{"id":871,"date":"2005-05-31T23:04:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-01T04:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/05\/31\/if-you-dont-like-the-weather-in-sweden-just-wait-five-minutes\/"},"modified":"2022-07-05T14:49:43","modified_gmt":"2022-07-05T12:49:43","slug":"if-you-dont-like-the-weather-in-sweden-just-wait-five-minutes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/2005\/05\/31\/if-you-dont-like-the-weather-in-sweden-just-wait-five-minutes\/","title":{"rendered":"IF YOU DON&#8217;T LIKE THE WEATHER IN SWEDEN, JUST WAIT FIVE MINUTES"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You know that song I was singing a couple of posts ago? The one about summer? Yeah, well, we had it. It&#8217;s apparently over now. O Summer, you tease!<\/p>\n<p>It&#8217;s been pouring rain, grey, lowering cloud cover and FREEZING COLD for 2 days with no end in sight. We have transitioned from summer, summer, summer, summer to November in one fell swoop. Maybe not freezing, exactly, but DAMN, it&#8217;s cold. And you thought I was kidding when I put &#8216;sweden&#8217; as one of the season choices on my last poll. <\/p>\n<p>Interesting* info from my poll:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>A WHOPPING <b>32<\/b> of you (so far) are right-handed. I&#8217;m a bit boggled by that. For some reason, I thought it wouldn&#8217;t be so one-sided. <a href=\"http:\/\/helloheather.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">helloheather<\/a> and <a href=\"http:\/\/ozswede.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">ozswede<\/a>, it&#8217;s me and you against the world!<\/li>\n<li>Admit it <a href=\"http:\/\/enaid.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">enaid<\/a>, you only picked &#8216;vegemite&#8217; because you felt sorry for it being left out<\/li>\n<li><strike>Nobody picked winter.<\/strike> <a href=\"http:\/\/ozswede.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">ozswede<\/a> was the only one to pick winter. Not very many snowbunnies in the bunch, apparently.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>I think I&#8217;m a bit work-obsessed at the moment. I have a lot of it. I don&#8217;t want to leave when the day is technically over because I want to keep working, to finish my projects, to keep ahead of the game, because I love what I&#8217;m doing. I think about work a lot outside of work. Tonight, on the way home, at 9 p.m., from the AWC meeting, as I was passing through Lund and past my office building, I actually thought to myself &#8220;you could go in and work for an hour.&#8221; I can&#8217;t decide if this is bad or good.<\/p>\n<p>Stupid Outlook is on the stupid fritz again and not downloading my emails from the server. This happened not so long ago, and I finally managed to fix it, but I can&#8217;t remember what I did. Stupid Outlook.<\/p>\n<p><b>An Appliance Every Household Needs&#8230;Some More Than Others&#8230;You Know Who You Are<\/b>:<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/07\/fartvacuum.jpg\" width=500 height=153 alt=\"fart vacuum\" align=\"middle\"><\/p>\n<p>Karin drew this machine and carefully cut it out all the way, and brought it home to present to Anders.<br \/>\n<b>Karin<\/b>: Here Papa, this is for you.<br \/>\n<b>Anders<\/b>: Thank you. What is it?<br \/>\n<b>Karin<\/b>: It&#8217;s a vacuum. This (<i>points to 1<\/i>) is the battery for this (<i>points to 3<\/i>) that tells you if it&#8217;s full or not.<br \/>\n<b>Anders<\/b>: And this? (<i>points to 2<\/i>)<br \/>\n<b>Karin<\/b>: That&#8217;s the battery to the On\/Off switch** (<i>points to 4<\/i>). Those are wheels so you can pull it around the house (<i>points to 5<\/i>).<br \/>\n<b>Anders<\/b>: Ah. And what&#8217;s this one? (<i>points to 6<\/i>)<br \/>\n<b>Karin<\/b>: That&#8217;s the button you push to vacuum up farts!<\/p>\n<p><b>Bright and Bouncy Birthday Wishes to <a href=\"http:\/\/jes6ica.livejournal.com\/\" class=\"lj-user\">jes6ica<\/a>!<\/b><\/p>\n<p><font size=\"-3\">*to me<br \/>\n**carefully spelled O-O-F<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You know that song I was singing a couple of posts ago? The one about summer? Yeah, well, we had it. It&#8217;s apparently over now. O Summer, you tease! It&#8217;s been pouring rain, grey, lowering cloud cover and FREEZING COLD for 2 days with no end in sight. We have transitioned from summer, summer, summer, summer to November in one fell swoop. Maybe not freezing, exactly, but DAMN, it&#8217;s cold. And you thought I was kidding when I put &#8216;sweden&#8217; as one of the season choices on my last poll. Interesting* info from my poll: A WHOPPING 32 of you&#46;&#46;&#46;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12,6],"class_list":["post-871","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-general","tag-karinbean","tag-thedayjob"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=871"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5654,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/871\/revisions\/5654"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=871"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=871"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/lizardek.com\/blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=871"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}