Who You Fight With

One of our neighbours, Larry, said something interesting yesterday as he was talking about his time in Oslo. He had noticed that while Americans fight with each other as they get drunk, Norwegians (and I would say Swedes as well) seemed to wrestle with themselves in a similar intoxicated state of mind. He mentioned that they walked around screaming but that there really wasn't any actual fights. I wonder if this is part of the Scandinavian mindset, to be more self-critical and in a constant wrestling match with yourself. I guess you could argue that Scandinavians when they drink gets too drunk even to fight, but that seems a bit far fetched.

Update

After a few months working part time I'm back up to full time again. It's good news, even though I've gotten used to the hours.

In the office and having my first coffee of the day in a Santa Maria that is overcast.

Still going to get certified in Java even though the book is as dry as really dry stuff. Been reading up on areas like Hibernate, Spring, JSP, Servlets and Stripes. Stripes is a pretty nice little web framework that, although it lacks some of the name recognition that other frameworks have, it still seems both powerful and easy to use.

Time to go.