Just read The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. What a novel. 📖
Just read The Nickel Boys by Colson Whitehead. What a novel. 📖
I just made a group on Facebook to cheer myself up. It’s in Swedish: Fula bilder i köket. It means Ugly pictures from kitchens.
It’s been a while. I am working a lot right now, from home, and there isn’t much else happening in the days of corona. I try to think about the whole thing in the most positive way, and that means I am focusing on my family the hours I’m not working. I walk, I run, I try to be outside as much as I can during the weekends but November in Stockholm, well it’s not the best of times. Usually I would go out and meet friends at a bar, but right now that’s the worst thing you could do. The spread of the virus is continuing. Take care.
Good morning mb. It’s been a while. The dark season is here in Stockholm and the pandemic is far from over. Actually it’s getting worse. I would have gone to a restaurant with my two best friends tonight but we had to cancel. And that’s fine, everybody has to cancel everything except work and school, but it makes life very slow. What if there was no internet? Books are the best but also communication.
Anyone read Rethinking Real Eastate by Dror Poleg?
You see that dark building? There used to be offices and a parking garage. Now all is empty. The owner, a real estate company connected to a big Swedish pension fund, is waiting for a permission to replace the whole thing with new apartment buildings. It’s been empty for years.
Spent this afternoon watching a game of bandy. IRL. It was great. But my team IK Tellus lost, 2-8.
Today is football day. My daughter is playing a cup. I’ll work in the clubs café.
Det här är skrivet på en app som heter Drafts och som @Maique hyllar på Micro.Blog stup i kvarten. Den påminner om Anteckningar på IPhone men med några fler funktioner. Onödigt många om du frågar mig. Men att kunna skriva med markdown är bra.
Stockholm has got the autumn collection colours.
I find Casey Newtons way of working as a journalist very inspiring. He’s leaving The Verge (The Interface) for a go at Substack under the name Platformer.
Hello everyone, it’s been a while. I have been working and doing all kinds of stuff you do when you are living with a wife and threes kids. I try to read books and long stories in papers and magazines, I walk a lot but the running, well, that’s not for me right now. I find it hard to find the motivation. It’s the autumn coming. The dark nights and the tiredness. I am usually pretty good on finding the small things making the every day life a bit more shiny, but the latest couple of weeks I have just been tired. Luckily my wife isn’t too hard on me.
I cooked for the seven people earlier today. My daughter had two friends over for dinner. I made a vegetarian stew. It was alright. Not fantastic, not awful.
This fatigue, I’m starting to think it’s boredom. I have the wife and kids around me and all but I find it hard right now to find those injections of joy you need now and then to stay on top of things.
I may destroy you, what a fantastic tv-show. Just watched episode number five and it really gets under your skin.
Jag går en morgonpromenad längs vattnet och gatlyktorna är ännu tända. Det börjar onekligen bli mörkare, vilket känns i kroppen. Den extraenergi som sommarljuset brukar ge tynar bort nu. Jag tycker verkligen inte om det. Lösningen är att rikta uppmärksamheten mot allt som ger glädje.
Anyone had the chance to try out Telepath?
My day in three pictures. One of the best. #torplife
The hops looks fine over at torplife.
Good morning from Liljeholmskajen. It is a calm and soothing weather outside over here today. The morning 🏃🏼♂️ run made me glad.
Just read about Telepath. Anyone tried it yet? I’m very interested.
I am alone with the kids this week. My wife are visiting her mother and we are staying in Stockholm for work and school. I like it.
Since I first found out about w.a I have been reading tmo.. He’s the most frequent blogger of all and for that he deserves respekt (sorry got that in swedish). Tmo is very much into simplicity and so am I. Yesterday I wrote I’m not going to make the 100daystooffload challenge and that immediately gave me back my inspiration. I will keep this blog in English and I’m going to write whenever I want to, about whatever I want. Books might be a subject I’ll return to. Right now I am reading two novels at the same time: Maja Lundgren “Myggor och tigrar” and Klas Östergren “Renegater”. None of those titles are available in English unfortunately. The latter might be interesting for an international audience, it’s a novel based on the true story about the author’s exit from the committee of the Nobel prize in literature.
The 100days thing is not going to happen I guess but that’s not because I don’t like to blog, it’s because I can’t stick to this one platform. I still like Write.as but for the moment I like Bearblog more. Why? I guess it’s because it’s a bit ugly and has a home made feeling around it. Well, I’ll be back here as well sooner or later, and if you are into swedish I’ll keep on blogging over at Andreas och björnen as well.
I live by the bridges.
