A shout-out to kindness

They do exist!

On the train back home. It's winter time. I could easily run away from this country during winter. I simply hates it, there is no other word for it. Sorry. So, what better way to cope than to go even further up north where it's even colder? I went up to Umeå Monday to do a job, actually had a great time. Hosted a seminar with a great Swedish comedian and finished the day off with a great dinner at a beautiful hotel. Anyways, on my way home this morning I lost my little Internet device for my computer. And I realized again that I need to learn how to be careful with stuff. I lost that thingy at the airport, and my only reaction was; "crap, that 's gonna cost me money". Why can't I learn how to be more careful!? Well... that's another blog, I guess.

Anyways, didn't expect to see that pink thing again but now a couple of minutes ago, they called from the tele company that I have that Internet service with, telling me that some stranger had found my thing and had taken the trouble to call them, asked them to track me down and give me his email. How sweet is that? I mean, it is one thing if you find a persons wallet with ID and everything in it, but this thing actually came with some detective work if you wanted to do the good deed of returning it. Yay for great people!

I also realized that what made my day most, wasn't the fact that I'm gonna get the thing (what the heck do you call those... things, btw?) back, it was surely the fact that someone cared enough to help. I don't know when I gave up on humanity, but I assumed since this is making me so happy that I did. I plainly didn't believe someone would be nice enough to go through the trouble of returning it to me.

So, here is to great people! To kindness and to getting into the Christmas spirit a little early. THANK you!

Life is weird...

I keep on being amazed by all the weirdness I end up in. Just had a great evening with dinner up in northern Sweden after a days work. Great conversations with a man I've seen on TV since I was a kid and who I was now sharing life stories with far away from home. That's weird. On my way home tomorrow I have to close a deal with a company in Stockholm working with things I can't even pronounce but who wanna bring me with them to Milano to teach stuff in January. That's weird. Saturday I'm going on an interview that will maybe take me to India for a month next spring. That's weird.

You would think with all the weirdness I shouldn't have to write weird theater scripts and escape into an even weirder world of drama? Reality should be enough. Yet. Drama writing night tomorrow! Yay! So much fun. Think there could be some new challenges for my friends in there....