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Heavy duty gardening tending

Anything but the other

Helping out my father in law doing some gardening tending. We needed to cut down the old birch shown in the picture below since it was dead and could fall down anytime.

My oldest son watching it safely from a distance, sitting inside the New Holland.

First needed to cut down a small birch.

Then the large one. Had the wire rope attached high up in the tree, so when I had prepared the undercut my father in law just tightened the rope a bit, and the tree fell down. Notice that quite a lot of the branches just snapped of when the tree hit the ground, proving that the whole tree was pretty dead.

Cutting another tree to pieces, got both chainsaws stuck (fu#¤!!)

But, no problemo, having the right equipment nearby…

Summary of this week bikerides

Sport

Previously I’ve blogged about the bike ride me and Espen had. Thursday morning I spent some quality time down in the basement before work changing from winter to summer tires on my commuter. So now it is ready for more speed back and forth to work.

Friday after work I took the long road out to my in-laws. Started at home and went via Ytre Enebakk, Solbergfoss, Havnås and Hemnes before ending up at my in-laws. 110 kilometers on my new Everest, need the hours before going to Germany.

Quick stop at Solbergfoss.

Walk/bike-path close to Askim.

Yesterday I took the bike out for a quick spin, just a bit more than one hour. Ok, it is no snow left, but head wind three out of four orientations (? – north, south, west, east) and pretty cold made it hard to believe that spring is here…

Firmware upgraded on our Samsung le46c635

Work/Geek

Got some problems with our Samsung LCD-tv right now, depending on the daily mood of the tv it either shows a clear and bright picture, or it “flimmer”. Quite annoying, have nailed it down to be caused by the tv itself, and not by the digital decoder or the LG media center. Anyhow, to try to get rid of it I decided to upgrade the firmware. Turned out to be quite easy, spent most of the time trying to find out where to download latest firmware from. At last found it on the bottom of the Samsung.com webpage, “How can we help you?” –> “Download …”.

Then needed a Windows computer, since the file is a *.exe-file. Extract the content to a USB-stick, plug it in to the TV and choose SW-update from the menu, voila, in 2-3 minutes it is up and running again.

Did it fix the problem? No. Did I notice anything different after upgrading the firmware? No. Was it cool? Yes!

Enebakk Rundt – testing my new bike

Sport

Decided to go Enebakk Rundt today, even though I did not feel all to good, just had to test my new bike when the weather was so nice. Enjoyed the bike, almost as fast as my road bike. But must admit that I expected the head wind to be back wind after a while since it was a round, but as before, the wind turns all the way so I had it in my face all the time 🙁

Picture taken just before Kirkebygda. No snow at all…

Weekend milestones: Road biking, 1000 km and 500 workouts

Sport

Several milestones this weekend

  • Snow almost gone away, warm weather, got to use my road bike last Sunday
  • 1000 kilometers on bike so far this year, thanks to commuting
  • 500 workouts registered on my cell phone using Sports Tracker…had it for two years, so not that impressing, but fun to know at least

And thanks to the people at Renovasjonsetaten at Oslo Kommune who already have been out sweeping the bike (and walk) road out at Klemetsrud.

Removing Windows newline in bash scripts

Work/Geek

Had an issue with the ‘^M’ characther in some files causing unwanted line breaks. Got some help from colleagues pointing out that it is a Windows line break. But – how to remove it in my bash script? Easy to do using TR told me, but no. Added 

tmp="$(echo ${mLine} | tr -d '^M')"

but no luck…after some struggle it turned out that I could not just write ^M, I had to add it to the script using CTRL + V, then immediately followed by CTRL+V. Using VI as the editor that was what I needed to do to add the newline character to my script.

Discussing stairs

Anything but the other

Discussing stairs at work, Youtube to the rescue when I tried to describe unnecessary use of stairs, no better example than Fawlty Towers , the extra stairs on first floor.

Basil and Manuel at their best…

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