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Monday, November 29, 2010

Let me...

...introduce you to Woodrose, a new local band that has been practicing together this autumn and made their first performance in the beginning of November at a private party in a small venue not far from here.


This live version of "You Oughta Know" is one of the best I've found on the YouTube.
Er.. I may be slightly biased because my son, Lukas, is in the band, together with my prototype amplifier and 4x12 speaker cabinet... :)
He is on rhytm guitar and also alternating on vocals:

The winter is embracing Europe, we got some more snow yesterday and it was -21 C when I left for work this morning.

Sunday, November 14, 2010

I am not hibernating...

...though I haven't updated my blog since September. I have just been straight out busy!
I started a greenhouse project in September as I told in my latest updates, There was a lot of old windows stored at my moms' house and I brought them here instead of scrapping them. I built a frame on a solid foundation made of 10 cm of concrete with frost insulation below and it is now standing there covered with plastic tarps, waiting for the spring to come when I will install the renovated and painted windows. Pictures of the progress below:











Then Ingela decided to throw out the old table from the living room and ordered a new one from me according to her own specifications:




For the moment I'm upgrading Ingelas computer because all this heavy blogging and picture editing is taking its toll on the old one. The new one will include an energy saving Xeon L3426 4-core Hyperthreading CPU, an energy saving graphics adapter Radeon HD5450 from ATI, 2x 500 GB silent WD Caviar Green in fail-safe RAID1 configuration, silent fans (the CPU has no fan at all...) and a silent PSU. On top of this 64-bit Windows 7 Ultimate with a virtual XP to take care of old software that would not work in a 64-bit Windows 7 environment.    
In the meantime we have got an outbreak of winter here, the temperature has plunged to -8 C in the beginning of last week and at the end of this week it will go there again. 10 cm of snow on the ground.



 
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