Friday Evening
April, 04, 2008, 14:44 Filed in: Education
Friday was a day of change all around. Although I planned a walkabout today, the weather decided against it. I did some iTunes work and watched some Jeff Dunham ventriloquism on my laptop. On TV, the family shows of the afternoon were The Simpsons and early versions of Married with Children. So, Homer and Al Bundy are images of great fathers. So this is what the world sees as American families. I ate some great cheese, had some dark coffee, and stared out the window a few times wondering about life's twists and turns. Although it was a Friday afternoon, you could hear the rain drops and birds' flapping the water off their wings. I longed to get online to chat with Rose and others, but everyone was still sleeping or getting ready for work.
Lennart came home exhausted from an anticipated short day that turned into a long meeting day. He graciously cooked a family recipe that caused me to have two full healthy plates. We then spent some coffee time chatting about a multitude of subjects. I probably should apologize for talking his ear off. LOL. However, I really had my family heavily on my mind today, and I am sure I repeated a few things over and over. After a long week of work, I usually spend time with family doing something goofy, shopping, or sports-like and I felt that pull today. Lennart generously let me use his office to work on the internet and I video-chatted for quite awhile with Rose, Sean, Meg & David Coons, and some classes. Nothing official, just talking, laughing, showing silly pictures, and whatever else flashed on the screen. I still want to see Allie on camera, but our time zones are really out of sync on her schedule. I tried creating a wireless network here, but their aDSL router does not expand with a switch very well. I had it working once this morning, but that was it. I have one more trick to try tomorrow, but it is more of a manual move; we shall see.
I feel better after this evening catching up with Rose in a not so official classroom capacity. I am bit of a sensitive person, and I needed that time. Sometimes, the simple things in life are the most important. Family is a way of life here in Sweden without a second thought. I know the feeling well, and it hit home a little harder today... and that's a good thing.
We send our thoughts and prayers to Mrs. Harding and her family in Minnesota.
Tomorrow we will try snow-mobiling in the mountains. It started to snow with heavy flakes around 9pm or so, so tomorrow looks better than having it rain. I also checked British Airways about the luggage, and we have two more bags with the status of "we think we found it, but it will take some time to confirm this" so cross your fingers. And Sunday evening, Dave Nygren arrives. I sure hope he has a decent trip out here. I know he needs it! Last thing: channel 2 here is showing the Latin Grammy Awards and channel 6 is showing Scrubs. Go figure.
Lennart came home exhausted from an anticipated short day that turned into a long meeting day. He graciously cooked a family recipe that caused me to have two full healthy plates. We then spent some coffee time chatting about a multitude of subjects. I probably should apologize for talking his ear off. LOL. However, I really had my family heavily on my mind today, and I am sure I repeated a few things over and over. After a long week of work, I usually spend time with family doing something goofy, shopping, or sports-like and I felt that pull today. Lennart generously let me use his office to work on the internet and I video-chatted for quite awhile with Rose, Sean, Meg & David Coons, and some classes. Nothing official, just talking, laughing, showing silly pictures, and whatever else flashed on the screen. I still want to see Allie on camera, but our time zones are really out of sync on her schedule. I tried creating a wireless network here, but their aDSL router does not expand with a switch very well. I had it working once this morning, but that was it. I have one more trick to try tomorrow, but it is more of a manual move; we shall see.
I feel better after this evening catching up with Rose in a not so official classroom capacity. I am bit of a sensitive person, and I needed that time. Sometimes, the simple things in life are the most important. Family is a way of life here in Sweden without a second thought. I know the feeling well, and it hit home a little harder today... and that's a good thing.
We send our thoughts and prayers to Mrs. Harding and her family in Minnesota.
Tomorrow we will try snow-mobiling in the mountains. It started to snow with heavy flakes around 9pm or so, so tomorrow looks better than having it rain. I also checked British Airways about the luggage, and we have two more bags with the status of "we think we found it, but it will take some time to confirm this" so cross your fingers. And Sunday evening, Dave Nygren arrives. I sure hope he has a decent trip out here. I know he needs it! Last thing: channel 2 here is showing the Latin Grammy Awards and channel 6 is showing Scrubs. Go figure.
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