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Preparing for races

Sport

On Tuesday I was about to participated on the first outdoor training session with Rye (http://www.sportsklubbenrye.no). I lasted only five kilometers before one of the spokes on my front wheel snapped and I had to return home. So on Wednesday I went down to http://www.fast-bikes.no with my bike so that they could fix it. Got kinda expensive as well, since I bought a new wheelset Mavic Ksyrium Elite http://www.mavic.com/road/products/Ksyrium-Elite.995153.aspx I guess I will go waaaaay much faster now 🙂

I’ve also put my name on the helmet. This is needed when we have a pace line chain, when I’m the last one in the slow chain the man in the fast chain will shout out my name letting me know that I must switch chain and follow his rear wheel. Since we are so many it is a neat trick to have the name on the helmet.

Helmet

What we read when eating breakfast

Anything but the other

Took this picture couple of days ago after first I, then Elin, had been eating breakfast. I read Aftenposten, and Elin read “100 dikt” (100 poems) by Haldis Moren Vesaas http://www.bokklubben.no/SamboWeb/produkt.do?produktId=2834026 Kinda funny…

Breakfast

But, ok, as you might have seen already, there is also a book there – Rocky by Martin Kellerman, which I read some days before that… check it out here http://www.rocky-digital.com/

Various pictures related to snow

Anything but the other

This easter we where at Vestreng, not being able to go skiing. People who knows me knew that and especially Elins cousin, Randi, where eager to send me pictures letting me know how nice conditions it was at their place. I did just do a clean up of all the pictures on my cell phone, and I’ve collected all the “look how much snow”-related pictures in this post.

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Ivar testing his new skiis

ivar

The day after, Johanne 3 years old at Appelsinhaugen all by herself

Johanne

And the day after that, Jørgen at Stranda

Jørgen

Another picture from Stranda, off course from Randi

Stranda

Skiing at Sætra, Atle preparing for next year and Alperittet.

Skiing

The last picture received from Randi telling me that being a farmer is niiiice

Randi

Espen sent me this picture from Toten

Toten

The last picture is from Kent who cursed all the snow in Tromsø…cursed it…why and why?

Kent

Guitarhero

Anything but the other

Kent was in Oslo for two days earlier this week and we went to visit Simen. Simen had borrowed Guitar Hero from Are, and we had to try it. I’m very bad, Kent was better and Simen had blisters due to a lot of playing the past days.

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Kent looking like he is part of Level 42, could the guitar be any higher?

Kent

Level 42…

Level 42

Simen, the Guitar Hero

Simen

Simen had done all songs on the easy level except of Raining Blood with Slayer (his favorite, see the irony 🙂 )

This one is expert level…

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PHP upgraded

Anything but the other

My domain is hosted by http://hostean.net, an ISP which I would really recommend. I realized that I needed a newer version of the Zend Optimzer to be able to upgrade to the latest version of my blog. So I sent an email to support, and after just one week they have moved my entire site to a new server running Zend Optimizer v2.6.2 without any problems at all.

So, if you need an ISP, I say again: I would really recommend Hostean…excellent service!

Van Halen – 5150

Music

When driving to Lillehammer a couple a weeks ago for Jens and Kristins wedding I needed some new music, so I found this classic one at ICA… http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/5150_(album)

5150

Racine in concert

Anything but the other

Tonight Espen, Loy and I went to Elm Street to see Racine in concert. Does not ring a bell? What about Wendy James and Transvision Vamp? Not the most impressing music I must admit, but the whole package was fun, I guess about 40 people at Elm, 10 of the was working there, then almost 10 photographers, then the rest was the bunch

Their support band was Church of Confidence http://www.churchofconfidence.de, must admit that they rocked a whole lot more …

Wendy

Arvid Bryne – “Vi sloss for Norge”

Anything but the other

My latest book is written by Arvid Bryne – “Vi sloss for Norge”, a book about Svein Blindheim Norwegian WW2 hero and Bjørn Østring also WW2 hero, but fighting for the wrong side. The book has been criticized for not digging enough into Østring and his past. In my opinion that is not important, what is important is the criticism of the trail after the war, who was judged and who was not. I’ve understood, and this book has just confirmed it, that the official history we learned in school is just one view, not necessarily containing the whole truth and nothing but the truth.

We learned in school that the D-Day was the turning point for the war, but I can’t remember that we learned much about the Eastern Front. The fact is that the real turning point of WW2 was the battle of Stalingrad, which then again made the D-Day possible. Not that I agree with Stalin & co, but I wish we had learned more about the Eastern Front as well at school.

Svein Blindheim http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Svein_Blindheim
Bjørn Østring http://no.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bj%C3%B8rn_%C3%98string

Vi sloss for Norge

LOV 1995-02-24 nr 12: Lov om helligdager og helligdagsfred

Anything but the other

No work tomorrow…

§ 1. Lovens formål: For å verne om det gudstjenestelige liv og den alminnelige fred på helligdager og for å gi høytiden ro og verdighet, skal det være helligdagsfred i samsvar med reglene i denne lov.

http://www.lovdata.no/all/hl-19950224-012.html#map0

Every Sunday and some other days we are not allowed to work or make noice and such … it’s the law!