Solid Block of Ise

Not much to report today. I’m keeping my emotions in a tight reign. Today, I don’t want to break down. Today I want to feel good. The worries of the future will have to wait for just a while.

I went to a meeting with Arbetsförmedlingen (the swedish government employment agency) to discuss some of my future. I like my handler there, he’s an amiable fellow who is light on the bureaucracy and heavy on the empathy. Nice for a change. He’d been in contact with Rolf where I work-tried back in August. Even though Rolf and his supervisor were positive to having me back they were overloaded with work and felt that it was better to say no right now, but keep options open. I’m guessing the heavy workload is from them starting up the second server-room, and that’s probably consuming all the personnel they have.

None the less, my handler was positive and we’ve got a meeting set for mid-february to follow up on some things.

After that I picked up the birth control pills for my cat, and picked up my watch that had come back from repairs. Ann-Sofie gave me this really nice watch for christmas/birthday, unfortunately I quickly discovered that after a few hours it started lagging behind. Thus it was sent off for repairs. Or, rather not, since I just got a new identical watch instead. I guess the clockwork was fubar’ed, or something.

The weather today was horrible. Just around freezing, very windy and snow was falling from the sky as if it was the end of the world. The bus downtown got stuck once, and once slid backwards and hit some Toyota. Just a light touch, since the Toyota didn’t bother staying. None the less, it was slow going and the bus was almost 20 minutes behind schedule, which in turn made me late for that meeting I mentioned up there.

Here’s a photo I took with my phone while waiting for the bus this morning. Almost whiteout conditions. Of course the crappy phone-camera did an excellent job of not showing the snowfall and white conditions.

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