The lack of sun causes increased electricity costs

For transparency and my own agenda, I strongly dislike socialism and our previous government, the Social Democrats with the support of the Green Party and the tacit acceptance of the Left Party, who ruled Sweden for 8 years. At the last election, I voted for the current government.

The previous government chose based only on political decisions to close 6 out of 12 operating nuclear power plants. The result of these political decisions is that Sweden has an overloaded and unreliable electricity grid that has to be reinforced from time to time with coal-fired power plants, instead of the previous clean, stable and cheap electricity.

In addition to still having to wear a warm jacket, hat and gloves, the absence of the sun this "spring" also brings other problems. There are many homeowners who have installed solar panels to lower their electricity costs and thereby also reduce the load on Sweden's already overloaded electricity grid, not having received any of the normally calculated hours of sunshine.

Spring has abandoned us

Luckily the temperature stayed above freezing last night so instead of snow we got rain. For once, I'm happy about the inability of meteorologists to make the right forecast. Today I am, so far, relatively satisfied with the weather, even if the risk of snowfall today is not completely over yet.

I prefer today's 34°F (1°C) and rain any day of the week to the forecast's 30.2°F (-1°C) and snow. According to the latest forecast, it will still be until Thursday of next week, which is May 9, 2024, before we get 59°F (15°C) and partly cloudy skies.

Monopoly money > Swedish krona

Today we acquired a small number of Realty Income Corporation common stock (O). A purchase we really should have waived considering the Swedish krona's basically non-existent purchasing power against the US dollar.

There is still close to 30% of the month's estimated dividends remaining. Most likely, we will not invest this money until the Swedish krona has strengthened. Currently, Monopoly money is almost worth more than the Swedish krona.

An announcement by Capital Southwest Corporation Common Stock (CSWC) tomorrow regarding an extra dividend in June 2024 would be very welcome.

Enough is enough

Jack Frost, I can't take much more! Tonight Greater Stockholm will receive 0.8-2.7 inches (2-7 cm) of snow. This MUST be the last snowfall of the season.

My parents, who are 76 and 78 respectively, cannot remember winter being this long, ever. Almost every single person I met today has expressed their immense displeasure with the weather.

A few clowns short of a circus

For full transparency, I am politically far from the left and socialism.

Gang crime has a firm grip on Sweden. A major source of income for these gangs comes from the sale of various drugs. The left claims with great zeal that it is exclusively people from affluent areas, they call them party junkies, who can afford to buy drugs and thus bear the blame for this drug trade.

In Sweden, the vast majority of cultural figures identify themselves as left-wing. This weekend the magazine Elle Sweden had its annual gala. This gala has for several years had a compere who even has written on her social media ACAB, all cops are bastards.

A party leader who is part of our current right-wing government even had her invitation revoked a couple of days before the gala 2 years ago. The reason for this was that the party leader in a radio interview wondered how it was that 100 policemen were injured instead of 100 Islamists in connection with several riots around Sweden due to a previously authorized demonstration where a Quran was burned. Because of this interview, the compere demanded that the party leader's invitation be revoked.

Now it has emerged that several participants at this year's Elle gala openly took drugs during the weekend's gala. With this, it became clear that they and Sweden's cultural personalities also make up the drug trade's customer group.