Books and, er, books, I suppose. Oh, and creativity. Lots of that.

There are many wonderful things about living in Sweden. The climate is pleasant (except for today; it's raining), the scenery is unbelievably beautiful and the Swedes are a particularly pleasant bunch. There are huge lakes, tall green trees and lush forests. There was at one stage a point to this paragraph. What the point was, however, escapes me now. I guess I'm just trying to say that Sweden is a pretty fantastic place and I spend my days in a basket of creativity. Those of you who spend an hour a day in the great orbital car park that is the M25, you have my sympathies.

Two books are nearing completion, Sahil's role-playing adventure book "Inz The Warrior" has been sent to the printer today and Seth's book "The Noresemen's Saga" has been sent off to be proofread. Note, proofread, not edited, as we do not believe in taking an author's work and then mercilessly chopping it about.

The big Learning Swedish effort is progressing steadily, if a little slowly. I have just discovered that rabbit is kanin, which sounds for all the world like canine. Dog is hund though, which makes a little more sense. And cat, well, that's just katt.


Detta är inte en katt...

In other news, the Bombadil dog currently smells like pantaloons.

Taking Mariannes new car for a spin

Marianne has bought a new car. Well, if you look closely, there's a tiny blue feather at the rear sidepanel, making it a Bombadil car. But to tell the truth, it is a Marianne car. She loves it. She loves me too, is obvious, because I was alloowed to use it, going to my part time job at ESAB in Laxå. ESAB makes welding equipment, and that's where I'll do most of my research for at least about two years now. There's a Swedish saying "det är många grejor på ett järnspett", approximately "there are a lot of details on a iron rod" - there are even more details to a weld joint, and it is a really fun piece of complex physics to try and simulate to gain more insight in how the process works and thus help make even better weld equipment. But back to the car. It is red, can reach allowed speed limit really fast, and has cruise control. Very nice. Here's a picture.