friday on my mind

Today has been a productive day; coffee drinking up to my ears, drawing and finding new ways to encounter problems and hockey practice as a good physical burn out of the evening.

One thing worries me though, now when I´ve been drawing a lot I tend to strain one of me fingers in a very awkward position so that the finger becomes numb, aching and stiff. I should probably try to get a better mouse, maybe one of those made for 3D-modelling.

Last weeks battle with all the stupid errors has really thought me new ways of getting through some dilemmas and actually improved some of my skills.

Now it´s bed time...

I´ve been working on the buggs and fixes for 2 days now and I´m starting to get finished. My plan is to next week be only focusing on interiordesign, such as furniture, walls and so on, and that´s we I need to get finished with most of all exteriordesign today or at least this weekend.

And yes I´ve been at home the last two days since the office almost empty I guess I could sitt home doing my stuff. Home I´ve got two screens which makes me more efficient.

Yesterday, I visited Oslo for a short sec. The purpose was escort some important people up to the Nobelpeaceprize consert and then go back home. The day started 5 am and ended at 11 pm so I had a lot of time to get inspired and watch the product in prime time use.

It was specially interesting to see the organisation behind all this comotion. The rule is, even how hard you try to stear and control something will be missed but hopefully something that isn´t that important in the long run.