I’m entering a bike race next August 11 that will take me between Sälen and Mora, that’s 90 Km of mixed terrain.

It’s like the Vasa ski competition but on the saddle. One of the bosses down south was challenged into it and he continued the challenge by inviting all the bosses working for Mekonomen.

Here’s where the back to the future title comes in. I just can’t say no to a dare so now I’m on a diet and I’ve started to excersise for the race. Scary shit, it’ll be fun though. Me and one of the guys at work are doing it together and every hour someone else confirms their participation so there’ll be a whole lot of collegues racing together.

The next time we meet you’ll see a beer starved man sans belly but with legs like an Ent.

It pisses me off when people are afraid or to cheap to adapt newish ideas and can’t see the value in them. So I decided to build a beta app to show them how it could work.

My general pitch will be the app in itself but there are obviously subpitches too.

Subpitches:

1. We will be the first choice when getting parts simply due to the fact that we are easily accessible, click the part and get an answer from the nearest store.

2. book your service via the app, order a towtruck or look for the nearest store with google maps based on your location.

3. Since the app has all the categories included you only download the parts in that category, reducing the server-load.

There are more pitches but I will fill you in as I implement them. Building a beta app is my way of showing them that it is doable for less money than they think and also to show them the usefulness of it.

I’ll post the app as soon as it’s done so you can beta test it. and then hopefully I can sell it to them and they’ll get to finish it.

This i what I do at work on a Sunday after a festival in Luleå when the customers are at home being hungover.

This one will be pretty small, it’s still in the kilo Volt range of course but still small. Starting small is a conscious decision, I want to do it right the first time when I go up in size. Later on this fall I will build a coil that will produce 20 or 50 inch arcs depending on which model I choose.

It’ll be a dual resonance solid state coil which means it can be audio modulated so it will work like an amp for most sources including guitars.

Will post more when I get my first box of goodies.

Hells yeahs. We try to go on a trip at least once a year, usually by ourselves but this time we’ll go with Ems Brother his wife and her brother. Name them all and win a prize, not a big one but something closely resembling but legally distinct from Hubba bubba. First we’re going with Em’s dad and his wife to Stockholm, then a couple of weeks later it’s time for Stockholm and Munich.

Got myself a new companion for the trip, a Nikon D7000. A sweet piece of optoelectronics indeed. It’s so much faster than the D50 i have, unfortunately I use the lenses i’ve had all along. they’re a tad slow but one can’t buy everything one wants in one go I guess.

That said I’ll most likely start posting more pics in the near future as a new piece och tech usually gets used a lot. That’s about it for now I guess, took a break from preparing for the staff meeting we’re about to start.

At work doing the monthly paperwork that has to be done every single month. Not complaining though, we just have slow computers so it does take forever. This coming month will be fun, I’m going to Stockholm to learn everything there is to know about boats and their accessories and spare parts at the biggest boating show/convention in Sweden. We started selling snowmobile parts a few months back and now it’s time for boats.

That’ll be fun, I’m going with a friend/colleague From Boden which will be extra fun. We’ll have a night out in Stockholm with a friend of ours I haven’t seen in years so that’s an added bonus.

Other than that it’s just work, work, work right now as there’s a whole set of stuff I need to know and do now. Hopefully I’ll get the time to write more, so you know how much I work if nothing else.

I think I hear the printer working so I’m heading home.