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Sidney J. Harris: “Never take the advice of someone who has not had your kind of trouble.”

Misha’s Birthday on September 29 is only 1,5 months away (ain’t time flying!!) and I have been planning to give him his first ‘real’ bicycle for his third Birthday. Summer though is a much better season for cycling than autumn, particularly in Norway as rainy days are high on the probability list in the few months before snow comes to town, so I gave him an early Birthday present last week. He was sooooo happy, ha even now, days after he got it, a ‘Look daddy what I got…beautiful eh?’ is the first thing he says when he enters the living room in the early morning! Feels good! 🙂

He didn’t have any problem mastering the bicycle, and I believe he will get rid of the extra side-wheels sooner than later, my little angel is on a mission haha! 🙂

Kathleen Norris: “Just the knowledge that a good book is awaiting one at the end of a long day makes that day happier.”

Aldous Huxley: “After silence, that which comes nearest to expressing the inexpressible is music.”

We’re having a blast of a party at home this weekend as Misha is in once again in dancing mood! 🙂 He is hardly satisfied with the volume (too low according to him) and his latest favourite track is matching his daily routine; he is eating like an adult, doesn’t want to sleep (rrrrr), he dances till he drops and well, then starts all over, haha!

*This* track made him so happy today that I am happily turning it into the Song of the Day: ‘Eat, Sleep, Rave, Repeat‘ by Fatboy Slim, Riva Starr & Beardyman (the Calvin Harris Remix).

Haha, he is such an amazing little angel!! Daaaaance y’all! 🙂

Leo Burnett: “When you reach for the stars you may not quite get one, but you won’t come up with a handful of mud either.”

Ralph Charell: “Avoid the crowd. Do your own thinking independently. Be the chess player, not the chess piece.”

W00t! I have, or actually my company has, sent out my first invoice today! A pretty big milestone (and a pretty important one too 🙂 )!

Work has been good so far, pretty busy, just the way I like it he he and loads of new things to take care of. The transition from non-working to working has been smooth, it turns out that it is just as easy to start working as it was to stop. 🙂

Catherine de Hueck: “With the gift of listening comes the gift of healing.”

Jacob Braude: “Always behave like a duck – keep calm and unruffled on the surface but paddle like the devil underneath.”

My garden’s call for water is heard and its wish has been executed; for the first time in weeks we’ve had some serious rain in the past days. I’d like to believe that summer just took a short break instead of the more worrying idea that autumn starts really early this year. 🙂
The plants loved the change of weather, though I would have preferred it to be done a little less loud; internet at home has been down for the past days, 🙁 I suspect that a voltage peak over the phone line blew up the DSL port of the modem during a spectacular thunder and lightning show outside…hopefully a new modem will resolve it, the shipment takes daaaays though… 🙁 Luckily I know many more (and nicer!) things to do during these days of twilight disconnect than the suggestions made in the picture below, still very funny though! 🙂

Samuel Johnson: “The world is not yet exhaused; let me see something tomorrow which I never saw before.”

Hugh Macleod: “If you have something to say, then say it. If not, enjoy the silence while it lasts. The noise will return soon enough. In the meantime, you’re better off going out into the big, wide world, having some adventures and refilling your well. Trying to create when you don’t feel like it is like making conversation for the sake of making conversation.”

Jose Ortega y Gasset: “Love is that splendid triggering of human vitality… the supreme activity which nature affords anyone for going out of himself toward someone else.”

Theodore Roosevelt: “Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs even though checkered by failure, than to rank with those poor spirits who neither enjoy nor suffer much because they live in the gray twilight that knows neither victory nor defeat.”

I guess most realize that Apple is a pretty big company, but I think most will be surprised when you see how big Apple really is. They announced their financial results for their fiscal 2014 third quarter a week ago, presenting a quarterly revenue of $37.4 billion (!) and quarterly net profit of $7.7 billion…well, well, ain’t that a *shitload* of cash! 🙂 And that despite the fact that the third quarter had no big new goodies (iPhone 6&Air as well as iWatch are all expected later this year), it is traditionally the quarter with the lowest results.

So, numbers say something, yet charts (below) say more…

Assume that the iPhone were its own company, it generated $19.74 billion in sales last quester making it bigger than Amazon, or Coca-Cola and McDonald’s combined (!), while Google and eBay combined are barely bigger…WTF?!

And even though iPad sales (($5.9 billion)) are ‘just’ 1/3 of the iPhone sales, it would still be greater than Facebook, Twitter, Yahoo, Groupon, and Tesla combined…huh?!?

(via slate.com)

Alban Goodier: “Those who face that which is actually before them, unburdened by the past, undistracted by the future, these are they who live, who make the best use of their lives; these are those who have found the secret of contentment.”