Christmas in Sweden

Enjoying the holidays playing Guitar Hero !

Lovely Christmas in Sweden

OK - no snow for Christmas - but a bit of powder made it a "white" Christmas and we have had a wonderful time both at my parents place and then at Rickard & Marita's place.

Malin got Guitar Hero as a present - this has been enjoyed by all, we have hardly time to eat for all the playing of guitar, drums and singing.

[Posted with iBlogger from my iPhone]

Finished the New York Marathon

Wow - this was a very mental marathon, I hyped it up in my own mind - in the end it was a wonderful run and with so many people cheering me on along the route.

My final time was 5:47, not very fast but I reached my goal of finishing. I was on track for ca. 5 hours during the first half of the run, but then I could feel the legs stiffening up and my pace getting slower. The Queensborough Bridge (uphill) and 1st Avenue (mostly uphill) were slow, Bronx was OK but when I hit 5th Avenue at Mile 20-21 I felt some indications of cramp in the legs and made sure to just run slow and safe from there on, all the thinking on making a good time went out the window and I was too tired to even think of finishing times.

During the run, I had a Swedish flag on my chest - so many people cheered me on as "Go Sweden!" - what a wonderful city to run a marathon in.

And once home in Munich again, Monica threw a surprise party for me in the evening, friends came over and I could tell my story again and again - each time re-living it myself and remembering the people, the weather, the music bands, the finishing line !

Walking along the Isar

What a nice part of Munich !

TuneUp for all my iTunes songs - great tool

This software really helps cleaning up my iTunes MP3 songs, so that song name, artist, data and album cover all are correct.  Especially for the Apple-TV (where you "see" the music on a big screen), but also for the iPod and iPhone, it is really nice to see the album covers for all the songs.

Works very well, free for up to 500 songs to clean, so easy to test. As soon as I saw it worked, I paid the 20 USD for the unlimited version.

The joys of having a garden full of leaves

Attending press conferences at IFA

Most conferences interesting, Panasonic due to built-in Internet, Sony
with great products and Howard Stringer present

Sunny Saturday in Munich

Widgets

Playing around a bit, added "widgets" to the side of this page so everyone can see what crap music I like and get to enjoy my Web pictures integrated into the blog.

I am using last.fm as a music player more and more, sometimes the (inane) talk around music on commercial radio stations just bother me so much that I´d rather have music only, which last.fm does real well. Try it if you haven´t so far.

Slow learner

Finally cared enough to learn how to take a photo on my mobile phone, then email that to my blog. The first example of this is the orchid picture from last week.

Nicaragua pictures now up on the Web

Just being lazy for so long, plus that we have watched them constantly on our AppleTV, so that WE could enjoy them.

Still haven´t printed them on paper, but will also be done at one time or another.

Monica's fantastic orchid