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I was sitting in an office in a high rise building in downtown Cleveland when the rumors about what had happened started to fly. We had no TV or radio, and the news websites were swamped, couldn't get them to load. I opened the much less burdened Swedish news sites and was sitting translating out loud to the whole office what was happening. Then ( Read more... )

What American accent do you have?
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Seems I've been neglecting this field of the Internet. Mostly because I don't really feel the need to write much lately, as life's just chugging along on rails, and things are going pretty smooth. Funny how it's more interesting to sit and write when one encounters wrinkles in the fabric of reality ( Read more... )

Today I arrived back at home after a visit to Metaltown in Gothenburg, a two day festival with lots of metal and some Rammstein. We booked a hotel a long time ago, meaning we were smack dab in the middle of town in a marvellous room for almost no money at all. Excellent planning makes for good metal, as I always say. Or always would say if I ( Read more... )

I just can't fathom that Central World Plaza has been burned down. The second largest mall in Asia, destroyed by a rioting, headless mob after many of the red shirt leaders called for an end to the protests and surrendered ( Read more... )

I just spent three weeks in Bangkok, almost twice as long as was planned from the start but extended due to the ash cloud over Europe. Being there made me realize just how little I have holding me here in Sweden. Basically, it's my job, which is one that I like very much. Beyond that, there isn't really anything. My parents, and a few people I care ( Read more... )

After the first day return visit I got a new visit booked a bit over a week later. Then I was sent off to use my eyes normally, but with sunglasses during the day and the "bug eye" shields taped on at night, so I wouldn't rub my eyes while sleeping. I also had antibiotic drops to administer four times a day, and tear substitute to use after the ( Read more... )

The day after I arrived in Bangkok I went into the LASIK clinic for my preliminary examination. This involved a basic test of my need for visual correction, measurement of cornea thickness, eye pressure, pupil size and the like, and testing for various conditions such as glaucoma. My correction factor was about -3.5 with astigmatism around -1.25, ( Read more... )

I've been seriously considering a LASIK procedure to get my eyes to work for me instead of against me for quite some time. It started with me looking at the various pre-LASIK options available, and I was on the fence for a long time mostly due to the rather high incidence of side effects which I wouldn't find worth it. But LASIK promised to change ( Read more... )