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Out walking today

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All the three of us went out walking today, or to be all correct, Anders did not walk, we carried him in the baby backpack. Plenty to see today, at first I advised a guy who was stuck with his car so the traffic jam (two cars were waiting) broke up. Then we found a pile of snow that wasn’t just snow, but in fact a car. In fact, plenty of those today. When almost back home I saw this old man standing there trying to remove all the snow on and around his car. It turned out that he was just about to turn 90 (!!!) in a few days. That, and the fact that he had to use a wheel walker made me decide to help him out. Luckily he was not going to drive the car, he just wanted to remove the snow and just start it up. A man at his age driving around on these conditions would have been crazy!

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Pretty much snow yesterday

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A collage of my neighbours houses taken yesterday evening during the snow blizzard. Ok, maybe not a snow blizzard, but Oslo Airport Gardermoen was closed, the traffic was a mess, the tram, subway and the trains had major problems so it was pretty much chaos when we headed back home after having been to the 1 years birthday to Veslemøy.

Some of you might say that people in Oslo complains to much with the following argument “Where we live, a bit of snow is not a problem”. But just to give you an example, our road Haugerudhagan have not seen a plow truck the entire weekend, so driving here is now pretty hard to do. In fact, I have realized that if it isn’t a matter of life and death, our car won’t leave the garage. When you then add that some people doesn’t even have snow tyres, you can understand that even the easiest road might turn into the highway to hell.

Night on the town with the boys

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Yesterday I was out with Kent, and Loy also joined us for a couple of hours. First Kent and I wanted to be crazy, so we decided to try out a restaurant that I had seen here the other day: “Sahara Beduin Restaurant“. Very ok restaurant, but we where not crazy at all, it was crowded. It has been mentioned in the newspapers with good reviews, guess that is the reason.

Afterwards we went to Last Train and had a couple of beers before Loy had to go home. Then Kent and I went to the cinema to see Jernanger.

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New pair of Telemark boots

Sport

If you haven’t made the transition to plastic… now is the time. The T4 is an extremely lightweight boot designed to bridge the gap for leather boot enthusiasts – the gap between their trusted leather boots and the not-so-new paradigm of plastic. The T4 has a nice, soft flex, bending in both the toe and ankle producing a natural feel. Suitable for all kinds of backcountry travel, the T4 is equipped with easy to use aluminium buckles, an ergonomic liner, and the Scarpa/Skywalk® Telesystem sole. Ideal for those who want to break into tele… without going broke in the process.

Bought them at Finn.no for only 900,-. Need an alternative to my T1 Freeride during the easter when spending more time walking up than skiing down. The T1 has given me plenty of blisters as well, hope to avoid them now..

Blog updated

Anything but the other

I’ve updated my blog to the latest stable version 2.4.6 “New Year”. Not any hassle at all, did it in about twenty minutes, 10 of those minutes must be blamed for my FTP client transferring not only the new conf-files, but also pictures in the media-blog. For somehow it did not detect the pictures in my local file folders as identical to the ones on the server. Anyhow, up and running with a smile.

This seasons first descent

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This weekend me, Espen, PeA and AJ went to Hemsedal, my first time on snow this season and as always…nothing better! Saturday was not of the best days due to a bit bad weather, but Sunday was nice. I tried Djeveldalen (#2) for the first time, and off course Reidarskaret

The picture shows a kind of rainbow I’ve never seen before. I had the sun behind me and pretty much fog in front.

Lossless and lossy audio formats for music

Music

Before changing the speakers in my car I thought that MP3 was the digital audio format that I would prefer for our entire cd collection. Last week, I was told that I should use lossless formats instead, but I did not care. But that was before yesterday. When out driving with the car listening to tracks on my Ipod I turned the volume all the way up to max without any problems. Somehow I was not pleased, I thought the sound…was a bit bad. But, then I switched to the cd-player…and whow!! So, now I have to delete all the MP3’s I have ripped, and instead use the FLAC-file format. You can read all about it here
http://www.bobulous.org.uk/misc/audioFormats.html

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