Applied Indifference

I’m back. In the same number of pieces as when I left.

My body is a little confused. I got up at about 8 AM Stockholm time, which is 2 AM Eastern. It was light out. It was light out for the entire trip. I landed, 8 hours after taking off (give or take) at 1:30 or so Eastern time. The sun went down somewhere about 5:30 Eastern, which means that I had 15 hours of daylight today.

In fact, this day will be, effectively, 28 hours long, since I’ll probably turn in about 2 hours earlier than normal.

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Well, this is the last night in Sweden for me. They’ve booked me a room at the Radisson Sky City, since the airport is over an hour from Västerås and the plane leaves at 10:30 in the morning.

I’m debating grabbing a train in to Stockholm to wander around.

Oh, here’s the new room. Not so much marble as the old one.

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So do we. So do we.

(seen in the window of a lingerie shop, of which there are several in this town.)

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Landed at 0735 local time in Stockholm. Picked up at the airport in a stretched Volvo. Checked in to the hotel around 0900 (that’s 3 am for those of you back home).

We asked for the “new section”, since Charlie (my accomplice) was told by coworkers that the beds there are larger. They didn’t have any rooms in the new section ready at the time, so we took what was available. Which was this:

Yeah. Huh. So we went back to the desk, and said we’d gladly wait for the newer rooms. Which nets us this:

Better. At least the bed is a real size.

On the plus side, the bar has about 25 different good beers on tap, and Chimay in the fridge. Oh, and a shelf of whiskey. Can’t forget the whiskey.

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OK, maybe this “flying” thing ain’t so bad. $2,100 for an “economy extra” seat, but it’s wide enough for my butt, so no complaints there. Free drinks, and salmon for dinner.

Danish and Swedish beers. Hot rolls with dinner. Tea and drinks after.

And yes,

that is a bottle of 12 year old whiskey.

And it’s all included. Even the eyeshades.

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11:15 AM Eastern Standard Time, February 16, 2006.

It is presently 55.4 degrees Fahrenheit outside. Looking around, you’d be hard pressed to believe we just had a blizzard romp through here four days ago.

What was 20 inches of snow is now well under a foot. Some of that is from the fact that it was light fluffy snow, which compresses even if it doesn’t get too warm, but once the meltage begins, it collapses faster than a soufflé in a dancing academy.

The sky is completely clear, no clouds, no haze. It’s a stunning day.

And I’m so far behind in my work that I may never catch up. I need distractions like this - like I need another hole in my head.

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Didn’t we do this once before? Oh yeah. 2004. Nothing for a month. Then 2 feet in February.

As I write this, there’s almost 2 feet on the ground, and it’s still snowing.

Here’s how the neighbor’s dogs feel about it:

My dog, of course, won’t deign to exit the abode. Can’t get her dainty paws wet.

And my neighbor - checking the depth:

That’s an entire standard snow shovel, plus a good 6 inches of handle stuck in there. It’s difficult to get an accurate measurement since it’s light and fluffy and blowing around, but in a few places around my driveway (that I could reach without leaving the safety of the deck) I got 12 and 17 inches. And that’s under a bunch of trees. The back yard, which isn’t, is deeper. I’ll get a number out there later. No doubt I’ll need to shovel a path for her highness anyhow. I will say that the fence, which is about, I dunno, 3 feet high, is more than half buried.

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Since the New York Times hasn’t got the balls to do it…

In their entirety, the original 12 images printed by Jyllands-Posten in Denmark.

I do not have, nor do I want, the three images greated by Danish Islamists that were used to fraudulently cause the massive temper tantrum erupting throughout the Islamic World.

Images shamelessly stolen from Michelle Malkin. I’m sure she won’t mind.

Photos on the extended entry for space reasons.

Go on CAIR, protest. Unlike some people, I won’t apologize.
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Michelle Malkin has a roundup of all the places that comprise Western Civilization that are willingly, nay CHEERFULLY embracing their coming dhimmitude.

Someone needs to bitch-slap the collective pansy-asses of the non-Islamic world. Do you not understand the scope of what is happening here? You are allowing the emotional reactions of less than one-sixth of humanity dictate what you will and will not say.

Imagine! Where does this lead? Where does it end? Do we acquiesce to every demand made by an aggrieved group? At what point to we say ENOUGH! Are we simply going to commit suicide because a bunch of children who pray too much are offended BY A DRAWING? What’s going to offend them next? At what point is something too trivial to throw a tantrum over?

The events following this latest manufactured outrage are disturbing in the extreme.

I am starting to believe that I may actually outlive Western Civilization.

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Practice your putting. I’m getting incrementally better at it. Good approach is still better than an OK long putt. Getting out of the sand is a bit easier now that the recovery stats are up.

The menu system, nay the entire non-game-play user interface was designed by the sons of Torquemada. Going back to the main menu after losing a long-drive challenge (a 5 minute game) when you HAVE to know I’m going to try again is annoying in the extreme. 2005 at least had a “retry challenge” button.

The art people put a lot of effort into tits. Could you work on making the faces look a little more human please?

Club distance coming out of rough is still a pain in the ass. I’ve not yet figured out how it determines when a 70% lie is going to take 6 clubs distance away from me, or give me one extra. More often than not, it’s sensible. But every once in a while, I’ll be buried in the sand, go up one club, and the ball lands in the next time zone.

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