Yesterday I spent a couple of hours trimming the “Norwegian Spruce” hedge at Vestreng. As the top left picture shows it was clearly a need. The middle picture is me on top of the ladder. As the upper right picture shows the hedge is fairly wide, so my knees are hurting a bit today because of the stress the got when I leaned over to cut all the branches. Quite happy with the result. (Enlarge)
Had to buy a new set of wheels earlier this week when one of the old ones got broken when hitting a hole in the road. Original Ford wheels cost so much that buying completely new ones did not cost _to much_ more. Still kept it as 16″, and they where one of the cheapest they had, but I’m pleased. At least I will now see a big difference when changing to summer tyres. Bought four new tyres as well from Continental.
My bike is mounted on the roof because I did Enebakk Rundt yesterday. Had to skip doing it as planned with 15 timer’n, due to the gastroscopy on Wednesday I’m not feeling to good, so instead I had a nice ride with 18 timer’n.
Yesterday Petter and I went to see Ghost Dog in concert. I’ve previous blogged that I really enjoy their music and that is still true, but yesterdays concert was a bit of a disappointment. For some reason I don’t think Ivan, the vocalist, did not use his full potential. Whether he was drunk or just had a bad day I’m actually not sure, but for some reason I think he could have been singing better than he did. But, still, it was a good concert…
Is soccer a top level sport? For some that would be true, but all in all I would say that the answer is no, no, no! One of the top clubs in Norway, Lillestrøm has just fired their coach…or the official version is that he has resigned. According to VgTv the resason for this is that the team players are mentaly and fysicaly worn out because of hard training. WTF???
It just confirms what Tor Arne Hetland wrote http://www.sprintgutta.no/sak/000187.asp. I also recommend reading this article http://www.sprintgutta.no/sak/000192.asp which Espen notified me about a couple of weeks ago.
I’m convinced that I spend more time doing efficient traning right now than most of theese players do…
So – I would say: No!
Needed this one because of The Ship Song, and also to complete my collection even more
A double cd, even more of Cave in my collection.
Yet another cd by Cave in my collection
Whenever I have a hangover http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hangover the best song to listen to if you ask me is Pink Floyd “Mother”. Not sure how many days I have managed to crawl into the livingroom and put this song on just to crawl back to my bed again.
[video:youtube:wBkTUzKAiXQ]Just for the record, I do not have a hangover today !!
Yesterday we participated in Vestfold Rundt, 165 kilometers around Vestfold county. By far my worst experience this year, hope it will stay that way 🙂 I guess the need for me to sleep on a towel due to pretty much sweat the night before had something to do with it, but never the less, I managed to keep up with the speed and passed the finish line with my team. Find more at
http://idrett.speaker.no/Organisation.asp?id=581352
Was surfing around earlier today when I stumbled accross this guy planning his U.K holiday based on tips he got on his Wiki http://www.mentalkipple.com/myukholiday.
Someone had tiped him about going to see the early warning sound mirrors.
A forerunner of Radar, acoustic mirrors were built on the south and northeast coasts of England between about 1916 and the 1930s. The ‘listening ears’ were intended to provide early warning of incoming enemy aeroplanes and airships about to attack coastal towns. With the development of faster aircraft the sound mirrors became less useful, as an aircraft would be within sight by the time it had been located, and radar finally rendered the mirrors obsolete.
Read the above text and more and also see pictures at
http://www.ajg41.clara.co.uk/mirrors/index.html