Today we went to a gathering of musicians, held at the home of the couple who teach the nyckleharpa course. Theirs is a lovely old farm house on the Luleå river, about half way between the cities of Luleå and Boden (so about 20 or 30 minutes drive from our place). I always love visiting them, since their house and property are so beautiful, and ( Read more... )

I took this week very easy in an attempt to stay healthy. lord_kjar had a sore throat for a couple of days, and I didn't want one, but would have been exposed to whatever triggered his. So I drank lots of echinacea tea and rested and had frequent hot showers, and managed to avoid most symptoms--I did get some sniffles accompanied by random sneezes on ( Read more... )

Still loving falling into an already established social life. This morning archinonlive's parents came over for a visit. This was the first time they'd seen him since his birthday last month, so they brought cinnamon rolls, and we baked a cake. This cake was sweeter than I normally go for, since he thought his parent's would prefer a sweet cake, but since it ( Read more... )

One of the nice things about moving in with someone who has been living in the same community for many years is that it makes developing a local social life very effortless, so long as your interests overlap, which, in this case they do. The first two weeks I was here I went along with archinonlive to his choir practice and sat in the corner and listed to ( Read more... )

This weekend's SCA event was much fun! I didn't get much sleep this weekend though. In order to catch my flight on Friday morning it was necessary to leave my home around 03:30, to catch the 04:00 bus to the airport. Having lots to be done before I left, I got only a short nap before leaving. I did, however, manage to nap during the 1 hour bus ( Read more... )

Today I had a friend drop by and visit. This is the first non-house guest visitor I have had at my apartment since the first week I moved in, a year ago, when a couple of colleagues came over for lunch to help me celebrate getting a place so close to the office. It was nice to have company-while I love many things about living here, the lack of ( Read more... )

I am certainly on night shift these days. This is probably good as I am doing most of my non-work stuff (including reading e-mail, boking travel, etc.) in the mornings, and don't settle down to actual work until I've been up for a number of hours. As a result it is needful to keep working late into the night, to get a reasonable number of hours of ( Read more... )

Spent this morning getting started on chapter three, which meant needing to spend some time creating figures, which meant spending quite a bit of time fighting with ArcMap (which program I've never been properly introduced to, but have sort of half learned to do a few basic tasks on my own) trying to tell it that the the data I obtained from the ( Read more... )