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Today we made more than 6 litres of fresh apple juice, and Elin also made to apple cakes. Next weekend we will try another. Today we prepared the apples with the apple cutter, in that way the juice was a bit brighter and we did not get half as much "apple meat"-garbage. In fact, I had trouble keeping up with the speed of the machine, unlike ysterday when I had to push the apples down and you could really hear the machine working hard.

By the way, the commercial picture I used yesterday showing the machine with apples - it is a lie, the juice will never be as clear as the picture shows :-)

Remember that an apple a day keeps the doctor away!

As the first picture shows, there is plenty of apples available out at Vestreng where Elins mother and father lives. And they have four other trees as well. The process is quite simple, you don't even need to do anything with the apples, you don't need to remove the seeds or anything. But after the first test today we will the next time use an apple slicer just like the one on the picture above. It is in fact faster than using the knife to get rid of the bad parts of the apple, and a very easy way to check if they are rotten inside.

As the third picture shows I made about 1.2 litres times two, and with very little effort. Tomorrow, who knows how much...and you can do even more if you want to - carrots, potatoes, the sky is the limit...but not bananas.

While working I played these songs, which are to be found at http://www.youtube.com

"Check Yo Self" - Ice Cube
Ice Cube - "Today Was A Good Day"
Tone Loc - "Wild Thing"
L.L.Cool J - "Mama said knock you out"
Dr. Dre, Snoop Dogg - "Nuthin' But A G Thang"
Robyn - With every heartbeat (acoustic)
Robyn - "Be Mine!" (Acoustic Piano Version)
Robyn "Be Mine!"
Teddy bears - "Cobrastyle"
"Punkrocker" - Teddybears ft. Iggy Pop.
Nick Cave + Kylie Minogue - "Death is not the end"
Shane Macgowan & Nick Cave - "what a wonderful world"
The Pogues and Kirsty MacColl - "Fairytale of New York"
Pogues - "Dirty old town"
The Sonics - "Dirty Old Man"
The Sonics - "Psycho"
The Sonics - "Strychnine"
The Fuzztones - "The Witch"
The Robots - "In the Sign of the Octopus"
The Hellacopters - "In the sign of the octopus"
Fu Manchu - Grasschopper
Fu manchu "Evil Eye"
Fu Manchu - "Squash That Fly"
Filter - "One"
Filter - "Where Do We Go From Here"
Filter - "Hey Man, Nice Shot"
filter "take a picture"
Queens Of The Stone Age - "No One Knows" (Live at Reading 05)
Stevie Nicks - "Landslide"
Fleetwood Mac - "Landslide"
Smashing Pumpkins - "Landslide"
Dixie Chicks "Landslide"
"Everybody Hurts" (Corrs Unplugged)
R.E.M. - "Perfect Circle"
R.E.M. - "Wendell Gee"
"Money Talks" - AC/DC
AC/DC - "You Shook Me All Night Long"
AC/DC - "Back in Black"
AC/DC - "Thunderstruck"
Incredible Bongo Band - "Apache"

My latest book is about the allied invasion of Normandie and Europe in 1944. Well written by Michael Tamelander and Niklas Zetterling. I found the book very good since they do not in a way do not support any side, like books have done since the end of the war. Instead they try to explain why the allied was able to win thanks to the fact that they outnumbered the Germans and the fact that most of all Hitler did some very, very tactical stupidites (Thank God for that!). The book points out the weak sides of the Allied forces, things that I have not been aware of. It also points out why the German leadership was way better than the Allied leadership, when it comes to leadership out in the field. If you are interested in WW2, I will recommend the book for sure.

http://www.haugenbok.no/resverk.cfm?stipr=aktoer-0_46772-1_3&cid=180789

Hellacopters are currently touring Europe on their farewell-tour after 15 years of playing rock'n roll. I'm doing my homework and listening to their concert from Hove earlier this year http://nrkp3.no/konserter/?klipp=382861 to be as prepared as possible before the concert. That, combined with a small amount of beer, and I expect that it will be one hell of a concert!! :-)

Bought two albums when first ordering...

Was first introduced to Band of Horses when watching Lydverket about the new musical scene in Seattle, breaking loose from grunge finally after many, many years.

Learned to know The National while listening to the concerts from Øya at http://www.nrk.no/p3tv.

Yesterday I went out to try to find some used cars which we could consider buying. Talked to Espen on the phone on my way who said that he would not be surprised if I ended up buying a car the same day. So as he said I did. So yesterday I signed the contract saying goodbye to my old Peugeot 206 SW, who has been a superb car - but unfortunately to small now, and saying hello to a Ford Mondeo 2.0 TDCI. Almost like this one dinside.no/php/art.php?id=29361, except that I bought a 2006 model.

Ok, I must admit according to this article http://www.dagbladet.no/dinside/2004/04/14/395763.html it is bad to buy a Ford

FORD: Eliten velger ikke Ford. Dette er bilmerket for vanlige folk med vanlige liv, og som jobber fra 08.00 til 16.00. Ford-eieren har ikke noe behov for å stikke seg ut. Er familieorientert og bryr seg om nære ting i hverdagen. Ford er mest Frp-bil.

Spotted an article about male corset here the other day. I pray that I won't come as far as using corset instead of plain and simple exercising. If you want to order, you can find it here http://www.just2men.dk