Newsletter 2015Another year has passed, and very
quickly. When looking at old pictures we realize that time flies. Carl
and
Kersti, of course look the same, but the children have been growing a
bit…     2015 was a year with one
wedding and some 50-year parties, although we have not come quite that
far yet.
It has been a year with a incredible amount of colds. The children have
started
being ill like real men do it, that is with lots of complaining and
service
expectations. There are studies showing that men are more sensitive to
infections than women are, but Kersti does not think the studies are
credible
as they were performed on rats. At least the Alm family men are no rats… We organized software
programming classes to encourage Axel and Johan to use their brains. It
turned
out to be more of a social occasion, but it seems to have made an
impression.
Johan wants to become a software engineer. Computers are still the most
used everyday
tool/toy/necessary equipment. Johan has three, and nobody with any
sense can
make do with less than two. If you have no computer, you can ask Axel
to build
one for you. He will merge three or four old, non-functioning,
computers into
one that works. This year´s most important occasion according to Axel
and Johan
was the installation of internet via fiber. That was better than
Christmas and
birthdays added. Axel is now fourteen, he likes
school if he gets to do craft, house keeping/cooking and even
mathematics. He
plays floorball (reluctantly) and guitar (happily). His only plan for
the
future so far is to find a job where the wages will allow him to eat
really
good (=expensive) food very often. He excels at being a teenager by
sleeping
all the time, and when he is not sleeping he is eating.
Johan is twelve. He plays the
computer every available minute. He also plays floorball (somewhat
happily) and
the French horn (happily). So far we have rented a horn, but now his
teacher
says that Johan is better than the horn is and that we need to buy a
proper
one. Johan is exercising his jaw muscles by making interesting faces.
The trips this year went to
Varberg (small Swedish city with a fantastic spa), Stockholm, England,
Scotland, Matvik (Carl’s parent’s summer house) and Sri Lanka. Scotland
is
amazingly beautiful, they have excellent gin, and they have deep fried
haggis.
What is there not to love? Kersti even learned to drink whisky, but
only 14
year old Oban. The men in the family went to England, visiting a war
museum and
a pride festival (war and love). Johan now wants his own tank while
Axel is
happy with NERF-guns, which are actually easier to fit into a suitcase.
Sri
Lanka was beautiful with friendly people and interesting food. Axel
still
refuses to eat curry as we had it even for breakfast. Carl managed to
work
through some 50-year-angst by surfing. The stiffness and soreness were
with him
for weeks… Kersti travels more and more
for her job. The men find it relaxing that she is not always there
nagging.
Instead she gets to tell everybody else about the benefits of a
holographic
microscope and that they really need one. Carl has been doing shorter
trips to
Germany to research new car technologies. Hopefully he will be inspired
to
create a new hot Axis model. Axis keeps growing but was only a morsel
for Canon
who bought almost all the stocks.
We
have a very good enjoyable life. Thank you everybody for contributing!
Carl/Cacke, Kersti, Axel och Johan. Latest update: March 6, 2016 |
