Escape from boredom

On my mothers request, here is a picture of me at the hairdresser.

I’m very fascinated of the wake up scene of todays episode of Medium http://www.nbc.com/Medium/. They both woke up, husband and wife, wearing their t-shirts, in fact Allison had on shirt on top of the other one. My first reaction was that it must be hot (like in warm) to wear so much clothes when sleeping. I sweat just wearing my panties…

And then the next scene, they get into the kitchen where their three kids are already awake, dressed up and sitting quietly around the table. If having kids is like that, sign me up! But I also realized the good thing about sleeping with your clothes on, because the grown ups did not need to do anything, they just got right out of bed and into the kitchen where mummy started making pancakes. Their hair was all done, what a wonderful world it must be! They even drive an old Volvo 245.

And I even feel sorry for the husband in the serie, he never seems to get a whole night of sleep, since his wife wakes up screaming each night…

My latest book “Stalingrad” by Antony Beevor. Stalingrad is considered the turning point of WW2, and I find it very interesting to get to know how the Russian victory of Stalingrad would then again strongly influence how Europe was divided into West and East after the end of the war. More, it was frightening to read about the suffering on both sides during the battle. We are never able to understand it by just reading about it, but then again, at least when having read the book I know more…

Read more at Wikipedia http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stalingrad
Review of the book in Norwegian http://www.dagbladet.no/kultur/2002/12/09/355882.html

Various tractor and truck crashes. Some of them I really wonder how it could happen.

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There is also a vol 2 of this movie, just double click on this video, it will then open at the YouTube website

The radio show “Kompani Knutsen” at NRK PeTre…ARRRRRGHHH! It is only a compilation of jingles, crappy radio to the people for sure! http://www.nrk.no/programmer/sider/kompani_knutsen/

Friends of me has said it, I repeat it – Egil Svartdahl is scary! And even worse, he is able to scare others as well by being the preacher man and pretending to always know whats best. I read this article “Jakten på Satans tjenere” http://www.dagbladet.no/magasinet/2006/11/28/521105.html. Afterwards I also found this article http://www.forskning.no/Artikler/2002/september/1032951528.94 written by Didrik Søderlind. Didrik is one the guys behind Kjettersk Kjeller http://www.kjetter.com/ which I would recommend!

My latest book “Nikkel, jern og blod” by Alf R. Jacobsen. Yet again about WW2 in the northern part of Norway, this time focused on the former Petsamo, now Pechengsky district http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pechenga_District and the battle for the enormous nickel resources hidden there. Until now I had no idea how important those resources was for the Nazis during WW2. The book has also enlightened me on the role of Finland during WW2, why they formed an alliance with Germany to get protection from Stalin and such.

Read Per Haddals review of the book http://www.aftenposten.no/kul_und/litteratur/article1546142.ece

Feel the groove and dance away, but first learn the basic steps…
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If Hitler invaded Hell I would make at least a favourable reference to the devil in the House of Commons.
Speech after the German invasion of the Soviet Union (June 1941)

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Churchill

If you live in Oslo you might find this interesting, old photos of Oslo taken from the air. Found a picture of Haugerud from 1960 http://www.byarkivet.oslo.kommune.no/OBA/ (Choose “Flyfotodatabasen” in the upper right corner)