Drowned

"Drowned" is a piece of music from Pete Townhends' "Quadrophenia" and performed by The Who throughout their 2007 tour.
The final line is now decorating our bedroom wall.

A new year...

A new year and a new life. :) Heehee... What a laugh! Anyway, we are trying hard my wife and me. 11 days of loafing and eating during the Christmas season has done miracles to my body. The very first morning I went to work, January the 2:nd, I stepped onto the scales in the bathroom, the scales protested to the strain and told me "error" and looking into the mirror I saw Droopy Dog staring back at me... :(
Ouch!

The picture of Ingela and me was taken one evening we went for a walk and we have been walking nearly every evening at least 30 minutes each day and we will continue at least until we lose 10 pounds or more. I have lost at least one pound in the first ten days and according to linear extrapolation I would vanish after 1600 days or roughly within 4 1/2 years.
Yeah well, I am not stupid, I am an engineer for heavens sakes and I know that the function of weight loss vs time is more like exponential and losing the next pound would take me about 15 days, the next in 23 days and so on...
Phew...! "It's Hard", quoting my favourite rock-group the Who.


Talking about rock music, my blogger friend Val wished me music for 2008 and music there will be, there is plenty of music nowadays in this house. My son Lukas bought a Guitar and amplifier combo for money he earned last summer and he is playing the guitar almost every day. It is a Gibson SG-clone, a Harley Benton from the house of Thomann in Germany. One could believe it is just another cheap copy made in China, the 20W amp and guitar combo is about USD 300, but this guitar is very good both in finish and sound. Very sturdy and good mechanics. The bridge is a real tune-o-matic and according to one of my musical friends, who has been playing guitar since he was a toddler, tells me that the guitar alone outperforms many other guitars he have seen, worth USD 600 or more.
Everytime he drops in here he pics up the SG, tunes it up, and plays for some 20 minutes, eyes closed... :)
My youngest son Ian is frequently strumming along on the old Yamaha accoustic guitar.

Bruce Springsteen is coming to Finland this summer, he is going to play the Helsinki Olympic Stadium the 11:th of July. We have got the tickets booked and we are now going to listen through all his back catlogue and also the new releases for the months to come. Sorry Pete & Rog... :)
Ingela and me have done a very funny exchange of music during our marriage, she has became a Wholigan and I've turned out to dig Bruce Springsteen. I was a Who-fan and had a hard time to get Ingela to listen to them. I did not really like Springsteen much but got to like him when listening to Ingelas records, finding stuff I never knew about.
This is how marriage should work, isn't it?