Escape from boredom

Have you seen the movie about Texaco (Chevron) and how they have polluted land in Ecuador? Would recommend you not to, since you will only feel a stronge urge to kick some ass, especially the Chevron employees. I would hope people like the scientist Sara is a liar, because there are no lies told, she and her coworkers must be the worst kind of scientist.

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I guess there are plenty of things that the president of Ecuador, Rafael Correa, could have done better, but the decisions he has made in this case is proving that he is a wise man.

Found this bird out on the balconyhere the other day. At first I thought it was stuck in the grill, but he wasn’t. So I assume he has tried to fly through the window in the balcony door. Quite funny when Elin noticed it 🙂

This bottle was all fresh when I started on Friday, not meant for nine hours in mud

Tom Erik having his last day at Telenor yesterday, so to show how much we appreciate him we ate a lot of cake. Must admit that I was not even hungry when dinner was served at home. Did not try the cheese cake, but had two pieces of each of the other ones 🙂

And by the way, how to lose weight while eating cake for breakfast 🙂

Last Saturday we had some trouble with the lawn mower, it would not start, but my father-in-law knows his way around the problem. The battery charger can be used on big tractors as well as the lawn mower. Also notice the pile of pallets, we had to do some other maintenance as well and without a proper lawn mower lift we created our own.

On my way to work I spotted this pile of junk just by the sea in Bjørvika. But sometimes later when passing by on my way home I spotted someone getting up from the pile, to my surprise after having had a sleep. So then I realized that someone is actually living there. Not looking forward to the winter I would assume, would be surprised if the pile actually floats. Something for David Letterman and his “Will it float“

…for staying inside, but cycling back home, did not feel for it. Picture taken out of the window at work yesterday on my way to the locker room. But in fact it was not that bad since the temperature was quite high, did not freeze at all, but I was Wet, Wet, Wet

If you look closely you can spot the boat heading for Aker Brygge from Nesodden in the fog.

Google does not let me search for what I’m searching for, but suggest that I should search for what I was searching for.

When washing the winter tires (ok, I know…very late…) and later my bikes I suddenly noticed just above my head a big wasp nest. Damn those bastards! Anders got stinged last week, it did hurt but no more than that. At least we know that he is not allergic and he now have a lot of respect for the wasps. Anyhow, I did not try to remove the nest, but if I sometimes would need to remove a nest I found a how-to for how to get rid of a wasp’s nest.

On my way to work today I stopped down by the harbor to take a picture of a oncoming ship. It was the hydrographic survey vessel HNLMS Snellius (A 802) of the Netherlands Navy.

Then I also noticed a bunch of Lion’s mane jellyfish below me. Good for me that I was not about to take a swim! Must admit that I find the amount of jellyfish a bit scary, scientist are having trouble explaining the amount of jellyfishes invading our fjords this and previous years. But the most reasonable explanation involves overfishing as the reason for it, less fish, more jellyfish.

“Two-thirds of Europe’s fish stocks are heavily overfished”
International Council for the Exploration of the Seas, Annual fish stock status reports

This, and other things like the bee colony collapse disorder makes me fear where the future. Not so much for my own sake, I do only have, give or take a few, 40 more years to walk (cycle) on this earth, but my two boys have the double of that (I hope). So what challenges they will have to struggle with in their future is something I do spend some time worrying about. When I grew up we did fear the atomic bomb, but that was simpler. Either the war started, or it did not, and luckily it did not. Climate changes (for whatever reason), overfishing, pollution of the earth, etc, etc…all these things are happening, they cannot be avoided, so I feel that I only can cross my fingers and hope for the best…

But, enough of that, when I started pedaling again a guy passed me riding a bike equipped with an electrical support engine. He went in a ridiculously high speed compared to the cadence. Must admit that I do have some trouble getting the point, why spend so much money on a bike with a crappy engine, why not instead then by a scooter? OR a fancy bike powered by you only, and get the exercise as a bonus???