After doing some research, we've decided that R will come to Dublin on 14th and we both will fly to Stockholm on 19th. Between us we have 60 kilos of weight allowance and I'm prepared to pay for some extra kilos as well. We'll send books and some heavier stuff via post and one of my colleagues has agreed to take a few things with her when she moves back.

Renting a car was just not feasible, neither was using a moving company or a courier. I don't have that much stuff, but they wanted about 2000 euros to transport it to Sweden. Not gonna happen.

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Now that the exitement has subsided, I must start organising the move. The tentative plan is to rent a car and drive to Sweden through UK and Denmark. That would happen in the third week of June.

I need to find a driver, find out where and how often the ferries go, how much will it all cost and so on. If this is too expensive I have to find a place to stash the stuff and make a few trips by plane. Which is expensive in itself.

Another option is to find someone who will drive with a car from Dublin to Stockholm or Helsinki anyway and see if they can take some of the things.

Choices, choices.

In any case, I have to be back in Sweden by June 23rd.

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Seven things about me.

I've encountered this meme a few times around blogland and decided to share a bit of my history, before I began blogging, with you.

1. I was born in Tallinn during Soviet occupation and became Estonian citizen when Estonia broke free. I had a very happy childhood, being blissfully oblivious to all the politics around me.

2. I love cats of all shapes and sizes. Most of the times in a zoo I must resist an urge to go and scratch tigers' ears. There were always kittens to play with at gramma's in summer and I must have a cat or two in my life at all times.

3. I have a brother, and I call his wife my sister. They were my best friends before I met R.

4. I am a city girl and will never voluntarily have a permanent abode in a house again. Spacious apartment with a balcony on the top floor of a tall building is my ideal home.

5. All my grandparents died before 1990. I still miss them.

6. I can not drive a car or a motorcycle. There has always been public transport where I have lived, I've had no need to learn.

7. I became interested in IT in high school, but was persuaded not to study it in college. I went on to become an IT specialist anyway.

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Woo! I got the job! I will be moving back to Stockholm soon. Very very soon.

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Last weekend I was over in Stockholm again. It was sudden and unplanned trip, another job interview. From the looks of it this job is my ideal job, fast-paced, creative teamwork that involves databases. The company is small and close-knit so the personality and age are importent for them. Fortunately, I'm exactly the right age and hopefully they liked my personality.

The next part of the year long A&S competition nears. All the moving from one place to another and workshop facilities being unavailable, means that I have now about 3 weeks left. Oh horror! As I'm venturing outside the fibre and textile world, I need tools and materials that I'm not familiar with. That means I really don't know how long time I need to make stuff and I really should have begun a while ago to eliminate the time issue. Somehow the urgency didn't really dawn on me before last week. Urgh!

I'd planned to make 4-6 items, now it looks like there will be 2-3 instead. Oh well, I must squeeze as much variety out of 3 items as I can. What's worse, I haven't made up my mind what to make yet. It depends on availability and access to materials. I've got plenty of ideas, though...

In all this crazyness I've forgotten to take pictures or put online what I have taken. I'm sorry for the lack of eye candy on this blog.

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No Internet at the house. The housmate is not interested in getting it until he has a use for it and he doesn't have a computer yet. I tried to buy a wireless broadband modem, but that experiment failed. My laptop does not communicate with modems or allow one to be set up. Grrr!

This incident has only confirmed my decision to get rid of Microsoft software, including their operating system. I've replaced all other MS programs I used except Windows. I've kept it on the laptop because LOTRO does not play in Ubuntu (a flavour of Linux) reliably. Nor do I trust the installation to go smoothly and I'm not going to risk the only working PC I have.

I'm planning to build a desktop for gaming in Autumn and it will have Ubuntu* as an operating system. Unfortunately Mac is out of question because LOTRO does not play there. I could have a dual boot system, but that involves having a live version of Windows. And that defeats the whole "no more Windows" thing, doesn't it?

* Ubuntu users can use Wine or Cedega to play Windows games. Right now, LOTRO does not play in Wine and Cedega needs more work to make the game stable. Hopefully people who know how to make Linux work have figured it out by Autumn.

Right now all this is moot because no Internet = no play.

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