Escape from boredom

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…

Yesterday a guy from the Netherlands on his way home from Helsingfors (Helsinki) to Amsterdam refused to board the plane because he had seen 5 men from Iraq acting suspicious. What had they done? Two of the three men had handed their bags to the three others, then they had gone to the lavatory. Scaaaaarrrryyyyy!

I must say that I’m feeling lucky not having the color of my skin that does not allow me to go to the lavatory without being accused for being a potential terrorist. In fact, I guess I do not realize how lucky I am…

http://www.aftenposten.no/nyheter/uriks/article2319452.ece

A 83 year old man tried to escape from the police earlier today, and after crashing into a police car he ended up crashing into a house. 83 years old!!! How strange is that?? And it all happened just a few blocks away from where we live…

http://www.dagbladet.no/nyheter/2008/03/15/529842.html

Yesterday we went out to eat at Mother India, then we stopped by Skedsmo’s at Bislett before we went home at about midnight. When at home I turned on the television and we started watching a show called something like “Top Grammy Performances”. The list had 25 performances, all from Marvin Gaye, Aretha Franklin singing opera and on second place it was Celin Dion with the Titanic theme song. When they had counted down to second place I guess the time was about 01.30, and Elin was very tired, but she wanted to know who was on first place so she managed. And then…they revealed who won: Green Day with their American Idiot performance. I rolled on the floor laughing, because Green Day is clearly on of top five bands to hate according to Elin, and especially the song American Idiot. She was furious, having stayed up so long, just to get to hear them…

Some of the other performances are listed here http://hubpages.com/hub/Grammy-Performances, Eminem and Elton John and the performance by Eric Clapton singing Tears in Heaven dedicated to his son. So you might understand why we where a bit surprised that Green Day won, not that it did matter to me, I like them, but Elin…need not say more 🙂

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A man gotta believe in something…I believe I have another beer