Have you ever noticed that interesting things happen to interesting people? I wonder why that is...

Lenin is here among us

Remember that Lenin-statue in Poland that they tore down a while ago (I'm not sure, but I think it was this spring)? It was a lot of fuzz about it and the Russians were pissed as hell. Anyway, a company in Vittsjö in Skåne has been trading with a Russian plywood factory for 15 years, and to celebrate that the Russians sent them a little present - a three meter statue of Lenin, with a mended crack across it's chest...

Lucid dreams

Wow, who knew sleeping could be so... exhausting! Woke up yesterday with a major cold, it sucks. Spent the entire day doing nothing and playing WiC - and boy was that a mistake! Went to bed early - I mean 9 pm early - but couldn't sleep. First, I lay there in my PJs under two covers, shivering like a sheep in the presence of the Overlord. I was so could I could not believe it. After about two hours I got a text message and snapped out of some kind of trance-like state only to realize that I was being cooked alive under those covers. Then I couldn't sleep at all for a while before I started slipping in and out of consciousness every hour or so. My dreams weren't very coherent, but I think I was commanding an army. Sending tanks here, ordering artillery fire there. I distinctly remember deploying smoke-screens... At about 3 am I had to go to the bathroom. Then I got the shivers again for an hour or so. Last time I looked at my clock was one hour before the alarm went off. When it was finally time to get up I decided that it was probably for the best to stay home today. I went back to bed and the minute I got under that cover I started sweating like a pig! So I switched to a thinner cover and actually managed to sleep for a few hours, although a few units passed through my dreams - along with the usual weirdness of my half-wake dreams.