On being an introvert personality
I have often been thought to be shy, and it did very much seem to be the case, when I was younger. For the longest time I even thought that I was shy. It turns out that this is not entirely true, my personality is not that simple. After I became an adult and went […]
When my friend died in a plane crash at 20
When I was 20 years old my good friend Siggi from school died in a plane crash. He was flying the plane himself. I first met him when we were 16 years old starting a new school. Siggi and his friend Andri were buddies from another part of town, and they started at the same […]
My last laughing fit
I love it when someone has a laughing fit and looses control of themselves. I love it even more when I loose control of my own laughter in such a way. This is strange thing that happens when someone find something so funny, that they start laughing and cannot stop. We see this with little […]
My bowling era at 16
When I was 16 I had started gymnasium school (Menntaskóli) in Iceland. It so happened that the school had several activities to do with other students. One of these activities was the very American noble art of bowling. AT this time there were only two places to go bowling in Iceland, and the one closest […]
The family pool table
In the summer of 1988 I was working a large construction company in Iceland, called Ístak hf. It had a project at the University of Iceland which involved the construction of a new building for startup companies and tech transfer projects. The whole building was finished in 5 months. I had worked for this company […]
My childhood fear of dogs
When I was a young boy I was bitten by a dog. After that I had a great fear of dogs until my mid teens. Strange thing this fear that grips you because of one instance of a scared dog that bites you, and it affecting you for such a long time. I am not […]
Painting and drawing are flow
It’s amazing to me after all these years that painting and drawing can be relaxing and childlike fun. You are in a state of play really the entire time, if you don’t take yourself to seriously that is. It can remove all your thought and worries and make you forget where you are and forget […]