Yesterday I rented a BMW316 and drove to Stranda to visit Inger Helen and Atle. Nice car to drive, BMW has very, very good driving abilities, BUT – the engine was way, way, way to small. But, in sharp corners, very fun!!
I bought a present for Atle
This week is being spent in Ålesund teaching WebSphere Portal 6.1 Development. After the work hours was finished I went back to the hotel, changed my clothes and went out running. Had a really nice run past Fjellstua. There are some pretty nice paths up in the city mountain. See large picture
…and a beer at the end.
My sister in law on the way up the ladder…
At the mill yesterday, just had to take a picture of this tractor trailer…
This year we have the general election here in Norway. Due to that many of the party’s have a stand on the main street of Oslo, Karl Johan. The one I find most noticeable is the one belonging to Demokratene. The reason for this: It is not the most eye-catching one, making sure that you at once knows which party it represents. No, Demokratene seems to be sponsored by Bautas, which is the largest equipment rental and outsourcing company in Norway, providing associated planning and rigging services. The first day I passed it I thought it had something to do with some construction work, but along side it an old man is standing handing out pamphlets. The best thing was one of the days it was pretty heavy rain, then he just stood inside with the door slightly open, with just his hand and the pamphlets showing.
At the right hand side you see the stand to the senior citizens party here in Norway, way more cozy.
Espen and I participated in AIM Challenge yesterday. 6 hours, 60 markers with different amount of points if you reach it. Currently not sure how many points we got, but if we have counted correctly we should have got 279,5 points. The results are not available yet.
Anyhow, much fun and we learned a lot, it was our first time (at least mine), but next time we will really go for…not gold, but a least more points
UPDATE: The results are now available – #13 of 87 🙂 !!!
Espen climbing
I was there just few minutes before
My latest book about was about Vietnam. A very good book I must say. It is considered the definitive oral history of the Vietnam conflict featuring civilians, soldiers, protesters, journalists, survivors, exiles and refugees from all sides. If you want to learn more about the Vietnam war, I really recommend this book.
My grandmother Haga and grandfather Daniel on tour with Berg Senior Citizens Club
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On Friday I participated in Fredagsbirken. The weather was not good, but at least I was way more lucky than the rest ones starting on Saturday. My goal was to be one of the top 500, ended up as #40 with my 3:54:15.
Youtube-clip from yesterday
[video:youtube:qXHSVN_Uo6w]Here you have a picture from the sports hall I spent the night before the race
And this picture is taken when I drove out of Rena Friday evening after I had returned Espen there. Pretty heavy rain, and it kept on the whole night 🙂
Anders is two days at Vestreng, so since we had the evening of we went to San Leandro Tapas. Good food and disant prices, but why on earth must they have this high stools, bar stools? I really missed some good old fashioned chairs.
After that we thought of going to the movies, but ended up buying Nord on DVD and watching it at home. Quite funny movie…