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An other weekend in Nybro…

It has begun,
   I am back at KMA ( Kalmar Maritime Academy ) for my final year, 
   before my Master Mariner exam.  It has been an interesting summer, 
   the first summer in years in which I have been at home.
   And what a summer we had ! Warm and sunny, 
   I got plenty of things done at my parent’s house.
   The refurbishing is well under way, but there are always more work to be done. 😉 
   I was intending to continue my refurbishing here in Nybro as well, to be more precise, 
   this weekend, but because of an evil, annoying lumbago, I will have to postpone 
   those plans. Never the less, I could not stay perfectly still, so I spent my weekend 
   cleaning my whole apartment. Thorough cleaning of my aquarium and preparation 
   of lunches for next week. 
   So for the next 4-5 lunches I will enjoy a quite spicy and hearty curry chicken soup 😉
   
   All in all a rather fruitful weekend. 

The movie of Hurtigruten is now on Youtube !

After some initial problems with the rendering I got it running as was first my intention.

I suggest you watch it in HD if you want to watch it.
It does indeed make quite a difference.

A special thanks to Edvard Grieg for composing his Peer Gynt suites.

http://www.youtube.com/user/sm7wyg

And don’t forget to change it to 720p HD !  😉

The silence is no more ! ;-)

I’ve been silent for quite some time, been participating in an other blog.
Since the 14th of August 2009 quite a bit has happened.
I’ve managed to fall deeply in love and move together with a lovely girl,
but after some months we decided that we just might have pushed things forward
just a bit too fast. So we decided to part our ways whilst we are good friends.
I guess it is the natural order of things, nevertheless it is not fun, not fun at all…
The past year has been something of a rollercoaster.
By my own fault I managed to become ”in between jobs”.
So I have spent my summer refurbishing my parents house instead.
I have kept myself quite busy, yet it is not the same as being at work.
But, I’ve finished yet another of the years in Kalmar. 😉
And the last of those years starts the 17th of August,
in other words, not that many days left 😉

But before I go back to Kindergarten, I will accompany my parents to Norway,
and to be more precise Hurtigrutten. We will go by ship, M/S Nordnorge,
from Kirkenes to Bergen. My cameras are prepared, got a new tripod,
an extra telephoto lens, and my father got a new Xanti VPC CG100.
So hopefully I will have a lot of photographic material to share with the world
when we get back, or even during the trip,
it all depends on time and the possibilities on the ship.

iPhone Apps…

Maybe this is not post about very necessary things, but still they are pretty useful. I have had my iPhone since last autumn, I waited for a eternity for it to be released in Sweden. Well, i am more then pleased with it, it was well worth the wait.

It gives me the possibility to stay in touch, even when I am at sea. I do not have to bring my bulky old iBook anymore, to have internet, mail, msn, skype and like.

Well than, what have I bought, or got for free from Appstore ?

All links are for iTunes Appstore !

Social networking

Facebook
It is a app for connecting to and using Facebook, a bit buggy, but it works…
Nimbuzz
I just downloaded it today, and it might replace Parlingo on my iPhone,
if the skype part works well.
Parlingo
The App I have been using for MSN, it works very well …
Twinkle
This program might not need a introduction, but its for Twitter,
it works well, and most of the times it workes flawlessly, but there are times…

Blogging

Lifecast
My utility for easy blogging, has not been working very well lately,
so I might see if i can find a replacement.
Free RSS
Downloaded it today, but it seem to work great,
it seem to be rather bandwith efficient, and that is quite important whilst I am at sea.

Utilities

Easy writer
This app is for easy emailwriting, and is free, and plain and simple, great !
iTranslate
For translating words, quite useful.
Air sharing
For keeping all those essential documents with you, where ever you go.
AeroWeather
A app for weather forecasts and conditions from airport weather stations.
AccuWeather
A really great app, for weather forcasts,
i am looking forward testing this ”Current postition button” whilst out at sea…

For fun

All recipes
Ever have had a evening, when you cant decide upon what to cook for dinner ?
VinVin
At the moment this App need improvement, but for Swedish users,
it is a good way for keeping track of your favorite wine at Systembolaget.
Fstream
For listning to radio.
Sol Free
Solitaire, it does what it is built for.

For a little philosophy project i am working on…

Holy Bible
There is a Swedish translation from 1917 you can download.
There are a lot of different language versions !
iQuran
I have to learn to use this App, but I have been meening to read it for a long time…

http://www.datingdna.com

Har haft en ganska lugn helg, och hunnit mer eller mindre klart i hallen,
att bli av med den mörka färgen och få den nya vita, det har gjort hela lägenheten ljusare. Har lite små tweeks kvar att fixa, men det tar jag allt efter som. Bland annat skall det till en liten smal lila linje, och i sovrummet skall jag få upp stuckaturen och måla densamma. Därefter har jag taken i köket och vardagsrummet kvar likväl som väggarna och golven i nämnda rum.

Fick ett tips om en sida idag, http://www.datingdna.com och jag tycker det ser skoj ut, så jag gick med. Intressant att snacka med folk över hela världen om inte annat !

Sedan har jag varit och handlat lite, och jag var sugen på något sött, så jag köpte Merba Brownie Cookies. Och efter att ha mumsat i mig 3 stycken kan jag meddela att har du, samma choklad beroende som jag, så är risken stor att du kommer älska dessa små sötsakerna !

De har från och med idag en hedersplats i skåpet ovanför diskbänken.

Jag älskar mörk choklad !

Choklad kan göra vilken grå och trist dag som helst full av solsken !

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