It’s been a long and winding road, but I’ve finally reached the end of it. In april I parted with my trusty PDA. Not because I was tired of it, but because it didn’t support WPA-encrypted wireless networks, which I try to run at home. Normally you would just download some drivers from Hewlett Packard, but this was a special case. The ROM on my PDA was in German, yet its operating system was in English. So when I tried to install the correct drivers I got a message that I had to install the German drivers… but I don’t want a mix of German and English on my PDA, so I struck a deal with HP (since it was still just within guarantee) to […] Read more

A while ago I attended my cousin’s wedding. She was just as beautiful as a bride should be, and they both proclaimed their "yes" in front of a couple of very proud parents.After having spent an excruciating 30 minutes in the church (as most of you know, I don’t have much patience to spare when it comes to "god talk") we went out to the bride’s home where the parents had ordered a big party tent and put it up on the solid rock in their back yard, overlooking the Oslo fjord (it was such a great view that words alone couldn’t describe it). But the "fun" didn’t start until the party some hours later. After having finished the first course and the waitresses had […] Read more

This had been a great weekend and a couple of days off of work. The annual barbeque party on saturday was a great hit, though I wish more of the invited people would’ve attended. Mom also made my favorite dinner yesterday, and to sleep in my cool room without having to worry about spiders on my legs/arms/head I got some good quality sleep.So now I’m back in my own appartment just heading to sleep… and I have no idea if thursday’s late night carpenting and extermination actually worked like it should.

Last night it happened again. I woke up and felt something in my hair. After much shaking it all about, a hornet fell out. After some more crazy shaking to make sure no other hornets were crawling somewhere on me, I guided the one hornet outside. Knowing what happened on monday, I was now pretty fed up with these nightly visits.I fetched my Maglite and shined between the wall and the inner skirting around the window to see if I could find where they were coming out. In one particular place where the skirting stood a bit out of the wall, I could see two pair of legs crawling around (strictly speaking there were 12 legs). I then found the one nail I had lying […] Read more