The scraps that could be saved

Not a lot.

I managed to dig up the very last post and I'm tacking that to the end of this post (it's quite sizable) and I also was able to get the last five or six posts from Google. The wayback machine-thingy has some of my posts from the summer of 2005 and also other assorted posts.

Yup, she's pretty much gone. Sadness all around.
Eventually I'll get my act in gear and make her look like she used to, but right now I'm pretty content with the post-apocalyptic feel. Everything wiped clean, ready for a new beginning. Problem is that I don't feel like this is a new beginning, this is just the same-old-same-old.

I leave for London in seven hours time.
Looking very much forward to it.

That's about all.

Here's the post, it's from the 30th of January and it's called
"Sound the fanfare"


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I never did officially end that hiatus from about a year back, did I? See, it pays to keep up with this thing, "the more you know" afterall and stuff like that.
Obviously all sorts of stuff has gone down, as it were, and it would be ludicrous to try and make any kind of day-by-day summarization of events. Rather I will make a list of statements, experiences and news all of which pertain to the past month. Not a whole month, mind you, I'm back before the turnover.
So, with BloodSugarSexMagic blasting in the background, let's get down to it.

* Winter finally came! It was sort of shocking opening my blinds one morning and actually seeing snow not just on the ground but in the air and all around and shit. I mean, it's obviously the right time for it, obviously, but the warm weather just seemed to have taken hold. I for one welcome our winterish overlords and hope that they will hang around for a bit, even if todays return to mild weather could be an omen.

* It is sincerly difficult to navigate crowds in my 'winter' shoes. I call them winter shoes simply because they are not full of rips and tears and thus keep the cold and water out. They are also ridiculously large, not just in width but in height. Hence the difficulty making minute and precise steps in them.

* About two weeks into the new year my body attempted a coup. Horrible thing, same old same old. I went to the doctor. They found nothing. I got a bit better and am now back to the usual levels of bodily confusion. Almost. It's best not to think about it. This coup is also one of the reasons for the lack of posts. I don't like posting when I feel bad.

* Valravn rock!

* New Years eve was a great time. Lesley showed up, albeit a bit late, and we went and had dinner with my folks and their guests. We then went to a Club 15 party which I had thrice informed Club 15 that I would NOT attend. It is proof of friendship to me that they welcomed both me and Lesley with open arms and much merriment. We left after only a few hours as something told me it was time to get home. Busses were scarce and I had yet to set up her cot. A nice evening and a nice beginning to January with my annual father-son walk and then hanging out with Lesley.

* Lesley was here for a few days, but you got that, right? She brought copious ammounts of candy. I will, perhaps, visit her come March.

* 2006 sucked. Sure, there were some fun times but on the whole the year was just so much wasted potential, wasted time and an increase in the deterioration of my mental health. I'm glad it's over and am hoping that once this year kicks into gear (I'm guessing around June or July) it'll prove a vast improvement.

* Christmas saw me getting away with quite a bit of loot, books, movies, money, cds and a new printer. Some of the money was spent on Call of Duty 3 which is fun but lacking in singleplayer and fun but sporadic in multi.

* Ridin' thumb rock! Their yuletide concerts are the best Copehagen tradition I know of. True, I don't know of many... but my point stands.

* I have a job at the university, meaning that I've actually worked two jobs this month. 22 hours a week. Yep, more hours than I actually need for my financial situtation to keep flying. It's a dull job but I work at my own pace and I get to listen to music while doing it. I'm transferring files from one database system to another. It's a lot of drag-and-drop and copy-and-paste, carpal tunnel inducing monotony that some days comes easy and some days comes not at all. My employers are super friendly so I always feel bad if I'm not giving 100%. I think that come February I'll ask to be bumped down from 15 to 10 hours a week, the workaday routine is getting to me a bit. I can handle it but if I don't have to then I see no reason for self-torture.

* I really should do my dishes more often.

* I need to stop with the self-indulgence when it comes to snacks and the like.

* On the whole I have this feeling of decay. It's been creeping up on me all through last year: I don't write nearly as much as I used to, I hardly ever go on photo runs, my kitchen is a bit of a mess and I barely ever cook (I am tonight though). I have resolved to take matters into my own hands come next month. So for now I'm getting ready to end the slacking and the fattyness and all that. I can do it, I know I can.

* The band is getting its second wind. We've started making plans and schedules and actually keep to them pretty well. We discuss in advance what we want to practice and then prepare ourselves before coming to the rehersal space. The result is less time wasted, more time having fun. Last three times have been quite good with the first and the last being extra juicy.

* Clerks II was a lot better than I thought it would be.

* The danish translation of The importance of being Ernest is good, but I still found myself translating the jokes and the timing back to english. Also, swedes make a lot of noise in theaters, they're worse than people from Jutland and that really is saying something.

* Nana Schwartzlose rocks! Nikki and I went to the outer part of Vesterbro to see her perform. 2 hours of nice guitar music and her fantastic voice. She really is something of a vocalist and I can only recommend that you go and see her. Whoever you may be, there's no way you cannot like something about her.

* I've had tons of fun with Jeppe. The man is an angel, an alcoholic angel maybe, but an angel.

* I've had tons of fun with Mads, we hadn't seen much of each other for a while but we've certainly caught up. We'll even see each other tomorrow at a conference about godlessness. How cool is that?

* I've had tons of fun with Nikki, made some fantastic food with him, seen some less-than-fantastic films and had a few walks.

* I've had some fun with Kasper, he's been busy with being a teacher and everything. Maybe next month.

* Morten and I are going to London on friday, just some father-son bonding for a long weekend.

* Other travel plans include the Lesley trip in March and perhaps a trip with the boys to Amsterdam in April. Lots of travel, looking good, more than last year for sure.

* I'm running out of points here. I'm sure there are more but I am getting hungry and there is, in fact, Top Gear on the tube. I need to stop now I think.

There we go, that was that. Now onto making chicken kebab tastealike with pitabread and everything. I really live the life, don't I? More updates coming up next month. Or maybe this month. And then there's the obituary, when? Who knows? Even I don't. Fun and fun and fun!

Stay safe!

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Indeed.