Surfin’ USA

Party weekend and new laptop

Now that was a busy weekend: On Friday there was yet another party at a student dorm nearby, again I met a lot of new people, but slowly more and more faces seem familiar to me. On Saturday it was my Mexican friend Rodrigo’s birthday (he’s now again one year older than I am, happy birthday, old man ) so we first celebrated at his place. Around midnight we proceeded to an international party on campus, where we partied until 3am (why do most parties in Sweden end so early?). And since I also played basketball and soccer on Sat./Sun. I didn’t get many other things done…

On Saturday my buddy Dain returned from the US (good to have him back ). As he had to move out of his room when he left in June, he doesn’t have a place of his own yet. Until he has found something he is staying with me; we just moved his bed into the empty corner of my room. Now everything is a little cramped but we don’t spend that much time in the room anyway.
Dain also brought my new IBM Laptop with him (I had ordered in the US and had it shipped to his place). It’s really a nice device/toy with a lot of good things. I’m currently in the process of installing Linux on it (but keeping Windows as a backup), In just two days I have so far managed to screw up the partition table twice, so that Windows would not boot anymore. Luckily I had produced the recovery CDs in the very beginning, so I ‘only’ had to repartition, reformat and reinitialise the whole harddrive each time…
At the moment I am sitting in the library, using the university’s wireless LAN. When I’m back home later tonight (still some reading ahead) or tomorrow I might get around to uploading some of the weekend’s pictures here, so stay tuned.