Joe havde inviteret til fest i Malmö lørdag aften, og det takkede jeg jo ikke nej til. Så der blev drukket spiritus og så videre i byen – og mit tøj lugter ikke af røg i dag… er der noget med at de har rygeforbud på svenske beværtninger?
Ellers har jeg lige været ude og løbe med Thomas og Rasmus. Det blev lige planlagt i sidste øjeblik, men selvom det regnede var det rigtig godt at komme ud og få bevæget sig og få noget frisk luft.
Søren har lovet at passe på katten (og huset?), mens hans forældre er ude og rejse, og jeg er taget med for at “hjælpe” ham. Dvs. et par dage med intenst druk, sol, grill, video og computer-nørden.
Jeg har allerede brugt tiden på, bl.a. at kigge på VMwares nye gratis server og så har jeg endelig fået skiftet min tidligere udbyder, dht ud med unoeuro. Selvom jeg måske ikke bryder mig meget om deres navn håber jeg på at blive lidt mere tilfreds med deres service. Redelegeringen af name-servers er vist stadig i gang som jeg skriver dette, men nu er det vist bare et spørgsmål om tid. Jeg har også gået og overvejet at flytte min blog fra livejournal til mit eget domæne, men nu må vi se om jeg får taget mig sammen.
På det lidt mindre nørdede plan så tager søren og jeg nok til stranden snarest – vejret er jo lige til det! (Selvom det nu også er rart at side i en have med en trådlås bærbar og nørde og nyde livet.
Sommer er nu den bedste tid på året…
Thursday I finally (for the first time in my life) ran around all of “søerne”. It was though(!), but I made it. I ran the distance with Rasmus, and to top it off, we went drinking afterwards. After a bit of liquor here, we met up with Søren and then went off to Heidi’s…
Yesterday was fourth of July, the American Independence Day. Not really a holiday I have ever celebrated in the past, but yesterday I attended two (different) celebrations of the day.
The first was a political manifestation. I joined over 300 others outside the Ministry of Defence, located at Holmens Kanal. There we put on orange jumpsuits, black hoods and chains around feet and hands. Then we went in one long line – three by three – to the American Embassy in complete silence (except for the rattling of the chains). Upon arrival we song the Amazing Grace, and then went our separate ways. Even though there were a whole bunch of reporters with cameras, I have only been able to find very shallow covering of the event – if I do manage to find more pictures or general news items about it, I will link it here later. For now, take a quick look here for a single picture.
http://www.localeyes.dk/article3262.html
So, with the political manifestation of the day taken care of I moved on to Amager for a more traditional celebration. We were just about 14 people, grilling (or do you call it barbecuing in the states?), drinking beer and having a good time.
I got home late’ish, slept until noon and now I should be just about ready to start my day… (being on holidays sure is sweet!)
War! AIDS-epidemic! Government corruption!
These and other topics are of course important, but they seem to fade in comparison to what I am about to show you!
You, my dear educated sophisticated widely travelled reader might not think twice about the following, but for me it was a world shaking event… I’m of course talking about the first time I saw a yellow water melon.
In my world up until quite recently watermelons are red. (Unless they have gone bad of course.) But this one is yellow. It tasted all right, but it just seemed so strange.
Judge for your self
Anyway, yesterday I went with Thomas to Tivoli to watch and hear Beth Hart play Fredagsrock. I didn’t even know who she was (during the concert only one number seemed familiar), but the concert was great! I was really happy that we went. For obvious reasons I have never actually been to a concert in the seventies, but I think she hit that ‘vibe’ quite well.
Long story short, I liked what I heard!
Thomas and I later went for a few beers at a few pubs/kroer/bars, met up with some friends of Thomas and got more beers. So now I’m sitting here a bit hungover and trying to figure out what to do with my Saturday
Today was Sunday. I got up around… late. Found something to eat, got dressed, had a bath (maybe not that way around) packed my algebra books and headed for the park where Esben was already sitting reading seriously. The weather today was really great. Not a cloud at the sky, and nice and warm. I looked over my algebra problems for the last hand in, and quickly realised that I was in no way able to solve any of them. Dosed off on the grass, half awake, half asleep. Woke up again some time later, took another look at the books. Convinced my self that I could do one of the problems, but didn’t get anything down on paper, so I will properly have to do the whole argument again some time later. Dosed off on the grass in the sun again until around 3 pm.
Got home, played a bit of computer games, until Rasmus showed up. Esben, Rasmus and I then went running. I gave up half way, but the important thing is that I have started running – and it won’t be the last time!
After some diner consisting of salmon bagels Esben and I did some WoW playing and some TV watching.
All in all a great Sunday with no work and all play. Just as Sundays are supposed to be!
Ved første øjekast ser Tivolis Himmelskibet ud som en hvilken som helst anden forlystelse. Se f.eks. billedet her:
Men det har jo ikke været billigt at bygge! Så ligesom man gør når man efterforsker organiseret kriminalitet har jeg sidet og overvejet… hvor kommer pengene fra?
Svaret er selvfølgelig sponsor penge! Men hvem ville dog sponsorerer sådan en forlystelse? Ved at kaste øjnene på nedenstående nærbillede af Himmelskibet tror jeg svaret må være klart for alle…
Den Københavnske Piercing Industri! Hvem ellers?
Kender du det at man har fået en super god ide… eller man føler at man næsten har en god ide, man skal bare lige samle tankerne og formulere den rigtigt og præcist, før man kan sprede budskabet om sin nye ide, der uden tvivl vil bringe fred og lykke til hele jordens befolkning?
Kender du det?
… og så når man endelig har den, og lige trækker vejret og tænker over det en ekstra gang, så var det måske ikke sååå god en ide (men stadig en ok ide)?
Anyway, jeg fik tilsendt dette billede fra Rasmus:
tror det er fra en fest for snart et par år siden. Jeg tror fyren på billedet har det sådan med ideen. Den er der næsten, men ikke helt… hvem ved?
Jeg er lige kommet hjem fra Fri-Hash demo. Demoen var ikke slut (og der var vist fest på Christiania i aften), men jeg smuttede hjem nu. Det var en stille og hygelig demo, masser af sjov tobak (som jeg ikke røg noget af pga. min hals/lunger – øv) og med god stemning.
Jeg kunne sikkert skrive en masse om holdninger osv., men jeg er lidt træt nu (var med Eesben ude og træne omkring middag) og håber lidt på at kunne sove lige en time eller to, før jeg skal til Hawaii party i aften.
Where did all this great weather come from? It has been like a genuine summer day today! I don’t have any school on Thursdays, so I have had the entire day off. I do have a lot of reading to do however… will get that started real soon now.
Anyway, last weekend went by way to fast. Friday was heavy drinking day! I started out by meeting Sarah and some of her friends (and friends of friends) at Nørreport where we went for a quick beer at Heidi’s Bier Bar. I only stayed for half an hour or so, then I said goodbye and went to meet Esben at Strawinsky. We met up at Gothersgade, and went in. Esben wasn’t drinking any alcohol for the entire night, so I had to do the drinking for the both of us, and I think I did a fair job! Later on more people showed up, there was drinking, dancing, shouting and fooseball. All in all it was a great night with nice company!
Night turned into morning, the club closed and after I a quick tuna fish sandwich I walked home in the light of dawn.
Next day, Saturday, I for some strange reason woke up around 10 am, and could not sleep any more. So I got a bit of studying done before I rode my MC to my grandmothers nursing home. It was her birthday party, and the whole family gathered for a bit of talking and then later dinner. My grandmother doesn’t talk much any more, but when I got there she said something along the lines of “Du ser ud som om du har det godt.” I didn’t give it much thought at the moment, but come to think of it she might be right. I do actually (and have for the last couple of weeks) been feeling quite good. Not that I don’t have a huge workload at school, and there are 1000 things that should have my attention, but doesn’t, but all in all I do feel good!
Anyway, I left dinner early to go see the Matematiker Revy at school. It was great fun. You had to have a background in math (or a related study), but the jokes and the atmosphere was wonder full.
Can’t really remember what I did Sunday, but I suspect that I went to the gym to work out with Esben, but I’m not quite sure.
Monday (I have Mondays off these next weeks by the way) was first of May. So during the late afternoon I met up with Esben, Søren H and Rasmus and we went to Fælledparken to enjoy the weather, listen to some music (we never really found the right place I think) and drink a few beers. However we are / were all serious students (some more than others…) so the day ended early
so, today I went to the gym, met up with Esben and Mark at their work, went for some ice cream with Esben, and then walked home from Frederiksberg – was a great walk in the sunshine!
… and now I’m almost running out of excuses for not reading – what should I do about that?