So it has been a really long time since I have last updated. I am really sorry about that. It has just been wicked busy. But that is the lames excuse everyone uses, especially since I have had time to search around on the internet for meaningless things.

So what have I been up to in the last couple of week? Well really, not very much. Work has been kicking my ass. I turned 28 years old last week, and had 3 days of partying to celebrate. And I lost 12 pounds so far on the South Beach Diet (and I’ve been less than faithful to it, so if I had followed the rules I would have lost even more).

Next trips over the 4-6 weeks are the USA (Atlanta and Boston), London, Oslo, and Copenhagen.

Tonight Steve is coming over, Robin is making dinner, and we are watching the new season of Ab Fab and will see where the night leads.

I have more to say (well not a lot), but you’ll see it in the friend’s postings if you have access 😉

Ciao for Now 🙂

Heart Rodney.

13/6 -04 kl 00.35 skrev Davidito:
Hep Spanky … I dropped by … but I didnt have the code and I didnt have your number … my bad … my bad organization

anyway I made you a little card (see attached)
you can get the framed version later

Happy b-day

14/6 -04 kl 10.21 skrev American Yankee:
hahahahahah! i love the card! it is so cool!

Thanks so much for the card. Sorry you missed out on my birthday party…but no worries…i am planning the Absolut BBQ in August, so just make sure you are on hand for that 🙂

14/6 -04 kl 14.22 skrev Davidito:
Glad you had a good one …. Many Happy Returns :O)

14/6 -04 kl 16.44 skrev American Yankee:
thanks…well, not so so many…after all, i am 20 for the 8th year in a row.

14/6 -04 kl 19.40 skrev Davidito:
keep on keepin on like that … I heard Ester Rolle was only 31 when they buried her

14/6 -04 kl 19.42 skrev American Yankee:
She was only 31? But she looked so young for her age

14/6 -04 kl 19.53 skrev Davidito:
Not a day over 20 …Keep on Rollin’ Ester :O)

14/6 -04 kl 19.58 skrev American Yankee:
hahaha…well i actually though Ester was still alive. But then again, I subscribe to Day Old News. 🙂

14/6 -04 kl 20.08 skrev Davidito:
Thats the year old news ..and your subscription has lapsed

Esther Rolle
Date of birth
8 November 1920
Pompano Beach, Florida, USA

Date of death (details)

17 November 1998
Los Angeles, California, USA. (complications from diabetes)

Graduated from Spelman College in Atlanta, Georgia in 1942.

Left the series Good Times after the 1976-1977 season due to her displeasure with the what she saw as the character of J.J. being a bad role model for young blacks. She returned at the beginning of the 1978-1979 season after the producers guaranteed that they would make J.J. a more respectable character.

14/6 -04 kl 20.09 skrev American Yankee:
well dynomite…someone had to stand up for JJ

Being cast as a lowly crackhead will only get one so far in life….at least Mayor of D.C., but not one step farther…

14/6 -04 kl 20.16 skrev Davidito:
else who would have jump started Janets career :O)

14/6 -04 kl 20.18 skrev American Yankee:
i am sure i’ve seen a video of ester and janet dancing together somewhere…like the rhythm nation tour or something 🙂

14/6 -04 kl 20.24 skrev Davidito:
I ahve got to get the number of your weed dealer …that is some quality chronic

14/6 -04 kl 20.26 skrev American Yankee:
it’s a better hallucination than the christina aguilera bobbleheads i thought in my window this morning

15/6 -04 kl 17.22 skrev Davidito:
You do have all the fun hallucinations …Ohhh the joy of being Rodney

18/6 -04 kl 22.33 skrev American Yankee:
yeah…being me is better than a box of chocolates

18/6 -04 kl 23.14 skrev Davidito:
Cant see th Forest for the Gumps :O)

Here is a link I found. It is not that I find this entirely unacceptable…in fact, I agree that our larger passengers have the right to travel the skies.

What I don’t agree with is the concept that somehow we are treating them unfairly to ask them to pay for a second seat, because I feel like I pay for my seat too, and I don’t want someone else spilling over into my seat.

Know what I mean?

Going out partying tonight…going to Helsinki in the afternoon…talk about exciting…

ALL NIGHT (Don’t Stop)
Janet Jackson

This is sick

“Attention it’s time to dance…”

CHORUS:
WORK IT LIKE YOU’RE WORKING A POLE
SHAKE IT TIL YOU’RE SHAKING THE FLOOR
POP IT LIKE YOU’RE POPPIN’ A CORK
Don’t stop, Don’t stop
JERK It LIKE YOU’RE MAKING IT CHOKE
BREAK It LIKE YOU’RE BREAKIN’ A CODE
DROP IT TIL YOU’RE TAKING IT LOWER

Drop it, drop it….

Verse 1
This is serious
I’m delirious
So oblivious
I could dance all night

With you

As long as it funky
This rhythm just makes me high
I’m like a junkie

I could dance all night

CHORUS

Verse 2
So intoxicated
I’m so stimulated
Feel so X-rated
I could dance all night

As long as it’s funky
This rhythm just makes me high
I’m like a junkie

I could dance all night

CHORUS

Bridge
Everybody on the floor (Let’s go)
Let’s get hardcore (Get low)
Make my sweat pour (Oh no)
Don’t stop (Gimmee some more)
Ooh my body’s yours (spank that)
Spank that back door (like that)
Drive me like a Porsche (yea)

I could dance All Night

Can we take this party higher?

Now just put your hands to the sky and

Clap, clap, clap, clap

I could dance all night

CHORUS (repeat)

In a few news reports I have seen, when a company through negligence causes an accident and kills people, they don’t seem to have to pay very much for their crimes.

Example 1: A few years ago, a nightclub burned down with kids trapped inside. After several years, they determined that the life of each kid was work about 50,000 Swedish Krona (approximately US$7000 – 8000). In another instance, when Anna Lindh (the former Swedish Prime Minister) died, her estate only managed to receive a very small sum, relative to her age, and her present and potential earning power.

It is in sharp contract to the multi-millions that US families and estates can receive when companies or even private individuals are found to be negligent.

Now whilst I woluldn’t call the US legal system an absolute model to be followed, it seems like Sweden is at the opposite end of the spectrum. Going back to the club example, assume that 20 kids died. 20 kids at 50,000 Swedish Krona a piece is still only 1 million Swedish Krona (US$140,000 – US$150,000). Something that their insurance can probably cover, or by simply having a few months of belt tightening can correct.

At the end of the day, it’s hard to feel like Sweden has any given any real value to life. I agree that life is not measured in monetary terms, but when you lose a loved one, it’s also fair to say that one ought to be compensated appropriately for that loss. What is the person killed was the breadwinner and the survivor a stay-at-home parent? Are they expected to increase their skill level and then re-enter the workforce?

Or maybe I just misunderstand something…

So me and Robin ( Robphi ) decided that we would go to London in July….he already has the week off in his schedule and it is easy enough for me to take the time off. We will arrive there on a Thursday night and leave on a Monday morning. Best of all Steve ( sjneedham ) will be there as well, and we can make a party of it.

The trip for us will be super-cheap, because we are using a free voucher for €300 that Robin received and because we are booking so early, both of our tickets together are less than that. And Steve, since he will be there for work…we can just crash at his hotel (although we might have to pay for a night prior to his arrival). But even so, the weekend for about US$200 including hotel and airfare (the ground transport will be a whole different story…hahaha) is not a bad deal. I have been saving my Swedish coins since I have been here and when I turned them in yesterday, it was SEK 4391 ($568 /£319), which I will now immediately put towards the “London Fund”. And if I double that by the end of June, I am hoping that we will be okay.

I can’t wait for London again…last time was so much fun!

Oh yeah, and I lost a kilo since yesterday…the SBD is starting to pay off in it’s own way.

So I’ve started on the South Beach Diet. Which seems rather interesting. I think what I like most about it is that there is no special food to buy, that I can enjoy the things I have eaten before (let’s face it, I am not going to give them up forever) as long as it’s in moderation, and I am learning to enjoy some new foods that I might have otherwise not enjoyed.

I have to lose 18kg/39lbs more by the end of the summer, which should be possible. BUT, I have to lose 8kg/18lbs of that by the end of June, which is going to be challenging and aggressive. But then again, I waited so long to get serious that I will just have t suffer the consequences.

I don’t know how true any of this is, but if it is true, then I am glad to be 27 (28 years old soon), but most importantly, it shows just how urgently we needs to get Bush out of the White House, and his cronies out of Congress and every other place his roaches have managed to snake a place into.

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