Martin Gumucio

Its a big day today. Yesterday Aron lost the last one of his left contact lenses. Its has been a morning routine since he was very small to wrestle him down and put in or take out the contacts. Up until this week he really disliked the procedure, but this week he actually let us do it himself! Its a very big step, since now that he is talking more and more, that kind of morning trauma isn’t the best way to start your day. So anyway, yesterday he lost the last one of his contacts. This is always a problem, since he is not supposed to be without them or his vision changes for the worst. We had no option but to ship him to daycare without contacts and with his pair of glasses instead.

Imagine my surprise when the following little guy comes to meet me at daycare when its time to pick him up!

He had been using his glasses for the whole day without any problems. Its the first day of his life with glasses, and its a great day.

Yesterday my sister gave birth to a beautiful baby girl. Everyone is well.

I picked up the camera and documented a typical Saturday for us. We always start at the flea market at Vaksalatorg, to see if there are any new fun things we can get. We absolutely love the second-hand markets, recent find include one of these puppets, one of these keyboards, an endless array of xbox accessories.. you get the idea.

After checking the goods its time to move on to grab a coffee at the coffeewagon, that is run by a group of african women, which is notable since its a booming business and its actually run by them, there is no fat-bellied husband to be seen skulking in the background. Their donuts rule all. Then, some light shopping, always with mandatory stops at the playground so Aron can stretch his legs. This particular Saturday i was shopping for a pair of reading glasses, after my surgery last week I see really well on long distances, but the synthetic lenses my eyes have now cannot adjust focus. Squinting does nothing, its flat-out impossible to read without some kind of glasses. The optician tricked me tho, and the ones i bought from Clas Ohlsson make me nauseus.. oh well. Luckily my old glasses kinda work for now.

In the evening we had invited my mother and Hasse to dinner, as a thanks for the lots and lots of help we have received, during the summer months.

I just completed a mini-directory of all sites and personal pages related to the Gumucio family that i am aware of. Its a nice way to keep track of what the family is up to ,be it for business or pleasure.  All kinds of sites that are related to the family are welcome so send them in!

You can check it out here:  http://www.gumucio.com

The Times have just made available the mother of all archives. Every article between 1785-1985 is present, and searcheable. Absolutely fantastic. As a very small example on how useful this is, In an article in a Swedish magazine I am reading that historians have found new data on the early life of writer Ian Fleming. This is a real treasure and The Times are really showing what an internet archive can be.

http://archive.timesonline.co.uk/tol/archive/

Here follows some articles from a simple search on “Gumucio”

And another one

As you can see this is a historians dream come true, please let me know what you find in your searches!