This is what happens when you’re bearded, watching a really boring movie and your hands are a bit restless.

I found these supersweet outdoor plastic chairs. The kicker is that they’re in a pseudo-baroque design and they look amazingly cool!

I want two for my balcony, preferably in some absolutely garish color, and preferably with a matching small table to put my Victorian lamp on. Then I’m gonna sit in one of them babies wearing a Hugh Hefner-type bathrobe/smoking jacket and puff on a huge cigar!

A beautiful day outside. Sunny, clear bright-blue skies, just a degree or two below freezing. Huge white snowpiles. It’s wonderful. When it’s days like these I have no problems remembering why I love living where I do, and I have no trouble enjoying winter.

I took these photos yesterday, actually. But the weather today is the same, except a lot less windy. Yesterday it was gusting quite heavily – today it’s completely calm. Today you can feel the suns rays warming your face.

Look who’s figured out that there’s a perfectly sized little jungle room for her in the kitchen, and discovered that it’s quite nice to sit there and soak up the spring sun.

I just found this completely awesome video of some norwegian dude doing pixel-art when re-tiling his shower. This is so cool! Lots of work but deeply impressive results!

Maybe some day when I redo my kitchen I’ll steal this idea and do a pixelart tile motif in it somewhere…

Either click the link up there to go to Vimeo and watch the video in much better quality, or enjoy the embedded (lesser-quality) version down below.

I’m not much for clocks on my wall. Part of this is due to the fact that I’m old-fashioned and wear a wrist-watch, but mostly it’s due to my deep and utter dislike for clocks on walls. Most of the time they’re ugly, useless, ticking pieces of plastic.

However, this clock I actually like. It’s just simple digital (duh) digits. The neat thing about them is that they’re OLED, and in sunlight they’re black and in darkness they’re white. Don’t get it? Look at the picture below.

I like minimalist type designs, and as such this appeals to me. Currently the clock isn’t in production but if it starts being produced and doesn’t cost an arm and a leg I could consider buying one.

Read more at the designers site.

Well, I took the dawg (aka Hilda) and walked to the petstore today. Good times, she was really excited and behaved mostly well. Unlike some other dogs I’ve encountered she understood that it was not dog-heaven and she wasn’t free to play with all the toys, other dogs or eat all the candy. But it was exciting, none the less, and a good walk.

Bought a orange rubber ball that we had fun with earlier tonight. Man, throwing a ball and watching this dog chase after it is like firing a cannon. She shoots off at the speed of sound, I kid you not.

Here’s a picture of her and the cat chillaxing in the couch. The cat is extremely uninterested in the dog but tolerates her. The dog is curious about the cat but is a little nervous after being hit in the face by aforementioned animal quite unexpectedly the other day.

Found this on some other blog.

“The BBC apparently believes most people will have only read 6 of the 100 books here. Please copy and paste your bolded books read, italicized books as ”want to read”, and then sum up with a head count, so to speak. What does the list say about your reading habits?”

Well, let’s see what I’ve read and what I want to read.

1 Pride and Prejudice – Jane Austen
2 The Lord of the Rings – JRR Tolkien
3 Jane Eyre – Charlotte Bronte
4 Harry Potter series – JK Rowling (I read up to and including The Order of the Phoenix after which I just grew tired of the series)
5 To Kill a Mockingbird – Harper Lee
6 The Bible
7 Wuthering Heights – Emily Bronte
8 Nineteen Eighty Four – George Orwell
9 His Dark Materials – Philip Pullman
10 Great Expectations – Charles Dickens
11 Little Women – Louisa M Alcott
12 Tess of the D’Urbervilles – Thomas Hardy
13 Catch 22 – Joseph Heller
14 Complete Works of Shakespeare
15 Rebecca – Daphne Du Maurier
16 The Hobbit – JRR Tolkien
17 Birdsong – Sebastian Faulk
18 Catcher in the Rye – JD Salinger
19 The Time Traveller’s Wife – Audrey Niffenegger
20 Middlemarch – George Eliot
21 Gone With The Wind – Margaret Mitchell
22 The Great Gatsby – F Scott Fitzgerald
23 Bleak House – Charles Dickens
24 War and Peace – Leo Tolstoy
25 The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy – Douglas Adams
26 Brideshead Revisited – Evelyn Waugh
27 Crime and Punishment – Fyodor Dostoyevsky
28 Grapes of Wrath – John Steinbeck
29 Alice in Wonderland – Lewis Carroll
30 The Wind in the Willows – Kenneth Grahame
31 Anna Karenina – Leo Tolstoy
32 David Copperfield – Charles Dickens
33 Chronicles of Narnia – CS Lewis
34 Emma – Jane Austen
35 Persuasion – Jane Austen
36 The Lion, The Witch and The Wardrobe – CS Lewis
37 The Kite Runner – Khaled Hosseini
38 Captain Corelli’s Mandolin – Louis De Bernieres
39 Memoirs of a Geisha – Arthur Golden
40 Winnie the Pooh – AA Milne
41 Animal Farm – George Orwell
42 The Da Vinci Code – Dan Brown
43 One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
44 A Prayer for Owen Meaney – John Irving
45 The Woman in White – Wilkie Collins
46 Anne of Green Gables – LM Montgomery
47 Far From The Madding Crowd – Thomas Hardy
48 The Handmaid’s Tale – Margaret Atwood
49 Lord of the Flies – William Golding
50 Atonement – Ian McEwan
51 Life of Pi – Yann Martel
52 Dune – Frank Herbert
53 Cold Comfort Farm – Stella Gibbons
54 Sense and Sensibility – Jane Austen
55 A Suitable Boy – Vikram Seth.
56 The Shadow of the Wind – Carlos Ruiz Zafon
57 A Tale Of Two Cities – Charles Dickens
58 Brave New World – Aldous Huxley
59 The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-time – Mark Haddon
60 Love In The Time Of Cholera – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
61 Of Mice and Men – John Steinbeck
62 Lolita – Vladimir Nabokov
63 The Secret History – Donna Tartt
64 The Lovely Bones – Alice Sebold
65 Count of Monte Cristo – Alexandre Dumas
66 On The Road – Jack Kerouac
67 Jude the Obscure – Thomas Hardy
68 Bridget Jones’s Diary – Helen Fielding
69 Midnight’s Children – Salman Rushdie
70 Moby Dick – Herman Melville
71 Oliver Twist – Charles Dickens
72 Dracula – Bram Stoker
73 The Secret Garden – Frances Hodgson Burnett
74 Notes From A Small Island – Bill Bryson
75 Ulysses – James Joyce
76 The Bell Jar – Sylvia Plath
77 Swallows and Amazons – Arthur Ransome
78 Germinal – Emile Zola
79 Vanity Fair – William Makepeace Thackeray
80 Possession – AS Byatt
81 A Christmas Carol – Charles Dickens
82 Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
83 The Color Purple – Alice Walker
84 The Remains of the Day – Kazuo Ishiguro
85 Madame Bovary – Gustave Flaubert
86 A Fine Balance – Rohinton Mistry
87 Charlotte’s Web – EB White
88 The Five People You Meet In Heaven – Mitch Albom
89 Adventures of Sherlock Holmes – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
90 The Faraway Tree Collection – Enid Blyton
91 Heart of Darkness – Joseph Conrad
92 The Little Prince – Antoine De Saint-Exupery
93 The Wasp Factory – Iain Banks
94 Watership Down – Richard Adams
95 A Confederacy of Dunces – John Kennedy Toole
96 A Town Like Alice – Nevil Shute
97 The Three Musketeers – Alexandre Dumas
98 Hamlet – William Shakespeare
99 Charlie and the Chocolate Factory – Roald Dahl
100 Les Miserables – Victor Hugo

Well, 38 is fairly decent, I’d say.

There’s a labrador sleeping right behind me. This is her first time away from home, and I think she’s a little scared. But she’s quite easy-going anyways, I guess it’s just weird being away from master and mistress. She’s about two years old, more charming than a smiling piglet and very social.

The dog in question is Hilda. Normally she lives with the couple where I got to see The Zapper, and I suggested that she live with me while they’re off on a midwinter vacation for two weeks in Tenerife.

We’ve been bonding today. Earlier in the evening we went for a short walk and managed to meet no less than five other dogs who also were out stretching their legs. One of the dogs was the somewhat more grown-up version of the puppy I blogged about back in May. The dogs immediately became good friends, playing around in the snow. The owner of the dog in question suggested we go down to the field and let them play in the snow. Sure, why not? We walked down, I unleashed Hilda and the dogs played for a while. Meanwhile me and the owner of the other dog –which was a (I think) American Cocker Spaniel– chatted for a while about dogs and the various intricacies and pleasures of owning a dog.

After a while we decided it was time to go home, and we took our respective dogs and headed back to the apartments. Goodbye greetings to the man and then we were inside again. Hilda being quite snowy but very happy having made a new friend.

Who knows what the morrow will bring?

Here’s a photo of the girl just ten minutes after her arrival here earlier today.

Ja, rubriken säger väl det mesta. Snart fyller jag 30 för andra gången. Ni är välkomna att anmäla er på mitt Fejsboks-event om ni vill komma förbi, äta tårta, snacka strunt eller vad det nu blir.

Linda gav mig i uppdrag att klura på födelsedagspresenter. Två av de blygsammare önskemålen är antingen en ny smörgåsgrill (den jag har nu håller på att falla i bitar) eller en fritös (så jag kan göra Tonkatsu eller Pizza Fritta) men för en stund sen kom jag på en tredje.

Den är dock för de som är stadd vid ganska ordentlig kassa, men det är ett genuint önskemål.

Om någon skulle vilja köpa en Philips LivingColors-lampa till mig i present skulle jag bli äckligt glad! Jag har varit förtjust i konceptet ända sedan de först dök upp för nåt år sen, och jag tycker det är ett supermysigt koncept. Jag är lite dimmig på var man kan hitta den, men nånstans borde den ju finnas.