Finally Ljusdal Airsoft is registered as an Sverok association, and just started to register members. The membership is 50 SEK per year, and if you register now, you’ll get membership until end of 2012.
Our homepage is still under construction, but the most vital information is available and more will come.
You can find more information and discuss at Xairsoft.se, Gävleborgs airsoft forum 
This is the best Norwegian psycho thriller I’ve ever seen, and due to the risk of spoiling I won’t tell much at all.
A few things to know, it’s not really scary and there are some violent and sexual content in it. Overall it gives a real feeling, and to many the answers don’t come until the end of the movie. A few have even had problems understanding the movie, but if you have any issues, don’t hesitate to ask 
Picture by Linn BrandströmIt’s a long time since I’ve had the time to write anything here, or at least I haven’t prioritized it. This is a little update on what happened lately.
Airsoft
Last weekend I was at Farmen – Infection Day in Bräcke. It was incredibly awesome, I got to meet some old people and met a few new ones.
Looking forward to next spring when we are playing the sequel. If you are interested, contact us via our forum xairsoft.se.
Boardgames
During the summer there have been less boardgaming that usual, but that’s quite normal. Now we’ve started up again, we are playing in Embarbo on Friday every even week.
Dancing
I’ve started to dance Bugg again and will also learn how to dans Foxtrot. We dance at Kleppa, Ljusdal every Monday, tell me if you want to join.
Fantasy group
We are planning to start an association in Ljusdal where we’ll focus on non-digital games such as; Boardgames, Rollplaying, Table-top strategy and Magic the Gathering among some. We might also group up for some live roleplaying (LARP) if people are up for it. Stay tuned for more information.
Warhammer
Autumn is here and that means more time for indoor activites, and thus also more time for Warhammer Fantasy. Later on we’ll also start checking out Warhammer 40k.
Work
I still work at the municipality, but my contract lasts until the end of September. I’m looking into alternatives to get my project running, but nothing is certain at this moment, only time will show.
Besides this there are many things I’m looking into and many things I need to get done.
Darkness in a human heart,
can tear the world apart.
But preconceptions take it’s part,
in spreading poison, it’s the start
of decay of all here.
When darkness comes, don’t make a fuss,
don’t point fingers, swear and cuss.
The difference in “them” and “us”,
are nothing more than color ’cause
we are all the same.
So take your time and look around,
see everyone on equal ground,
hear the voices, listen to the sound
they want justice befall the man they found
guilty for the crime.
Now stand still a while, take your time
let hopes and dreams just fill your mind.
Support those who are left behind
and to all victims of the crime.
Their memory lives on.
–Daniel Kaaven
I recently ordered a bunch of airsoft equipment, and we even had a photo shoot with the TEARS group in Ljusdal Airsoft. This is an American inspired team who uses Multicam, and weaponsused by the US like; M4, MP5, G36, Scar etc.
My airsoft page have a list of all equipment I got so far and what I plan to get, pictures can be found in the airsoft gallery and there will come more..
Recently I added a complete Proper uniform, a backpack, shemagh, army t-shirt and more small stuff to my ever growing collection of airsoft equipment. Ordered everything from Armygross, and they delivered in 24 hours (on workdays)! It was awesome, ordered it on sunday and got it on tuesday I got Armygross recommended, and so far I’m really satisfied and gladly recommend them further.
Besides getting new stuff I found a fantastic weapon to a great price (saved approx 2000 SEK) second hand and hardly used!
Here is the picture of my new girlfriend; VFC Scar-L! I just have to name her, and then we can marry 
Now I just have to get some good batteries, a riflescope in addition to some minor upgrades like spring, piston, piston head and more airsoft mumbo jumbo
Yesterday Kim Plenum gave me a gift, one that his grand father had made himself; a violin that’s handmade in Denmark.
I’m really grateful for this beautiful present, and I’ll honor it by learning how to play.
The design is similar to (or the same as) the Norwegian Hardingfele as far as I can see, and it’s a beautiful piece of handwork. Luckily for me Dedde knows a little about fiddling with stuff like this, and he got a fiddle of his own.
First step is getting some help from people with knowledge, so we are going to a “Spelmansstämma” or a “Fiddle Meeting” as google translate puts it. Get some basic knowledge about the fiddles and some tips and tricks, then we might have to restring both fiddles. But then, finally we’ll start terrorizing our (girl-)friends, neighbors and anyone close to us with our incredible lack of skills
You who read this be warned, those who haven’t won’t know that hit them 
Today is Norway’s national day and we have a very special way of celebrating the holiday in Norway, it’s non-militaristic and it’s mainly for the children.
The parades are filled with children since every class in the elementary up to middle school are attending with their own banner and the school music is playing as well as our famous “Russ“. To get a little view on how it’s done you can watch this clip from TV Norges – Alt for Norge, a show where American-Norwegians are battling to be true Norwegians.
In Ljusdal we have had different ways of celebrating the holiday, often we have a small parade, and do some BBQ and partying. Last year a new tradition arose, where Sossarna in Ljusdal challenge the local Norwegians to Brännboll match.
Here is a movie that shows that even Norway has patriotic Ninjas:
Image gallery from the trip
As I never been to Denmark before, Kim offered me a trip to Copenhagen as a birthday present (in advance). Friday we took the train from Ljusdal to Copenhagen at 19:25, although SJ’s plan for our trip was a little special. They wanted us to go to Lund, then wait 2 hours, travel up to Helsingborg, wait 1,5 hours before taking the trip from Helsingborg to Copenhagen.
Lund is 20 minutes from Malmö, where you can swap trains and take a 20 minutes ride to Copenhagen. We rearranged the trip and got there 4 hours earlier than expected.
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Arriving at Sara’s apartment we where met by a smiling little Dane and of course got a big hug. Her apartment building is donut shaped and looked like it was made from many big containers and the inside looked like an army barrack But the longer you stayed, the more you got used to it, and it actually was a pretty nice style. We where invited to eat breakfast with her, Heine and her room mates, they served American pancakes, smoothie and egg & bacon. Heine turned 29 today so me and Kim had bought him a bottle of Angostura 1919, the best rum we know
We also visited a small 7eleven shop, and I discovered how easy it is to get alcohol here in Denmark. They have everything from beer to booze and you can by it 24/7. The prices is not the cheapest at 7/11, but can compare to swedish prices on beer and cider.
Later we took the Harbour buses to Nyhamn and walked to Phoenix Copenhagen, our hotel, to leave our bags. From there we started to explore Copenhagen and first stop was Cafe Malmö to get a bottled green tuborg and discovered that this is a Swedish bar in Denmark where Norwegian use to come to drink. The first thing that happened when I entered was a Norwegian giving me an short and interesting history lesson about the bar. It has beer openers from all around the world, 4000 of them or so, and it’s probably the oldest sailor pub in Europe and have been running since 1870 I loved the concept though, a real pub with a dark brown interior, indoor smoking and decent prices on alcohol!
The price list was interesting:
Beer 20:-
Water 20:-
Bitter 20:-
Booze 20:-
From here on we went for a walk, stopped at a Lego store, it was impressive, they had some marvelous creations in there and a ingenious system where you held a Lego box up in front of a TV with a webcam and it showed you the content animated in 3D. Found a clip on 
that shows how this functions it’s pretty amazing to try it IRL.
We went to Ørstedsparken to find this sign, but it where no where to be found, we walked around there for 45 minutes, although it was a beautiful park and we had great weather we couldn’t find it. We later discovered that this was a made up sign, bummer! But well worth the trip and at least I have many real pictures from the park and one of the fake sign
We went over to O’Learys to meet up with the other who would join us on a dinner to celebrate Heine’s birthday. There I found some of the most expensive Carlberg beers; 4 for 125:- but still cheaper than Sweden :D Played some table football and suffered total humiliation when playing against Heine, I hadn’t got a chance, but it was fun anyway. One major difference between Denmark and Norway or Sweden is that you can buy a beer in a bar, and then just take it with you and drink out in the streets, the only thing you’re not allowed to is to bring a alcohol into a new place.
After some beers we went over to Resturant Klubben to try Denmarks famous Fried Pork with Parsley Sauce, I even got to try the Old-fashioned Roast Beef which I must admit was more to my taste. An all you can eat meal for 119:- at a cozy restaurant is not a bad deal at all, we got some problem with the time it took them to serve and was even so unlucky to experience that the burgers where raw when they arrived. Result, we got 5-6 liters of beer for free, and those who ordered burgers got to eat Fried Park for free. We split the bill even and paid 107:- each for a lot of food and even more alcohol.
From there it was a little chaotic on where we where supposed to go, but we ended up at Rosie McGee’s in the end. There I got to meet the famous Simon and experience a awesome evening! I also got to see Denmarks biggest smoking lunch Simon served us a bottle of Vodka when we arrived, and then it just went downhill from there, we left Rosie’s around 5, took a detour to the hotel and then out of Hong Kong, a place that is always open, grabbed a beer before getting back to the hotel for a night of sleep. We got 4 hours of sleep before we started Day 2
First of we went out with Sara and Heine to find a place that served Danish Smørrebrød, but we ended up on an all-you-can-eat-buffe that only cost 59:-, but if you didn’t buy anything to drink you had to pay 15:- extra (weirdest thing I’ve seen). We went out sightseeing before the big game, and even found a car that was perfect size for Sara.
Then it was time for me to experience my very first live football match, we went to Netto to buy some cheap beers, and cheap they was, from 2:- for a 0.33 bottle of strong beer. After buying the beers and pack of cigarettes we started our trip out to Brøndby stadion to watch Kim’s favorite team play a home match against AC Horsens. This was a real experience the people was jumping so the concrete arena we where standing on was shaking, you where jumping if you wanted or not. The match ended with 0-0, but standing there in the midst of the supporters was a awesome experience, they really know how to show the love for their team, I was more fascinated with.
Here you can see the supporters showing there love for their team.
After the match me and Kim was completely exhausted and just went back to the hotel and fell asleep about 23:00, up at 7 still tired and went down to eat breakfast. Then took the train at 9:45 and the trip is expected to take 10 hours.
I really want to thank Kim for this experience, and also thank Sara and Heine for their guiding tours, last but not least I want to thank all the people I met in Copenhagen that helped me have a great time on my first trip to Denmark. This will not be the last trip if I can help it
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Some favorite quotes
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Adam Sandler have made a new romantic comedy, I really liked 50 First Dates, and this is the same category.
The story is about one guy who got hurt when he was younger and about to get married, then chose to use his wedding ring to score chicks. Works well, then he falls in love with a young hot girl, some cases leads to lies and from there it just becomes a landslide.
Really funny, loads of surprises and entertaining from start to finish.
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