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Things to do on a Thursday

Cleaning the drain pipes, no job to big, no job to small for this truck. Someone suggested that I could use the garden hose…I would beg to differ – the pressure washer on that truck…the noise alone from the drain when they started flushing proved that this was a serious tool way better than any garden hose.

The Mini Bottle Gallery

Yesterday at a work seminar held at the Mini Bottle Gallery. Interesting topics, and also fun afterwards to spend some time wandering around in the gallery.

The brothel theme room. As we where told, Nevada being the only state in the U.S where brothels are allowed, each place having its own mini bottle (seems to be a fact http://www.figuralminibottles.net/dug%20nevada/dug%20nevada.shtml)

And then the farmer theme, a John Deere and an International

Using grep to match lines not containing a word

My case was: Match all lines with key purgepolicy, but not containing the word Entirepool


purgePolicy=EntirePool
purgePolicy=FailingConnectionOnly

First I tried to use the ! operator in the regex, but that only causes the error

bash: !": event not found

Solution was to first find all lines with purgepolicy then pipe the result and exclude all results with EntirePool

grep "purgePolicy=" myfile.props | grep -v "EntirePool"

Solution found at http://www.thegeekstuff.com/2011/10/grep-or-and-not-operators/

Windfall tree – I was in for a surprise

Had to delimb two windfall trees yesterday. Well aware of the dangers I must admit that I was not able to spot the danger. Luckily not to much tension in it, but it did “jump” about half a meter….and really fast. I did not want to cut the tree into small pieces so I could just drag the whole thing with the tractor

, but…next time better review some safety videos first.
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But not all self proclaimed safety videos are really safe. This guy knows his way around working with the chain saw, but apart from that…he seems to have forgotten his protective clothing.
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Tetanus vaccine

Got some small pieces of a steel wire stuck in my finger here the other day, so had to get help of the doctor to get it out. And to be on the safe side I also got a tetanus vaccine. Not painful, but two days after my arm is kinda sensitive, looks like a wasp sting.

Spinning to Oslo Ess

Did watch Skavlan yesterday where Michael Mosley, the man behind the 5:2 diet was a guest. Due to this I realized that no exuses was valid and that I had to go out spinning in the barn in the evening. Found the latest album from Oslo Ess, “Alle hjerter deler seg”. Good one!