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!