Escape from boredom

…more about John Arne Riises life… http://pub.tv2.no/TV2/program/article756251.ece

editing: a good thing to now http://www.dagbladet.no/sport/2006/10/04/478726.html , but his mother…is she nuts?

Why spend time at the gym just to hang out there, why pay a lot of money just to be there to talk to your friends, why delay my time just because…arrrgghhh

“Latterlig lønnsomt”, the last book I have read. It’s about the importance of having fun at work or where ever you are spending time. Got the book back at Bertel O. Steen. You can read more at http://www.begeistring.no/ which by the way is not a funny webpage, the design sucks, but does it matter…just a bit

Desperate for a snack in the evening, searching, we had nothing but eggs. Elin told me how to make eggnog, I made it. Elin loved it for one minute, then for the second she felt a bit sickness of it… I loved it, in lack of something else http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eggnog

Here are some pictures from this weekend, showing what we have done there the past two days.

Yesterday I put an old heap of spruce branches on fire. I had also cut some grass a cople of weeks ago which was on top of the heap. By using some oil and cardboard I put the whole thing on fire. As the two following pictures show, there where a lot of smoke!

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Same heap. For a short while I was thinking what the hell have I done!

Picture taken towards the neighbour at Sandjordet. They are going to cut down the huge maple any day now. It’s a bit sick, and since it the maple or the house, they prefer the house 🙂

There is a beaver in the small stream right close by. It has done a great deal of work making a dam, cutting down a lot of trees.

Today we tried to set the large pile of branches on fire. It did not catch fire in the start, after a while it seamed to have caught fire, but then again it just smoulderd. But what it lacked of flames it for sure compensated with smoke. On a bright and clear autumn day Vestreng was filled with smoke from our fire.

It was quite bad when we left 🙂

I’ve single handedly handed out 150 buns to my former colleagues here at Bertel O. Steen. What have I achieved? Almost 150 people now remember why they don’t see me at Bertel O. Steen anymore, they know where I work now, and maybe they remember to call me if they need something done 😀

For the first time since the olympics in Salt Lake City 2002 I have to agree with Johan Mühlegg. To blame him for Per Elofsson not skiing anymore, that is not fair. Per, and Per only, decided to push so hard as he did, and as Johan says…it would have happended anyhow, the question was just when. http://www.vg.no/pub/vgart.hbs?artid=108798 (In Norwegian)

Espen and I are laughing out loud due to all the people without snow tyres today. It is snowing a lot, and people are changing tyres on the sidewalk outside his window. LOL. http://www.aftenposten.no/vaer/article1141986.ece

When I parked my car today I saw this when walking over to my office

And some more meters down the road, someone had forgotten to jars with jam…

This posting in Norwegian, since it all has to do with correct grammar for the Norwegian language.

Etter en lengre diskusjon på jobben om hvorvidt hvilken kan skrives med eller uten “h”, jeg mente at det skulle være med “h”. Uansett, for å få en slutt på denne diskusjonen så skrev jeg til selve kilden her i landet, nemlig Finn Erik Vinje http://www.hf.uio.no/inl/ansatte/erik.html, og han svarte følgende:

Kjære Rune Hellem

Nei, vi kan ikke skrive “vilken” uten “h” . Det dine arbeidskamerater tenker på, er trolig “verken”, som kan skrives slik eller med “h”: “Hverken”.

Beste hilsen
Finn-Erik Vinje

og for virkelig å sette prikken over i’en så fikk jeg også svar fra Språkrådet http://www.sprakrad.no

Språkrådet svarer:

Det er ikke lov å skrive “hvilken” uten h. Den eneste stumme h-en som man kan velge bort i dag, er h-en i “hverken”. Man kan skrive “verken”.

Hilsen
Sigfrid Tvitekkja
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