Who doesn’t like good service? But more often than not, whenever you want to return something or have a defective item replaced at a store (more…)

I recently bought some Neutrogena skin-care products and on each item the text “dermatologist tested” is printed. So, the dermatologist has been tested, but what about the product? Not that claiming that a product has been dermatologically tested has any real meaning, but saying “dermatologist tested” is just silly. Aah, I feel so much better now

Last week I attended a series of lectures/presentations that were a part of a “kick off” for the company where I work. It gave me some serious flashbacks from my days at the university sitting there in rows staring at a projection with charts and bullet lists. As I was sitting there I started doodling (more…)

Random thought of the day: “We’ll rendezvous at 16 hundred hours”. I haven’t thought about it before, but today it hit me that it’s wrong on so many levels. It’s sort of like saying that $12.00 is 12 hundred dollars. In that case it would be correct if we said 12 hundred cents, but in the case of time it’s even more wrong to say 16 hundred minutes. In Sweden we use the 24 hour format, but we don’t say “hundred”.

During the night between Friday and Saturday we finally got some snow! There was some snow in the end of October and then nothing (except a little just before xmas - getting my hopes up - that rained away the same day) until now. I was hoping for snow for xmas when my niece was here. Now I don’t care as much, but it’s been strange with a winter without any snow. We usually have lots this far north.

Here are a couple of pictures taken from my apartment today:

I’d just like to wish you all a merry X-mas!

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Jag lade upp en auktion på Tradera häromdan. Det var ett tag sen sist jag sålde något så jag gick in på Postens hemsida för att dubbelkolla priset på de förfrankerade kuverten man kan köpa. Posten har smyghöjt priset på dessa med över 50%! De har satt om priserna så att ett “Small”-kuvert nu kostar samma som “Medium” gjorde tidigare, “Medium” kostar som “Large”, osv. Helt plötsligt är det inte längre prisvärt att använda dessa kuvert om man inte skickar tunga prylar. Som tur är verkar inte priset på Postens paket ha ändrats. Jag undrar om det här är en bestående prishöjning eller om det är Postens sätt att tjäna lite extra julpengar.

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Julen drar sig närmare och här är några saker som jag är intresserad av:

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It’s actually been a while since I last ordered anything online. Well, unless you count the iRobot Roomba robovac I ordered a few weeks ago (review coming up). At least it’s been a while since I bought anything J-Pop related.

I’ve always wanted a nice Ai Otsuka poster to put somewhere in my apartment. And now they finally have one for sale at YesAsia. It’s a very nice Renai Shashin promo poster with many small polaroid photos of Ai. I just ordered it. I was about to order some more stuff, but I restrained myself . I’m not sure where I’ll place it yet. It all depends on wheter or not I find a nice 2007 calendar (i.e. if Ayu’s is nice). Perhaps my Aya Ueto poster will have to go. I’m even thinking about framing it to make it look a bit more sophisticated.

I’ve also been looking into getting some nice art (either a painting or a poster/reproduction). I love one painting in the movie Daisy, as I’ve written earlier, which is sort of impressionist style, so I’ve been looking at Monet’s work to see if there’s something fitting. It’s the correct style, but I haven’t found the motive (or rather, feeling) I’m looking for.

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I bought a skipping rope the other day as an impulse buy after a character on Battlestar Galactica was going to skip rope. I’ve never been good at skipping rope, but I gave it a try and quickly realized that a skipping rope has quite a range when it went *smack* *rrritch* and it ripped one of my posters. I have to be more careful when I get the Ai poster, I suppose.

I have no idea how I ended up there, but I found a page describing the Combat Conditioning method used and promoted by Matt Furey. I remember downloading his videos once upon a time, but I deleted them before I had watched them (this was back when I had a lot less harddrive space than today). I tried some of his exercises tonight just to get a feeling for them. I did a few “hindu squats” (I don’t know, perhaps 20-30) and thought “hey, this isn’t too bad”, but then when I started walking around I felt how much it had taken out of my thighs. I’m going to give this method a try.

When I was still in school I drew all the time. When I began studying at the university I stopped drawing for a period of time. Then I picked it up again for a short while. It’s now been almost four years since the last time I did a drawing. I’m not sure why, I just haven’t done it.

The other day I looked at some drawings people had posted at Ayumi Hamasaki.net forum and all of a sudden I felt inspired. I actually felt super nervous because I knew I was going to draw something and I don’t know, I was just so excited about it.

I did a little sketching yesterday and today (well, it’s the middle of the night) I made a drawing. It’s pretty rough, but it feels good to have completed it. It’s supposed to be Korean actress Kim Tae-hee. I don’t know if there’s much likeness. I’m going to post the picture at AHO now (they’ll probably be the first to see it since, well let’s just say that my blog isn’t the most visited page on the web).