Springsteen!

I went and saw Bruce Springsteen last night in the new megadont Friends Arena.   And he played the whole Darkness on the edge of Town record!  Which was a nice treat 🙂 (The first night, he played Born to run, which makes me wonder which one he will play  May 11th…) I am glad I […]

Random food related curiosa

  * If you write European set Epic fantasy, it is more likely that the food your heroes eat is flavored using herbs rather than spices, since spices were expensive, and had to be imported. * In Sweden,  mushrooms were viewed to be cattle food, until the 20th century.  Which meant that they did not […]

Random life stuff

 Well, I figured out why I couldn’t update my e-reader.  The firmware update isn’t compatible with my e-reader.  Which annoys me a bit, to put it mildly.   My colon disease decided to flare up last week, which means my immune system is overly active right now. And because of that,  I am running a […]

Third time is the charm

A couple of days ago, I reached the point in the synopsis were I needed to re-read the first draft.   I hesitated, but in the end I decided to write the beginning first.   So. Yesterday, I started to write the beginning from scratch. This time, the opening is in the right place.  Today, […]

World Fantasy Con!

I just paid my membership for WFC in Brighton. Right now I am crossing my fingers that I will not get a refund, due to it being full booked. *twitches*   ( I had planned to go to P-Con, but it was cancelled…)

Decoupage ramblings

Lillian’s post about her new craft store ( And yay for Lillian :))  made me want to take up decoupage again.   I have dabbled in it, primarily serviette decoupage.  Which is fun. But, I want to move on from it. I just haven’t been sure what to do next.    But today I discovered […]

Things like this just don’t happen here

  First, a train crashed into a house in southern Stockholm ( thank god the train was out of traffic and the house empty).   The incident is really embarrassing for the train company, since  it was a cleaning lady that drove  the train (!) and someone had forgotten the key in the ignition (!!).  Oh, […]

To do list

This is one of those dull and boring posts, that are more a reminder for me 🙂 To do: Operation Shelfpurge: Start sorting through books in bags, and decides which I want to keep ( I have a feeling it wont be many…)  Enter them into the spreadsheet  Upload them  to Bokbörsen General:   Go […]

Operation Shelfpurge

Earlier this week ( or was it last week?)  Laura Anne Gilman purged her shelves of non-fiction books on twitter.  Yesterday, I realised that I need to do the same but with fiction.   Let’s be honest: I live in a small apartment, I have a cupboard filled with books, and  I have  a lot […]

Let’s try this again

So.. Last year I deleted my previous WordPress blog since I never posted there. Which I am regretting right now, since LJ is in death throes. :(.   Hopefully I’ll be better about updating it than I was the last time around…. Here is to a new and brave 2013