or does anyone else totally heart the radio station feature on iTunes?

What I really want is for them is to give you the option to convert some radio segments to podcasts, but the rights management would be nearly impossible I am sure.

The only bad thing with Apple is that they still won’t make search functionality available to all of their iPod user base…which is a shame that they are blantantly witholding a functionality in the hopes of raping consumer’s pocketbooks.

Met up with Tomas, Markus, and Susie after work at Storstad. We had dinner and then a couple of bottles of champagne and a couple of bottles of wine. Then we went to Mondän and had a couple more bottles of champagne before we left for Connection. I am not sure why I continue to go there actually, because I usually never know many people there. Anyway, got really really drunk and come home early to hydrate and get some sleep.

Today I wasted the day and that is a good thing. Not great, just good. I really should be organising some more details about my move. Speaking of which, I will go take measurements of the apartment tomorrow so that is a good thing. Markus and Susie are coming. And we will meet my IBM work gang for brunch at Storstad. However, for tonight, Susie is inviting me over for dinner and Markus and Tomas are at a crayfish party (even though it is a little late in the season for that). I think we’ll all meet up around midnight at Lino. Should be nice. I’ll know people there and Johannes will be there as well and I haven’t seen him in ages.

Anyway, so there is my fabulous weekend so far. LOL. At some people it should include shopping for food. Or at least drink mixers.

Oh yeah, and I still have €600 of SAS travel vouchers to use. Anyone got any ideas?

Could these pictures they took of me at Lino be any more….well…time to break out the vodka to make the pain go away…

The least evil of them all….from Pride

This one I sorta like too…from last week

Sweating like a prostitute in church during confession…good golly miss molly!…from Pride

I have managed to stay the entire week in Stockholm. That feels so strange. We have a big event going on at work right now. But I am also needed in Denmark, so I am going back and forth. There is a lot going on at work at the moment. It is all very exhausting. Makes me wanna give up and sell peanuts. But oh well.

Today I correct the english on the menu for one of my favourite restaurants. And I had brunch. And I voted in the Swedish elections (I am entitled to vote for local and districts matters), and I registered to vote for the mid-term elections in the US. Oh yeah, and I ordered business cards. My first in four years. And even spelled correctly.

My internal planning for the apartment is coming along well. I have it in my mind what I want. But in terms of actual purchases, all that has come to fruition is a chocolate fountain and a feather duster.

So between working loads of hours and loads of planning, I really want to take a weekend break somewhere. But I can’t. I need to save money first and foremost…and also I need to ensure that I get everything with my apartment sorted.

As you can see, besides hosting a fabulous dinner for workmates, going out with said workmates to bars and pubs and dinners, and being fabulous, it’s been rather mundane the last weeks.

Well, despite being sick I am getting in the party mood. Maybe it is a good idea to spread my cooties to the unsuspecting Swedes. Hee.

…but I don’t want to go into it.

Markus, with my deepest condolences for your loss…

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4fvj25jM4nM

Well it seems that I will win the bid for the apartment that I am in love with!  Nothing is final until the contract is signed, and I will sign the contract tomorrow 🙂

I made some compromises on the apartment, including the fact that the kitchen does not open up directly into the living room and the glass wall between the kitchen and bedroom feels a little “bathroomy” as sipho puts it 😉

But I can live with this because the living room area in my view is so nicely done.  The kitchen is fabulous…the bathroom is very well designed (and it has a jacuzzi bathtub…yay!)

After tomorrow, there are much bigger questions I need to answer like understanding what appliances I need, where to find a good living room set, a nice bed, etc, etc, etc.  It is also a good thing that after this week I will be in Stockholm for 5 weeks so that I can make all of this work together.  I have a stash of extra money just for renovations and moving in and the like.  I also need to work on insurance and all of this other good stuff as well (including fire alarms, security alarms, etc,etc).

Any idea on where to go in Stockholm to get some decent furniture?