I got a nice surprise when Olof brought in the mail yesterday, a present from my friend, Sue, in Canada. Isn’t it the cutest? (Man, I wish I could knit!)

While he was digging through some old files this afternoon, Olof came up with this picture of himself, taken eight or nine years ago, when he lived in Stockholm. It’s the first picture I ever saw of him, but I hadn’t seen it in so long that I’d nearly forgotten about it. You know, it… Read More Nostalgia

I am 37 weeks pregnant today.  For any of you not up to speed on pregnancy dating, on this magic day I am considered to have reached “full term.”  The baby could, in theory, come any time, and no time — not even an hour from now — would be at all too soon for… Read More Benchmark

Tage’s best friend from pre-school walked home with him this afternoon and she stayed a little while to play. In the midst of all the picture-taking, I felt obliged to dig out my camera as well.

As with so many other things, the Dog Whisperer was a bit late coming to Sweden. I’m not sure when the show started airing over here, but I don’t think it was more than a year ago. In any case, I hadn’t seen it myself until last summer, after hearing my mom sing its praises… Read More A Simple Desultory Post (Or How Lucy was Dog Whisperer’d into Submission)

A couple of years or so ago, our county started separating organic and non-organic trash collection. We live in a smaller out-lying town and didn’t have to switch over until late spring of last year (and actually, we didn’t have to switch, but there is quite a price incentive to do so), so we’re still… Read More Oh, look … our ecological footprint is growing!

This afternoon I bought myself a little present, the 5-CD set, Simon & Garfunkel:  The Collection.  Now I know what music I’ll be taking with me to the hospital when it finally get to be time to have this baby.

Another year’s gone by, and today marks seven years since Lydia and I made the move from Idaho to Sweden.  All things considered, we’re still liking it fine.

Quite out of the blue, it was announced today that the company Olof has worked for for the past 7½ years, MySQL, was acquired by Sun Microsystems for the staggering–to me, at any rate–sum of $1 billion US.  In the short term, things should stay more or less the same, but what this will mean… Read More Unexpected