Working in Cancun, Mexico...

I attended a customer event in Cancun. Very nice. Why can´t all work weeks be like this... Wake up late in the morning, have a great breakfast with everything included, then sit in a nice conference room with unlimited supply of coffee, listening to interesting presentations, chat with customers in the breaks, taco buffe for lunch, more coffe and presentations then take a nap in the five star hotel room bed before changing for the Mexican buffé dinner with dance show on stage, then hit a night club before going to bed. And the next day it starts all over again...

As an extracurricular activity we visited Xcaret, it´s a place with Mayan ruins that has been turned into an attraction park but without the rollercoasters. Fun and educative. We ate dinner while watching a game of Pok ta Pok, an ancient rubber ball game. The sport goes back 1000 years BC and is about to become extinct.

During the dinner we also saw a great dance and music show that presented how Mexico´s culture has developed and changed over the years. We saw Ribbon Dance (Baile de las Cintas), Feather Dance (Danza de las Plumas) from Yucatán, Old Men Dance (Danza de los Viejitos de Jarácuaro) from Michoacan, Stamping Dance (Zapateado), Papantla Fliers and Carnival from Veracruz, Rope Tricks from Jalisco and Mariachis from Tabasco. And more...

The view from my hotel room...

AEM en Mexico

Estoy en Mexico D.F. de nuevo. Hoy tuvimos un AEM (All Employee Meeting) y no sabía que había tantas personas trabajando para la empresa en el Distrito Federal. Tuve que sacar una foto de algunos de los cientos colegas saliendo de la sala.

No es extraño que no conozca a mucha gente aquí ya que voy y salgo pero pregunté a mis colegas y me dijeron que había muchas caras desconocidas en el muchidumbre. Espías de los competidores tal vez?!

Gabriela´s birthday # 3

On April 29 Gabriela turned three and lots of friends and family came to celebrate her at her Cinderella-themed birthday party! A very fun day.

Parabens pra voce! Parabens pra voce. Parabens querida Gabi, parabens pra voce!

Gabriela was a happy Cinderella all day!

O Bolo, filled with chocolate!

Counting cash

Is this a future economist we see? Maybe, only time will tell...

Parabens, Silvia!

Happy birthday Silvia!

I love you, love you, love you!

I solen på Nybrokajen

Djurgården 4 ska snart kasta loss.

En härlig dag i vårsolen.

Waxholm 3 i väntan på passagerare.

Banheiro dos velhos tempos

Olha so. Nos velhos tempos os homens que precisavam fazer xixi poderiam fazer isso neste banheiro na Gamla Stan, em Estocolmo! Xixi "with style" fora do palacio real...


Xixibom...

Eddie och Jacob

Tiden går och vi blir äldre allihop och nu har Eddie har blivit far!

Jag hann med en kort fika hemma hos Eddie senast jag var i Sverige och fick då stifta bekantskap med Jacob! En välskapt liten grabb som hunnit med att växa en hel del på bara tre månader, väger nästan sex kilo redan. Bra gjort, Eddie och Jackie!

Välkommen till världen, Jacob!

Hammarby - Örebro: 1 - 0

Ohhh, oh, oh, oh, ohh, ohhhhh!
Vi är bajen från söder!
Ohhh, oh, oh, oh, ohh, ohhhhh!
Vi är grönvita bröder!


Patric, Johan, Eddie och jag hade ståplats på Söderstadion, Sektion K. Matchen mot Örebro SK 13 maj var riktigt tråkig mestadels tyvärr. Emellanåt fick Kingson jobba ganska mycket i Hammarbymålet. Sista kvarten tryckte Bajen på och i 92 minuten (!) slog Heidar Juliusson in 1-0 genom att lobba bollen över Örebros målvakt. Läktaren fullkomligen exploderade av lycka! Jätteskoj verkligen.


Sedan blev det hamburgare och Murphy´s Red Irish på O'Leary´s på Götgatspuckeln efteråt. Kändes skönt att slappna av och relaxa lite efter att ha hejat Hammarby till serieledning!


Hammarby tackar spelare # 12, dvs klacken för ett gott arbete.


Spelare # 12 tackar Hammarby för serieledningen!

Tresspassing on Southfork

A lot of travels lately. I went to Dallas for some work and brought Towe and Johan (two students) with me. Apart from working we did som R&R as well; shopping, dining, trespassing... Yes, trespassing! The famous Southfork ranch from the Dallas TV-series is still a place were tourists gather in masses to spend money on Cliff Barnes coffee mugs, JR T-shirts and to take pictures of that big, white house. We left the office around 4:00 PM and arrived 5:05 PM. The place closes at 5:00 PM! We decided we needed to take a picture of the house at least and strolled 20 meters from the parking lot to a fence and took some pictures. We were maybe 200 meters away from the house itself.

We were walking back to the car when Towe, one of the students said "The farmer´s coming". An old man in cowboy boots, blue jeans and a Stetson hat was running to a big tractor, jumped into the driver´s seat and came towards us in high speed. He ran through flower beds, bushes and everything. "Oops", I thought. The tractor skidded to a stop just a couple of meters from my rental, the angry old man yelled at me in heavy Texas accent "Don´t cha know you it´s against the law to trespass on private property, son!". "I am sorry, Sir. We got here as you were closing and decided to take some pictures. Won´t happen again!", I replied. He muttered some bad words and drove off.

So, now I am known as a dangerous outlaw in Texas, USA! I must buy a Stetson hat and start chewing tobacco to maintain my new image!

The entrance to the "famous" ranch.

The crazy cowboy farmer driving away after our intermerzzo (Towe´s papparazzi photo!).