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Four weeks of vacation done, one week to go. That week I will spend in Gbg, getting back in gear with board meetings, pub nights and paperwork. Yes, I'll end the vacation the same way I started it!
This hasn't been the best of summers with my parents. For the first couple of weeks my mother continuously talked about how I must search the net on how to commit suicide. Every day. Every conversation with everyone she met -- suicide. How my father copes I can't begin to understand, I start to knuckle under after just a few days. Finally I did what she asked and looked up "how to commit suicide" and it was really rough. Urgh. Had to watch a lot of this to feel better.
Otherwise I've mostly been reading books, trying to diminish the to-read-pile. Six so far, including Peter Englund's book about the Great War as seen through the eyes of a score of persons, and Douglas Hofstadter's sequel to "Gödel, Escher, Bach", called "I Am A Strange Loop", wherein he tries to explain consciousness. Lots of mathematics, autobiography and science-fiction -- the latter is quite ironic since he clearly states that SF is bunkum and not worth anything. And still it makes such good metaphors!
Soon I'll go out and pick raspberries, if the rain lets up. Loads of berries in the woods, if you know where to look. Other places -- completely devoid of them! Yum, berries. I'd post pictures of them but my camera has given up the ghost (in the machine) and I have to get a new one. With it I plan to make postcards for our big tolkienist party in October -- maybe you'll get a greeting from Mithlond aka Göteborg, or a touristy pic of Turgon/Gustaf Adolf. Howzaboutthat!
And howza boutthat!
This hasn't been the best of summers with my parents. For the first couple of weeks my mother continuously talked about how I must search the net on how to commit suicide. Every day. Every conversation with everyone she met -- suicide. How my father copes I can't begin to understand, I start to knuckle under after just a few days. Finally I did what she asked and looked up "how to commit suicide" and it was really rough. Urgh. Had to watch a lot of this to feel better.
Otherwise I've mostly been reading books, trying to diminish the to-read-pile. Six so far, including Peter Englund's book about the Great War as seen through the eyes of a score of persons, and Douglas Hofstadter's sequel to "Gödel, Escher, Bach", called "I Am A Strange Loop", wherein he tries to explain consciousness. Lots of mathematics, autobiography and science-fiction -- the latter is quite ironic since he clearly states that SF is bunkum and not worth anything. And still it makes such good metaphors!
Soon I'll go out and pick raspberries, if the rain lets up. Loads of berries in the woods, if you know where to look. Other places -- completely devoid of them! Yum, berries. I'd post pictures of them but my camera has given up the ghost (in the machine) and I have to get a new one. With it I plan to make postcards for our big tolkienist party in October -- maybe you'll get a greeting from Mithlond aka Göteborg, or a touristy pic of Turgon/Gustaf Adolf. Howzaboutthat!
And howza boutthat!
