The windows in my room are being changed to proper triple glazed vacuum filled (that doesn't sound right) ones. Though I'm very happy for this, it's also something of a bother. So after moving my furniture away from the windows and covering them as well as I could with a limited supply of plastic covers I've fled to my parents house and am hiding in the library. Brought my computer and a book on quantum mechanics in the hope that I would do some reviewing. My mistake was of course to hide in the library. While I was in Japan my parents moved the library upstairs and are installing the new kitchen in the old library. Thus the library has a new look and layout, meaning that I absolutely had to browse the shelves for a bit to see if I could find something interesting. And what do I find if not a "Geografie för ungdom" (geography for youth) printed in 1781. Of course I had to sit down for awhile to properly enjoy reading about the kingdom of Portugal and Cuba (for those who don't know, this is a sparsely populated island, belonging to Spain and situated in the West Indies) not to speak of the United States with its population of 2.5 million. So now it's already almost ten o'clock and no work has been done... clearly worth it though.
Today I've also decided to try to learn to play the irish whistle. It's supposed to be a really simple instrument, so I hope I'll have the patience to actually learn it. Just so I can play something until such a time when I pick up the bagpipe again. Borrowed the whistle and a small manual from my little brother (the collector of all things musical) and will irritate people to bits until I can at least get the notes out right.

And because it's been requested by no fewer than two people, here's the only clear picture I have of the yukata-macarena event.

I've spotted a book called "The Economics of European Integration" from where I'm sitting and it has gotten me curious.