... getting broadband at home

Hej!

Well my broadband connection and modem are finally here and set up (even though the instructions were all in Swedish..I really think there should be English too!) Not all that sure I could have done it if I had been a technophobe, so I guess my IT knowledge has helped in my everyday life too...wow, first time for everything!

So hopefully that means I can start blogging more often, and therefore have shorter posts so I don’t bore the pants off you all! It also means I can blog when I have something to blog about, rather then thinking 'oh, that would be really good to talk about' and then forgetting what it was... which has happened a few times already. I think I must be getting old :(

But anyway...I had a very nice 'afterwork' on Friday. This is a Swedish thing, as you need to plan nights out well in advance here..the Swedish in general aren't so good at the whole spontaneous night out thing. But anyway, there were 6 of us, which isn't bad for 2 days notice here. We didn't do all that much, but went to the Telegrafen, which is pretty cool pub. It has 2 levels...the main bar on the ground floor, and then a basement part too, which is where we ended up as it was really busy upstairs being payday here. So we had a meal and a few beers, and called it a night pretty early really...think I was home for about 2130..which was good as I was still really tired from a lot of late nights and early mornings this week!

I also had a phone call from a friend in the UK asking if he could come and stay at mine on Wednesday night, as he has an interview here on Thursday...of course I said yes, that’s the kinda thing my spare room is for! It will also be nice to catch up, he was one of the ones I didn't get a chance to say goodbye to properly as I was so ill on my last week on UK work.

And another of my friends from the UK is over Monday till Wednesday, as he has some meetings here this week, so I should have 3 nights of getting out and socialising, and then Thursday my TV and all my other stuff should arrive...so I shouldn't get a chance to be too bored this week..hopefully.

What I have learned in the last few days :
Surprise calls and visits from friends are really good for cheering me up
I must be a geek...because having my own broadband connected relieves some of my tension...
I have already made some good friendships here, and I think I am on the way to having more :)

PS. Thank you for leaving the gift, I love how it smells :)