When I'm 63...

It is my birthday today. I'm going to retire this year, at the age of 63. November 21 I will clean my desk and walk out of the office.

Here I am making a Key Lime Pie for my birthday. I nicked the photo from Ingela's Instagram page here:
http://statigr.am/p/307900087261264610_180875317

By the way, "Key Lime Pie" was also the name of a Camper Van Beethoven album from 1989:

I have not planned much for my future, I will for sure pick up some of my hobbies like HAM-radio and amplifier building with ancient thermionic tube technology, I will be around assisting Ingela, houscleaning and repairing stuff and then we will do a lot more traveling.

We went here in the end of August to celebrate Ingela's 50th birthday and we will for sure go again:

Who knows, maybe we will go elsewhere in Europe, too. You never know... ;)

And this very interesting book arrived some days in advance:



Pete x 2

Lukas and I went to the annual Vinyl Record Fair in Vasa yesterday. Last year I found  "All The Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes" at the very beginning of my search for interesting vinyls. I then browsed thousands and thousands of vinyls searching for some other of Townshends' solo albums but found none.

This year I was much luckier, we started browsing for albums and after 15 minutes Lukas came over and told me that he had found "White City" in a box further down the aisle so I went there and picked it up. I browsed the other boxes of the same seller and in another 10 minutes I found "Empty Glass" ! 

The envelope of "White City" was a little dirty and abrased but the inner sleeve and record itself were virtually unused. No scratches no dust. "Empty Gass" was in even better shape. Only 5 EUR each! Yay!

Pete as a decoration piece

It seems that Ingela and I have differing views of how to use Pete Townshends album "All the Best Cowboys Have Chinese Eyes"...:)

It all started last Sunday when Lukas and I went to the yearly vinyl record fair in Vasa. I was browsing through a big box of unsorted albums, 3 EUR each, when I bumped into this album in a very good condition, removing the record out of the inner sleeve I couldn't find any scratches whatsoever. To me it seemed unused. 

So I immediately bought it of course. This bargain spurred my thoughts onward to start searching for "White City" but I spent another 1 1/2 hours searching for that one without luck.

When I came home and showed the record to Ingela she immediately snatched it out of my hands, thanked me for this nice piece of decoration and installed on a shelf in her office!

Well, I must admit that it looks very good there alongside withe the quotation from "Baba O'Riley".

The inner sleeve containing the record is though stored in my collection of vinyls. :)

In the meantime we have got a lot more of this bloody white stuff we love so much... Not!

Well it makes the surroundings brighter and is rather decorative as you see. But when you have to clean your driveway repeatedly and it makes your biking rough you get tired of the stuff.

The picture is shot across the street from our kitchen window last Sunday.

And the temperature plunged down to -23 C again today.

The tealights are keeping us warm and cosy though!