| End of an era |
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Written by Kristoffer on Wednesday, September 1st, 2010
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Today is the end of an era for me. For the first time in over 5 years I no longer have an active "World of Warcraft" account. Although they are both in passive mode and all I need to do is activate them by registering a credit card it's still a bid sad to think about.
I don't think I can ever explain to anyone else who hasn't been there leading 39 (later 24) other people from all over Europe through Molten Core, Blackwing Lair, Naxxramas, Tempest Keep, Black Temple etc. It's just impossible to explain how big it was and what a great part of my life it was. But everyone else will just say "it was just a game" but it was a helluvalot more for me than that.
Maybe when the next expansion comes out I'll dust off my account only to level my characters but right now it really feels like my WoW days are over. And I'm fine with that. 'Cause I've got my Sam and my Helena.
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| Smallville |
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Written by Kristoffer on Friday, August 27th, 2010
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One of the things that I'm doing on my parental leave is going through the tv-series "Smallville". I've always liked Superman. I liked the comics, loved the movies with Christopher Reeve and I thought Lois & Clark was good too. But I never really gave this show a chance and it's into it's 10th year now so it can't be all bad. So started with episode 1 two weeks ago and now I'm halfway through season 2 (eagerly awaiting Christopher Reeve's guest appearence).
So far it's hard going through all these high school years. I'm pretty proud to realise that I'm finally too old for high school love dramas! I loved them before but now it's just "grow up!" all the time.
But there are some good points about the show so far. The two biggest would be the gray areas of Lex Luthors turn to evil and that sometimes they make the entire Kent-clan seem evil with all their lying all the time. I like that 'cause unfortunately things aren't black and white all the time.
As soon as they get out of high school I'm sure it's gonna get alot better.
Here's for parental leave! :)
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| Mr Nobody |
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Written by Kristoffer on Sunday, August 22nd, 2010
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I saw "Mr Nobody" yesterday. Ok, so I saw the trailer for it a few weeks ago and I liked the theme of it which is basically - life is all about chance, coincidences, luck. Something that I realised a long long time ago, but this movie really visualized that point in an awesome way!
I'm gonna spoil it just a little bit here so if you plan to see it and don't want to know anything about it, stop reading...
Basically it's about a boy that is forced to chose between his mother and his father when they split up. And it follows both of those options and explore different outcomes of his life in different threads. One of those threads that was most surprising was the one when he was 15 and decided "I'm gonna marry this girl and never gonna leave anything to chance ever again" and how that life turned out.
Another thing that surprised me was how incredibally beautifully it was filmed and directed. Some incredible shots in there and it was made even better in full 1080p format!
What I didn't like was how it made things so complicated that it was almost impossible to follow the threads. And I say almost because I think I did but I'm not sure if the writer did at some points! Like the scene when he's hospitalized and his mother and father is sitting there... but earlier in that thread we saw his father weelchair-bound thanks to, what I'm assuming was, Alzheimer, but there he is? And what country is he living in at different points in threads.. they made it complicated like hell, but maybe they had to to bring home the point. There was also alot of other good "think about this for a moment"-points about time and life.
Generally I liked it but feels like it could have been better. Somehow. But go see it, even if it is 2 1/2 hours long.
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| Home alone with Sam |
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Written by Kristoffer on Tuesday, August 3rd, 2010
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This is the real first day of my parental leave! Helena has gone back to work now and I'm left solo with Sam, looking after, stimulating and feeding him as best I can and taking care of the household.
I've been way too busy in the past weeks to call this a vacation! My sister Amy with her family of four very well behaved kids and a hilarious husband was here in Sweden for a few weeks and I got to see them quite a few times, including a 20 hour cruise we took again (this time without the bad food that had me in bed by 20:30 last time!).
All in all, life is good right now :)
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| Busy doing everything |
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Written by Kristoffer on Sunday, July 18th, 2010
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I'm officially on vacation right? I certainly haven't noticed since I've been busy doing all those things I never had time for. Some of those things have been caught on camera and I've done some updating of my photo gallery.
1 - Midsummer Weekend with Helena's brother and his family.
2 - Putting our pontoon back into the lake.
3 - Taking a stroll in Lövhagen with my family.
4 - Going to Kolmården with our neighbours and then a visit to the icecream restaurant in Söderköping.
And ofcourse some updates to my gallery dedicated to my son Sam.
Here's hoping next week will be a little less eventfull!
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| Day 4 - The heat is on |
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Written by Kristoffer on Sunday, July 11th, 2010
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Today is day 4 (of what, 190?) at home with my family. Although it's been a weekend so it doesn't feel as strange yet. Maybe it'll hit next week when I haven't logged in and checked the status of my Sharepoint farm at work :)
Biggest problem so far has actually been the heat! Our son really doesn't like the heat we're having now! He can't sleep and is just grumpy all the time. So we're thinking of a small air conditioner unit here if this goes on. Which based in the weather reports it will.
Other than that, we're BBQing, watching movies, doing some home improvements and in 3 hours we have the Formula 1 race from Silversone (been there!).
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| Done at work. And moving server again! |
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Written by Kristoffer on Thursday, July 8th, 2010
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And now I've finally worked my last shift at work for all year. No more work for me! Now it's all about Sam!.. and Helena. And the house. And then me :) And it's gonna be good!
One thing I'm hoping to do is redesign this place again, it's been a while. And I've had to transfer the site back to our NP.com server. The photo-section will probably be offline for a while but should be ok in a few days.
Take care!
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| Portal |
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Written by Kristoffer on Monday, July 5th, 2010
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Just wanted to do a quick update to say I purchased the computer game Portal the other day on steam. And loved it. Played it again and loved it even more. Downloaded the song "Still Alive" and loved it.
I also love it when I change my mind about something 'cause it came out 2-3 years ago and I did pay any attention to it. My bad.
Buy it.
Oh, and 3 more days :)
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| Only 12 days of work left |
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Written by Kristoffer on Monday, June 21st, 2010
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Although it's 16 days until I go on my parental leave, only 12 of those are days I have to spend at work. And believe me, I am counting every hour now! Still not sure how it's gonna go with me and my son when Helena goes back to work on august 1st...
And stockholm is back to it's normal self now after a few weeks of crazyness with this royal wedding and all. I'm not a huge fan of monarchy but I ended up watching it on television anyway. And it was cute and all but a bitter taste that most of it was paid by us the taxpayers and no matter how hard I try or how much money I spend on my wedding... what are the ods I can close down stockholm like that when I get married!?
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| 35 and counting. |
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Written by Kristoffer on Friday, June 4th, 2010
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So now I'm 35 years old. I dunno why but that most definitely feels like a limit where you can blame "immaturity" anymore without sounding silly :(
But as far as my life goes, it's certainly picked up in the past 2 years going from "sitting home alone (but far from lonely) playing my computer games and watching my movies" to "sitting on the terrace of our lovely house with my lovely fiancé listning to our lovely boy not wanting to sleep".
Life is pretty good to me at the moment. Unfortunately it's not as good for everyone :(
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| Who's the most wrong? |
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Written by Kristoffer on Tuesday, June 1st, 2010
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So who's the most wrong in that conflict down there in Israel? Because no matter how you look at it there isn't a single right anywhere!
It certainly isn't right to seize ships in international waters and use deadly force. Then again Hamas are terrorists. But then again the palestinian people did vote for them in a democratic election. But they only did that because Israel has been pushing them that far. And the shitty history goes on and on. And on the sideline is the supposedly number 1 freedom fighting nation in the world and not doing anything. So it'll probably continue until someone changes their minds :(
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| 37 days |
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Written by Kristoffer on Monday, May 31st, 2010
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In 37 days I'm going on a 7 month parental leave. Add one more month of vacation and I'm gonna be home for a long long time!
I know I shouldn't amp up my expecations since I'm bound to disappointed but.. 8 months with my little boy. Learning him to eat solid(ish) food, learning him to walk and maybe even talk a little bit. It's gonna be great! I just hope we don't suffer too much economically because of it.
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| Still building the terrace |
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Written by Kristoffer on Monday, May 24th, 2010
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We got our permit to put the roof up over 1/3 of the terrace so I'm busy doing that. And Helena is busy taking care of the rest of the house, our son and planting all the flowers and trees and stuff we bought yesterday for approximately 10.000 swedish crowns!
Man it's gonna look good and smell awesome when we're sitting under the roof on the terrace with the BBQ on and the rain is falling down again!
I've also updated som photo albums:
The terrace-build, although not 100% up to date after I've started with the roof.
Our new carpark with the bricks that the Irish guys put down for us.
Our latest family get-together for my father's birthday.
And as always added some photos of our wonderful son Sam.
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| Terrace done!... almost |
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Written by Kristoffer on Thursday, May 20th, 2010
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The terrace is done!... almost. I'm waiting for the council to give us a permit to put the roof up. It seems that since we can use it as a storage if we put a roof on it we need permit. Isn't that typical sweden, you can't get any luxury without paying the government their piece of the pie!
Anyway, we've had a BBQ with our neighbours across the street and Helenas has spend some days just slacking in the comfy soffas we bought. We're also waiting on Mio to deliver the outdoor dining table and chairs so we can have more guests!
On top of that (!) we've had bricks put on our driveway. Cost us 80.000 swedish crowns but it'll be worth it. We hope. Won't know for another few years since it may get completely screwed up when the ground settles a bit.
We're doing so much on the house now which is kinad rediculous considering I'll be off from work from july to the end of the year and have plenty of time then. But I want that time to just enjoy our nice home and play with our son!
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| Guess what I've been doing all weekend? |
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Written by Kristoffer on Sunday, May 9th, 2010
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What a weekend! I'm totally exhausted! We've been putting up the floor on our terrace and my knees are pretty much gone and my back is... not well! We would have been done with floor had it not been for 1) me being called into work because of an overheating alarm from our datacenter 2) Formula 1 weekend 3) friendly neighbours interrupting and 4) Sam having a very bad sunday and screaming his lungs out! Fortunately Helena is the handy type so when one of us was busy with Sam the other kept building. But we're so very close now I can taste it :)
Check the image gallery :)
Now I just wanna go to sleep, but we're off to a small BBQ with our neighbours. Meat and beer, great way to end this weekend!
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