I have been looking at some apartments today. In fact I looked at 7 apartments which is all of the time that I will have before I go to Frankfurt tomorrow. There are 2 apartments I really want, 2 apartments that were okay if the first 2 were not available, and the remaining 3 were uninspiring to the point where I would rather rent longer than pay for those apartments.

I love my apartment that I have now, but I want to own and not rent. And it is unfair to my existing landlord to continue to ask for 2 months extensions. He needs some assurance of continued income.

But at any rate, I suspect that one way or another, my housing situation will resolve successfully by the end of the month. This will be my first apartment and first major purchase. I am excited. 🙂

Tonight is going to be another sleepless night thanks to the Superhero CDs that Steve burned for me. God they are so good. Lots of good dance music! I can dance all night long. I just might.

But alas, since I have to wake up at 04.00 in order to get to the airport in time for my 06.20 flight to Glasgow, I better force some sleep.

Markus and I went out to Lino a couple of Saturdays ago.  A fun time as always! 🙂

Luckily we are photogenic.  Even more luckily…Markus is more photogenic than I.

Ì should be sleeping. Yes I should. But I am wide awake for some reason. It is probably because this Slanted House podcast is so good that I can’t get to sleep.

I have a flight in about 8 hours. I will sleep for 5 of those house and then wake up and go to Copenhagen.

And I also now have a terrabyte (1000 GB) of storage and backup space available, but I don’t know how to take advantage of it in the best way. It seems I need a backup strategy. I should consult Steve in these matters…he is smarter than I about these things…and probably most things…

One of the ways I know I can use it is through the fact that I have been digitizing my DVDs…enabling them for the iPod in the process (so I can watch movies while I am traveling). 70 GB of media information thus far. If I work really hard, by the end of August I will have trippled it.

And to end on the random note consistent with this post, I am grinding coffee beans at 01.00 in the morning. Sigh…I’m ‘tarded sometimes…

Jack came up to Stockholm for the weekend (from Saturday to Tuesday).  I didn’t think that he would come (I had encouraged him to come and visit thinking it wouldn’t, but he did which was really cool).

The weekend in itself had several sub-plots and adventures.  First of all, SAS lost Jack’s luggage.  And they didn’t manage to find it and deliver it back until Monday night.  Second, there was a lot of cartoon watching.  He had never seen Drawn Together, so we managed to watch basically both seasons in one day.  Finally, during the days there were walks around town to do the tourist thing, eating a restaurants, and just a lot of relaxing and chilling which was nice.

It was cool to hang out with someone with a different perspective and point of view than my own (he’s Danish, but studies Turkish and practices Islam).  Conversations were as much fun as they were an opportunity for me to think differently.

Overall, it was a great long weekend.  And a nice change from the bar and club scene just to talk and get to learn about someone new.