Emilie snart 4 månader gammal

Loulous och Eeros lilla Emilie är snart hela fyra månader gammal och därför dedikerar jag denna video till henne:

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What is this – Winmark???

Denmark is now officially Windowsland, Lalaland, Winland, Winmark or just about any combination of the two that one might come up with. I’ve been helping my fiancé out with job applications for a longer time already and the conclusion is more than depressing; less than 10 % of all jobs within server support and such involve penguins (and of those less than 10 % are suitable for non-Danish speakers). Go away, stay far away from Denmark if you want to work with a computer that runs on an alternative OS. Yes, indeed, keep this country at a safe distance, approximately 1.5 hours of plane ride, which would place your feet solidly in Linuxia, Finlandia. Much better. And cuter too (go see the penguins walk the streets of Helsinki).

I don’t get it. I just don’t get it. How on earth can small companies afford to pay the astronomical money mountains that seem to please Mr. Licence so much? And what about the hospitals, universities, municipalities, towns, blahblahs and blahblahs, which certainly don’t swim in coins either? Each time Mr. Licence has a new whim, he collects his dollar$. Yes stay, no leave. Or how did it go – yes leave, no stay? Mr. Licence loves you like Cable Guy really, haven’t you noticed? And he comes with extra spices too, the type that itches baaaaaaad, but who cares, we love our STD’s. This curse of an OS is resourceful indeed and he has come to stay. Talk about revolución – there is none because we’re already part of the digestional processes in the first of many, pretty licence stomachs…

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‘Tis a happy day today

Yes, a happy day it is! I received information on the hospital I will be studying at during the Spring semester and to my great surprise and relief the die was cast in my favour. This means I will be spending five months at the first-choice hospital(several more exclamation marks)!

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Four weddings and a funeral minus three weddings and a funeral

Four weddings and a funeral minus three weddings and a funeral equals one wedding. For the equation to be more beautiful, there should maybe be a couple of parentheses, especially if one intends to start multiplying and dividing later, but from a verbal point of view it looks better without, so let’s forget about them shall we. So, what about the wedding then? I’m getting married. My love and I got engaged last November and the wedding will take place in September this year.

I already feel the need to rant about the arrangements, but since I don’t want to kill my immediate surroundings with a never-ending flood of pink blahblah, I have decided to vent here once in a while. Fragments will not, I repeat not, join all the awful wedding blogs that are suffocating corners of the cyberspace with their similar complaints about the horrors of not finding just the perfect dress even after trying the hundredth one on in the thirtieth shop and oh-my-god-I’ve-reached-the-end-of-the-line-what-shall-I-do-oh-my-god-oh-my-god-I-can’t-get-married-I-just-caaaan’t… That’s the reality of some brides, believe it or not! Actually it is rather interesting out of a purely academic view – I wonder whether the bridezillas and their kind have already been the target of sociological research?

I might be forced to join the population of brides under investigation, but hopefully I never end up being one of the lucky sample bridezillas. So far things are looking fairly good, my groom is happy about giving input and voicing opinions – in fact he would be annoyed if I made all the decisions myself since it is supposed to be our day, not just mine – and the most important things have already been covered, but more about that later. I hope the months up until the wedding day will be as blissful as they have been so far, but one never knows what kind of a silly crisis one might end up in, because there certainly are many things that can go wrong, at least if one is to believe in articles such as “How to make the Life-Saving Wedding Day Emergency Kit”. You would not believe the things in a Kit like that! God forbid…

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Välkommen till världen, Nellie!

I går föddes lilla Nellie till världen och föräldrarna Elin och David säger att allt har gått fint, så ett riktigt stort grattis från Köpenhamn och många kramar likaså!

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