har jag otur slutar jag om 4h

The prototypes are AWESOM (from A to AWESOME)! ..because of some minor things the production company missed..

I thought we were going to do some testing today, but since it's Angelos birthday today he's hangover. I don't really mind. Right now it's too hot to do anything anyway, I just wish I could go out and like have an icecream and play soccer or something.

Det ar valborg i helgen! Hitta pa nagot kul! Sjalv ska jag nog aka till beachen. Sola och bada is the grej!

sommar sommar sommar

Har ni nagra sommarplaner som jag ska tanka pa nar jag planerar jobb? Let me know, cuz I'm in!

we'll fix that later

Hope you're all fine, I'm not. We're going to the pharmacy to get some sort of knee pads or bandage or elastic tape or whatever. Why, oh why did it start to hurt now?

And we went to the prototype company. It was closed.

all these *%£$ blank pages..!

It's a cylindrical greenhouse

Pasta tutti i giorni! It's almost three o'clock now and I can tell you that the phonecalls now starts with buona sera, alternatively buona serada. I think that's dialectal. I've always wondered when they switch from giorno to sera, and I think I might be close to the answer.

Thanks to me the English is improving here, read as spoken! Isn't that great? Maybe I should be a speacher (gissa orden!).

I am trying to compress the report, which now contains of 55 pages and no prototype pictures or test results. Maximum limit is 60 pages. Gah. And guess what? The prototypes arrives TOMORROW instead!

supply on demand

I just spoke with Tony (the PR guy). Nice to be able to speak with someone who 1. understands everything I say even if I speak fast 2. I understand everything he says 3. he does not stakar sig (what's that called? GT gives me FLUFF?) or randomly add incomprehensible Italian words.

Though, if it wasn't for working at SJ I would still have my "very perfect American accent" (MSE, CAD-teacher, 2006), and Englishmen really DO want you to speak proper British English. They're kind of like Frenchmen refusing to speak anything but French. So thanks to SJ I speak British English when I'm (trying to be) pedagogical.

Now I'm gonna have to call the prototype-company, 'cause they wont deliver anything if you don't (threaten them) ask them to.

I correct everyones English emails

I was finally able to upload ONE picture! This is me melting away on Piazza di Popola (yes, hot day - 28 degrees in the shadow at 4pm).

My knees are killing me... and the words echoing in my head are "you cannot do that anymore", which is what my physiotherapist said about Aikido. Buhu!

Another thing, the company's PR-guy Tony (another Englishman secretly sneaking around here!) wants to write something about me so he'll come around one of these days and properly ask for an interview. Exciting huh?!

I always get surprised when I meet someone who says "hello howdya do?" instead of the usual buon giorno or simply ciao.

pictures. error.

I would really like to show you the pics from this weekend, but the computer doesn't recognize my cellphone. I'll solve that somehow. Instead you get to see a detail of the greenhouse. Looking forward to get it! (Wednesday is far away).

Anyways, I was brave enough to walk another way (without a map, maps are for tourists) and that resulted in me finding the shopping district, where stores like Prada and Dior and Versace are cluttered. Where you have to ring a bell and be examined by guards in tuxedos.

And I found Piazza di Spagna, di Popola, di all the others! Fantastic! I think I'll go there next weekend as well.. If I don't go to the beach.

almost anyway

The smallest water pump there is

One component (in five editions of course) of the prototype just arrived! It is tiny! It is perfect! It is one step closer to a comlpete prototype!

Another thing that arrived was my darling laptop! Note to self: Make sure no smulor gets in the tangentbord next time you're multitasking middag och plugg! Then the fan gets overheated. Aja baja.

alla heter glenn i gbg

Grattis Gbg!

is loading so get over it...

I'm kind of in a waiting-mode right now. The prototype(s) gets here on Wednesday so I can't do any tests, neither write about it in the report. The reasons for making five prototypes are: I need one for Sthlm and one for Sperlonga, Marzia wants one and Silvio wants one. The fifth prototype is for someone else (oups, don't remember who), I don't know wether he wanted to have one or if Silvio wanted him to have one.

Now, since the tickets are booked (Ryanair certainly has a shaky website) we need to confirm hotels. I'm going to stay for three nights in Sperlonga, and the last night at a (godtyckligt) hotel located somewhere nearby the airport.
That's because none of those who usually drives me were available. They proposed taxi. Then I proposed nearby. Conclusion: taxi to airport from nearby hotel.

i heard a song we used to dance to

Idag ar det den 22a. Det betyder att jag har varit har i exakt 2 veckor och 3 dagar, och att jag aker hem om exakt 1 vecka och 6 dagar.

Det betyder att jag har varit 2 ganger i Rom, och att jag formodligen aker dit en gang till innan jag aker hem. Att jag atit fantastiskt (mycket) god mat, och att jag kommer vara less pa pasta (i 2 minuter) nar jag kommer hem. Att jag har fatt fruktansvart mycket gjort, och att jag borjar fa det fruktansvart stressigt med att fa allt klart. Att min dator pajat, att jag fatt eget kontor, att jag fick tillbaka mitt gamla kontor, att jag kommer fa tillbaka datorn lagad, att jag druckit kaffe ur pyttesma plastmuggar, att jag spillt ut en san pa heltackningsmattan (skams) och att jag tvattat klader i bidén.

Det betyder att jag lart kanna massa manniskor.

Men de manniskor jag allra helst vill traffa just nu ar er.

benamningar dessa benamningar

Vad heter ett typ vinkeljarn som har ett sant har hal for upphangning? Nan som vet sant?

velpotta

I just got confirmed, two days ago, that I can go to the Sperlonga expo! This is the same two days as EXPO IDE, for which I'm very sad 'cause that means I'd have to choose.

What do you think? Another trip, five days and two flight tickets more vs home at last, meeting everyone I know and no need for flight tickets.

Om jag aker, snalla morfar kan du skjutsa mig till centralen sadar tidigt, en gang till? (Jisses vad svart att skriva utan au, ae och oe!)

Edit: I just booked those tickets! Of course I'm going!

jag trivs bast i oppna landskap

"My own office" delade jag med den italienska versionen av CMJ, fast denne var hogljutt argumenterande istallet for att bara konstant halla lada.

Thanks to my persuasion ability (or my unique hair color) I got my desk back (woho back with my lovely colleagues!), now supplemented with a brand new PC! It's so brand new I just downloaded Word to it. My laptop is at the intensive care (ocksa tidsmassigt for jag aker egentligen for snart for att de ska hinna gora nat, men jag ar uppenbarligen utrustad med en mycket inflytelserik kontakt). Amazing man, isn't he?

I just upgraded, I got my own office

I have absolutely zero possibility to open Facebook, so the emails I get: "Someone commented on a photo of you: 'Hehe'", just freaks me out!

Mamma mia! My computer just died! Though, I've got a pro working on it right now, trying to save it.

gaaah!

on sundays, some people go to church. i go to rome.

Oh, I'll so have to show you this picture when I get back! It's really glowing!

A glimpse of everyday optimism.

Splendid scenery! (or just scenery?)

Forget the artistic fencing and the statue for a moment, the guy with the bike had the same route as I did. Saw him everywhere! Not that that wasn't the point, otherwise those neon vests wrapped around him, his bag and his bike wouldn't be worth the money. (Though, he wasn't wearing a helmet - aint that contradictory? Fast han kanske krockar om han köper en...)

Wow! Me - impressed!

Home sweet home!

Same thing here, you so need to see this picture when I get back!

möbelmässa deluxe

Säg nu att ni minns den vägghängda vilstolen som tjejen som jobbade för ett Italienskt företag presenterade på någon sorts DoP-frl. Det visar sig att man kan ha hela lägenheten som ett enda långt vågat (höhö, trippel bemärkelse) hyllplan! 14-19 April

Salone Internazionale del Mobile

Milano

Sthlm Furniture Fair släng dig i väggen, här snackar vi utanför boxen! Självklart vill jag vara där!

some ups and downs

Me yesterday, love (nej men tycker mycket om) this skirt!

This mornings emptiness of my refrigerator disturbs me (since I didn't have time to shop, left from work at 8pm yesterday)...

...and the way the shower hose always get caught in the tap is really annoying. It happens like 20 times every time I shower. One day I'll probably rip it off by accident.

For some reason I'm really hungry (I wonder why...) and it's 2h to lunch! This is when I just love (nej men tycker mycket om) that I'm in Italy. Looking forward to three dishes!

typiskt läbbigt

Jag började se den där Alice i Underlandet-inspirerade filmen, där varelserna i princip saknar hud (blä) och den barnätande typen har ögon i händerna (bläblä), fast den figuren hann jag inte introduceras för eftersom jag i gott mod hade börjat se den här filmen allena i min ekande lägenhet. Vet ni vilken jag menar? Jag minns inte namnet...

Min filmupplevelse var denna: jag såg en timme, hörde en halvtimme, smög därifrån och vaknade trött.

Det ironiska är att den verkade bra (är den?). Jag tror jag ska ge den en chans till - hemma, inte ensam, och helst inte på italienska.

30 sharks down the waterfall

Nämen! Jag har ju åstadkommit ett litet lokalt Sergels Torg!

Speaking of which - we're going back the third time to that prototype-guy 'cause his english is really nonexistent, and I'll bring those paper pieces to show him some origami or something. Let's call it a proprototype.

I met an Englishman today, the only one here apparently. And tomorrow Gene comes here (the professor, you know - the one who wanted an autograph)!

Headed for understanding!

congratulazioni!

We're celebrating Gianna today!

Yesterday she got her PhD, and today everybody gets bubbel och plockmat! How are we supposed to work now? I have to translate a half done, 34 page long, technical report...

But it's so cool! Congrats!

Tomorrow everybody will have two days work to do.

liar liar

Gissa vad jag har problem med hemma, i vanlig ordning?

This morning I had a real Continental breakfast and watched mr. Bean (so happy for hearing something I understand on that dumburk)!

There's this guy here who claims he speaks swedish, and obviously I have to test him! We've been looking for him, and my colleagues are really excited about this 'test', but he keeps disappearing...

Silvio just told me I look like a radish

Maybe it's the sun, maybe it's the heat in here and probably it's his pronunciation of "reddish". Fingers crossed for brown some day!

(then I'll be a brownie, wouldn't that be sweet?)

tourist on tour

This is where the gladiators held their chariot-races, but I found another type of hero.

Looking for my train, without knowing the final destination.

I felt lucky and chose a train to Nettuno. After all, I had 100km left!

I had an exciting day, walked a lot, saw a lot and felt a lot like a japanese tourist. I can promise you, I've got plenty of pictures!

214 pages

It's a statistics day. Right now I'm deep down in a synoptic report about price index. Funny, huh?

saknar formelsamlingen

Jag räknar hållf. Vad gör ni på lovet?

en la residenza

The most important thing I've ever boughtLook how shiny! The thing in the upper half of the picture is not a mirror, it's the oven.

Wonderful apartment, but it's kind of impossible to take pictures without that wide-angle perspective each and every broker uses. Anyway, spa-like bathroom, a 20 sqmt bedroom and a livingroom/kitchen with a huge orange pillar in the middle for some reason.

Ever been to Fort Knox? I have an intercom with a camera! The caretaker explained it carefully - if I have a friend visiting, I can see who it is! Now I just need to have a friend visiting. I'll have to ask Marzia or someone.

working fast: prototype done tomorrow!

Angelo has professionally criticized my drafts: he hummed (gnolade är ju ett roligt ord alltså) in Italian with one eyebrow raised and then he nodded with a concluding 'mhm!'.

So tomorrow we're going to go to a factory to make a prototype! Guess in what material?

the charming atmosphere of stress

We're busy here, can you see that? Too busy to be present.

Today's a busy day, everyone is running around like crazy because of some big visit. There's stuff everywhere where the visitor won't go. Unfortunately the visitor won't come to my office landscape so this is where everything is stuffed 'for now'.

Det påminner om den här tidpunkten.

moving today

I haven't photographed my hotelroom, but well the bar. And it's not just any bar, it's a coffeebar! They serve coffee and coffee only. Speaking about that - I stumbled upon a coffee vending machine yesterday, it had 26 different choices. Still only coffee.

Jag såg Alvin och gänget igår, den som jag och Max och Joar (brorsorna) såg. Den är fortfarande jättebra! Inte för dubbningen, inte för handlingen, men för att de där ekorrarna sjunger så förbaskat bra.