Escape from boredom

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

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

And the day after that, Jørgen at Stranda

Another picture from Stranda, off course from Randi

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

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

Espen sent me this picture from Toten

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

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?

Level 42…

Simen, the Guitar Hero

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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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 I realized that I needed a newer version of the Zend Optimzer to be able to upgrade to the latest version of my blog.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!

Tonight Elin and I went to the movies and watched the last movie made by the Cohen Brothers “No Country For Old Men” http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/No_Country_for_Old_Men_(film). Really worth while I must say!

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

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!

I heard on the radio today that last night was the first night this winter where The Norwegian Meteorological Institute measured at all measuring spots temperatures below zero.

When walking home from the shop earlier today Elin pointed out that the Coltsfoot, or Tussilago Farfara, already have said hello to the world. The spring is early this year…

The small yellow dots are the flowers, the picture is taken with my cell phone and full zoom, so no good quality…

My latest book “Styrkeprøven – Den lange veien hjem”, a book about Den Store Styrkeprøven (The Great Trial of Strength) which is a bike race from Trondheim to Oslo 540 kilometers long. As I know, the worlds longest bike race in a single stage. Aksel Selmer decided to write about a book about his experiences and teamed up with Steffen Kjærgaard. Kjærgaard being former team mate with Lance Armstrong!

A must read for people like me, preparing for DSSP for the first time…