My dear robot vacuum cleaner (Roomba) won’t start! 🙁
I think it might be the battery – I hope it isn’t something more serious. I’m not very fond of vacuuming – I much prefer to let the machines do that kind of job. I’ve only had the robot for a year (precisely a year in fact), and it should last longer than that.

A few days ago, the radio station I was listening to while driving home, played Lou Reed’s “Perfect Day” in a version with lots of different persons, singing few words each.
I believe I’ve heard it before, but haven’t really noticed it then. Marvellous.
Yesterday I tried to find the song on the net. Either as a (legal) download, or on CD.
In my search, I discovered that this special recording was made for the BBC Children In Need Charity in 1997 (the original, by Lou Reed, is from 1972 I think).
Interesting enough, I haven’t been able to find the record anywhere (yes, I have looked at the BBC Shop, but they don’t have it – so much for the charity).
Until I find it (haven’t stopped looking), I just have to sing it myself. I can’t sing, so it doesn’t sound good.

Just a perfect day, drink sangria in the park. And then later, when it gets dark. We go home.

Update, November 24, 2005: I found it! 🙂

I went to a first aid course today (it’s a couple of years since I learned it, so I thought I needed a brush-up). Just like last time, I heard that Denmark isn’t the best place to get a heart attack. Very few people know how to offer first aid. There are probably a lot of countries even worse than Denmark, but that doesn’t make it any better.

Sometimes I find myself surrounded by people demanding that the governments and large companies show a high degree of human compassion. But when it comes to actually do something themselves, it’s suddenly not that easy.

Or maybe it’s just me, thinking I’m better than anybody else. It’s probably a little bit of both.

In Denmark, Halloween (October 31) is still pretty new. Like fathers and mothers day, it’s almost 100% driven by shops wanting to increase business. In Denmark, we do have an All Saints Day (which we rarely celebrate) and in the spring we have “fastelavn”, where the kids dress up in costume disguises and go trick-or-treating.

This is what I would look like, if I was a cartoon figure from South Park:

Maybe a bit boring to look at, but if you could only see my twisted mind. 😉

The image was made with South Park Studio
(South Park is copyright Comedy Central)

This is yet another day with nothing interesting to write about.
Sigh!

I sometimes hear the phrase that something is “the greatest thing since sliced bread”. I think it’s mostly in American sitcoms and films, I’ve heard it.
That raises one big question:
What was the greatest thing before sliced bread?

I haven’t been writing for some time now – sorry. The reason is a complete lack of news to tell. But here’s something new: today – September 29 – is my birthday! 😉

I have just finished a course, which builds on Stephen R. Coveys book “The 7 Habits”. I have yet to read the book myself, but it (and the course) is about getting better control with your time – and basically your life. And showing you a way to better interact with other people (family, working colleagues, and people you meet else where).
Off course you can’t turn a crappy life into a good one, just by reading a book. First, you need to have the will to make a change. I had that will, but I also had some doubts about the course itself: could it really change anything for me? The answer: yes it could!
Again: this type of courses only works, if you give it a change, and put a lot of work into it. As I mentioned, I haven’t read the book yet (I intent to). But I don’t think I would have gotten so much out of it, if I had just read the book, instead of taken this course.
So what did I get from it? Well, it’s now clearer to me, where some of the obstacles are in my life – and it has given me some “tools” to rethink my life (I hope this doesn’t sound like nonsense). I feel I need to read the material all over before I can come up with a more substantial result, but I really think, I’m going in the right direction. 🙂

As I wrote September 7th, I had my picture taken by an automatic traffic control, because I couldn’t keep the speed under the 50 km/h (approx. 31 mph).
I have now received a letter with the fine, together with the photo.
First: I know its irresponsible driving to fast. As I wrote earlier, I had just started the car, and would have noticed the speed myself and adjusted it accordingly – but to late. Yes I know: it’s no excuse.
Second: Luckily I wasn’t speeding that much – I have to pay for driving 8 km/h (5 mph) to fast. And again: yes, I know it’s still to fast.
Third: Even though the photo’s quite ugly to look at, it’s still the most expensive photo I have of my car.

Oh, and yes: it is a small car – but that’s the way I like it. 🙂