My father's parents passed away nearly twenty years ago. They were kind, open-hearted people who had many friends and cared a lot about them. When I was a kid in the early 1970s we used to spend Midsummer's Eve (an important family event in Sweden, think Thanksgiving, I guess) with them. Some of their best friends also came along to celebrate. ( Read more... )

Hej Stina Fina Fian <3 Tog just bort inlägget du inte får läsa. Det mesta övriga är nog rätt pinsamt också ;)

SHIT

kan inte må dåligt idag

har saker att göra

inte den här dagen av alla dagar

(sorry, needed to vent again, can't post this to FB where I originally wrote it because my kids might read, can't post this to DS because she might read, can't post this to Tumblr... ok I suppose I could, but I'm posting way too much there anyway)

Today I made someone uneasy again by casually remarking that women tend to be better drivers than men. I'm sorry, fellow men, but that's how it is. Some of the difficulties some men have with this comes, I think, from differing definitions. Most women (and insurance companies, and associations for road safety, etc) seem to favor the definition that ( Read more... )

I haven't touched my old Elfquest books in many years, but today I added a note about Cutter and Leetah's moment of reconciliation to the Slap-Slap-Kiss trope on TV Tropes ( Read more... )

I'm employed now. Doing database and spreadsheet analyses and programming odd jobs. Cool.

"A key that can open many locks is called a master key, but a lock that can be opened by many keys is a shitty lock ( Read more... )

I think I may have a chance of getting employed. The county hospital needed someone to straighten out (mostly) Excel documents for studies of management and economy. My brother-in-law mentioned my name, and I've been doing unpaid work a couple of weeks now to prove my capability. I'm overskilled to say the least, but at this point I'm thrilled ( Read more... )

Writing an introductory manual for the Arduino and Arduino C for my 13-year-old son. Kind of fun, but a lot of work.

So.

We've filed for divorce, and got the court's confirmation. In six months I'll be single again. At that point, we will have been married for 24 ½ years, more than half of our lives.

"It is so strange the way things turn"