eurovision song contest, part 2

sweden finished 18th in the eurovision song contest final on saturday, and suddenly everyone in sweden says that it's a scandal and that we no longer should care about the competition. and why? because they realize that everyone is voting for their neighbors. we've known this for more than 10 years, it's so obvious... here are a few examples of countries that vote for each other:

the scandinavian countries

the baltic countries

france/cyprus/malta

germany/turkey

benelux

spain/portugal

ex-yugoslavia

and that's pretty much how it goes... it's always been like that.

are you inspired?

do you want to be inspired? check out inspired.org.au and be inspired!

a really good idea of a site with devotional programmes, inspired by texts from different religions. as for now there are only the texts, but music and visuals are also to be uploaded. looks really inspiring!

how often do you think of football?

from today's aftonbladet: a survey was conducted with 2000 english football fans with this question: how often do you think of football?
the average supporter thinks of football every 12th minute. the most fanatic 7% thought of football every minute.

I'm closer to the second category...

tired

so, after a weekend with football courses (leadership yesterday and understanding the game today), I'm really, really tired. yesterday we had about an hour of practice, and I felt that it wasn't enough for me. so I went and did some sprints and jumping up stairs. was quite tired once I got back home.

today, we had even more practice, I think a bit more than 3 hours, possibly even 4. and I tried to really give my all all the time, so my legs are really tired now.

the reason we had the practical stuff was so that we got an understanding of how the exercises were to be performed, and also to get a lot of tips on how to show it to our kids, and what can be improved. naturally, I think I learned quite a lot of football stuff myself as well.

the courses themselves were good, and as last time, I feel I picked quite a lot of stuff that I can use for our practices, and hopefully make them more fun.


it's soon time for me to go to bed. gonna be at work at 4.30 tomorrow, to wrap up some things before we meet up at 5 to go to one of the packing rooms. not as much as last time, this time we'll probably just be there for an hour or so, to check a few things. but we'll see...

easy-to-make nachos

here's a recipe for some really nice and tasty nachos, very easy to make. you need:

nacho/tortilla chips

taco/salsa sauce

tuna/ham/meat (mostly anything goes)

cheese

1. take a plate, cover it with chips
2. put the meat on the chips
3. put some sauce here and there
4. cover with cheese
5. if you're really hungry, you can make two "floors", just repeat the above steps.
6. put in the microwave, about 1.30-2 minutes

here's how mine looked from today, also the first official picture with my new camera:


very easy and quick, and very tasty!

laundry events

so I tend to be a bit absent-minded or weird when it comes to me and laundry. here're a few events:

once all my dirty clothes were literally only black and blue

I split up the white and the colors, put them in different machines... and put the powder in wrong machines :-/

I brought my "laundry bag" up to bring some more stuff down to wash. unfortunately, I brought the powder up with me too...

fun at work!

I honestly never thought I'd have as much fun at work as I am having with my coworkers. at lunch and during work, laughter and jokes are never far away. we also have a partyhat that acts as a sign if someone has done something exceptionally stupid. voluntary to put on of course, and now it seems to be constantly stuck at my desk for some reason... ;)


this week we've had a few mishaps, but they've all been taken in good humor. I happened to come upon an error in a configuration file that was done by another coworker about 3.5 years ago, and in the description when I checked the file in, I actually wrote (with ish permission): "Fixed property dependency for [filename], better than [coworker's name]' solution á la 2003."

and then there was also an accidental deletion of an entire folder on one of our servers... good thing that we had a backup :)
he did get some comments for a few days... ;)

tuesday's gone...

another devotional at my parents' on tuesday. and again I'm so happy that I went. we were 7 people, each reading twice, with some nice music in between. and when I closed my eyes and just listened to the others reading, I totally forgot where I was sitting. it was really as if I was somewhere completely else, recharging my batteries. as I said before, I have to get this going at my place, even though in the beginning it might only be for myself. it's really soothing.

I have worked on finding texts for a few topics, and will probably post them here once in a while (unity and prayer. if you have any special requests for topics, let me know and I'll see what I can do.

eurovision song contest

the semifinals for the eurovision song contest were yesterday, and it really sickened me. many of the "performances" reminded me of black eyed peas' song my humps, with barely dressed women shaking whatever they had. it was border-line porn. and supposedly, there are some others that are even worse who are in the finals. they are trying to hide their incapability to sing with some distractions.

of course, not all countries performing had stuff like that, and there were some that were even quite good. although needless to say, it is very much not my style of music.


in other news, I got my camera yesterday. it looks good, only took two pictures to try it out (deleted them afterwards), but the quality of them seemed really nice. it's not too heavy and sits comfy in my hand. I'm happy with it!



only one word left to say about it: sexy!

more on climate change

here is a very interesting article on climate change on neptune. mars is also getting warmer.

basically the warming of neptune is related to solar activity, and this seems to be very similar to the pattern of how the earth is warming up. claiming that humans have something to do with the warming up on neptune is, in their own words, "an astronomical stretch, to say the least."

I'll try and write a bit on my take about it all later on.