Hugin & Munin Publishing

After no end of bother all the administrative tasks involved in starting up a business have finally been completed, and Hugin & Munun Publishing AB is now incorporated. There are still a few other remaining administrative tasks to be done, like opening a bank account and getting registered for VAT. But the first step of the journey is now complete, and even if the current times are perhaps not the best for starting a new business, but as the aim is to be mostly digital, the impact is less severe. And isolation could do wonders for productivity, so it is not at all bad.

I haven't actually managed to finish any of the books that I mentioned last time, but I have made good progress on most of them. Ben Elton's Time and Time Again, really went of the rails once I picked it up again, so I will be especially interested in seeing where it will go. I am about two thirds through The Last Wish so far, and I am still enjoying it. I did however finish the TV series in the mean time, and parts of the series really follows the book very closely. For good or bad. The books are riddled with references to classical fairy tales, which can be quite fun, but which at the same time adds quite a bit of silliness to the stories, which makes it difficult to take it too seriously. In many ways it reminded me of classic pulp stories. That too for good or bad. However most of my reading time the last few weeks has been taken up by Brandon Sanderson's The Way of Kings. I have heard a lot of good things about Sanderson, but never really gotten around to rea...

As mentioned earlier, the intention was to start up Hugin and Munin at the beginning of the year. However we were slightly delayed by the fact that it apparently isn't possible to start a company in Sweden without being physically in Sweden. I could of course have done it using a power of attorney, but that felt too complicated and a bit unnecessary given the fact that we had already planned a trip to Sweden during the school holidays for mid February, so we put everything on hold until then. February came, and we went to Sweden. No snow unfortunately, to the disappointment of the kids, but otherwise a success. I managed to squeeze in a bank visit to clear the last hurdle during our visit, in-between museum visits and other kids activities, and was finally able to submit everything to Bolagsverket the day after coming back. So now I am just waiting for the administrative process at Bolagsverket to complete, which may take two to four weeks. Hopefully there is no objection with re...