I don't wanna die without any scars

He also said: "How much can you know about yourself if you have never been into a fight?"

From the book "Movies R Fun" by Josh Cooley.

Call of duty: Black ops

Here are the reasons that I like this game:

1. I have been waiting for a very long time for first person shooter game that involved action from Vietnam war.

2. There are references to almost all of my favorite movies which happen to be about Vietnam war: Apocalypse now, Hamburger Hill, The Deer Hunter and etc.

3. The premise of the story and its timeline is in particular very interesting as opposed to older COD which dealt with either WWII or hyper new modern warfare.

4. The music in the game i.e. tracks by CCR and Rolling Stones fit very well with the atmosphere of the game.

5. The suspension in the main storyline and the cliffhanger revealing that Resnov is Mason's alter ego at the end is just one of the brilliant elements in the writing of the story.

And that's just off the top of my head, will definitely get back to this.

So mightily alright!

Massive snow landfall started yesterday and it is still continuing, seems like my prayer on the puking of the clouds is finally answered, is it the track aka spår calling for me? Or the slopes? I surely hope that this season includes some new and exciting adventures on the holy white powder.

Puke baby, puke!

On the road

Resolution 14. Shaving is prohibited while being on the outdoor trips e.g. ski, hiking trips and etc.

Not that it has any meaning or significance...

Another midday prayer

"With the hands held high into a sky so blue

As the [fjäll] opens up to swallow you" 

Time: 12:44

Date: 2012-04-13

Place: Ramundberget

On XC track

Playlist XVII.

1. "Diesel Power" The Prodigy

2. "Mindfields" The Prodigy

3. "Climbatize" The Prodigy

4. "Smack My Bitch Up" The Prodigy

5. "Funky Shit" The Prodigy

6. "Voodoo People" The Prodigy

7. "Best of You" Foo Fighters

8. "Narayan" The Prodigy

9. "Block Rockin' Beats" Chemical Brothers

10. "Hey Boy Hey Girl" Chemical Brothers
11. "Shake Break Bounce" Chemical Brothers
12. "Links 2 3 4" Rammstein
13. "Keine Lust" Rammstein
14. "Du Hast" Rammstein
15. "Ich Will" Rammstein
16. "Du Riechst So Gut" Rammstein
17. "Sonne" Rammstein
18. "Los" Rammstein
19. "Sehnsucht" Rammstein
20. "Stein Um Stein" Rammstein

Kåsa

From Wikipedia:

"English: Guksi (kuksa in Finnish, kåsa in Swedish) is a type of drinking cup traditionally duodji crafted by the Sami people of northern Scandinavia from carved birch burl. The burl is contoured to a rough shape, carefully dried to prevent the wood from cracking, then formed in accordance with the local traditions. Originally guksi were widely used in Arctic areas as a personal drinking cup; a well-made guksi would last a lifetime. Guksi was traditionally only rinsed with clean water and dried with a cloth after use. No detergents are used, since many people believe that it will damage a guksi.

Swedish: Kåsa, nordsamiska guksi, är ett dyckeskärl med handtag. Kåsor var ursprungligen gjorda av vril från björk, för hållbarheten och utseendets skull, och användes av samer. Förutom handtag, så brukar dessa kärl ha ett eller två hål för fingrar. Ena hålet brukar dessutom vara försett med ett band (eller dylikt), för att till exempel kunna hänga kåsan på ett skärp, så att man alltid har den med sig."

Kåsa hjortron (cloudberry) with reindeer anthlers

Well, that's what my family got for me for this year's Father's day! :-)

A cleaner

From the book "Movies R Fun" by Josh Cooley.

The story of Jimmy

Jimmy was a cocky and hot-headed sparrow. One day he told his friends that "he couldn't take this s#&t anymore" and he wanted to start off his 'northbound adventure'. He said that he believed that "the north was were it's at" (whatever the hell that means!) and he couldn't bear hanging out with 'those losers' anymore so he basically headed north. 

He flew and flew and flew. After a couple of days of flying, he got tired and noticed that the weather was getting colder. He continued and tried to ignore the fatigue and the cold but one day, at the peak of exhaustion and somewhat frustration, he found himself in a snow storm and next thing he knew, he was grounded as the winds and snow were smashing to his tired body. When he came to his senses, he was almost fully buried under the heavy snow and was shaking uncontrollably. He prayed to the god that he did not believe in to get out of this dismal ordeal and he promised 'to stop being cocky and treat his friends and others with respect'. All of a sudden, a moose called Johannes who was passing by and had not obviously seen him, dropped a massive crap on Jimmy. Jimmy was too tired to mind this but he soon noticed that the heat from the turd started to melt the snow around him and all of a sudden, he was enjoying the pleasant warmth and he totally forgot where he was and why he was there. He started singing from joy:

"All the leaves are brown

And the sky is grey

I've been for a walk

On a winter's day

I'd be save and warm

if I was in LA

California dreamin'

on such a winter's day..."

A fox named Vincenzo came by and heard Jimmy's voice. He saw Jimmy sitting for himself and singing joyfully in the middle of crap. He had not eaten anything proper for several days in that winter so in a blink of an eye, he pulled him out and ate him up.

Moral 1. If someone takes a crap on you, it doesn't necessarily mean that he wants to harm you rather he might be doing you good in an indirect way, it might be a solution to your already s#&!ty situation.

Moral 2. If someone takes you out of crap, it doesn't necessarily mean that he wants to help you, maybe  he wants to eat you afterwards.

Moral 3. If you find yourself in crap, keep quiet and enjoy the warmth, it might be the best for you.

Oh...so mightily!

First snow has landed today and I can't be happier about it. So happy that I don't know what got into me and I took my bike to work today, I can't remember when was the last time (if there has ever been a time at all!) that I rode my bike in the snow. Of course most of the trip to and from work will be done by train but still...

So glad that I just bought my cross country gear and I am almost good to go, looking very much forward to substatial workouts in the tracks and hopefully some consequent weight loss. That depends wholly if my prayer below is accepted by whoever is in charge of these issues:

"May the clouds puke mightily!"

By the way, this is how the city looks like today at 10:41 AM.

On a somewhat irrelavant and or perhaps quite relavant note, I said no to another trip to Courchevel with the guys althought it was quite 'painful' for me to say no them and also the Courchevel II post is still in draft (the latter is very unlikely to be materialized as it stands now). I did so in the hope of settling for new place which could be organized via other friends but that seems a bit far fetched now so...we'll see what happens, fingers crossed!