Just Tripping By
I came back South for good on the international Video Game Day. I'm not playing. Surprised GOG didn't do anything special then (I checked as soon as I'd turned on the computer - after first filling the fridge with additional heavily packed batches of blueberries and other favorable green edibles). Though neither did I. No time for games.
Anyway I'm back. Searching for apples. No hives. At least there's one more concert this year that I'm really looking forward to, and a few potential surprises. The last one for the season's this Friday.
What else... Netflix (I signed up for a free month, in the one month where I barely have the time to watch a movie a week)! I'm going to a Magic Show in November (should be pretty cool), I tried some NLP Therapy today (hypnosis - pretty cool), and last weekend me and a buddy went to a military show - heavy propaganda, aimed mostly at kids, for NATO's huge Aurora collaboration which I feel is a total waste of resources, and devastating for the natural utopias over which they now practice... but it was a fun show. They gave out free water and bananas (to the monkeys we were for going there) and held inspiring speeches amidst the action, and there were lots of people. Ten thousand, maybe? More? We gathered on a hilltop under a rare clear sky and watched the playing field where soldiers ran about and did imaginary battle. Then came the helicopters, parachute troopers, Archers etc etc.
Google Translate tells me militäruppvisning (military show) is tattoo, btw. This is why I don't trust Google Translate for important translations.
I took a trip back up North the weekend after I came back, and the weekend after that a trip to visit my big bro/little nephew in Östersund, and this coming weekend they're coming up for a few days to share on a trip to Kålmården and the wildest roller coaster I've ever ridden ifI'llhavethegutstorideit. I'm hoping I will. It could bec that one accomplishment I'm most proud of so far.
This is the same weekend as my parents are coming down from up North btw, with a bit more salad and stuff. The Autumnal equinox just passed so I guess summer is officially over. :/ Hoping to post some photos soon - though I know I said that least year too.
I've already booked a trip up North for next year, and hope to take a trip to Iceland in four years to see a total eclipse. If the weather's good, then. I hear it's a once-in-a-lifetime kind of thing! Better book a trip while tickets are cheap, before oil prices and plane taxes take off too much.
As for the summer though: it's been awesome. The activities aren't overly different or distinguishable from previous summers, but they passed by at an incredible pace, and apart from those moments when we were stressed out of our minds with too many tasks at hand (it didn't help that the whole family but me came down with a cold during most of July - one after the other): it's been as rejuvenating as ever. It's becoming a necessity. And truly: blessed we be; to be deemed worthy of this deep blue sea, where we can breath and streak, and flee the street's heat on our damp concrete feet, and feel so free. There's not much more to say about that until I get a visual summary online, but it was, for the most part, fantastic.
I'm probably forgetting a bunch of more recent things I plotted posting about since then, like the day I passed by this guy getting resuscitated on a stretcher in Kallhäll, or the motorcycle accident in Spånga where people were lying on the road and police cars were all over (one guy died), the cool Charity Arcade machine they've installed at Luleå Airport - where you can pay anything you're willing to play a round of classy Ms. Pacman, the new Bromma airport, recent lingonberry and stone raspberry sessions down South, LEGO game marathons, Andersön, Forsleden, new comical acquisitions (like the first 53 books of Detective Conan that I fetched today), the one week in August when I worked at my boss's house (on an island), the two awesome concerts I went to that same week (Korn and British Lion... wait maybe I've already posted about those)... at least I got these things written down. Things be happening.
When this month's over I'll have used my commuting card 25/30 days, despite (and thanks to) the three short weekend flights and train trips elsewhere. This has probably been my busiest September ever, but hopefully I'll be catching up with the site soon. And photos. But better leave no promises and just: do stuff. Like right now. I'll be off again for the weekend and then some, but I'm just tripping, bye; see you soon.