Quis custodiet ipsos custodes

Watchmen by Alan Moore and Dave Gibbons on DC Comics from 1986.
Read it through like a breeze, the themes are known in the comic world, Cold-War fear for the Russians and the nuclear threat is imminent. The artwork is rich and beautiful and weaved in the "original" story is a parellell story on a shipwrecked man seeking revenge on the pirates that supposably killed his family - but where the hate and revenge turns him in to what he fights.

The story is in my opinion strong and rich, the obvious heroes aren't always the heroes and the villains aren't always the vile.
The climax and ending is built up as much as it is surprising.

All in all a great work I enjoyed reading through in these days when the cinema shows the white screen adaptation (finally!)

Quis custodiet ipsos custodes - Who watches the watchmen

A Hard Day's Work

Waking up at 07:03 to a blinding white landscape at mum's place to a day of endless possibilities.
After a steady breakfast of eggs and rye-bread I start shoveling snow to make a path for the afternoon's sauna. Something that also required a hole of 2-by-2 meters to be made in the ice.
These wee small tasks were made before the city kids that were out yesterday have had their first morning puke. Off I went for new tasks, these requiring some heavy duty machinery:

How much wood would a woodchuck chuck if a woodchuck could chuck wood

So before the clock had struck ten we had filled a hanger with wood and spent some time driving around the woods on the all-terrain-vehicle.

And now at noon i still have 12 waken hours to spend doing something fruitful and rewardindg. My suspicions point to sauna @ 15:00. Vättern Crayfish for dinner with brother home from his Dylan-concert and until then I think I might just spend an hour or three reading last year's Nobel Prize winner Le Clézio's "Le procès-verbal" (Rapport om Adam)

This is quite exactly what a stressed out none-sleeping non-reading Adam needed.

A Fourth of 2009

A quick look on my post for what I expected from 2009 :

Miss Right - hoping to involve myself in a relationship this year
Friends - will try seeing even more of you all
Lovers - will try getting even more of them :)
Travel the world - in mind as in body
Less drinking then the later half of 2008
...more drinking than the first half of 2008
Some sort of therapeutic examination to check how I am doing
Lasers - pew-pew. Hope to get my eyes fixed a.s.a.p
54 km of skiing in the Birkebeinerrenn
89 km of cycling in the Birkebeinerritt

Blogg less
Read more
Exercise more Fight less
Ride a horse
Climb a mountain

Seeing the progress so far, I can indeed say 2009 has held a lot of good surprises. First and foremost of course starting something grand up with miss Right. The two off-track items requires some attention though.

I need to stop slacking on contacting and visiting friends. I guess there's this "2-month-immunity" when you enter a relationship and are somewhat excused by your friends for not being there and crazy in love, well those two months are over. See you soon! :)
The travelling isn't really bothering me, have spent most of this first quarter of 2009 in Norway but has still managed to drop by Trysil, Hemsedal, Lillehammer - three new locations.

I got a slight issue with the "blogg less"-item, not all are very happy 'bout that. Sorry Em, I might shape up some :)

Gloves in Hand

Hand in glove
The sun shines out of our behinds
No, it's not like any other love
This one is different - because it's us

Hand in Glove by The Smiths