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Fun at the dentist

Saturday, December 13th, 2008

I was at the dentist last Friday, in what was my quickest visit ever.. One of the fillings had come loose, and getting it out and setting a new one only took like 15 minutes. Which included a nice anesthesia which went straight to my nose.

This was probably my favorite dentist appointment ever, not only was it remarkably quick, I didn’t have to pay anything :) It seems the filling that came loose was put there about a year ago by the same dentist, who was quite puzzled at why it failed.

Anyway, if you live in Trondheim I would highly recommend this dentist, Thorleif Weie at Tannlege Weie, I’ve had LOTS of work done here. (And the fillings usually stay put, I have enough of them to back up that statement statistically if need be)

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Nidarosilder 2008

Saturday, September 27th, 2008

earlier this month we where at the Nidarosilder ferret exhibition here in Trondheim.

It was pretty fun, we bought some stuff like a new tunnel for the ferrets (they kinda wrecked the old one), and I had a stand for Dyrebeskyttelsen (local society for animal rights).

Buffy won second place in her category (her half sister won first), and we’re quite happy with that as there where many participants in her category. Buffy’s father won Best in Show :)

Pinky won third place in her category( score-wise it was a tie for second place with her almost identical sister :) )

Bwlmeeeh!

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Sailing in Asker

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

Last weekend I was in Asker, and got my Sailing Certificate, during a 4 day sailing trip around the Oslo fjord.
Asker kart seiling

Thursday
I took the airplane to Oslo today, 12:00 so I did not have to get up so goddamn early. After taking the airport train all the way to asker, I had to wait there for 4-5 hours until the course actually started.

Once started they went over basic navigation, and when dusk hit we started sailing from Asker down to Soon, navigating by lighthouses. We arrived in Son around 02:00-03:00  and went straight to sleep.

Friday
We woke ut at 08:00 And  had some more theory, following sailing from Son downwards to Engelsvik. Not much wind today, so several time we had to use the engine.
Seiling Asker 2

Saturday
Very favorable wind today, 10-12 m/s.. We sailed out to the exit of the Oslo fjord, then turned and sailed downwind past Tønsberg, and a bit up the Drammen fjord to Holmsbu where we stayed the night.

Top speed was at around 8.2 knots
Seiling Asker 3

Sunday
We sailed back to Asker today, pretty good wind conditions, and we arrived on schedule. Took the plane back to Trondheim and arrived back home at around 00:30
Seiling Asker 1

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Sailing in bergen

Saturday, May 3rd, 2008

I was in bergen two weeks ago, doing part 1 of getting my sailing certificate.

Friday 06:00
For a man who woke up at 04:15, I feel remarkably… like myself :)
The buss from the city to the airport took around an hour, I’m now at gate 41, and got like 10-20 minutes
before boarding starts.
bah time for boarding.. I barely had time to start up eclipse…

Friday 09:00
The flight only took an hour, and the buss in to the city took 30 minutes.. then 15 minutes to find the hotel.
Would only have been 4 minutes If I had brought a compass :)

Friday 13:00
The hotel is pretty nice (P-hotels.no), and I just slept for a couple of hours (which I sorely needed), and woke up
at 12:00 by the pizza being delivered to my room.
The sailing doesn’t start until 17:30, the only thing I have to do by then is to buy some shoes I can sail in
I only brought my flipflops, and thankfully the weather report seems to be accurate, and the whole weekend
should have sunny weather.
The hotel only has unsecured wireless network, so I’m currently ssh’ing to my server and using bitlbee + irssi
to be on msn. Thank thor gmail is availible trough https :)

Friday 22:00
Just got back from the sailing, it was just a quick run outside bergen where we got to know the boat and
did some basic stuff like setting sail, and such..

Sailboat 2

Now I can stay in bed and watch an episode of Six feet under at the same time as stacy watches the same episode
back home :)

Saturday 20:00
I got to the sailing at 10:00, and we practiced parking the boat by the dock a few times, then we
headed out and did some sailing outside Bergen..

Sailboat

Sunday

Today we got some wind and where probably sailing at around 5-6 knots at the top.

sailboat 3
When I got back to the hotel I had some pizza for dinner, I bought it from an Italian place just next to the
hotel, and it was 10 times better than the pizza I had last night (and 1/4 of the price). Dolly dimples sucks
like a neutron star.

Pizza

I hit the sack pretty early, as again I had to be up at around 05:00 for the flight back to Trondheim.

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I quit!

Friday, December 21st, 2007

I quit my job at Intrapoint yesterday.

The reason being that I got a much better offer from another company here in Trondheim named Betradar. The job pays better, and have more Java which I find much more interesting, and I’ll be starting February 1st.

A funny side note:)
A friend told me that some people where I currently work got offended by the Christmas greeting I sent out, which included a link to the song: So long and thanks for all the fish. I’m not sure if this guy is pulling my leg or not, but allegedly some people at work interpreted the lyrics rather verbatim and seem to be under the impression of the following:

  • I have tried to warn them of impending doom
  • I am intellectually superior (well, many of them were PHP “programmers”…) :D
  • The world or the company is about to be destroyed (Damn Vogons and their galactic bypasses)
  • Despite tuna nets I liked most of them, especially the toddlers
  • If I could have a single wish, I would have a tasty fish (common vegetarian craving)
  • My biggest regret is not learning how to sing

I guess that’s what you get for sending out a goodbye / merry Christmas message as a Douglas Adams reference. Actually I’m pretty sure the guy was just trying to play a trick on me (which I kinda fell for, I must admit), as I find it hard to believe that my current co-workers are so extremely imaginative / paranoid :)

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yharr

Friday, September 28th, 2007

It’s that time of year again when I really want to get a boat, I’ve pretty much decided that I want the Bavaria 31 Cruiser

Bavaria 31 Cruiser

It’s a bit expensive (almost 600’000 kr or~110’000$), so I have to take up a loan in order to get it, if I take up a loan for 500’000 over the next 15 years, that should be around 5000 kr each month.. I’m expecting a raise this christmas, so that should provide 2500-3000 kr each additional month. Maybe if I’m lucky I will get some cash from the company options contract , but I consider the whole thing a bit iffy.. The bottom line is that nothing (except death or severe disabling injury) can keep me from getting a sailboat :)

I’m getting my VHF Short Range Certificate next month, I guess it’s a start :)

Also need to find a harbor spot which is kinda hard to get in Trondheim, as there are more people/boats than there are vacancies.

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Rabbits like to move!

Saturday, April 7th, 2007

Finally done moving.. used most of the easter to move the 10 km from Steinan to Tiller (Both in Trondheim). Still haven’t got everything unpacked and in place but the essentials are up and running (refrigerator, couch, tv and computer) :)

rayman rabbit
I’m closing up on 75% completion on the story mode of Rayman Raving Rabids, our only Wii game at the moment. And let me tell you, the game is GREAT. Lots of fun mini games, cute rabid bunnies and the best sounds in a video game ever. After I’m done with story mode I’m going to get ALL the bonus material, even if it kills me, I’ve come across a few bugs, but most are easily fixed (like some mini games where not possible to do unless the system was running in 60 hz video).
Rating: 9.5 / 10

Oh, seeing that we don’t have much Stargate Left (halfway trough season 10 and season 3 on SG-1/Atlantis) I decided to try and watch Farscape in sequence :)

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Moving soon?

Thursday, January 11th, 2007

Me and Stacy won the bidding for a nice apartment here in Trondheim, the apartment is on Tiller which is about 25 minutes from the city center by buss.

Leilighet

Even tough we won the bidding round, the apartment is in a housing cooperative, which means people in that housing cooperative (or close family) has first option on the apartment. So we wont know for sure that we got it for like 2 weeks.

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