About (don’t miss!)

After having rather rigorously avoided the whole blogging hype for a few years (neither reading, nor writing, any blogs), mainly due to complete lack of interest, in the end, my passion for writing (which after several years of hibernation suddenly decided to wake up again) got the better of me. Also, I figured that the causerie I’d written about trying to upgrade my broadband probably didn’t stand much of a chance of being purchased by a magazine or newspaper (especially not if I didn’t actually get my thumb out of my arse (not sure if that’s an actual English expression, but it is in Swedish, so deal with it, I’m sure you get the picture anyway (not literally meant – eew, gross)) and sent it to some people, which I in the end just couldn’t really be bothered with (there’s a nice Swedish word for that which the English language really should adopt, like it has done with “smorgasbord” and “ombudsman”: “orka” (while I’m at it, I might as well vouch for the adoption of the word “fika” (basically coffee break, only much better) as well – there, done)), so I figured it’d be a shame if no one got a chance of reading it. And then all these other ideas of things I could write in a blog started popping up, so here I am, actually blogging. Oh, and if you somehow managed to not notice after reading this piece: I like parentheses and am not afraid of using them. Alot.

As for the username, it turned out that my regular nick was of course taken already, so I had to try something else. And boy did I try. Did you know that basically every single deity in European (and probably non-European as well) pantheons are already registered as usernames here at WordPress? I figured that since I couldn’t have my regular nickname, and didn’t really feel like using my real name, I could try and find some deity whose name stood for an attribute that I ascribe to myself. Starting off with Hubris (or rather the Swedish version Hybris – I tried both), throughout an hour I successfully worked myself through basically every European pantheon (and some Asian ones as well) looking for deities whose names I could remotely imagine adopting based on their ascribed attributes. Even the most obscure deities one could imagine were already registered, so desperate for something I could use, I eventually tried changing the C, for a K, in Coeus (the Titan of intelligence from the Greek mythology), thus ending up with Koeus (Koios, another name for Coeus, was of course also occupied already). Seeing how this wasn’t registered (obviously, since I now have it), I simply went with that (apparently (I now notice whilst wiki-ing it), there was actually some bloke called Ieu Koeus who was the prime minister of Cambodia for nine whole days in 1949 – well whaddaya know). Now, if you have any power of deduction, you can from this piece conclude that I am a) very intelligent b) self-righteous c) very aware of both these things. If you can’t deal with this, then I suggest you stop reading my blog. (I’m actually a really nice guy, I just have these moments, you know?)

So what will the blog contain then? Well, 1) Like the name says, mostly random, hopefully somewhat entertaining, ramblings on my account, regarding basically everything. And I do mean everything. 2) On occasion, there will be more worthwhile posts of higher journalistic value (like, for example, the causerie on broadband upgrade). 3) Most posts will include a photograph of varying artistic value (hopefully high – and in regard to this I wish to say that all photographs featured on this blog have been shot by me, unless specified otherwise). Why? Because I have nowhere else to show them off. 4) The language used will be mainly English, but I will be switching between languages as I see fit. If you find yourself reading something you don’t understand (if you are in fact non-Swedish – which is not very likely to be honest), then it’s probably Swedish you’re reading. If not Swedish (and this goes for all you Swedes as well, whom I simply presume understand English), then it’s possibly Polish, French or Japanese (or some other language for that matter). If it’s non of these alternatives, then you’re with all probability just plain stupid and should go reconsider your life.

If you’ve actually orked (trying desperately to integrate this word into English) reading this far, then I welcome you to my blog and hope that we will have a long and fruitful relation with me writing, and you reading (and preferably laughing on occasion as well.. or at least smiling. .. please? I do try ever-so-hard!). Alright then, go banana!