We did a good job last night with launching a new application, although the road there was a bit bumpy. My “stay happy whatever approach” was close to collapsing a few times but instead took a turn into near madness. A lot of singing and some dancing got me through the day.

I listened to Vasa Gospel, and their CD Precious Lord on the way in. They are a gospel choir from my corps in the Salvation army. Great! This CD is so well sung, well produced and well played. If you only hear one gospel CD in your life then this is a pretty good candidate.

Well, well, well—this happy week stuff seems to be working… One day with no anger and everything is dandy. Didn’t take too much effort either. I even managed to handle some bumps in the road yesterday, with some laughter and dancing (?!?!) instead of digging graves. There might be something here. If this continues, I will have to extend the...

OK - I was wrong, a bit at least. Met my friends and their new daughter last Friday -and it’s a completely new life for them. Especially for the father. I was great to see though - a lot of love in the air. So - the “still being us”-thing will probably fade for a while but I am sure...

Last week I was in a terrible mood here at work. I am embarrassed even to think about it…This has to do with me not being happy about the situation we are in at my customer. But I noticed one strange and weird thing: the more moody and angrier i got, the worse the situation got (or seemed to be)....

Every Monday morning I start the day with some good radio. The program Listen To the Bands has their program up for later listening. A real classic and some great band almost every time. Go here: http://www.bbc.co.uk/radio/aod/networks/radio2/aod.shtml?radio2/listenband I am going there now!

I bought the CD Twenty supreme years by Eikanger-Bjørsvik a week ago. You will never be disappointed with release from them. The playing is absolutely stunning and the arrangements are great. Some really quirky music, but hey - who cares? If you don’t have it - get it now! PS. When the cover is opened a friend of my can...

4BarsRest are a bit slower than me ;-) but here is a an article about the Swedish BrassBand Championships. But Gothenburg has not won the US Championships, to my knowledge, but became world champions 1988, and that event was held in Australia. Again - that was the best competition in Sweden ever! I hope that it will be more of...

When I wrote about babies and their parents it caused a small stir here at the office, of course from the parents here. Apparently babies will take up all your spare time. Anyhow - my friends, that was late pregnant, has now had a little girl. We are going there tonight and I am really looking forward to meeting them...

My band, the Vasa band of the Salvation Army, is entering the busiest season of the year - the Christmas season! I counted to 9 gigs during this season with different sizes of the band. If brass banding had as much to do during all of the year as under the Christmas season there would be a lot of more...