The lovely month of August, which is, at least way up north here where I live, the last month of summer and ends with the first days of autumn is almost here, and wow that summer went by fast.

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Long time, no real blog post, as usual. I’m also sure you 60 odd subscribers have been checking your feedreaders at least a couple of times per day, eagerly anticipating another update from me. I dearly apologize for not pulling through, until now of course!

Truth be told however, there hasn’t really been much to talk about. Life has been taking its usual course with university and work in the front seats (my life has two front seats in addition to the driver seat), spiced with a little bit of fun and heartache in between. Uninteresting stuff for the most part, and certainly nothing anyone of you would want to read.

I have also been “preparing” for Silent Sound Waves by listening to music, a whole lot of music. I am also keeping up with the scene by spending quite a bit of time over at AbsolutePunk (my profile), and I think I am closing in on the place where I feel like I have enough to contribute with to actually justify a music blog.

One thing I have been contemplating though is whether or not I want to try and get someone to help me out with the blog. Posting as much as I’d like is going to be extremely time consuming, and finding one or two people to help me out with a post a week would make it a lot more feasible. Finding someone who is willing without any monetary compensation however will probably prove to be quite hard.

To close up, I feel like I need to make some more modifications to the blog. The current setup isn’t working very well, and activity is down a whole lot. I need to find a middleground between the current setup and the traditional blog frontpage, because it isn’t giving the posts enough attention. Plus I need to find a lifestream plugin which actually works, as the current one isn’t fetching my Pownce activity for some reason.

Will keep you up to date on all of this, and any other interesting thing that might, however unlikely, happen!

So it is 9AM and here I am at the University, with nothing to do. Had a lecture scheduled to start at eight, but it got cancelled, so right now I’m just surfing around the web and wasting time. I have no litterature from the curriculum yet as they have yet to arrive at campus, and I thought what could be better than to write a little update at my blog for all of my loyal readers to read?

These days it seems that everything in my life is actually moving in slow motion, and while I am at “normal speed”, there is nothing I can do but be patient and wait for everything to fall into place. Why the philosophical approach to life today? Not sure honestly, it just feels like this is the time to be patient for me, instead of trying to be on top and controlling every little aspect.

As you may know if you follow me on Twitter, my recently purchased car is not running as well as one had hoped for. It’s got an appointment with the car doctor tomorrow, and it’ll be “interesting” to see how far getting it fixed will set me back. Purchasing and owning a car is expensive enough as it is here in Norway, and adding outrageous prices for parts and mechanic-hours can do serious damage to a student. I’ll know soon enough though, and I’ll get it sorted one way or another, so I’m not spending too much time worrying.

Another thing that happened recently is that my MacBook recently got an unfortunate case of the cracks. No worries though, I talked to Apple Support and they’ll cover it even though I don’t have AppleCare. Unfortunately there is no service for Apple here in the town that I live in, which means I’ll have to send my dear away, and I’m a little hesitant about it. It will leave me computerless for a couple of weeks most likely, which is never fun, especially as I am eager to really get working on Silent Sound Waves. I have wasted enough time however, and I guess I’ll be sending it off tomorrow so that I can get it back as soon as possible.

Other than that there’s not a whole lot of exciting things going on at the moment. I was at a festival this weekend and got to see Amy MacDonald and Travis live. They both put on a great show, and I must admit I was positively taken by suprise by Amy’s appearance. A beautiful girl with a fantastic voice no doubt! In less than three weeks I am going to see Coldplay live for the first time as well, and I am completely stoked about it, and I really hope I can have my Macbook back by the time so I can report on the concert while it is still a fresh feeling, because those feelings are really what music is all about, aren’t they?

Anyways that’s it for now. Going to grab a bite to eat and see if I can’t find someone to hang out with so that when I go home later instead of now, I can feel like I’ve done something with the day as I’ve been spending it at Uni instead of home!