Life after Battlestar Galactica

It's come down to the end of Battlestar Galactica. I still have the last two parter to watch before it's all over, and hopefully things will be explained. It's a high quality show but it's probably a good thing that this is the last season. It's hard for a show to maintain a level of interest and quality for more than 3-4 seasons. Battlestar Galactica has mostly pulled it off, even though they spiralled down into the Lost swamp where even the writers don't know where things are heading. But this show never quite falls into that quagmire. So now onto Life After Battlestar Galactica!

Some Music

As I started listening to Neko Case, Middle Cyclone, a thought struck me: My brother will probably like this music.
Am I right?

Friday is here

Time to go home for the week. Some good things. Want to watch a high quality British detective TV show? Then look no further, but check out Foyle's War.
Want to see some good journalism from what might be an unexpected source? Check out The Daily Show with Jon Stewart. Maybe especially the latest interview with CNBC’s Jim Cramer. You can watch it here.

Now off to have my weekend!

Too Long

Ok, it's been too long since my last post. I guess I could go with "I've been busy", and it would be true. But enough said. Work is work. Boxing is still fun, and I made a website for our boxing program a while ago. Here it is. This weekend we had a fund raiser for one of the boxers that is about to go pro.

The Saab drives like a jet plane on wheels. Great stuff! Those Swedes know how to make a car.

Sunday Evening

After a few sunny, restful and productive days, the weekend has sauntered into Sunday evening. It's the blues, with a steady baseline. Last weekend I built a raised bed for the garden and yesterday I got it in place in the warm spot right next to the kitchen door. I poured over 10 cubic feet of potting soil and 6 cubic feet of a compost like soil amender into the frame, and it still is not quite full enough.

Other projects in the garden has involved clearing out the scarecrow anti-cat sprinkler, that happened to be full of earwigs. Probably the most disgustingest critter on earth. It would not be unlikely that this hell spawn showed up after the Fall of Man, with it's claw and general creepy crawliness. Enough said about that.

I have decided to start studying towards getting Java Certified. It will probably take about 6 months of studying, but even so I'm almost looking forward to it. There's something to say about learning to to a thing well, be it a craft or the art of programming. One thing that has struck me during this year is that development/programming can be a creative task of finding patterns and weaving logic and math into a comprehensive tapestry.

That's all for now. Time to go.

Time To Cross The Pond

"Glorious, stirring sight! The poetry of motion! The real way to travel! The only way to travel! Here today--in next week tomorrow! Villages skipped, towns and cities jumped--always somebody else's horizon! O bliss! O poop-poop! O my! O my!"

- Kenneth Grahame, The Wind in the Willows

Back in Sweden

We're here and the trip went well except that all our luggage got lost. But after a day of not knowing, the bags have reemerged from the airline maze and will arrive in Linköping tomorrow, Sunday. This is probably about time since a t-shirt can only be worn for a certain amount of time before it gets a bit smelly.

Other than the luggage issue it is great to be back!

Chistmas in Sweden

So for everyone that does not know this already. Autumn and I are going to spend Christmas and New Years in Sweden. I'm looking forward to seeing all of my friends and family in Linköping during the holidays. Most presents are bought, we have bags and we are ready to go. It's still hard to quite understand that it is Christmas soon with the sunshine on our lawn just outside our living room window here in California. But I guess I could get used to it. But now onto a hopefully white Christmas in the North.

Saturday Afternoon

There have been some very interesting times lately. There is a lot to say about the election and Obama's win. But today is not the day since we're getting ready to have some people over for dinner. So I have to go.