"Just like Donald Duck"

Yesterday I took Sean ice-skating for the first time in his life. He proclaimed it to be "very slippery and hard", but gave it his best. On the way home we also found a hill to ride down. That was fun until the sledge flipped over and Sean went head first into the snow...
For some reason it is impossible to upload pictures right now, but I will try again later.

Auld Reekie

Last week The wife and I spent a day in Edinburgh, here are some pictures to prove it:

We saw a construction site!

Visited The University of Edinburgh

Campus...

The most wicked awesome lecture hall ever!

Birthday pint in the company of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

New Pictures

Sitting on the old Vasa throne
 

Out for a walk

Posing for a picture in the woods

Thespian With Wicked Stats

While presenting my report of a fictitious project at an examination seminar in statistics today, the professor thought it necessary to stop me and ask if I had actually performed the project for real. The project was me investigating the correlation between the number of work hours and psychological resilience amongst the population of Buffalo, NY.

All work and no play...

Last night I woke up, got out of bed, went upstairs, and was just about to get in the shower when I realised that it was 1.30 A.M. Needless to say, I could return to bed and keep being Luke Skywalker for a few more hours.

Mozz and I

After calling the two existing bookstores in Kalmar to see what they are planning for the release of Morrissey's Autobiography, I am at the moment a bit disillusioned.

After I had to spell the name to the book attendants and inform them who Morrissey is, and that he is in fact releasing, probably the most anticipated book of the year this week - it stood clear that Kalmar couldn't care less. After the news broke the other day that Mozz might appear in Gothenburg on Friday to sign his book, I, of course, got really excited and have for days been trying to justify a late week outing to the West Coast to the wife. But considering people will officially start queuing outside the book store today, Wednesday, I feel my chance of having a chat the rock legend is diminishing. So what's left is to buy  the book online only to have no-one to talk to about it, since apparently kids today couldn't care less about real Rock n' Roll.

Morrissey has a lot on his mind.

Outsiders

There isn't too much to report at the moment, so to hold you over - here are some pictures of myself and the lad spending time outdoors.

Sitting on some rocks

On a woodland walk

Relaxing at a bridge

Watching the water do its thing

Only Blogging Important Stuff

Again I am at the university library, just having finished a seminar that I feel went quite well.
At the moment I am about to cram three chapters in hideously boring text book Before I go and get the munchkin from day care.
If you are at the library right now and are having problem spotting myself, just look for the guy wearing a corduroy jacket with elbow patches and an Aldous Huxley book pretentiously sticking out of the right side pocket.

Cross eyed cat!

... and we're back on!

What's a couple of months between friends? Yes, it has been a while we last blogged together, but now we are together again, and I will do my best to keep my part of this relationship interesting and exciting. At the moment I am at the Uni library, so I haven't got any interesting pictures to show, apart from a turtle eating a strawberry and loving it!

 

Speaking of spaced out turtles, today is international talk like a pirate day!

 

Matt out!

Note-maker, Name-taker!

I like to make myself notes that I leave around the house to make my day easier.

 

This one was a life-saver!

 

Bring on the Greens

Sean and I have been building a place where we can do a bit of gardening.

 

 

MBV is for Winners

While sitting in my study, writing informatics-papers to be able to (within months) collect the degree I started working on acquiring over ten years ago, I keep motivating myself by making a list of things I will allow myself to do once the diploma is on the wall. Today I added buying the new My Bloody Valentine album (mentioned in previous entries) to the mental schedule.
A good thing is that I only have three more papers to write before I have the god damn degree. The bad thing is that the list is unrealistically long.

Motivators

More Sean

Having gingerbread and Festis

Wathing telly in uncle Markus' room

New Sean Pics

Having deep conversations and drinking "coffee" at Farmor and Farfar's

Catching up on the reading

A Tycho Brahe Day

So far today, everything that could go wrong has;

• I bought an eight pack of bread rolls - when I come home there's only seven in the pack, and on my way out of the store I stopped at the bin to throw away paper scraping and receipts i had in my pockets.
• I picked up a shirt I ordered online - it is the wrong colour, so now I have to send it back to Northern Ireland and call them and explain.
• My co-writer and I had to spend all of today redoing everything we did yesterday because we didn't have all the theories straight when we started writing.

Thanks TB, for coming up with these black letter days!

Kitchen Aid

Here are some pictures of the obvious joy of helping out with the cooking.

 



B for Baroque

The other day, in class, I got upset that I only got a B+ on a paper. Later while riding the bus home I said to myself "at least it was a passing grade. that's all that really matters."
Then I had to tell myself to shut up and stop talking nonsense. Of course that's not all that matters. Being the best is what matters!

The Downward Spiral

The other day (Friday) I had two conversations with my class mates that made me think.

The first one was when I, at the large table in the cafeteria, asked who else was exited about the new My Bloody Valentine album. Apparently no one in my class had even heard about My Bloody Valentine and so, when they asked me to hum some of their songs I just let the discussion fizzle out.
Later, as we were talking about the Girl with the dragon tattoo-films I mentioned that the American had a leg up on the Swedish, since Trent Reznor had made the music for it. After some vague looks one guy finally asked "who is that?", but after it was clear that none of them had heard of Reznor - or Nine Inch Nails - I went back to my seat. 

So this made me realise two things:

1. Kids today don't know shit
2. I am awesome!

Snowmen and Patriotism!

Today, after Sean came home from day care we decided to build a snowman.

This is what it looked like.

 

 

And Then Some...