Birgit’s blog

I’ve recently had a boost of attention towards my flickr account, the reason being a few decent but yet mediocre macros of butterflies. I am not playing the flattery game here, honest, I won’t even show any of the photos in this post. My point is that I have _loads_ of other photos on my stream that I personally hold _way_ above those butterflies, but has anyone but me noticed those? I think not. And the same thing applies to how some can get page up and page down of comments on photos that - at the best - are.. ok. I find myself gobsmacked by some of the photos that, judging by the comments, should be wallworthy at a fine arts gallery. I’ve realized that doing the rounds on others’ streams works wonders, but I don’t think I will ever _quite_ understand the mechanics behind how the flickr comments system works..

Lazy first evening of summer vacation, originally uploaded by anotherme’s stuff.

I am between laptops - now that I’ve finally gotten a desktop computer at work, I’ve convinced my significant other to take over the “monster” laptop that I purchased a couple of years ago in order to actually get that job (small company, we’ve grown since then). I want a smaller one to use at home and out-and-about, I really really want a Macbook but will probably end up with something similar to the one on this photo.

Tonight I’ve been installing and modifying a “hidden” version of Flock on my kid’s laptop (no shortcut icons anywhere, you have to get into the program files folder to start it up). As it’s a pc granted to him for use in school, I don’t want to set up an extra user for it, nor do I want to keep switching bookmarks etc. for his default browser (although Foxmarks made that task a _lot_ easier). Plus, now I can autosave the passwords.

Anyway, Flock is the perfect browser for my social butterfly evenings on the couch, using kiddo’s laptop until I get one of my own! A few glasses of nice, chilled, white wine goes well with it.

Przewalskis, originally uploaded by anotherme.

- but these were too beautiful, colourwise as well as shape wise. They are Przewalskis, the last wild horse species and a symbol of Mongolia, according to Wikipedia. The ones I’ve captured weren’t exactly “wild”, being that they were living in a zoo, but at least the zoo in question - Nordens Ark near Smögen in southern Sweden - is a decent one. Read the rest of this entry »

Home from a lovely weekend in Germany. On Friday, arriving in the evening, we just checked in to a hotel, had a schnitzel, then walked downtown Cochem to check out the ongoing wine festival. Saturday was spent at the Nürburgring race track, and on Sunday I was on my own photowalking in Cochem. I even have a nice sunburn as proof. My s.o., btw, got slightly lost in the forest surrounding the Ring during his want-to-see-the-race-from-every-angle-mission, and has a neat blister as _his_ proof. I think I prefer the redness any time..! At one point that day, the local accordion group on the town square actually played “The Happy Wanderer”; that was when I - comfortably sitting in the shadow, sipping to a chilled Bitburger - called the lost and bewildered Dag up just to mock. I am nice like that. (For the record: he laughed with me, he’s not really any fun mocking.)

Inbetween photography, motor race spectating and forest exploring, we had a few beers between us, each day a schnitzel dinner “Wiener Art”, and of course a few sips of Mosel wine. Oh, and freshly baked German pretzels, yum! Read the rest of this entry »

I know, I know, Johanna - why even bother with a blog when I don’t write anything..? I am in the middle of a process of gathering enough guts and carelessness to actually start using my blog - it’s not like I don’t have anything to write about, it’s just that, well, working in the web design business with all my colleagues browsing the web for a living, it’s easy to become a little paranoid. I don’t want to upset anyone at work who might come across my space on the web, you know? I mean, it’s not like it’s a hard domain to find. Perhaps I will use “that other domain” in a while; I’ve set the registration hidden and there’s nothing there that really reveals me as me (except myself, that is - I have a hard time believing that I will be able to stay “anonymous” even on a project like that). We’ll see…

In the meantime, someone please bring me the moon? It’s not _that_ far away, financial problems seem to be taken care of from next month (huuuge raise), and I’ve managed to de-clutter not only my house but also my many online distractions that for a while kept me from being the good mother that I want to be. Please?

My partner and I are leaving for Germany on Friday, four days without the kids. Woot for that! Hopefully some nice photos to follow.

But as for now: final four eps of House M.D. season 4 just arrived! :D

Please excuse the mess.