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horse

so, leg 2 is underway. met sheep & calves & miniature chicken

& maybe a people or 2

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apparently, people buy these ghastly critters by the truckload

said hi to mom of siggif when stopping for a hot dog & t-shirt w/ sheep

now off again!

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didn’t manage to escape choo-choo time as overpacking always takes longer than expected. still, made it to café kiljan w/ the diligent aid of a thousand leaves. the belly of that screaming red rentacar by the side of the road under hafnarfjall wasn’t very reassuring though. apparently some tourists got blown off this morning

but why kiljan? why here?

cute chinless foreign chick/waitresr

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to face the little people

do not worry, siggimus will prevail

it’s hard for [siggimus] to kick against the pricks

no turning back

just found tjugo kronor while listening to

charlotta

making lasagna

with me above the clouds

but you could have waited

you could have locked yourself up

for ten years or so

and when you finally get out

there will still be new chances for you

an obvious sign from the gods

& this time they’re out to get siggimus!!

the fierce little buggers have pointy, pointy teeth, hum an insanely annoying song & travel in wicked numbers. their wee little feet may only manage short steps but theirs is a stride filled with evil purpose matched only by their beastly eyes

siggimus is up a certain little stream without a paddle

eeeek!!!

visited for siggi hair & máni’s birthday

as soon as health allowed, which was about 4 hours behind schedule

did as bjössi har & called some neglected people during the drive. that handsfree crap has brought a few people from the periphery of siggimus’ life back into the limelight

anyhoo, hemmi & siggi nes were there with women & juniors. egill was there, but left his brand new one at home. a dutch friend of siggi hair’s was there too. & of course katja, máni & ilse the au-pair

then later on, siggi nes left & was replaced by gústi, another friend of siggi hair’s & his gf

as is to be expected when visiting that place, drinks soon started floating & delicious meals were prepared & everybody sat outside in the great weather

the conversation went around the world 3 times in a few hours and up for discussion were such diverse topics as the world price of aluminium, burning churches, the difference between killing shrimps and whales (the one in the ocean, not the sheep-shaggers), politicians; completely bonkers vs. just slightly insane, newspapers & cold porridge, & the solution to everything turned out to be damming every little stream, building an aluminium smelter next to it & of course a church

here’s a few pics of people & events

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siggi nes (to differentiate from all the other siggis)

hemmi, claims to be siggi nes’ twin brother

hemmi’s wee one

siggi hair (used to be siggi freyr, but with the hair…)

katja, also known ms. siggi hair

king & queen of the castle

hummm, was it senja? & gústi

dutch feller, wasn’t it gilbert?

king & the prince

today has felt like purgatory; siggimus has gone through hell & damnation all in one go. probably wasn’t in any state to drive back home, with cash full blast; screaming to the songs, with the odd tear trying to squeeze forth

when you’re down and out, when you’re on the street,

when evening falls so hard, i’ll comfort you.

i’ll take your part, oh, when darkness comes and pain is all around,

like a bridge over troubled water, i will lay me down

like a bridge over troubled water, i will lay me down

then upon arrival, siggimus had second lifesaving hang-over-shower in as many days

pu ha, won’t be easy showing up for work in the morning…

ps: just now managed to climb out of bed to get this out to the world :/

siggimus still knows how 2 dance!

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siggimus has been going through some of his famous newsletters & has to say he’s mighty impressed!!

there is never a dull moment for siggimus & gvido

*sigh!

siggimus is a godem genius!!

perhaps a snippet or two from them will be recycled for dis blog…

(the following is an excerpt from news of siggimus, ever so slightly modified)

during a recent visit to centralais tirgus, reputedly the largest market in europe, siggimus decided to fill the physical & emotional gap left by the theft of his beloved watch, received along with a subscription to a colourful magazine

after careful consideration & lots of windowshopping, he decides to go for a sharp quartz alarm chronograph, which he has subsequently come to know & love by the traditional latvian name of gvido

gvido looks like a million bucks; big & impressive, with a state of the art digital timepiece underneath an oldfashioned dial one. distinctly modern, yet with firm roots in tradition. gilt all over the place, digits & hands, although the second hand is just red

gvido’s digital bit is what siggimus calls impressive! not only does it tell the time, but if you prod it in the correct manner, you can also get information about a date. & as if this wasn’t quite plenty, there is also a stopwatch & an alarm!!

the golden knobs are extremely sensitive to siggimus’ touch (one-touch, it is usually called in the literature). this adds a lot of thrill & excitement to the relationship, as siggimus never knows what he’s gonna get when he looks at gvido:

-will it be a date?

-or maybe the stopwatch?

-will the stopwatch be stopped at 3:18:06?!? or will it maybe still be going at it, in a fitful race with time itself?

-will the alarm & the hourly peep be on or off? (the artists who created gvido must have decided against seperating these siamese twins at birth; siggimus has yet to get one without the other). siggimus tries to keep it off, as the display will sometimes, or rather usually, go a little bit blank during the alarming peep, & sometimes even the hourly peep fades out into oblivion, but gvido obviously has other plans. when the display returns, the alarm & peep indicator is usually on, & the hi-tech chronograph will show incorrect time. sometimes gvido tries to trick siggimus by displaying the stopwatch saying something that looks like a watch 23 mins late, but then turns out to be the stopwatch trying to trick siggimus

but siggimus isn’t tricked quite that easily, & checks the actual watch, finding it almost 9 hours off. should siggimus at this point try & set the watch to a correct time, gvido gets defensive & the display goes blank, only to return 4 hours later, 7 minutes late, but the date is february 29

at this, siggimus chuckles heartily, & says “oh, that gvido! it’s some prankster watch!”

some might conjecture that paying $10 for gvido is armed robbery, & someone else might call it a steal. siggimus says that it was an enormously prudent investment. the gilt digits & hands & the red second hand constitute a fully functional timepiece (going on three weeks now!), while the hi-tech bit provides for endless joy & entertainment

there is never a dull moment for siggimus & gvido

in october 2000, siggimus travelled to helsinki, fresh from a delightful hospital stay & with a neck brace in his bag. went to helsinki to rendez-vous with jonkurteiz & jodaz, who were there on a café norden conference

of course getting to meet minna (the human one, i.e.) was kinda the main incentive 🙂

an extremely finnish looking girl minna knew lent her an apartment. it was extremely small, but with a high ceiling, and a second ‘floor’ serving as a bedroom. siggimus remembers lying in bed, drinking in everything on tv, as he didn’t have a tv at that time back in riga. two things stand out

news footage from palestine, where a teenage palestinian was shot by israeli soldiers. it was the reemergence of the ‘troubles’ after a well timed stunt by some guy, who later, surprisingly enough became pm of israel. the thing about the footage was that it was old news & had been on the news everywhere for a week or two. siggimus had read a lot about it on the web, seen pics in the papers, read long pieces on the impact it had on the world, but always had to imagine it. strange, to finally see it

on mtv scandinavia siggimus remembers a wet man walking on a bleak beach in the rain, singing a beautiful song siggimus had never heard before (about the most alternative they allowed on the radio in latvia was madonna) & after seeing it a few times, it quite grew on siggimus

when the conference was over, siggimus went straight back to riga (if you can call something that takes 18 hours & involves a bus, a ferry, another bus, a trolleybus & the stupidest elevator in creation straight), straddled with a 25 kg ‘bag of essentials’ he had asked jonkurteiz & jodaz to bring, but turned out not to contain anything siggimus ever used. jonkurteiz & jodaz generously took it upon themselves to bring bjúgu sausages, green ora peas, some malt & a bit of appelsín lemonade which made a whopper of a meal when siggimus finally got through making some uppstúfur sauce without botching it & some delicious harðfiskur that caused great joy on the second floor of paddy whelan’s when siggimus gave it to maiks kungs on his birthday

*sigh

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