Friday yaye

Finally friday, the last day of this endless week (but the working part isn't over yet). After work today I'll journey to Tullinge and work at the country festival that is there. I wonder how much I'll have to do since it's gonna rain on Saturday, then it won't come so much people. Not looking forward to that actually, but I have monday off so I can really sleep in :-D so this weekend I can't sit at home and play on my xbox nor the computer but I'll probably set it up during next week. Oh and my big brothers wife has started to make trips from home to downtown Stockholm with the kids. She came by my office and we went out and took a coffee at one of the nearby coffee shop's.

She is really starting to grasp how to get around in Stockholm without the use of a car, since that is almost impossible to do in downtown Stockholm. Even if you do the cost of parking downtown is a robbery. So strange suddenly I don't know what I wan't to write in my blog :( I usually have lots of stuff to write down and share but now it stands perfectly still. Well one thing that I can write about is that I'm not really getting anywhere with coding our game so it fits after the clients requests/demands. Well I'm in some kind of roadfork where 2 or more paths of doing a thing in the game leads to the same result but I need some help on figuring out how the CTO want's it, and he is not in until next week. So I'm pretty much bored as hell, but I can still plan (in more detail) how I am going to present one of my solutions to the CTO next week.

I'll be out of reach from a computer so I'll probably blog when the weekend is over, most likely on monday since I'm off from work. Tha... tha... That's all folks!

Thursday = week almost over

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Damn the week is almost over :) Today I'm having lunch with my old roomate and another classmate from collage. Also I'm a member at this online-student-community called Student.se and I just logged in this morning, droped a line at the grafitti billboard. Just below my post I saw a picture of someone that I recognize, and I wasn't mistaken :) it was an old classmate from middleschool. She is now one of the admins at that community (neat). The world is a small place and it's so random where you meet old friends and stuff like that :)

Yesterday was a waste of day since I didn't do very much at work, nothing to do really, so I wasn't lacking discipline, just that I didn't have any new tasks to perform really. But I managed to dig in on a task that probably will land on my table sooner or later, so a little headstart wouldn't be so bad.

Yesterdays strip from little-gamers was so funny here you go:


Well tomorrow is friday and then after work I'm gonna go and work some more at this country festival held in Tullinge as I wrote about before. Hopefully it's gonna be a calm evening, hopefully not to much whipsters that are trying to jump over the fence or under it just to get in for free. Actually the music isn't the music they usually listen to they just try to get in to get ahold of alcohol like beer but we don't allow people to buy unless they have a wristband in a certain color ;)

Now back to work =)

Monday

Well today is the first day of the week, namely monday the last day I want to work on. But I fight it through to the end anyway, bacause then tuesday comes :) So what have I done today? Woke up (sadly enough) and got ready to go to work. On my way to work I stopped at coffee cup to pick up a coffee and a bagle for breakfast. Came to work at 8.30 a.m and sat there all alone at my desk, eating my breakfast and reading todays paper. Nothing really interesting in it. When it was time for lunch I called 2 friends that works at GRIN (maybe if I don't like it at the job I'm at now I might be able to get into GRIN), we went to Texas Burger Restaurant. It was very fun to go out and have lunch with some friends from collage, we talked about work, upcoming party they are going to have next weekend.

This weekend I'm going to work at Lida Coutnry Festival in Tullinge. I asked my CTO if I could have monday next week off, since I'll be working the whole weekend and I'm probably not going to get so much rest. It is so much to do on the festival. The festival is from friday to saturday, I've asked if my brothers wife and kids want to come on saturday and enjoy some country music (I don't by the way enjoy that kind of music). We'll see how it turns out when the weekend comes sneaking around the corner ;-)

Oh and I "hate" that the salary comes one whole month after the first month of work, so actually I work 2 months before I get paid for the first one. Kinda sucks but anyway I do get a nice salary for my first job. Why I'm aggravated is because I want to start going to the gym so I can work some fat off my fat body. I don't want to borrow more money since I'm already in debt to both my father and my baby brother, my whole first salary will go to paying off my debt to them. Almost everything since I didn't start from the begining of this month I don't get a full months pay. So to have some cash over until next payday I'll probably just pay off some of my debt.

Time flies and now it's time for bed :) Nite!

Ex

Strangest thing happend to me today, when I was waiting for tha train into town I saw my ex standing there on the platform also waiting for the same train. She didn't notice me until the train pulls into the platform. She waved at me and I waved back, then I walked up to her and said "Hi long time no see!" she responded the same. On the way in to town we talked about what we've been doing since our paths split some years earlier. She has been studying and was on her way to Örebro to take a test in programming (which she doesn't have that much skill in she said). Well when the train stoped at the central station we went off and exchanged numbers since I got invited to a party she is going to have this weekend with her boyfriend, she added that no one is coming so it might not be a party after all but I should RSVP when I know if I can come or not.

The first thing I did when I got to work was to hmm take a coffee actually ;) Then I called my friend at 10 am to see if he had any plans for this weekend. But he hadn't so I suggested that we do something since I kinda don't feel like going to my ex-s party where there only will be her and her boyfrind, it doesn't feel right. Sure if there was alot of other ppl there I might would go but not when it's just gonna be the 3 of us. Well today has been a loong ass day, it's only 2.30 pm and I wanna go home, pretty much almost everyone is going home early today since it's midsummer tomorrow and we celebate it "like crazy" over here. I think it's just an apologize to drink, but thats me. I also wish that my big brother would be here then we could celebrate it together with the whole family :)

Well maybe if I finish of some stuff here at the office I can go earlier, it would be nice but my TODO list is pretty darn big. Maybe if I cut it in half or even smaller pieces then it would feel like I've accomplish something today :D

L8ters!

Blog blog blog

So much to do now, but I figured that I could take some time off and write a line or two here since I haven't done it in a while now. Whats happend since last time is that I started to work as a consultant (yaye!) and the company is kick-ass, we got a coffe machine, espresso machine, our own beer tap (yeah I know a beer tap), and we do play poker during lunch. Every friday there is a little poker tournament here at the office after work, we have some beers and play texas hold'em.

Today sometime before lunch I went past our only meeting room and guess who I saw in there? ... Well you could probably say anyone, but it wasn't just anyone, Börje Salming sat there and had a meeting with our CEO about some pomotion or commercial they are gonna to somewhere, can't say where ;)

The best part of this job is that it is located downtown Stockholm, from here I can get to like anywhere. Sure some of you that read this would probably think that the beer tap is the best thing about this job but after a while you get used to have it in the resting area.

Well gotta get back to work, I'll post some pictures later or maybe now hmm can't decide. Okey I'll post them now :P

My baby brother

My grandfather (in a cool looking t-shirt)

The flat tire I got last week

A picture of Skellefteå, it's so peaceful with all the green and stuff

And the last picture is of my very tired big brother when we are driving back from Skellefteå :)

My big brothers son running in a meadow


Todelo!

Short

Ok so this is supposed to be a short one. Well not much to say really, more than that I'm at my friends apartment watching their cats for a week, meanwhile I live here (yaye). Installed my own computer here aswell but mine can't be on during the night since my friends comp. is on and this room that they are in is so small that it easily gets over heated. Well gotta catch the bed now for some shuteye, gonna wake up in a few hours to go to the airport and say good bye to my big brother that is flying home this morning *snuffles* :'(

C ya

Soon very soon

Time flies when you are having fun, and that I must say it's true. I just finished a game of the old fashioned game StarCraft: Brood War over the net with some friends. My god I had it rough there for some time but I managed to get back up and fight back, then it was I who finished the fight :) we played a 2vs2 game on the map The Hunters. A well they want a rematch tomorrow so I better get some sleep, since tomorrow I'm on cleaning duty (juck), have to clean the whole house *roll eyes*. Anyway after I'm done with that I will probably eat some lunch and then work out a new strategy for tomorrows game. Enough about that.

I got a call today from academic work and they said that if I'm still interested in the job I applied for I could meet with their client on Thursday afternoon for an interview (yaye!) I'm all excited. I can only hope that it goes well. Although I have to call academic work tomorrow since they said that they where going to e-mail me the information on where the interview is going to take place but yet I haven't gotten any e-mail. Perhaps tomorrow, but if I haven't got it by the morning I'll call them.

Well well my big brother w/ family is coming in 2-3 days and everyone is preparing for their arrival here in Sweden. I'm getting more and more excited for the trip that we are going to make, Stockholm - Skellefteå and then back again 2 days later. Hmm alot of stuff that needs to be done in my room. I will need to clean it, cancel the apartment contract, say bye bye to my fine internet connection that I got and prepare all my stuff for the move. So when we get up there we basically need to eat some dinner and then maybe clean it up a bit for when I'm having more guests, and last but not least start packing my stuff. That is all for this time.

Todelo!

Oh here is a trailer I made for the game that I have submittet to the Swedish Game Awards.

More happy thoughts and some progress

The happy thoughts are still in my head since I've been harassing my big brother with mails about the internship oportunity at his workplace. I'm very excited about that, but since it is in the US I would need some sort of working permit to be able to do my internship on a legal basis (which I intend to do). It seems as it is moving in the right direction anyway :) so tomorrow I'm going to call my educations co-ordinator to get his "approval" on this, although I can't officially get an approval from him since I need to have the position at my big brothers work first and that requiers the temporary work permit. It's gonna be a long day tomorrow :/

Anyway today I managed to get ahold of a tech yourself C# in 21 days (3 weeks), and I've started reading in it and I am already at day 3s lesson :) I'm moving fast when I have a goal task ahead of me, I have also been programming in the languages C++ and Java so C# isn't that much of a differance but still some syntax is handy to get around. I guess I'll be finished by the time that my big brother and his family comes for vacation here in Sweden. And by then I should know where I'm going to do my thesis work, if it's in the US or here in Sweden. As I said last time I got denied from 1 application but I sent out one more to Ericsson and hopefully they will answer soon enough. I've heard positive feedback from my big brothers work, they're excited to get me to come over and to do my thesis/internship work at their place. I am excited aswell but I'm just hoping that the US government isn't in a bad mood or something when my application for a temporary work permit lands on their desk.

Today I was out shoping with my friend and his girlfriend and ofcurse I went to the game store and found some second-hand games that I bought (they where take 3 pay for 2) so I took NFSU, NFSU 2 and Brute Force. I played Brute Force on my brothers xbox and liked it but when I got home the game was nowHear to be found but now I found it :) so now, when I get back to Skellefteå I'm gonna play it through. Hopefully I get back on a quick visit before my big brother and his family comes over so I can clean up the place, it's a mess ;)

Well thats that for today I think, now I'm heading for the bed and some nice and good sleep. I know that I'm gonna wake up at 10 AM tomorrow (automatically) since it's so bright in my room when the sun is up. L8ters!

Happy thoughts

Got yet another denial e-mail today :( but I'm still holding my head high cause one application down and 2 new "sent". I failed to meet the criteria at one of the thesis positions at Ericsson, but I surfed back to their website and found another interesting job ad 'Thesis - HW accelerated 3D graphics in mobile phones' so I applied for it and did even manage to write a Cover Letter aswell :) and some other good news is that my big brother is going to ask for a thesis position at his work in the US :) maybe an Internship. I'm having my fingers crossed and I'm hoping for the best.

Today I did some manly work, first off I cleaned the wooden balcony in the backyard then when I was waiting for it to dry I managed to carry some lumber into the garage and start to split the lumber into smaller pieces so they dry faster and then they are a good fuel for the fire in the winter. The machine that splits the lumber pushes the lumber onto a mounted axehead with a 6 ton pressure, so it cracks/splits fairly easily. After doing that for an hour my dad came home with kebab for lunch, it was a long time since I've eaten a kebab. We finished lunch and then my Peter calls me and asks if I want to go to the movies on Sunday and watch Spiderman 3 (spiderman is my hero) so I say yes and ask when he is going to buy the tickets so he tells me in 45 min. I ask my dad for a ride to Kista which is where we are going to watch the movie on Sunday. So we go there and my dad has to make a stop at the bank for some business. Meanwhile I borrow the car and go and pickup Peter (he works nearby from Kista), I drove him to the Kista mall and he went in to get the tickets. In the meantime while Peter is buying the tickets I drove my dad back to work (which is also not far from the mall).

Then back again to pickup Peter and drive him back to his work since his lunchbreak was almost over. After I have dropped Peter off I drove back home, and on the way home I text Peters baby sister to say hello and ask what she is doing. She texts me back and wounder if I'm in town and for how long and she asks me if I could pick her up after school (she is in high school). I text her back and tell her that I could pick her up when she is finished for the day and that would be around 3-3:30 PM. At 3 PM I went to pick her up and then we went to Vällingby which is the suburb to Stockholm and sat down for some coffee and a cookie. We talked about how long I was in town for and stuff like that, I did do the awful mistake to tell her that I've been in town for a week now. She almost hit me over the head with the glas ;) After we had had our coffee we went to pickup my dad from work.

I dropped Carina off at her place and then drove back to my dads for dinner. Before dinner I continued to do some manly lumber splitting work just to feel like I've done something useful before dinner. After the dinner I went home to my friend Filip to watch the hockey game between Sweden and Switzerland and have some beers. Sweden won with 6 - 0 YAYE! A well that about sums it up :) Now I'm gonna hit the sack since my back hurts of all the hard work today and my eyelids are feeling heavy. I'm also hoping for a positive answer from either my big brother in the states or from Ericsson. But my big brother said that I shouldn't get my hopes up to high, and I'm not but still I'm waiting for an answer :)

Cheers!

Bits and pieces

Whoa what great weather we have had these past couple of days. The sun is shining and it is 20+ degrees in the shadow (was 32 in the sun on Thursday). I have been with my baby brother in the suburbs and enjoying the weather, we went to the mall and had lunch and for dessert a soft ice. Have some pictures of that in my cell that I'll probably upload tomorrow when I'm a bit more sober ;) Tonight one of my best friends Peter invited me and some other friends to dinner. We had a wonderful BBQ and plenty of drinks. After the dinner Peter took out the poker table and we all played some texas hold'em, I finished second. Blew it all on my last hand, but it was fun.

After the game we just sat down and talked about anything that came to our minds, also some things where spluttered since the hostess had a few to many to drink ;) I was the only one keeping up with her but I didn't get that dizzy feeling after all those drinks. It must be that I can hold my liquor better then her ;) We also discussed why I was the only one at that party that didn't have a girlfriend (and I wonder that too). While on the subject Peter picks up his cell and texts a girl he met a couple of years before he got together with his current girlfriend, and sends a message that I'm available, she calls him back and tells him that I should meet her downtown because she was out clubbing but it was fairly late so I didn't really feel like chasing after my own tail all night. I'll probably call Peter tomorrow and while I'm on the phone with him I could always ask for her number and then call her later on (or let him introduce me to her or her to me whatever happens first).

Oh my baby brother and I have also booked the "flyttis" (pick up) that I and my 2 brothers are going to drive up to Skellefteå and then back down again (a sum of 1 000 miles there and back) after my graduation. Well that's that, now I'm ready for bed so I'll drop a line soon again.

The pictures as promised (the last one only swedish reading ppl will probably understand)
BBQ

Eating a soft ice in the sun with my baby brother and his friend

A funny sign at the student pub in KTH - Haninge