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news update

Last night, I went into Yahoo Mail to see whether my oldest email account was still alive. It was. I never use it — I keep it for «sentimental reasons». It’s from 1998. Right now, I got one of those ‘breaking news’ notices on my phone from BBC. I tend to take them more seriously than ‘breaking news’ from CNN. The latter could be some stupid sports result. In any event, this was  about how one…

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a step back

In my case, I think it was good to take a bit of a break from the Web. Not a real break — I have to go in and check my messages, like everybody else — but I haven’t just hung around like I used to. It got to a point where I almost found it … ‘boring’. This is coming from a true ‘web person’ who used to be excited about everything that was new on the Internet. On top of that; I’m never bored — I…

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that blogging feeling

I haven’t lost that «blogging feeling» in spit of what it might appear like. My posts have been sporadic, to say the least, considering I posted every day for more than two hundred days this year. I’m not going to apologize for not posting — I see no reason to. I doubt anyone is sitting around, tapping their fingers, dying to read my next post :) . There have been other, time consuming things on…

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Hallelujah

Since Leonard Cohen’s passing the other day I’ve heard more covers of Hallelujah than I’ve ever heard before. Nevertheless … here’s one more. Knowing German, it’s interesting to realise how many Yiddish words one understands. We are many, whose hearts and souls have been grabbed by his, often melancholy, lyrics and poems. Enjoy!

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Six years ago, I went to Fredericton — our province’s capital — visited the legislature building, amongst several other places. At that time, I had just purchased my life’s first DSLR camera, a Nikon D60. I came back with one photo I really liked; a spiral staircase.

I’ve often seen about that picture go by in my files, and as the years have gone by, I’ve thought about how I would have taken it differently today. A friend and I had planned a trip to Fredericton now, last week, to check out an art supply store that supposedly had started to carry fountain pens and inks. I suggested to her, that we visited the legislature building, because I still had that spiral staircase in mind.

It was a perfect day, weather-wise, for such an endeavour.

Not all that much autumn leaves left, after all that rainy and windy weather we’ve had, and we’re way past the peak season anyway, but it was still beautiful.

We were extremely lucky to get a parking spot right outside the legislature, we went through the security control, and already in the lobby I spotted the spiral staircase! What I’d forgotten over time, was that on the floor, in the centre under the stairs, was a small sculpture placed … some little guy, holding a lamp! I’d planned to — if necessary — lay down on my back and shoot straight up. Not a chance! This was a heavy sculpture, made of some metal and securely attached to the floor. Anyway, I got my picture :)

Not much different from my old one, but I still like that staircase. Took quite a few other pictures in there — here are a two more:

When we were about to leave, the friendly guard asked if we were going for lunch, and pointed us to restaurant we’d never had noticed otherwise. It was located in a small, brick building, which used to be the courthouse in old days. We had a scrumptious lunch before going to that store.

Their selection of fountain pens was ‘limited’, to say the least, but they were very nice there. I only bought some ink cartridges for the only reason it’s a limited edition and it’s sold out everywhere else.

re-take Six years ago, I went to Fredericton -- our province's capital -- visited the legislature building, amongst several other places.

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from Virginia ... and around the world

from Virginia … and around the world

September 4, I ordered a few, little notebooks from my favourite store in Virginia, US. They shipped the same day with USPS [United States Postal Service]. Some time went by, and I began to think it was taking unusually long for them to get here. Did the tracking thing in USPS, they’d been picked up in Virginia … I could follow them to Jamaica, N.Y. but there it stopped. Nothing more happened.…

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hobbies and interests

My husband and I were sitting here talking, earlier, about hobbies/interests that have come and gone throughout life. I had a period of crocheting, he used to play the guitar, for example. My crocheting period was intense and lasted perhaps two years. There must be piles of round table cloths tucked away in some box back in Sweden. One bedspread too. I could never get back into it again. We…

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Just listen … a song from Leonard Cohen's upcoming, new album:

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the things we "need" and a question

the things we “need” and a question

Autumn really arrived on the day it’s supposed to here. We were even under a frost advisory overnight, as it was 2ºC (35,6ºF) when I got up this morning. All of a sudden, the air is fresh and clean … easier to breathe. It’s a wonderful time. As I was writing in my little notebook this morning, I felt inclined to make a smiley face after something I wrote. This, again, lead me to question how I…

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Last Day of Summer

Last Day of Summer

… and what a day it turned out to be! The above is last night’s pink sunset. It felt as even the actual air was pink. Today was glorious, except for the fact that the fog wouldn’t really give up on the downtown area. I was standing up on a hill here, in nice, warm sunshine, taking this picture: Only the outline of cruise ship Norwegian Dawn is visible. There are two more cruise ships in this…

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once again a good reminder ...

once again a good reminder …

After supper I downloaded the new iOS 10 [the new operative system for the iPhone]. I had a battery level of 89% when I started, so I didn’t bother with plugging it in. I’ve done this a number of times now, so I wasn’t worried. It all went swimmingly. After the download and installation my battery was down to about 70%. Then the power went out! For the first time in our eight years here in Saint…

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mirror

My new Pelikan pen arrived today. In fact, two Pelikans landed. The more ‘high-end’ one wasn’t expected until the 22nd of September, from Germany. The cheap, plastic one, from New Jersey, I bought to tie me over until the other one arrived. Well … both arrived on the same day. I was perfectly happy with the Lamy pen, I’ve written about before, but still wanted one, a little more exclusive, and…

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failed video review

Last night, I happened to come upon a video — a review of a fountain pen. It was a Lamy — the kind I have myself, so just for fun I decided to watch it. It was made by a woman and she was “un-boxing” the pen … you could see the nice little package they come in, those Lamy pens. She started talking a little, then showing how she took the pen out of the box and there she lost me right away. Her…

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postaday

In the beginning of this year, I ‘bravely’ announced I was going to post every day this year and I could have done that. I just had to stop, as I felt it wasn’t all that important. It was fun while it lasted — I did 227 posts. I didn’t feel pressured by my own decision but I won’t do it again, unless it’s somehow arranged by WordPress. That’s all there is to it.

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new channel and a little chuckle

new channel and a little chuckle

Two days ago, we subscribed to BBC World. Why we haven’t done that before is an enigma. When I’m home alone, I have the habit of turning on the TV, and leave it on … just let it “talk” in the background. I also have some strange ability to ‘sharpen my ears’ when something of importance comes on. “Breaking news”, as they call it. That expression has become rather hackneyed — especially on the…

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#shrimp #love (at The Comfort of My Own Home)

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Storage

I have an iPhone 6+. In a few days it will turn two years old. The other day, I took a look at my storage space (it’s a 16GB phone), for no other reason than I was fiddling around with it. Besides, I would hate to get that message, when I take a picture, that I don’t have space to save it. In any event, it was getting rather low. Not alarmingly, but still. I’d already been looking over my apps,…