Okay, now focus on the board.

Can you read the bottom line? The middle line? Well, what about the top line?! Wow, you’re bad at eyesight tests!

No, seriously. I speculated that my camera might be broken. And there you have the proof. When I have the zoom set to default (meaning: no zoom), the camera can’t focus. At all. Bugger. Luckily it helps if I push the zoom lever a little. Zoom in just a tiny bit. Then it starts to focus.

Can you read that? Yes, much better. But it’s still very annoying. It’s hard to tell whether the picture is going to be in focus or not. And having to zoom in to take a decent picture means I can’t quite be as close to the motif as before. It is no good, really. Lucky that I have been planning to buy a new camera, eh? Now there’s an excuse. I’m going to have to have a look around and see if it’s come to Denmark yet. Olympus SP-550 Ultra Zoom. That’s the one I want. Screw the finances, it’s not like paying the rent is important!

You can tell that moving out has made me into a very responsible person, eh?!

My left hand is tingling a bit. I must have a nerve squeezed somewhere.

It’s raining like heck outside. Beautiful.

[time passes]

I have now ordered myself the new camera. It was a lot cheaper than I thought. So that’s good. And 18x zoom. Like woah. I won’t need a telescope to spy on the neighbours, I can just use my camera. 2-3 days and then I’ll have a new toy to play with. This time I swear I’ll actually read the manual and get to know all the functions and how to get the optimal results from the camera. Unlike all my previous cameras where I have just been winging it.

Ooh, new pictures and a video from Desirée! My soon-to-be kitten, Luna Frodo.

God she is so gorgeous. I did not know they made kittens that wonderful. Oh we’ve all seen cute little kittens, but none as cute as mine. And video. Love, love, love. Today I went to the library and checked out Politikens Kattebog. And I snapped up a couple of other cat books as well. Couldn’t resist. Also picked up a little fiction, because the book I’m currently reading is completely awful. It’s an “unauthorised biography” of Gillian Anderson. The Anderson Files. I like biographies and this one was in English and cheaply for sale in a used-books shop. But oh boy, it’s horribly horrible. So I welcome some better reading material. And the library is handily placed right around the corner. Just outside the City Vest shopping mall. Five minutes away from everything I need.

Apart from the goats, of course.

But they’re worth the extra 15 minutes.

I made rice for dinner today. For the first time in my new appartment. And well, forever really. I have always been a little intimidated by rice. It seemed like a complicated thing to get right. But I bought these handy packages. With the rice in a little plastic bag that you just throw in the water and let boil. And somewhat to my surprise they turned out perfectly. Not mushy or creamed together or anything. They came out just like I like them. So now I guess I can add that to my list of things I can cook. Nice. I had cold chicken bits with it, lovely. My next project should be to finally unwrap that oven I bought and then actually make hot chicken. Yeah.

I am a little in love with this acoustic cover of Hey Ya. I want to buy Obadiah Parker CDs, but I don’t have paypal. Bastards! Get an international record deal you losers, how hard can it be?! I’m planning to get one when I learn how to play the guitar. Shouldn’t be a problem. And I mean all that with kind irony of course.

Shake it like a polaroid picture.

Last night I thought I was going to die.

… Okay, maybe I’m being a little dramatic. A LITTLE. DRAMATIC. My left side sorta went all tingly. You know, like when you sit on your foot and it “falls asleep”. My entire left side sort of felt like that. I wondered if maybe I was having a stroke or something. Actually I can still feel it a little. And I have felt it before, recently. Just smaller. A little in the foot or the hand. Last night it felt like the entire side of the body. I started getting paranoid, thinking that maybe half of my brain would not get blood or the left part of my heart would stop beating. Hey, I never graduated med school. In fact I didn’t even go to the first lesson. Mainly because I didn’t enroll.

Anyway. My left hand is still tingling a little. And actually the left side of my neck a bit. Hmm. Maybe I should go to the doctor. One of them proper ones that graduated and all. I imagine I’ve had a nerve squeezed somehow and that’s causing it. Probably. Or maybe it’s just a very, very, very slow stroke. You never know. No, I’m fine really.

To prove that I’m still alive and producing stupid things, here is a video: http://youtube.com/watch?v=LeGJHtZqpbw. I made a little video for the song You Know Better from Tina Dickow’s new album. In case you would like to hear it, which I think you should, because she is my hero and so on. It’s a very avant-garde video with a lot of artistry and symbolism, and if you don’t “get it” then it’s probably because you’re not as smart as me. I am, for the record, smarter than the average Plume. Ahem. Yes. Okay, maybe it’s just usual goofing off and not very smart at all. You be the judge! There’s a lot of stuff out of focus, that was a conscious choice. Made by my camera, I think it’s broken. Or maybe it was just the dim lights in the appartment. I’ll test it out tomorrow in the daylight with the goats. Anyway. If you watch the video then you can see the goofball in the mirror and the lazyplume in the comfy chair. And then at some point I run out of goofootage and the video switches to live footage of Tina, from her last concert in Århus. So it’s all good fun. If you have the time, listen to the song a couple of times. Real music must have time to breathe and find it’s way to your heart. If you just want songs that you can sing along to after one listen then you can go to Top of the Pops, or whatever it’s called these days. Tina’s music is real music. Like good old-fashioned American pie. Only Danish.

Oh by the way, when you’re watching the video, have a look at the Youtube related video list and you’ll see a bunch of videos by someone called “dicodenmark”. I think I might know that guy. I think I might know that guy really well. I mean, REALLY well. If you want to hear more Tina music then go check his profile. Maybe you can even recognise him from somwhere..

In other news, I have started reading up a little on the subject of kittens. Reading the Danish cat newsgroup. Seems the initial vet thing is a bit more expensive than I thought. But it’s money well spent. I can’t wait to get my little kitty. I need to find a good vet too. One not too far away from here. There’s a petstore in City Vest, the big shopping center around the corner. So that’s handy. I imagine I can get most of what I need there. Maybe they can even give advice about vets in the neighbourhood. I am still somewhat intimidated by it all. The vet, getting the right food, potty training, vaccinations, scratching boards. But I know I shouldn’t worry about all that, it’ll be fine. As far as I can tell people in general seem to be able to have cats, so why not me? I’m sure little Luna Frodo will make me happy.

Plume 2.0: Happy Plume.

PS. I love this one, although it’s in Danish.