Ding!

Poney-ding! :-)

I finally reached level 40 and got a ride for my draenei hunter. She looks rather uncomfortable sitting on top of that "brown Elek"... I'm guessing a hoofed creature isn't really supposed to be riding another animal? ;-)

Now it's time to rest my aching body in the lounge before hitting the sack. Will do some 'proper' work tomorrow (go to a conference). Hopefully the baby will realise this and decide to get inspired enough to come out. 8-)

Aspen

The aspen tree is a poplar (in Swedish a "poppel") tree (Wikipedia link in English, Wikipedia link in Swedish).

The English Wiki-link tells us more about the mythological stories surrounding the characteristic shivering leaves of the aspen tree. Rather amusing. The Swedish Wiki-link sticks to the strictly scientific explanation, as we would.

The things you learn when off on a tangent of a tangent of something on the internet. :-D

Another not wasted day in other words (a day when you learn something, is a day not wasted). ;-)

3 bubbles from 40

Almost the same could be said about my own age... :-D

Snuck away and played some Warcraft tonight. S had some friends over to play a game of poker, I stayed out of the way and worked on my dranei hunter's level.

Felt like hanging around Dustwallow Marsh killing some high level dragons etc just to be able to go "ding" tonight. But I'll save that for tomorrow. I'm better off rounding off now so I can get us to bed in a reasonable time. :-)

We have internet

Yay!

Finally. Only four months late. And a little bit slower than promised. But it's here. :-)

Andreas Vollenweider

A colleague gave me a copy of a CD with some music by Andreas Vollenweider the other day, he spoke very passionately about the effect the music had on his six month old son and wanted us to have a copy in case our son would also benefit from it.
The album "White Winds" was originally released in 1984, and me listening to it around then was more my sisters doing than anything else (as she was my main influence in all "grownup" areas of life). It was around the same time as Jean Michel Jarre was big, all in the sparkly colourful 1980's.

To my surprise I find it rather relaxing myself, which was the reaction my colleague spoke of. Whenever his son is in a bad mood they turn this music on and the boy relaxes, focuses on the music and stops being frustrated. :-)

S doesn't find it very appealing though. But I'm still thinking it's worth a try. It may even get to go with us to the maternity ward when it's time... *evil grin* (S will just have to live with it).

Who decides?

North Korea and South Korea are still formally at war, since the 1950's. I heard on the radio news that their respective leaders are meeting each other today/shortly, a rather non-warish move. It's the second time they meet since way back when there was a war. It's great.

But who decides when there is peace?

Never thought about that before.

Cirque du Soleil - Delirium

We went to Stockholm Globe arena to see visiting Cirque du Soleil's show "Delirium". It was a birthday gift from S, he bought best seat tickets already then, back in May. :-)
It was worth the wait!

Delirium is more like a musical concert than a circus show, the acrobats were still doing amazing things but it was the drums and the music that carried the show from one end to the other. And I loved every minute of it. :-)

From reading the reviews available on the net it's easy to tell that not everyone liked the show, people have problems with anything from the "mediocre" music to the lack of acrobats and more. But to me Cirque du Soleil will always be something else. It's not a circus act. It's not music. It's not ballet/dance. It's not a video performance show. It's all of the above! I like the fact that it's slick, that it's designed, that it sounds massive, that it's got a story line that it's nothing like ballet or a musical concert. :-)
My only complaints would be that it was rather short.

If you haven't got the opportunity to go see them somewhere near you or elsewhere in the world I have to recommend watching one or two of their shows on DVD, for instance "Quidam".

More information about Cirque du Soleil here www.cirquedusoleil.com.
Review and newspaper article (Swedish) here www.dn.se.