Wedding.

Even though the invitations have not gone out yet I have prepaired a webpage that contains some useful information for the attendants. The page will be updated with links and information as the preparations proceeds. The address is www.katia-and-pg.blogspot.com.

NEWS! NEWS! NEWS!

I have not written in a while now, because I have had a lot of things to think about. And I guess I should say it right away...

I AM GETTING MARRIED!

I am almost chocked myself when I say it even though I have know about it for some time...well I should know I mean. I took the decision. It will happen on the 23rd of august in Riva Del Garda in Italy. An Italian wedding...what comes to mind is the movie: "My big Greek wedding" (I think it was called) but I think and hope that it will not be like that ;).


Anyway. A lot of things need to be done to the wedding. First there will be all the invitations to the wedding and the invitations for people to the dinner after. Only a selected few will be able to attend the dinner (few is in relative sense) already over 100people are expected, but of course everyone is welcome to the ceremony in the church. I will put up more about this later on Katias and mine common blog (will be online soon, link will be available here soon also).
Until next time!

Mental Calendar messup...

Amsterdam is getting more and more grey for every day and I heard rumors about frost. Fortunately I have not seen any yet but I guessit is just a matter of time. Yesterday the strangest thing happened. Since Katia did not goto her place until Tuesday morning my mental calendar kind of got tricked and I thought it was Monday. I therefore called my sister that I knew was not working on Monday evening and found out that she indeed was working (which of course was true since it was Tuesday). Her boyfriend must have thought I was drunk. Then my father called and I gave him the same story, *stare at the sky*. When Katia called in the evening I just remembered the phone calls and my brain finally made the connection. Bättre sent än aldrig!

A view from a "Windows"

Support when it is at it's best. The strange things you hear about. This one for example (that is probably fabricated) but anyhow the point it is trying to make is true.

I guess it is time to stop with support jobs soon. It is not good for your mental health even though you learn a lot of how people actually think. I think it is like they say about people behind the steering wheel of a car also applies to people behind the computer screen. For them there is only their way or the highway. But I guess it is like that. Well.

Now we will stop whining about support and about how people behave. Me an Katia had a really nice and calm weekend. We were going to a photo exhibition but it was so expensive that we decided to spend the same amount of money on lunch...*think*

I have been called for an interview in Germany for a PhD position. And that is both a curse and a blessing. Blessing because I want to work with astronomy and a curse because I keep moving around like a Jojo. I think Katia has the same opinion and now I bring this upon us as well...

But I'll do my best and will ofc take the position if I am offered. Otherwise the work at Dell is going smoothly. I think I will try to make my way into either the educational part or the production planning part. I have also been suggested quality and call coaching but I am not so sure about that.

Well more next time...Ciao amici!

The summer is no more. It feels kind of strange. I can only hope for that the autumn will have some nice days to offer for the future. I have to start with my Italian studies for real. I have pushed them to far now and it is time to take them up again. I hope I will have something more to use then what I have acquired so far. 30 hours of 'essential Italian' mp3's, a grammar book (rather good actually) and 'Il piccolo Principe' which I think is probably translated into a number of other languages. I also have some Italian movies with English subtitles. Question is: How do I begin?

I also have something else to start studying. I want to take the CompTIA A+ certificate. I have received the book and I think it is more or less to start reading. A lot of what the book sais I probably already know but it does not hurt to repeat. Work is going more or less fine. I have started to feel comfortable in my job and when push comes to show I seem to handle it a lot better then I thought. I also have a very nice team manager that understand my situation and that phone support is maybe nothing I had in mind from the beginning. He has already told me he will help me and guide me through the internal courses to get me the best platform for advancement and that is a chance I cannot let go pass. When the train is leaving I want to be on it.

After a visit in the 'capital'....

...of former West Germany, namely Bonn. I visited a close friend from University. It was really easy to get there from Amsterdam. Only 3 hours by train. And it was quite a nice train ride also. Everything seems to be fine with the 'masked avenger'. And I was delighted to see that she seemed to be settled in. I was however a bit disappointed since you think of something totally different when you say 'Capital City of country X'. Bonn hardly felt like a capital and even though I was disappointed I also enjoyed that it lacked the big city pulse and that everything was so green. So all in all a very good trip.

I have started my new job which is a 40% increase of my former salary. Which is very nice of course. I also feel that the company cares more for my well-being than the previous one which also is nice. Fore sure there will be career opportunities if I choose to within the company and also possibilities to go back to Sweden or move to other countries and still stay with the company. In short: 'I am in.'

However I will still look for PhD. That is my main interest and yes...it is going to mean a lower salary possibly but still at least I feel somewhat 'safe' having a job with a future.

It has been some time since I wrote anything but now I have done so. I will see if there is any photos to add next time I write something. But for now. Enjoy the summer or what is left of it. Again today the weather is switching into something that looks more like autumn....bollocks.

Summer?? What summer??

I am 79% Addicted to Coffee

Summer were did you go? 17 degrees and rain? What is this? Was at a friends blog and found a coffee quiz. So my question to you is: How addicted to coffee are you? Will go with my girlfriend to visit an old friend in Bonn next weekend. It will be fun. Hope the weather is going to become nicer and that the rain stays away. Big parts of Great Britain seems to just flow away and I guess we should feel lucky here in Amsterdam that the British Islands are were they are. Otherwise we would be the ones that would have to swim. Read today that the Thames is flowing over and are threatening Oxford at the moment. I think that the British people would agree on my first question. Summer were did you go?