Kind of tired now

Home once again. And I'm tired. Don't expect I'll be doing that much this weekend. I should probably get some rest since I'm going into field next week. Hopefully it'll be fun to try some shooting with blanks and laying down mines and stuff... I just want this damned basic soldier education to be over.

Home!

At last... If I hadn't been able to go home this weekend I might not have been able to go on. These first two weeks have been hard. Quite hard actually. I hope I get more used to it soon. One of the biggest problems is keeping up to date with stuff. Especially blogs and webcomics.

WTF? A sudden power surge/blackout-thing... luckily my computer didn't shut down. Just went black for a couple of seconds. Anyway...

My feet are really soar. Having to march and run around with bags and combat gear in hard leather boots is not the primary definition of taking good care of feet. The bastards didn't even tell us of the awesome bandages that you can put on your feet to prevent wounds until the SECOND day of marching. And at that time it was too late. My heels bled. But they're starting to heal now at last...

Mmmmm, candy!

lo everyone.

The title comes entirely from the fact that I'm chewing down on a whole package of M&Ms. And they're tasty!

This is the last post I will make as a civilian in almost a year. That's right, tomorrow is the day I join the military forces. If everything goes as planned (which it should now that I have my drivers license and all) I'll be serving as a medic. Which feels kind of cool to say in english :) Hopefully it won't be too hard on my less-than-strongest-in-the-world muscles. But meh, I'll live. I guess. The fact that the largets section of the informative booklet I got sent to me was abut the consequenses of death in service is not the most reassuring in the world.

Either way, it'll sure be an experience. I got together with some friends last night and played some games and poker and stuff... a couple of hours ago a guy called me and asked if I was coming tonight too. I'm not sure wether I should suspect anything... I actually wouldn't mind too much being abducted and brought to a place where alcohol is part of the main focus... But, you can only hope. Will probably be nice no matter what.

It came to my mind that I'll have a horrible time keeping up to date with stuff. Such as hte webcomics that update 5 times a week. And all the slashdot news... The weekends will be times of recap it seems.

Wrooom!

So... I heard this guy got his drivers license yesterday.

:D

Feed me!

It won't stop eating! And no, it's not a giant singing carnivorous plant, it's a completely adorable, small white baby... and it's all mine! I keep feeding it with everything I got, but it just keeps going... oh, how I love my dear little Poddie. 4 Gb of possibilities, and really comfortable ear phones too! But most of all... it's beautiful. Slick and slim with white details shining through the silver shell and a deep blue glowing display that lights up my darkest nights.

I know, it's easy to get all poetic about an iPod mini.

In other great news, it's no longer legal for the Swedish anitpiracybureau (still hacked site) to log IP numbers, which effectivly removes their foremost weapon against freedom and justice. A great day for the pirates of the north indeed!

Never rest

Graduated last Friday. I so completely owns! I was also so completely drunk. From 8 in the morning to 2 in the following morning. Easily a personal record. And it was magnificently fun the whole day! I drowned in flowers. The next day however I got all depressed when I came to think of all the people I won't be meeting anymore. Then I logged into wow and I felt fine again :D The truth was that I wasn't entirely done with the school after all. I had to go back the following week to correct a mistake with my grades, which, when corrected, landed at a nifty 17,7 (where 20,0 is max). I'm all proud!

In other news I'm trying to get my drivers license. I think I'll make it. Next Tuesday we will know...
Now, off to tha grill parthay! (Or barbecue... or, you know, whatever...)

Balloons!

Arrived at school at ) AM today. Damned early. The reason was this: a sinister practical joke to celebrate our tree years at our high school, and since the grades are already set, and we graduate tomorrow (TO-FREAKING-MORROW!!) we concidered it pretty safe. Having bought 1500 (yes, you read correctly) balloons we spent the morning filling them with air, causing about 200 to blow up in the process. Having left a few behind we managed to get all the balloons (aprox. 1000) down from the fourth floor to the first, and there we flooded the head master's office with them. Then we literally sat back and watched the show. Our dear spanish teacher Cindia completely freaked out and screamed loudly when the balloons popped as she crawled through them to get to her laptop. We laughed. The big bad fish of the school (and I mean big), Torbjörn took it with ease and let most of the balloons flow out through the door as he opened it. We laughed. Several other teachers and students walked by and laughed. So did we. I think this is pretty much the best joke ever oulled at this school, even though it could have gone slightly smoother. But what the heck, it was fun, really fun!

Oh please do download System of a Down's Mezmerize. It's easily the album of the year so far. Can't wait til they release part 2, Hypnotize, later this year...

I might write something on saturday again, tomorrow will be... well, let's just say I wont have much time. At all.

Peace out!

Tidevarv

This is just a short promotional post.

Tidevarv - a great Black Metl act from Sweden, check them out! They're cool guys too, so support them with words and cash (if they get that system running) if you happen to find the music to your liking.

For a sound piracy, and a just digital world.

Kind of retro

Recently finished one of the great games of all time: Full Throttle. So completely wonderful. Lucas Arts at it's finest. Too bad no one makes adventure games anymore. So in order to compensate I'm now playing Monkey Island 2. We played through the first one in school (yes, all we have been doing is playing games), blowing up the evil LeChuck with the devilspawn drink of d00m: Root Beer! So now I'm trying to find the treasure Big Whoop. And I'm already stuck.

In the stock market!

Yes, it's true what you have heard! I have entered the stock market with my blog! Well, actually it's more like a game, and it's called blogshares. The blogs are like industries, and you buy and sell shares. More links to the blog means more value. So if you happen to have a blog in blogshares, we could always link each other. Let's call it partners in crime!

Another day after!

I was NOT in school today. And this for a very understandable reason: Paaaarthay! Last night, that is. It was actually the school that organized the whole thing, four schools (that are all part of sort of a group) were present, but the fun did start before that. After having completed my theoretical test for my drivers licence (w00t) I raced home and changed to my tux (which is my grandfathers, so I got away cheap, again) and then hurried my smartly-dressed ass to the bus that took me to school (believe it or not) where I met up with the d00dz, and we all went by car down to the city where the party would take place, which is also the city where the total abstainer of our class lives, who was also the person in whose house we were going to have a pre-party. That was a long sentence. Either way it was really nice, and a well needed warm up since the alcohol at the party was EXPENSIVE. But I did manage to get quite drunk and completely freak out on the dance floor, which was really fun.

All in all, this was also a very enjoyable night. And I think it was good, for everyone involved, that I didn't get up until 11 o' clock this morning.

And now for something completely different: System of a Down's latest album, Mesmerize, is ridiculously good. Leech plz! And then buy! The grinding mixed with the wonderful harmonics is just so great and original you'd be a fool not to listen, at least once.

Workworkworkwork

It has been quite some time now since I had a completely free weekend. Always something to do. Well, if I can manage to get past this hellish working period of d00m I think I might just be in the clear. Then maybe I'll get time to work out.

Starting Wednesday I'll be so criminal. Before I've been performing illegal acts by sharing files, now it will become illegal to download them (music) as well. Estimated effect on piracy in Sweden: none. Keep it free!

Dark chocolate and metal is a blessing. Especially when you play Prince of Persia (Amiga). But how the heck are you supposed to be able to finish the game in under 60 minutes? It's not as easy as I thought it would be. But hold on my beloved princess, I'm coming!

The day(s) after

First up: a recap of the prom night last Friday. Loads of people had gathered in a park in the city before the busses left. And I mean loads. Tuxedos and dresses everywhere! I myself wore a quite sharp one that was my grandfathers (quite cool that too). That move saved me about 700-1000 kr (the ticket only cost 500). When we arrived at the hall a few hours later we were offered a drink before the dinner. Ah, the dinner. The food was marvelous. And you got some free alcoholic beverages too! It wasn't quite enough though, so when the bar opened later you were either standing waiting for the bartender to take your order or going completely crazy on the dance floor. These two were not entirely unrelated.

All in all a very enjoyable night.

Now I have work to do (surprise!). And I completed Resident Evil 4! Such an awesome game. And now I've got all the extra games to complete! Weee!

Hurry!

Got shitloads of work to do. Write more later. RixHack was fun btw. Prom tomorrow. Peace.

RixHack: First morning

Goood morning everyone! Fanally got some much needed sleep, about 7 hours. Now I'm all fired up again and ready to go, a few sandwiches and cokes is all you need in the morning! We're about to play this new game called Pariah, looks lika a halo/half-life kind of game at first look, and that's not too shabby. You could have worse influences. But then again, it is another FPS and we have seen it before. I wonder what new detail this game has that makes the producers claim the game takes gaming to a new level...

If you want to hear the music played here on RixHack you can go to www.playdio.se and listen to the webradio, they're broadcasting live fom here, 24 hours a day.

Peace.

RixHack: ??

I have completely lost track of time... I'm just playing and leeching all I can. Or something... Anyway, it's really fun so peace out and I'll see you later. I'll probably get some sleep too tonight. Probably...

RixHack: A second beginning

Ya, it's the beginning of the second day. More exactly 6 o' clock in the morning on the Friday. Left is the whole of Friday, a night, the whole of Saturday and one last night. I'm hungry again. Unfortunately the webcam is behaving strangely, so I can't post another picture... When the lights go back on in the Sunday morning I'll give you one of exhaustion though.

So what have I been doing so far? Playing WoW. Leeched a few games and movies. Played more WoW. Played Achtung die Kurve. And some WoW. And eating a little. No sleep though. That will, however, most likely come by itself soon, though hopefully not on the keyboard. Embarrassing...

RixHack: I'm here!

Ok, so I'm only three hours late with the promised post, but I can assure you, I just got my computer started. Arriving at 11:30 we waited at the wrong entrance until we found the queue where we stood for another hour and a half before they started letting people in. Finally, after a long wait, we got in, and I managed to set me up da computer and get network problems. But it works now. And I'm hungry, so I think I'll go grab something to eat. Peace out, and see you later!

RixHack

Tonight is the night! The night before I leave for good. Or... at least for four beautiful days. I shall spend then in Gothenburd together with approx. 2000 other geeks sitting at my computer grabbing warez and playing games. Or rather game - wow.

I'll be bringing my webcam, and shall (if I can remember) take pictures to show the slow, but steady fall of the lan geek from a fresh and eager dude to a dead tired zombie. First pic here:

Note the newly shaved freshness.
Now, the beauty of a LAN party like this is not playing games, or spending time with friends, or even grabbing sick amounts of corrupt software, but sitting in a place for four days and do absolutely nothing. I just love it!

Ok, tune in tomorrow (or technically today, if you live in Sweden or any country between here and the date line) at about 13:00 GMT+2 for more news.


Bye for a while

Just thought I'd make a quick entry concerning this weekend since I won't be able to access the Internet for three days (OMG I will perish into emptyness of d00m!!). This is not, as you might think, because of crappy ISP, but because of a trip to Jönköping with my nice but slightly, very unfocused group of confirmands. I do hope it will be a cool camp.

I am also having this argument with a 12-year old (at least that's what he claims to be) at this community about piracy. I am, of course, completely running him over, and for the sole purpose of provocation I changed my avatar to this:
I havn't heard from him all day, and I know he's been online. Hehe.

One of the mistakes he made was not just comparing software with a car (why does everybody use a car as an example?), but that he was against the piracy of music, which is the easiest to defend, since this is where most of the trying-and-buying (downloading for evaluation) takes place. And I also have very solid proof that it works (myself).

I'll probably get into buying games and movies too, but they're quite expensive when you compare.