Why is this?
It feels good to make notes, write small stories from everyday life or whatever. I like doing it here at Write.as, a neat corner of the Internet. I’m also here:
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It feels good to make notes, write small stories from everyday life or whatever. I like doing it here at Write.as, a neat corner of the Internet. I’m also here:
#journal
Tiden går så fort numera. Det går att överblicka ett år i taget. Hösten kommer snart och till en början kommer den att vara helger på landet och sedan mörk och stressig inför julen som plötsligt är nu. Vintern lång, kanske med några helgen med skidåkning och en evig slaskperiod med TV-serier och läxor och svåra saker på jobbet. Sedan kommer våren. Först smyger den sig på. Sedan ska semester önskas och så blir det maj och sjukt mycket att göra på alla fronter och så är det skolavslutning och midsommar och så är vi här de sista dagarna i juli och allt går mot slutet igen. Dagdrömmarna var mindre intensiva den här sommaren.
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Some years ago a friend lend me a copy of the novel The last good kiss by James Crumley. It came out the same year I was born, 1978, and I had never heard of it before. The copy was in Swedish and quite new, published by Modernista, a company known for translating American classics or more niched hits. I really like The last good kiss. It’s what you could call a hard boiled crime novel, but unordinary and well written. Dark and funny. I recently found out, hadn’t bother to look it up before, that Crumley wrote a couple of other novels. I’ve gotten hold of one them: Dancing Bear. It was published in 1983 and the paper back copy I bought online from a second hand bookstore called Bokbörsen.
It’s a thriller too. A middle aged man who fought in the Korean War is working as a security guy. He’s bored and poor and is trying to stay out of trouble, but one day he gets an odd offer he can’t refuse. An old lady, who used to date his now dead father, wants to hire him to find out why a man and a woman are having a rendezvous in the park next to her house once a week, the one of them driving different cars every time. She just wants to know what that’s all about. Then all turns hell.
I like it so far. Crumley is fun reading. He’s got style.
#journal #books #writing
I don’t know why I went with undreas for a while. However I’m back now with the original andreas.
Thanks to Dino and his post here I now know how to use markdown to display an image in a blog post, and allow the reader to click that image to view the image in a tab.
I tried it and it works. 👇
Nice! Now I would like to know how to add some text in a caption.
Starting this day.
Lagade snabb middag och läste ett reportage om tv-serien Upp till kamp i Filter. Satt kvar vid köksbordet efter att tonårssonen hade gått och fann att jag faktiskt öppnat pappersmagasinet som kommit med posten och därefter läst en lång text från början till slut. Jag gillade ingressen särskilt.
Och starten på brödtexten är genialisk i sin enkelhet. Ingen upprepning här inte, bara pang på.
Manusförfattaren Peter Birro:
Sedan kommer ett citat om Francis Ford Coppola och sedan är vi igång.
Trevlig läsning.
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Sometimes it feels like you’re living the life at work.
Set the alarm at very early. Didn’t want to get up but did it anyway. Now I’m in the gym and feel good about myself.
Watching the Swedish team play against England in the European Women’s Championship in football (soccer).
Bought a litre if the new Alpro Rye drink yesterday. The taste is good but I find it curios that’s it’s branded as totally Nordic. The rye is from Finland but it contains both gellan gum and acacia gum. I doubt those products are made in one of the Nordic countries. But I can be wrong. I emailed the producer to find out. I’ll let you know when I get the answer.
It’s coming to an end this great TV show. I really like Bob Odenkirk as Jimmy McGill aka Saul Goodman. What an actor. And Rhea Seehorn as a Kim Wexler.
Jag äter enkelt till lunch. Lättlagat, på gränsen till deppigt. Ibland är det deppigt förresten. Men det mesta går att rädda med en liten bit färg. Något grönt i ett hav av beige.
Det är måndag morgon i slutet av juli och jag promenerar längs vattnet till jobbet. Det är inte många ute. Det var ovanligt få på gymmet också. Men en av varjedagkillarna var där. Vi noterade varandra.
Försöker komma i nyhetsläge genom att lyssna på P4 Stockholm men nej, jag tycker inte att det är bra. Efter en låt jag kunde varit utan kom ett inslag med intervjuer med folk ute stan som fick prata om hur det var att se Duplantis ta världsrekord.
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Leaving our little summer house behind. Time to get back to Stockholm for another week of work. It’s been nice and as always I want to stay.
Picking wild Saskatoon.
Reading To kill a mockingbird for the first time.
I saw Paddy Pimblett win again tonight in the octagon. The Brit is fun to watch. A good fighter with a lot of charisma. Afterwards he asked if he could say a few words to the crowd. He took the mic and told about Friday night when he got a message a friend back home had killed himself. Paddy’s message to the crowd was that all men have to start talking to someone when they “carry some weight on their shoulders”.
“I know I’d rather they cry on my shoulder than go to his funeral next week. … Let’s get rid of this stigma and men start talking.”
I think it’s great that a person like Paddy is doing this, in front of a crowd mostly consisting of men.
Picked some raspberries and black currant today. Made two jars of jam (raspberry) and two small jars of jelly (black currant). Very pleasing. And good.
Picked some raspberries.
Watched the first season of Residents Evil. May the second come fast. I don’t consider myself being a RE fan. Never played the game or saw the previous movies, but to me this was good entertainment.
Hann inte ens komma fram till torpet förrän något skit gått sönder. Stolpen som håller upp solseglen på framsidan hade gått av under regnovädret. Min fru skickade en mycket tydlig bild som nådde mig på tåget. Jag hade tänkt att låta saken bero, säsongen går ju ändå mot sitt slut, men efter maten kunde jag inte låta bli. Nu är den lagad. Och jag är trött. Kanske blir det lite bärplockning imorgon.
Interesting. Is a big redesign work the hassel (and cost)? chrishannah.me
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My wife and kids are on vacation. I’m alone in Stockholm working. It’s unusual. Back in the days, as a young student, I spent a lot of time by myself, but nowadays… no. I try to enjoy it as much as I can. I’d rather be together with my family but when this is how it is, why not trying to make it something enjoyable? One thing I really enjoy is that I don’t have to hurry home from work to make dinner, or eat dinner. I eat when I feel hungry. And the food I make, well it’s nothing my wife or kids would like. Very easy cooking. Healthy yes. Tasty? Nah, not always.
Right now I’m enjoying a beer on my own. I have been swimming for almost an hour and when I’m done with this little blog post I’ll go home and have something to eat. I might watch episode four of Resident Evil on Netflix while eating!
It’s interesting to go to a place alone. You can listen to a lot of conversations you’re not supposed to hear. It’s a good way of finding ideas for news stories actually. Or just new ideas.