søndag januar 28, 2007 Just put on the skis at home and glide into a winter wonderland
Today, we had experienced one of the nice things with living in a small city, not too far from the polar circle (Actually, in Trondheim we have Sun Microsystems' northenmost site in the whole world).
It has been snowing for several days now, and yesterday I was out showeling twice. But the reselt is magnificient. The town is covered with a clean white carpet of snow and today the kids and I put on the skis at home for our sunday hike.
A short way from home, passing the church.
A rets in the snow. Hot chocolate and hot dogs.
The route
onsdag januar 10, 2007 Tagged
I have been tagged by Max with "the five things you don't know about me meme". Had to figure out what this meant, and found that it meant that I have got a kind of "chain letter". Since I've never liked chain letters, I'll probably not tag other people, but found it kind of fun to answer this one.
Ok, so this is "The five things you don't know about me" (i hope :-) ):
- I have played the 1st flute in a symphonic orchestra and was so good when I finished college that I considered a career as a musician. I started out when I was 9 years old and have played ever since. After college it was pop combos, musicals, punk bands, folk music, psychedelia on both variuos flutes and guitars. The last 6 years, however, just in a parents orchestra at the kids' school once a year at the school's celebration of the Norwegian constitution day.
- I have worked some months as a plumbers assistant at a shipyard where we built large tugboats. We used to hide away for an extra coffee break in an attic where they made the wooden models for molds used in casting. There were steep wooden stairs up, so we could easily hear it if the foreman was coming.
- I introduced the use of Mac computers in an local anarchistic magazine in the late eighties. I also contributed some articles and was out on the streets selling this magazine nearly every saturday for three years.
- A couple of years I was in the management of a world music festival with musicians and performance artists from all over the world. We never sold more than 1300 tickets and we lost a lot of money (not mine, fortunetaly).
- I did my military service in Northern Norway in the late seventies during the cold war in the infantry. My weapon was a heavy machine gun. During winter exercises, we used skis and pulks (sledges) to haul the machine guns to places where British and American soldiers never dreamt we could get to with the heavy equipment. That took them by surprise several times.