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Gammal pippi

22 Mar 2005

I Sydsvenskan står det att läsa om ett nytt åldersrekord bland vilda svenska fåglar. En sillgrissla som vid kontroll förra året hade en ålder av 38 år. Inte illa för en liten pippi ute i naturen...

Den kom till slut

17 Mar 2005

Jaha, så kom den då, en ny platta med Kent. Storslaget, välproducerat och med texter som man inte kan vara helt säker på vad de egentligen handlar om. Precis som det ska vara. Och den är makalöst bra. Hade tidigare Isola som favoriten i Kents produktion, och trodde väl inte att "Du & Jag Döden" skulle nå riktigt så långt. Men det har den nog potential att göra. Isola kommer att få en tuff match. Har du inte hört den nya ännu så se till att få det gjort, snarast :o)

Jag kan utan överdrift säga att jag ser fram emot konserten i Limhamn i maj.

Usually getting to work is a quite simple and reasonably short activity. I am currently on an assignment in Helsingborg, which is normally a 50-or-so minute trip by car from home. Not today though. My colleague picked me up at 08:15 (as usual) and we arrived in the office shortly after 11 (not quite as usual). During the close to three hours we spent a good deal of the time looking at the (rather dirty) back of a Danish truck. There was a truck with timber that had flipped over at the highway so a section of it was closed, and traffic was redirected to the countryside. Those roads are not designed for the traffic volume that hit them, so the driving pattern for us were that we drove (slowly) 50 to 100 metres, then stopped for a couple of minutes, then drove another 50-100 metres and so on. The reason for all this: snow.

Snow in itself is often not such a problem. It just takes some time until the roads are cleared from snow and then there is business as usual. But add some wind to that and the situation becomes quite different. The roads are cleared and an hour later they may very well be snow filled again, even if it doesn't snow very much anylonger.

I guess we might plan to leave the office slightly earlier than usual today. Just in case...