I so love Swedish Folk Music!
Apr. 23rd, 2018 09:38 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kareinaSaturday I focused on trying to catch up on thesis work, though, to be different, I tried setting an alarm to take a break at 50 minutes and then do 10 minutes of handstand and other strength training. Only managed two repeats of that cycle in between other stuff, but it was two ten minute sessions of movement that wouldn’t have happened if I hadn’t tried setting the alarm, so I will use that trick again. Managed that many on Sunday, too, before David came over and we changed to summer tires on Styx. We could have done it earlier, but our driveway only just got clear enough on snow that I was willing to consider it. Not long after we finished that and it was already time to head to Folk Dance for the evening. This week was one of those rare special occasion sessions, where instead of being just the few of us in the Sunday class learning advanced skills to recorded music, it was quite a few people from the local Folk Music and Dance community, with live music (four violins, one guitar, one bass, and one nyckelharpa). They were in the mood to play lively tunes much of the evening, so the dancing was vigorous, and ever so much fun. After dance I managed to refrain from touching the computer again, and just did yoga and had a shower before bed, which resulted in almost 8 hours of sleep (for the first time in quite a while).
On This morning I took the car in to the service place so that they could look and see if the ABS warning light, which had been shining for some weeks now, was something that actually needs attention, or if the light is just triggering over nothing (the car has done that before on some lights). Luckily it is only a 20 minute walk from there to my office, which meant I was at work by 07:40, so I had time to set up a laser experiment before meeting Johan for our acroyoga practice at 11:00, and then hurried back to tell the laser to do the standards, too, while it was at it. (I can’t set it all up in advance, as I change the max movement speed for the laser stage depending on which task it is doing.)
Then I decided to sit in the office and actually do some data processing before going home, which turned out to be a good thing, as our new PostDoc (who officially starts on Monday) stopped by to say hello, and C. brought by a student who is visiting for the week and made an appointment for him to view a laser session next week. I also got a call from the car service place, explaining that the car needs a new "yttre drivknut vä fram", which, I gather is something important (David confirms that it is), but google’s literal translation doesn’t give me any useful information as to what it might be called in English. I do know that it will cost 5000 SEK to replace it, including labour and tax, so I told them to go for it. They tell me they need to keep it over night, as a part they need isn’t in stock.
I happened to finish work at a time compatible with the rare buses to my place, so I took the bus home, which gave me almost an hour to relax with some food and a book before time to head to Nyckelharpa night, where I enjoyed much more beautiful Swedish Folk music while I made some good progress on my new Viking Coat to replace the one which vanished at the Helsinki Airport.
Now I need to go do my yoga, since I need to get up early enough to take a bus into town for a check up for me (I only recently found out that the uni provides regular checkups through a private provider, and so booked one).
On This morning I took the car in to the service place so that they could look and see if the ABS warning light, which had been shining for some weeks now, was something that actually needs attention, or if the light is just triggering over nothing (the car has done that before on some lights). Luckily it is only a 20 minute walk from there to my office, which meant I was at work by 07:40, so I had time to set up a laser experiment before meeting Johan for our acroyoga practice at 11:00, and then hurried back to tell the laser to do the standards, too, while it was at it. (I can’t set it all up in advance, as I change the max movement speed for the laser stage depending on which task it is doing.)
Then I decided to sit in the office and actually do some data processing before going home, which turned out to be a good thing, as our new PostDoc (who officially starts on Monday) stopped by to say hello, and C. brought by a student who is visiting for the week and made an appointment for him to view a laser session next week. I also got a call from the car service place, explaining that the car needs a new "yttre drivknut vä fram", which, I gather is something important (David confirms that it is), but google’s literal translation doesn’t give me any useful information as to what it might be called in English. I do know that it will cost 5000 SEK to replace it, including labour and tax, so I told them to go for it. They tell me they need to keep it over night, as a part they need isn’t in stock.
I happened to finish work at a time compatible with the rare buses to my place, so I took the bus home, which gave me almost an hour to relax with some food and a book before time to head to Nyckelharpa night, where I enjoyed much more beautiful Swedish Folk music while I made some good progress on my new Viking Coat to replace the one which vanished at the Helsinki Airport.
Now I need to go do my yoga, since I need to get up early enough to take a bus into town for a check up for me (I only recently found out that the uni provides regular checkups through a private provider, and so booked one).