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My newest waste of time is videojug.com. Instead of fixing my bed so that I have somewhere to sleep I choose to learn how to clean toilets, remember names, hide my erections, make a chocolate brownie, speak Geek or just anything I would ever want to learn.

I will never have to fail at anything again!

Blue is good, ass is not.

-Alexander Aiden Falk

to Catherine Ruth Skinner:

Of independence...

I'd say that independence is a virtue. But sometime one can be just a bit too independent.

My father is far too independent. He doesn't believe in reading IKEA manuals. And although I am very grateful to him for buying me a bed and putting it together, I think it would have been better for everyone if he'd just opened the little brochure and read the instructions.

I tried strapping my bed together with red string that my mum left me. Worked well for a couple of days, or until the string broke. Then Jakob fixed it. That worked well until the screws ripped themselves out of the wood. Now I have to drill through the metal bars on the side.

I slept on the couch last night. Couch-surfing in your own home... hmm...

Home, Sweet Home!

I think I haven't been served breakfast in bed once the last 10 years. But this morning (ok, I admit, afternoon), I was just reading the pdf version of Morgunblaðið in my bed when Christian knocks on my door, says matur*, and leaves me a plate with muesli, an ommelette and an apple. Isn't he sweet?



*Matur is the only word Christian knows in Icelandic. Christian loves matur...

Inconsistency?

American aluminium companies buy up all the CO₂ emission quota so that they can set up factories in Iceland. In order to power the fabrics they need to sink large parts of Iceland, producing energy with water turbines.
Beautiful landscapes change from vivid rocks to sand-colored man-made lakes. Birds loose their homes and nests and reindeers drown.
50 people protest.

The government of the People's Republic of China continues to reign over Tibet, despite the clear will of the Tibetans to be independent.
Monks, who were demonstrating in a quiet and non-violent manner, were and are being killed, whilst the Chinese government refuses both media and human rights NGO's to enter Lhasa and other areas in order to make sure that no-one's civil rights are being broken.
40 people protest.

Gas prices around the world are getting higher, due to rising prices of crude oil and inflation. The price in Iceland per litre of gasoline is currently €1.21. In Europe it's around €1.45.
An Icelandic family of 5 has 4 cars and therefore has a high price to pay now that the price of gasoline is this high. No more Rúnturinn. Children have to hitch a ride to school with their parents or even worse: take the bus! "Out-door-loving" Icelanders that drive those fabulous 4x4 jeeps cannot any longer cruise the vulnerable nature with their moss-massacre tyres. They have to turn their lives to a more affordable lifestyles, picking up cheap hobbies like people-watching or grass-growing.
Half the Icelandic nation protests, driving 200 cars in a demonstration, handing the head of Parliament a tyre with their message: Lower the levies -Now!