For those who haven't seen it, the Daily Show has recently run a two-part documentary on the horrors that have plagued my life for the last four months ( Read more... )

Today is the day that my original Swedish residence permit expires ( Read more... )

I have been remiss in posting here to keep you all updated on life in Sweden. Can I blame it on having just started another blog? The other one is for my company, so it's focused on business and software development rather than more personal topics, but you can check it out at http://nomadnetinc.com/blog/ if you think such things might interest ( Read more... )

I've been telling people that I expected to get my personnummer sometime this week and, just as I was starting to thing I'd probably been wrong, it arrived in today's mail. So I now exist in the eyes of the Swedish government ( Read more... )

While I was in the Twin Cities, I was semi-active in a couple of the meetup groups from meetup.com. When I moved, they were among the sites that I updated my location with (primarily so that they would stop sending me notices about new groups forming in Minneapolis). So, inevitably, I was notified of a "Lund Expat Meetup Group" which was having ( Read more... )

I got a lot of questions before moving about what Swedish winters are like. Not having seen them first-hand yet, I repeated what I'd been told: Wet and windy, but with milder temperatures. Here in southern Sweden, there's supposedly about a 50/50 chance of a white Christmas, and this year came down on the "not white" side.

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In Sweden, you can't really do much without a personnummer (yes, it does just translate as "person number"). It's kind of like a social security number in the US, but more so. Not only do you need a personnummer to pay taxes or get government services, you can't even rent a movie without one. So applying for one was the top priority yesterday, ( Read more... )

( New Years Eve, Swedish style )

I woke up this morning and the observation drifted through my half-awake mind that, 28 days from now (to the minute), I will be in flight, headed for Boston, where I will be stuck for nine and a half hours before another flight to Keflavik, an hour and a half there, a flight to Copenhagen, a train ride to Lund, and a bus across town. Which is fine ( Read more... )

I have been remiss in posting here as interesting things have been happening. (I usually just don't post because I don't feel there's anything interesting to post about, but it's just been laziness lately...) Those of you who haven't seen me since the last weekend of renfest haven't, therefore, heard that I was planning to spend most of October ( Read more... )