Broken and fixed a year later

August 13th 2007.

One year ago today. One year ago I broke my right ankle.

Three bones. Clean breaks! The two big ones and the smaller connecting one.

Two weeks in the hospital. Operations. 4 big screws and one metal pin with 3 tiny screws attached to it. 3 months in various casts. 6 months of physio once the cast was removed....

I'm physically okay now. A slight limp when I'm tired and it swells a little when it rains. The funny thing is that I tend to drift to the right when I walk. I guess I need an wheel alignment.....but otherwise good physically.

And today I start my next school semester again. Man I think August the 13th is out to get me!
But I got a new teacher so this should be good....

Onwards and forwards......

CATFIGHT!!!!!

Really.

There are definitely better ways of waking up in the morning that the sound of my cat battling his archenemy underneath the kitchen table at 6 am.....

Short version.

We let the cat out early in the morning and sometimes we leave the kitchen door open so he can come in and out when he wants (and we get some sleep).

Well when Morgan was out patrolling, his arch nemesis came in. So I wake to hissing and loud meowling. I thought it was outside but no, it was IN the kitchen...Morgan blocking the escape route and his ennemy under table.

CRAP!

Suffice to say that I have never seen a REAL full fledged catfight up close. Well now I've seen to two within a 5 minute span less that ten feet away.

Lots of hissing, flying fur fluffs and some blood ( small scratch on my wife's hand when she tried to grap her cat.... not her best pre morning coffee moment)and Morgan vanquishes his enemy out the door!

Not bad for a dumb 12 year old tabby!

Roadtrip!

Went on the last road trip of the summer this last weekend....

It rained the whole time, which is bad when the reason to go see an outdoor concert. We saw Jose Gonzalez and Laleh at Dalhalla in Dalarna. Amazing concert except for the rain....

Visited Carl Larssen's Museaum and Anders Zorn also and bought some cute ceramics....because it was raining......

And took a lot of lousy pictures of soggy landscapes.....

Did I mention the rain?....

Vittorio Fiorucci 1932-2008

Vittorio Fiorucci died yesterday in Montreal.

Vittorio was an amazing world renowned poster artist,graphic designer,cartoonist and cavalier bon vivant hedonist with a lust for life like few I have known.

For those who know of the Juste For Laughs Comedy festival in Montreal, he is the creator of there Little green imp mascot with the big red tongue.

Like Robert Lapalme, he was one of my design and illustration idols. I was lucky enough to have him a guest teacher a few times in university and a chance to have a beer with him. He would shake my hand and have a few seconds to chat with me whenever we met on the street. A nicer satyr you would never could meet.....

Some of his work can be seen here...
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Peace

See ya!

Midsommar after!

Drunken disorder plagues Midsummer

Midsummer celebrations were typified by drunken revelry, fighting, assault, drink driving, an alleged rape and three shootings. Calmer than usual, police report.


Love the "Calmer than usual, police report" tag-on right after the big evil headline.......

Midsommar!