Tydligen bor det en riktig tråkmåns i Hägersten, och han ruttnade på min fina skylt. Men det hade han ingenting för! Lokaltidningen Mitt i Söderort rapporterar på förstasidan:

Okej att registrera bil som ITHORA

En Hägerstensbo som retat sig på en registreringsskylt med ordet ITHORA på har begärt att skylten ska återkallas.

Den specialbeställda skylten, som sitter på en bil från Stockholmsområdet, är en så kallad personlig fordonsskylt. En sådan får inte ha bokstavskombinationer som kan väcka anstöt eller medföra olägenhet för någon. Men trots att Hägerstensbon, som själv är i IT-branschen, ansåg att skylten både var stötande och olämplig har Transportstyrelsen avvisat hans begäran. Anledningen är att mannen inte är direkt berörd av ordet ITHORA.

- Den som godkände det här ordet trodde förmodligen att det handlade om ett namn, säger Martin Staczynski vid Transportstyrelsen.

Zandra Zernell

Det är fjärde gången skylten hamnar i tidningen, efter den här, den här och den här.

Edit: IDG uppmärksammar också ärendet.

Klippt från senaste spelarbetygen på Svenska Fans, dels för AIK och dels för Djurgården:

Spelarbetyg för MFF-AIK:

Betygskala 1-5
1 = underkänd
2 = godkänd
3 = bra
4 = mycket bra
5 = landslagsklass

Spelarbetyg för Gefle-Djurgården:

Betygsskala
1 - Usel
2 - Dålig
3 - Underkänd
4 - Godkänd
5 - Bra
6 - Mycket bra
7 – Landslagsklass

Jag antar att betygsskalorna speglar behoven rätt väl…

Last weekend I had some plans. Saturday, I was going to Lidköping to play Lidköping Pinball Masters Open. Monday, my beloved AIK played against GAIS in Gothenburg. In stead of driving 500 km back home and then 500 km more to Gothenburg, my plan was to bounce on Brygghuset in Fiskebäckskil (70 km north of Gothenburg) on Sunday, to eat some good food. They’ve got the best food in all of the west coast.

I had some stuff for my brother in Örebro, so on my way to Lidköping, when I was half an hour from Örebro, I called him and asked him to head for the highway. He told me he was already going to the highway, since he was loading his car for a vacation on the west coast. I met up with him at a rest stop, where he’d been waiting for less than a few minutes. He was going to Hafstens camping, 25 km from Fiskebäckskil. Same day, same time, almost the same destination.

I went playing pinball (got fifth), and stayed at a hotel for the night. The next day I went to the camping site, and spent some time with my brother and his kids. I invited them to dinner at Brygghuset, and we drove to Fiskebäckskil. The kids fished some crabs in the harbor before dinner, when someone suddenly yelled at us from a jetty. It was our old family home neighbor, who also happened to be a classmate of my brother back in elementary school.

Then my sister-in-law answered her phone. It was her parents. They were in Uddevalla. So we invited them to joins us for dinner. They accepted, took a cottage at the camping site and came to Fiskebäckskil. Instead of me eating alone, we ended up being seven people at the dinner!

I was just waiting for my mother to show up in Gothenburg, or some old friend of mine to be at the same gas station where I was filling my car, or something like that. I did meet up with some friends in Gothenburg, and of course I did meet a lot of friends at the football game, but those meet-ups where planned or at least anticipated.

A - Stockholm, B - Örebro, C - Lidköping, D - Hafsten, E - Fiskebäckskil, F - Uddevalla, G - Gothenburg

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And it’s not the first time…

I finally got my new teeth! After five years with blue teeth, and a month with plastic teeth that kept falling out (great party trick!), they finally implemented the final solution: Porcelain teeth that are meant to stay in forever. Well, I like lamb, so we’ll see about that, but at least they’re beautiful!

Beautiful teeth!

Min vackra bil har blivit ännu vackrare!

God hjul

2006-12-12 Bazooka

2007-01-31 Platespotting

2007-05-28 Sporthoj

2007-07-13 Flashback

2007-12-10 Tramsmail

2008-02-05 Flickr

2008-02-19 Mini Club Sweden

2008-04-27 Gummituta Shanghaiar

2008-05-06 The Last Ninja

2008-05-26 Stockholm Finest

2008-06-30 Zatzy

2008-??-?? Autolife

2008-08-15 Jardenberg Unedited

2008-10-17 Stockholm City

2008-10-30 Flashback

2008-10-30 Stationsvakt

2008-10-30 Fragbite

2008-10-31 Kolozzeum

2008-12-09 Att älska Alex Schulman

2009-04-22 Törnestam

2009-06-03 Allt om motor

2009-11-04 Lokaltidningen Mitt i Söderort

2009-11-04 Bilfeber

2009-11-05 IDG

2009-11-06 NeuroPsykiatriska Funktionshinder

2009-11-19 Claes Sjöholm

My car ended up in the news again, only days after the last time. This is the third time, after this and this. You can read the article here (picture in the slideshow in the upper right) or on the picture below. Up to the right, outside the image below, was the picture of my car.

Stockholm City 2008-10-17

Edit: It happened again!

Remember what happened in late 2006? My car ended up in Computer Sweden. Now, I’ve bought a new car, and it too ended up in the exact same place in the exact same paper!

Update: It happened again! And again!

Computer Sweden 2008-10-10 page 27

I’ve been working with this American guy John for a while now (the same guy that called the Spanish embassy). He’s been here for six months. So far, he hasn’t met even one person that don’t speak English. How is he ever going to learn any Swedish if noone speaks Swedish to him?

Anyway, he learned two Swedish words during these months. “Tack” which means “thanks”, and “shotsbricka” illustrated by this photo of John:

Shotsbricka

- Hi, I’m John!
- Hi!
- I’ve been here in Sweden for a couple of months, and now I want to go to Spain for a while. How do I do that legally?
- You fly back to the US, get a visa for the next couple of months, and then fly to Spain.
- Isn’t there any way to do it here? The american embassy?
- No.
- But I don’t want to spend a thousand dollars on flying back home just to fill in a couple of papers.
- Hmm… what is the date on the Swedish stamp in your passport?
- Ehm… I didn’t get any stamp?
- Well, you haven’t been here then, have you?…