My better half graduated today, and when this is posted It would have been and this put our time frame into a whole new light. Now Its up to me too get my proverbial shit together and get all the certificates and paper ready for the move at the end of the summer. So now after having had a few drinks and got roped into playing a game of Caylus, which was close and it actually were some very aggressive moves done during the game. When we got to the end game lost of things started to happen, every player had almost all their workers placed and there where a lot of options open. The points where close so at least 3 of the 5 players had a real chance at wining. It all game down to me winning by about 4 points in the end. With double building prestige buildings in the final scoring turn and still having a few coins and resources leftover for bonus points, which put me in the lead and scored me the victory.
Anyhow I’m getting tired now and are going to watch a few games of Starcraft II and figure out some new counters to tactics, or new build variations.
Upon deciding that we wouldn’t ship an entire container of stuff, we contacted a few different shipping companies and found that Seven Seas where the one we are going to use. This wasn’t without problems, the shipping company needed to have a credit card with an start date on and not just a expiration date, all the credit cards here in Sweden only has the expiration date. This is because they only allows certain debit cards, and if you use a credit card to book the order there will be a percentage fee on the entire order. So in the end we got stuck using a foreign credit card and getting to pay the extra fee just because we didn’t have the proper English debit card, but It still going to be cheaper than shipping several boxes from here, as isn’t any good freight company that handles oversea shipping for a reasonable price.
Back to the container things, I contacted at least 5 different freight companies here in Sweden that handled this kinds of transportation. And only ONE replied with a price, another company said they would get back to me with a quote but never did. Don’t they want business from the north of Sweden or what’s their problem? The price I got was for a container to get transported by trailer from Stockholm, wait here to get filled and then driven back down to Stockholm and put on a boat to be shipped. That would have cost around 75k Swedish Crowns. Which was a bit much considering that the shipment wouldn’t be worth that much in the first place.
So the after ordering the Shipping boxes and paying the booking fee, the boxes arrived quickly. And I was pleasantly surprised that the boxes included packing materials, in this case bubble wrap and packing t. And even instructions on how to pack and declare the items in the boxes, as the customs is quite stringent with what they let into the country. And they even included marker pens in the packing materials, but for the price of the boxes they bloody well might include some swag. All this happened a few weeks ago, so now I have gotten further in the planning stage and have brushed up on the customs rules so the boxes could be shipped really really soon.
So almost all of the paperwork is complete and a couple of letters as been written, thanks for that guys, you know who you are.
And now I almost got all the SQL things worked out, hate using Ingres its so old and obsolete its not even funny! The only thing that’s doesn’t work at the moment is a integrity based on columns with the value of NULL, cant for the life of me get it to work. After that I need to get stared with the JAVA code for making changes and some other DB related commands. I think Ill just finish up the entity relationship diagrams instead, and maybe I come up with a way to solve the SQL problem.
I have all the PhP code and applications already done, and they should be working. So now just to get a teacher to look at them and grade it.
So there is some Call of Cthulhu planned for this weekend and hopefully we have enough people to run Ghost Lights tomorrow, and I really need to sit down and do the additional handouts that I’m planing on using and make the final corrections to the musical score for the scenario. The mood images and all that extra fluff had to go becuase there wasnt time to get it sorted this week, to much bureaucracy that needed to be sorted.
So Ghost Light is postponed until next week, so this gives me a little more time prepare. I haven’t managed to copy the handouts yet, and still need to do some setting up during this week.
In the next few months I’m going to finish up many unfinished courses that I have accumulated over the years, and hopefully get a part time job while I’m at it. So during these next few months I won’t have much time for hobbies, I will try and get some role-playing in and some more Battlefield BC2 BETA which I haven’t gotten around to this past week.
And this week has been hectic so I haven’t been willing or able to train this week, I can’t remember when I actually got around to the gym. Hopefully this will change in the future maybe even today.
Now on to something completely different; I have been catching up on some old wrestling shows both WWE and TNA, currently I’m two weeks out from Night of Champions in 2009. First off TNA is still really weird, the last TNA Impact! I watched was a few months before this episode. But It still starts the same way Main Event Mafia comes out and cuts the same promo as they always does, bitching about the TNA management and how they will take over the show, yet again. Then after they laid out Mick Foley and the former Main Event Mafia security, Double J runs in and hits Foley over the head with a guitar and actually busts himself open with the shrapnel from the guitar shot. More backstage segments, one thing that strikes me about TNA is the amount of segments and promos that don’t go any ware at all, they change from promos to backstage interviews and back again. There was at least 20 minutes of promos before the first match and that was Cody Deaner vs. someone think It was amazing red, what was the buildup for this match have they been feuding, the commentators didn’t mention it so I guess this was just filler before the next batch of promos. I almost forgot the loooong and tedious video montages just showing matches set to music that they keep putting together to waste even more time. Just remembered the short clips with one performer speaking some lame tagline that I can’t remember right now, and too lazy to look up.
OK enough of TNA and on to WWE the things I have the most problems with at the moment with the WWE product is the never ending Orton vs. HHH feud as its not interesting enough, but I really like the CM Punk segments that’s what keeps me watching. Actually there are many great feuds with good matches from the bigger stars. Can’t believe that mark Henry is getting a face pop, but that’s just funny but it won’t last for long. All the great Khali and Kane stuff needs to go it’s just stupid and will only lead to boring matches. Other than that I haven’t a problem with the WWE product there are good feuds and that outweighs the bad by a long shot at the moment. I’m only three weeks into the guest hosts so it has been good so far Batista and the million dollar man did a good job, Seth Green was ok, I was dreading that Orton would have to sell for Seth Shane O’mac style but that didn’t happen so that was a relief.
OK this another one of my written but not posted blogs. I write a lot when I’m going to sleep, and i hadn’t had a WLAN until this week so i haven’t managed to post.
First of I’m probably gonna live in a dormitory, the other apartment was too expensive. ..
This will probably give me enough money to do some travelling or something fun. Speaking of fun I just got my tickets for the police reunion tour, now I just need to plan my trip and get airplane tickets and maybe some place to stay. Best case scenario will be a short day trip, or just sleep at the airport.
I looked up what ISP’s I can get in the dormitory and it looks like I don’t have to get kommunicera’s broadband but I can get a modem connection instead, that’s cheaper and without any traffic restrictions.
Gonna go see the third pirates movie with some friends this Friday and gonna try and run a Rifts: Earth session during Saturday. And hopefully by next week I will have my living situation sorted.
It feels a bit strange to plan my future as I don’t have any clear picture of what I’m going to be doing. But in some strange way when get my living situation under control I can start over again and maybe it will be for the better.
Another thing when I get a new place to live I can order some new clothes. I have been looking for some swank leather coats that I have been wanting to get for a really long time, but haven’t had the money or the drive to get them until now.
The topic for my next blog will be the recreation of myself.
Update: I really enjoyed the movie and the gaming session was the most successful I/we have had this campaign, well I think so anyway.
However I haven’t managed to find an apartment yet 
