Springy, pretty much

Why is it that I never seem to do Monday Madness on a Monday?

1. What is your solution for cabin fever – you know that feeling of being penned in the house all winter?
Read a good book. Or go for a walk, even if it’s cold out. But reading helps keep that feeling at bay, mostly, so I don’t have that problem very often.

2. Who are the people in your neighbourhood…in your neighbourhood, in your neighbourhood…..?
Huh? Am I missing something? Why the repetition?

Moving on, my neighbours seem to be something of a mixed lot. We’ve got old-age pensioneers of the “we built the country” type. We’ve got twenty-somethings and thirty-somethings and forty-somethings and probably fifty-somethings, single and married and everything in between, with kids and without. We’ve got kids. We’ve got immigrants of pretty much every colour (don’t know enough about them to say the same about religion etc.). We’ve got the old, retired janitor whos spends his days hanging out his kitchen window, smoking and chatting to people and watching what little action there is on the street. It’s pretty laidback. It’s all good.

3. What’s the best thing about spring?
Light. Light. Light. And not having to put on oodles of clothes every time you want to put your nose outside.

4. Any Easter traditions?
Reading whodunnits. Going to the cabin. Eating eggs – from poultry or chocolate.

5. How old were you believing in the Easter bunny?
I never did. It’s not so much a tradition in Norway, anyway, and my parents never told me about the Easter Bunny – nor about Santa Claus. Just as well, I think.

Nårsk. Eller ikke.

Du kjenner kaffemaskinene til Narvesen, sant? På de aller fleste har det i lang tid stått “Drikkestyrke” ved pilknappene der du kan regulere – nettopp – drikkestyrken på kaffen din. Men her om dagen da jeg kjøpte kaffe på Narvesen ved nasjonalteateret t-bane sto det plutselig

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i stedet.

At det var?

Avis, igjen

Etter initsiellt trøbbel med avislevering har jeg de siste månedene fått stort sett riktig avis på stort sett riktig dag. Men som jeg trodde har jeg slett ikke hatt tid til å lese den, ikke engang med rent helgeabonnement, så da jeg fikk regning for nye 3 måneder sendte jeg mail til kundeservice og sa at jeg ikke hadde noen planer om å betale.

Fikk jeg noe svar. Nå nei.

Ut i fra regningen så det ut til at abonnementet skulle slutte å løpe 9. mars. 9. mars kom, og avisen fortsatte å komme. Bare at nå kommer den hver dag…

Det er jo forsåvidt svært hyggelig av Dagsavisen å spandere avis på meg daglig, det er bare det at som tidligere nevnt (også i mail til dem) HAR JEG IKKE TID TIL Å LESE DEN. Den går derfor stort sett rett i papirinnsamlingen, og det må jo sies å være rent sløseri. Til slutt vant den delen av meg som synes det er noe herk å bære ut papir over den delen som tenkte “kult! gratis avis!” så i går ringte jeg avisen for å si ifra om rotet. Jeg fikk fortsatt avis i dag morges, men det kan vel være det tar litt tid før avisbudet oppfatter at jeg har stoppet abonnementet, tross alt. Vi får se.

Playing with the phone

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It will obviously take a bit of trial and failure to figure what sort of light and what sort of distance it can handle. Anyhoo, I have no idea what happened here (too close?), but interesting effect, methinks. The boyfriend trying – as usual – to avoid having his picture taken:

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Voice in my head: Chris Rea – Auberge

Palmistry

Robin, the shape of your hand reveals that you are especially good at Living each day to its fullest. Based on the signs in your palm, you have much to gain by experiencing every day as if it were your last. By putting directed energy toward getting all that you can from life, your efforts will be returned multi-fold.

Rescued from draft. But where’s the source for this? I have no idea.

New toy

I “accidentally” bought a new mobile phone. I’ve been quite happy with my Nokia 5210 – but it’s been looking increasingly tired as I’ve somehow managed to get a pretty nasty scratch across the display in addtion to the cracks I made the first week I owned it… And it’s almost two years old. So.

I’ve been oogling Nokias with inbuilt cameras for a while (it’s not that I feel particularly loyal to Nokia, I just can’t be bothered to learn all the menus, functions and shortcuts of a new system, so I’m sticking with them anyway), especially the one Meg has. And then the other week Tele2 advertised a Nokia 3200 for only 200 nok! Now, it turned out that to get it at that price you had to get a “business” account at 149 nok a month, with a 12-month contract as minimum – so it wasn’t such a brilliant deal after all. But with a 49 nok account you could get the phone for 850 nok – I thought “That’s more like it!” and hit the “Order now” button. Ooops.

Well, nevermind, it’s a nice present-for-myself-for-getting-a-bonus (the rest of the bonus going towards a kitchen, which, though good, is not much fun).

So. New toy. Mucho fun. Unfortunately my laptop’s in for service so I have no infrared port for downloading pictures from the phone at the moment, but that’s a temporary glitch. However, I was pleasantly surprised at the concept for changing covers that this model has. The actual plastic case is see-through and you can create your own paper covers to go inside (much like those mugs I used to covet when I was a kid). The phone comes with two ready-made covers, one of which is a nice blue with a somewhat hypnotic effect… The design “changes” as you move angle of viewing it – like those stickers that have an “action” effect by having several designs that are visible depending on the angle (you know what I mean?). Hours of amusement.

Picture:

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Other Good Things: I now have a spare charger so that I can keep one in my bag for work etc. (I keep running out of battery at inconvenient times) and the battery on the old one is the same type as the new one, so I have a spare battery, too. And I’ve got a spare mobile phone. Useful, I suppose. At least if anyone makes good of the threat of banning phones with cameras.

No real entry then

Well, it’s Friday:

1. What was the last song you heard?
Shania Twain’s Up! on the radio a few minutes ago.

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
You know, I can’t remember… I think one of them might have been Master & Commander, the other, hm, well, I saw most of Singing in the Rain on the telly about a week ago.

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
New mobile phone, stamps and water.

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
Some more tidying and packing in boxes to make room for M. Sorting through some photographs. Fix layout at Rubberstamps.

Oh, and a whole lot of nothing.

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
M, my mum and three guys at a customer site.

Voice in my head: Pink – Get the Party Started

Tricky madness

A clever Monday Madness – on a Wednesday. Oh well.

Ridiculously happy
Optimistic
Brilliant ;)
Irreverent
Never far from laughing

Refurbish the kitchen
Offend as many pig-headed people as possible
Buy som interesting whisky (shouldn’t be too difficult)
Invite people for dinner in newly refurbished kitchen
Natter on in this blog

How about a real entry at some point? Would that be nice?

Friday Firsts

Waiting for some scripts to finish, so let’s do the Friday Five.

What was…
1. …your first grade teacher’s name?
Kitty Fløne

2. …your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?
We didn’t really have them until I was about 10 or 11. I can’t remember watching television much in the morning before that. Once we got cable my brother and I would watch Transformers, Mask, He-Man, She-Ra and Inspector Gadget. As a young kid my favourite cartoons were Pink Panther and La Lina which would be used as program fillers and so would show up when least expected, which was part of the charm. Regular scheduling would have cartoons on for children at six in the evening (six thirty in summer) and some of my favourites were Balthazaar and The Mole.

3. …the name of your very first best friend?
Torkjel

4. …your favorite breakfast cereal?
Weetabix

5. …your favorite thing to do after school?
Read