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I wish you all a GREAT 2009 - and have a cool evening tonight!

Christmas was (of course) at my brother Peters place in Holsted - of couse because its been like that for some years now and I really really like being there for Christmas - Peter got such a nice family and I love to be around them!

I arrived at the 23rd (coming from Odense) as I have been doing the last couple of years and the plan was that Peter and I late evening again would see all 24 episodes of a Danish Christmas serie for grown ups - this time the one called “Jule Testamentet” (last year it was “The Jule Kalender” and the year before “Jul på Vesterbro”). Of course with a beer, a bit of Single Malt and some popcorn on the side - no changes here… we had a great evening/night and went to sleep around 3…

Next day Peter “the dentist” and Lisbeth “the dentist” gave me the full treatment at their clinic - they were tough, but fair…  ;-)   and it seems still to be pretty ok in there..
And the it was time to prepare for the evening - a evening with a LOT of goose, nice wine and presents.
Damn, that goose was goooood and rumours says I got my “fair” share…

Ready to sing and dance around the Christmas tree

Thanx for some great days in Holsted!

Per and I know each other from the University time in Odense (the town of Hans Christian Andersen) - both being cool instructors in IT applications and database design and programming (in the good old Borland Paradox days). So Odense was an easy choice for brunch now that Per was in Denmark with his family and it should of course be at Franck A (beware, Flash site….) - a Odense classic, but redesigned big time. It didnt have the look we liked when studying in Odense, but it was certainly looking great now!
And the food was delicius - do go there!

Franck A in Odense

I raced with the train from Copenhagen and Per got one of the family cars and we sort of meet half way (in Odense), but Per included a bonus for me!!! It turned out that Klix was also bringing his wife Inger and my friend Gus (Erik Gustav) - such a good idea!

I was bringing in presents for Gus from me and Irina - a presesent for Christmas and one for Gus’ 2 years birthday in February. Of course we “made” Gus open the presents on the spot.

Gus opening the first present - a bowling alley!

A personal Bowling alley for Gus and a small train - all of it in soft material from Rubbabu. Do I need to tell that I did find them at Klodsmajor? 

We spend a couple of good hours at Franck A and it was good to see the Chicago family again. A lot has happened since last time.
Per is now a director at Chicago Apartment Finders, their sandwich shop is going fine, Inger is working hard at Ogilvy, Gus is getting bigger and walks around and I heard rumours about Inger designing some cool covers from prams…..

And then it was time for a small walk in Odense. Gus is getting ready…

Goodbye to Franck A - the Klixbüll family

Per and I checked out a couple of the old places…
We went to the party area Arkaden. Not much has really changed here.

After some good hours in Odense it was time for all of us to head for Jutland - The Klixbüll family to Vejle and me to my brothers place in Holsted (rather close to Esbjerg in the West Coast). I got a ride to Fredericia - Gus was waching movies and taking a small nap…

Gus waching movies

And Gus napping…

Thanx to all of you - it was soooo good to see you again!

Was around the Google Denmark office today to say Merry Christmas to the Google crew from Addvisors Vilnius and I, and I must admit I got a bit confused by the sign on the door…  Gøøgle Denmark??!
So guys, is it Google or Gøøgle Denmark?

The Gøøgle Denmark sign on the door

A Merry Christmas to all of you!

/Niels

Damn, Holyfield did so good and had a great strategy, I’m really impressed by that old champ! The Swiss really robbed him of the belt… And gave it to the beast, who didnt even boxe….sad….

My friend Henrik “Drummer” and his band Juno Bell has just launched their new EP “Fighting Giants” and it’s on the Internet ready to get downloaded for free - that’s really a Christmas present you can relate to!

I have only listened to “Fighting Giants” a couple of time, but I like it - and it will be on “heavy rotation” on my iPhone today.

Go check out Juno Bell on their MySpace or download their new EP “Fighting Giants” for free…
Merry Christmas!

The EP “Fighting Giants” contains the songs:
Fighting Giants
State Of Sleep
Building Castles
Koi

Juno Bell

My friend Henrik is to the far right.

Good luck guys and I’m looking forward to see you live soon again!

Scandinavian Airlines has today sold its 47,2% ownership in Baltic airline company Airbaltic back to Airbaltic.

I’m rather often flying with Airbaltic to Vilnius, even when booking through SAS, so its gonna be interesting to see if  this sale will have any inpact on the prices and service on trips Copenhagen to Vilnius….

And very very good for SAS to get some cash in…  let’s hope its enough…..
I guess getting better service and not letting people stand in HUGE lines in Copenhagen Airport will also help…

Google Chrome is now out of beta and I just love how stable and well working it is - yes, Firefox is in version 3.0.4 not very stable on my laptop…

I know this is rather scary, but yes! I did join a Domino Tournament on my last trip to Vilnius and in fact I got all the way to the semifinal on my first time playing Domino ever - and I learned how to play just before the tournament started - and NO, I don’t think I got any special Domino talents… 

It all started with my friend Domas asking me on Wednesday last week if I wanted to go play at a local Domino Tournament with him..  can you imagine me laughing and checking what they added to his beer?

The whole downstairs of the Domino Bar (yes, they even named the place after Domino) was full with nice people on this Thursday. Here’s a couple playing

Also Domas’ brother Tadas did play in the Domino Tournament - unfortunately he went out rather early - he needs to practice his Domino skills… 

Domas showed me how to play Domino on the spot and he did fine, but I guess he left a little out…  he made it to the final whereas I went out in the semifinals….

Anyway great fun playing Domino - I’m pretty sure I’ll be there again next time I’m in Vilnius…  but dont expect me to be practicing hard beforehand… 

The Domino Bar