What a slow Saturday. Not great slow. And the kids, even slower and less great.
What a slow Saturday. Not great slow. And the kids, even slower and less great.
This is me today.
Went out for a morning walk. It was a bit chilly and the ice is back on the bay.
Changed the name for my Blot blog to lamningar.blot.im
The biggest Ikea store in Sweden has to cut down hard on the number of customers in the store due to new restrictions in Sweden. www.dn.se
This one is in Swedish! @maique It means “Easily the best team in the series”. MFF is the biggest football team in the city of Malmö, down in the lower south of Sweden. stickerspotter.blot.im
Första veckan gjord på nya jobbet. Skönt att ha den överstökad.
En period är slut. I går gjorde jag min sista arbetsdag på branschredaktionerna för Byggindustrin och Fastighetsnytt. Det är ledsamt att lämna alla trevlig och kunniga kolleger men jag ser framemot den utmaning som nu väntar. På måndag, redan nu efter helgen, kliver jag in på DN och axlar tjänsten som nyhetschef för Stockholmsredaktionen. Jag ser mycket framemot detta även om jag är både lite nervös och mycket ödmjukt inställd till vad som väntar. Att lära sig fungera i en stor organisation är liksom ett jobb i sig, ett dolt jobb, som ibland tar väldigt mycket tid. Det är en del av arbetet som handlar om andra saker än nyheter. Man ska lära sig vilka andra funktioner och personer som ens egna arbete måste synkas med och förstå hur planeringen måste sköta för att ingen annan i kedjan drabbas. Först om några veckor är jag ha en hyfsad bild av vad det är för ett jobb jag tackat ja till. Det finns höga förväntningar på DN Sthlm, dock tror jag att de skiljer sig åt beroende på vem du frågar. Steg ett för mig blir att förstå hur de interna ser ut, skapa mig en så bra bild som möjligt av hur läsarnas förväntningar ser ut (både nuvarande och potentiella) och därefter försöka formulera en egen. Jag har vissa idéer redan nu men jag kommer att ligga lågt med dem tills jag har mer kunskap. Det kan ju vara så att jag tänker helt fel. Kom gärna med inspel på vad du vill läsa i DN Sthlm. Ange gärna om du är prenumerant och om du inte är det; ange vilken typ av innehåll som skulle öka chanserna för att du skulle bli det.
#dnsthlm
Tomorrow I’m doing my last day at the business magazines Fastighetsnytt and Byggindustrin (about the real estate and construction businesses in Sweden). On Monday I’m doing my first day as news editor at Dagens Nyheter’s metropolitan section. That’s Sweden biggest daily, based in Stockholm. I’m a bit nervous. But I am very much looking forward to it.
Detta klotter är drabbande i all sin enkelhet.
From todays lunch run in a cold Stockholm ❄️
On monday I’ll start a new job as news editor for the metropolitan section at Swedish daily Dagens Nyheter. I’m looking forward to it. I’m also a bit nervous. But I think that’s okay.
Tried out Clubhouse for the first time today. I might have been lucky but fell into a very interesting talk about media, representation and why certain things never become big news. Anyone here active on Clubhouse?
All you Mac enthusiasts and experts here om MB, please help me with this problem: I need an easy way (without Photoshop) to crop images to 16:9 and thereafter save them as a .jpeg for web use (low resolution).
I had almost forgotten how fun it is. Luckily my daughter wanted to try it so yesterday e we went to one of Stockholm’s ski slopes. We rented the equipment and had great fun. She went mad a couple of times, snowboarding is hard, but after a couple of hours she managed to take the lift and slide down, cautious and careful. We went home both happy and tired. It was one of the best days I’ve had in a long time. So fun. Next weekend we’re doing it again.
Next week we’re going to Dalarna for the weekend for some more snowboarding. Looking forward to it. Outside fun is the best we have right now.
Went snowboarding yesterday with my daughter. It was just great. Love winter in Stockholm.
I love this digital way of fast writing that goes online immediately. All I need is my smartphone. All my notes at work (journalist) are digital notes as well. Back in the days I used paper and pens but the transcription part, when the handwriting had to be transformed to digital text, took way too much time so I gave that up. For the same reason I try not to rely too much on recorded interviews. If a record I see the audio file as a backup, I can go back and listen if I missed a detail or if I have to double check something. Sometimes I forget to make good notes during a conversation/interview and that’s always a hassle afterwards. With all that said I start to re-evaluate the analog writing, all handwritten things. There’s something special about it, something that never can be digitalised: the feeling of holding a pen in hand and move it with just the right amount of pressure onto the paper. You create words. And if you get something wrong you will have some problems. It’s very hard to delete words on paper without traces. The handwriting acquire thinking in advance. It’s not always good, quite the opposite actually if you ask me. One of the good things with the kind of writing I’m doing right now is that it’s very direct, I’m hammering down my words to use the expression TMO used in a well written post about blogging the other day. Yesterday I really had to do some thinking before I set down to write. In the first time in many years I wrote a classic enveloped letter to an old friend, a relative that means a lot to me but who I rarely see or talk to. To write a classic letter during Christmas time felt like the right thing to do. It won’t interfere. I hope she’s able to read my handwriting though. Maybe I’ll get a response! When was last time you got a handwritten letter?
Bush möter Bush med Will Ferrell. Mycket roligt och konstigt. Hade aldrig sett detta om inte för min vän Tjurn.
I am feeling goddamn tired all the time and have decided to get on top of it. Instead of just giving up (laying down dead eyed scrolling on a screen) I will go outside for a walk or a run several times a day. I started this morning with a 45 minute walk and when it was time for lunch break I went for a 30 minute run. I don’t know if this is going to make me feel more energetic in the long run, but a run is always a run and afterwards you feel better about yourself.
Today’s morning walk.

Took a walk around Södermalm, as every sunday during the last year. Went up to the top of Stigberget and took Monteliusvägen, the narrow walkway with the great view. Stopped here and there to take some photos. Maybe some of you international RW-readers are interested. In the picture above you see the church called Riddarholmskyrkan #stockholm
What’s happening? I am sitting in the sofa watching tv. Listening to experts analysing the inauguration of Biden. I’m a bit tired after a long day of work meetings.