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Aug. 6th, 2010 03:21 pm
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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!
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I've been offline for a bit over a week -- wonderful vacation! But when I looked in on the net yesterday there was hysteria and work to be done and whatnot. Boy it piles up quickly!

Kinda like the RL mail pile on my doorstep when I came home. Multiple envelopes from the bank and the tax authorities in response to the paperwork I sent in last week, and a lot of other stuff, plus magazines! Mm, I like magazines.

When I turned on the computer yesterday, I also looked at some Dr Who extra stuff I've neglected -- and realised how quickly and completely I've been won over by the latest Doctor. I like it when he's not Mr Infallible Messiah-man.

So I haven't watched any of the stuff I brought along with the computer, and not a lot of TV either. What I have done is read books from my to-read-pile, and they just ran out so I needed to go home and restock. But what I want to read now is not from the to-read-pile but from my Derek Robinson stash. War! Death! Explosions! that's what I want now.

One of the books I read was "Udda verklighet" by Nene Ormes, one of our guests of honour at Condense the other month. It was actually quite good! Urban fantasy (whatever that is) set in Malmö of all places.

Bonus: sneak preview of the Condense picture page: http://condense.clubcosmos.net/?section=gallery

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