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Dimensions and childish distractions

That was in 1992 and I’m not sure what those 3D glasses did, but I was completely hooked on my VHS cassettes with My Little Pony, Resan till America and Wielka Podroz Bolka i Lolka. Today, I never turn on a TV to watch it by myself. In fact, if I have a TV, I take it out of my room because it only takes up space. This creates a little issue that my friends always laugh about – if there is a TV in a room that I enter, I can’t help but being very distracted by it, especially if it is playing the news, a bad Mexican soap opera, ridiculous commercials to laugh about, or cartoons. My favourite TV activity of all is to watch Cartoons together with kids. And random movies, of course, preferably in the company of curious and analytic adults. And I will talk during the movie, just so you know.


Wielka Podroz Bolka i Lolka (1977)
Telewizja Polska S.A

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Dub Side of the Moon


Easy Star All Stars – Dub Side of the Moon (2003)

This album by the Jamaican/American reggae collective Easy Star All Stars is a Dub Reggae tribute to Pink Floyd’s fantastic 1973 album Dark Side of the Moon. The original masterpiece is impossible to beat, but I like the feel of this one as well. The photo is a glimpse of Managua, as seen through rain and street light bokeh. Good night, world.

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Tropical midsummer night

The night in the Ikaria eco hostel was amazing and relaxing. Being on a very small island with a group of warm and charismatic people makes you bond fast and we shared a lot of laughs, thoughts and talks while swimming in the pool under this year’s biggest moon. We slept with the balcony open, listening to the water just next to us hitting against the rock wall of the little islet – Ikaria is a truly peaceful place. We didn’t get to celebrate a typical Swedish midsummer this year either, but as a friend brought us Hawaiian lei’s, we transformed our night into one of celebrating not only life, but also diversity and opportunities.

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Occasionally, things work out.

“Wiseman speculated that what we call luck is actually a pattern of behaviors that coincide with a style of understanding and interacting with the events and people you encounter throughout life. Unlucky people are narrowly focused, he observed. They crave security and tend to be more anxious, and instead of wading into the sea of random chance open to what may come, they remain fixated on controlling the situation, on seeking a specific goal. As a result, they miss out on the thousands of opportunities that may float by. Lucky people tend to constantly change routines and seek out new experiences. Wiseman saw that the people who considered themselves lucky, and who then did actually demonstrate luck was on their side over the course of a decade, tended to place themselves into situations where anything could happen more often and thus exposed themselves to more random chance than did unlucky people. The lucky try more things, and fail more often, but when they fail they shrug it off and try something else. Occasionally, things work out.”

The fantastic David McRaney from one of my favourite blogs, You Are Not So Smart, writes about Survivorship Bias and Success in his latest blog post. A bit long but definitely worth a read, along with the rest of the blog. One of my favourite of his posts on how complicated the human mind is and how it plays trick on us is that of the Texas Sharpshooter Fallacy. I see examples of this almost daily since reading it in 2010. Everybody – just read it, please.

A month left on a very exciting contract. A month of roadtrip-photography-beloved friends in Mexico + exploring NYC. And then I’m probably on the market again.

So here you have me, reaching out, looking forward to opportunity surprising me with something new. 

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Wake up, Caroline, it’s water.

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Suddenly, the sound of water. And my brain, always a little bit awake, starts shouting: “That sound is not a part of your dream and it doesn’t sound well at all.. wake up Caroline, wake up!”

I shoot up from my bed and into my bathroom, and get completely showered by water. “What is this? Is it even safe to touch the switch to turn the lights on?” The walls are wet, but not enough. I turn the lights on and find the pipe that supplies my toilet with water completely broken, the water is shooting straight out from it.

I guess these are things that happen when the pressure from the water is stronger than the pipes aimed to keep it under control.. the tap has been impossible to close completely for more than a week because of the pressure, and it’s always worse in the night and morning. Question: Does water pressure in underground water pipes have anything to do with the tide in the ocean? It’s a long shot but not completely impossible, and there’s that super moon coming up in just a couple of days.. I will google this! Haha.

So, after having the security guard run two blocks down to get the right tool to turn off the water completely in the house while I built a home-made tap consisting of 1 sponge, 1 hairband and 2 towels, (that didn’t really work but at least transformed the water-volcano into a smaller geizer) and spending more than one hour moving the water out of the house, I am having a seat.

The guard closed the pipe temporarily with a more ambitious MacGyver method involving isolation paste, a plastic bag and a stick.. (it works for now)

Today’s lesson learned: A broom is far more efficient than a mop if the aim is to move large amounts of water.

At least the entire house got a proper floor wash. At 4am in the morning. Ain’t nobody got time for that.