Category: Culture
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The Mall
We browsed the local mall again today and saw these two shops with odd sounding English translations. Needy stuff only!… whaaat? And then this place with soft serve ice cream. Is that an American thing? I guess Dairy Queen might have pioneered that style. It says American Spin Cream – the kids were embarrassed at…
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Day 34 – Easter Sunday – Påsk
Today is Easter Sunday, and there’s not much going on. I did find out about a thing that I thought was interesting – Easter Witches or påskkärringar. There’s a nice Radio Sweden bit on them here. Around Easter, Good Friday and Easter Monday are both national holidays, so this is a 4 day weekend. Woohoo!…
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Day 31
Today is the last day of work before the Easter holiday in Sweden. Good Friday and Easter Monday are national holidays. Banks are closed (but, heck, they are closed most of the time already), and most other businesses will be on holiday. One of the interesting things here. In the US, when there’s a national…
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Day 26
Wait. Really? 26 days? Wow. When you start actually working, and get pulled into work in a big way, and you realize that you just closed out week 3 on the job, time flies. So, Lördag. You already saw the bit about the farmer’s flea market. On Friday, I went in to the office (which…
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Day 10 – Fredag Yo!
Friday! In case that wasn’t clear from the title. Still lots of meetings, which are typically back-to-back. Which I’m used to because that’s how UHG is. But, at IKEA, there was a lot of “guys – take care of yourselves, make the time to breath and walk around outside”. This literally coming from the CEO.…
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Day 1
Despite getting 12 hours of sleep, it was hard to drag my butt out of bed! Jet lag is harsh. Minor accomplishments today. First, I applied for a bank account (which won’t be fully approved for a week or so) so that I’ll have someplace to deposit my pay from IKEA. There’s only one bank/branch…
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Day 0
I (Bryant) traveled to Lund to start work ahead of the family. I arrived on March 10, so I’m calling that “day 0”. Flights weren’t too bad, but I didn’t sleep as much on the first leg as I hoped to. I had brought a really big suitcase and my Brompton in a travel case.…
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Lily Protesting!
Lily went to the Youth Climate Strike today and she was on the news (KARE11)! Go Lily!
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Hilary’s Winter Concert
The Minnesota Youth Symphony winter concert was a couple of weeks back at Orchestra Hall in Minneapolis. Here’s a few photos of Hilary rocking the viola!
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We’ve been writing for a long time!
Super-Interesting post on Kottke. https://kottke.org/19/03/stone-age-cave-symbols-may-all-be-part-of-a-single-prehistoric-proto-writing-system