Modern Life is Rubbish

Met at 0830 at the class room. Went to the computer room and took the course and test. Finished two hours before next class. Drove home to find my wallet.

Went back. It started snowing like hell..

Basic survival suit info. Find the right size. Went down to the quay. Jumped into water with the temperature 2 degrees celcius. Brrr... could survive for six hour with the suit :-) Made different "buddy" formations. Climbed into a life raft. Collected a life less person out side of the raft. Learned how to turn them around. Made a correct jump from 2.5 meters. Heli-lift, and coffee... brrrr...

Good to be home in a "warm" appartment.

Was in a real sunday mood this afternoon when I got back from work.
Found out that I could start filling up my fridge. So I started baking breakfast breads. Guess who is haveing a good morning tomorrow :-)

Ingredients:


Mashed together and rolled out in 36 individuals:


Anyone care to join me for breakfast tomorrow morning? ^_^ I have coffee too...



I just recalled that I had this horrible nightmare last night... The deal is that I am supposed to have this offshore safety course tomorrow. And because their online pre-course does not work I have to meet at 0830. So; I was dreaming that I was driving to this place that is next to the new Stavanger stadium. Since I was early I thought I go and take a look at it before it started. When I got back I got in my car and was supposed to close the door when this guy get his hands through the door opening and starts strangle me. I try to start the car, but it won't... I panic and get dragged out on to the tarmac. This guy just continue to beat me up and in the end he stops, steps into the car and drives away... After a while I look up and see that I had taken the wrong car and he had thought that I was stealing it... So I barely manage to get into my car, starts it and drive the five hundred meters to the course location. I'm one hour late and I'm not allowed to attend anymore... I go back to work and they tell me that I've been sacked cause I blew up 15000 by not attending the course...
I woke up 0738 this morning and was stressed as hell.

Good night!

1. The UK's first mobile phone call was made 20 years ago this year, when Ernie Wise rang the Vodafone head office, which was then above a curry shop in Newbury.
2. Mohammed is now one of the 20 most popular names for boys born in England and Wales.
3. While it's an offence to drop litter on the pavement, it's not an offence to throw it over someone's garden wall.
4. An average record shop needs to sell at least two copies of a CD per year to make it worth stocking, according to Wired magazine.
5. Nicole Kidman is scared of butterflies. "I jump out of planes, I could be covered in cockroaches, I do all sorts of things, but I just don't like the feel of butterflies' bodies," she says.
6. WD-40 dissolves cocaine - it has been used by a pub landlord to prevent drug-taking in his pub's toilets.
7. Baboons can tell the difference between English and French. Zoo keepers at Port Lympne wild animal park in Kent are having to learn French to communicate with the baboons which had been transferred from Paris zoo.
8. Devout Orthodox Jews are three times as likely to jaywalk as other people, according to an Israeli survey reported in the New Scientist. The researchers say it's possibly because religious people have less fear of death.
9. The energy used to build an average Victorian terrace house would be enough to send a car round the Earth five times, says English Heritage.
10. Humans can be born suffering from a rare condition known as "sirenomelia" or "mermaid syndrome", in which the legs are fused together to resemble the tail of a fish.
11. One in 10 Europeans is allegedly conceived in an Ikea bed.
12. Until the 1940s rhubarb was considered a vegetable. It became a fruit when US customs officials, baffled by the foreign food, decided it should be classified according to the way it was eaten.
13. Prince Charles broke with an 80-year tradition by giving Camilla Parker Bowles a wedding ring fashioned from Cornish gold, instead of the nugget of Welsh gold that has provided rings for all royal brides and grooms since 1923.
14. It's possible for a human to blow up balloons via the ear. A 55-year-old factory worker from China reportedly discovered 20 years ago that air leaked from his ears, and he can now inflate balloons and blow out candles.
15. Lionesses like their males to be deep brunettes.
16. The London borough of Westminster has an average of 20 pieces of chewing gum for every square metre of pavement.
17. Bosses at Madame Tussauds spent £10,000 separating the models of Brad Pitt and Jennifer Aniston when they separated. It was the first time the museum had two people's waxworks joined together.
18. If all the Smarties eaten in one year were laid end to end it would equal almost 63,380 miles, more than two-and-a-half times around the Earth's equator.
19. The = sign was invented by 16th Century Welsh mathematician Robert Recorde, who was fed up with writing "is equal to" in his equations. He chose the two lines because "noe 2 thynges can be moare equalle".
10 on Ford GT40 by Tony Crowther20. The Queen has never been on a computer, she told Bill Gates as she awarded him an honorary knighthood.
21. One person in four has had their identity stolen or knows someone who has.
22. The length of a man's fingers can reveal how physically aggressive he is, scientists say.
23. In America it's possible to subpoena a dog.
24. The 71m packets of biscuits sold annually by United Biscuits, owner of McVitie's, generate 127.8 tonnes of crumbs.
25. Nelson probably had a broad Norfolk accent.
26. One in four people does not know 192, the old number for directory inquiries in the UK, has been abolished.
27. Only in France and California are under 18s banned from using sunbeds.
28. The British buy the most compact discs in the world - an average of 3.2 per year, compared to 2.8 in the US and 2.1 in France.
29. When faced with danger, the octopus can wrap six of its legs around its head to disguise itself as a fallen coconut shell and escape by walking backwards on the other two legs, scientists discovered.
31. Train passengers in the UK waited a total of 11.5m minutes in 2004 for delayed services.
32. "Restaurant" is the most mis-spelled word in search engines.
33. Chelsea boss Jose Mourinho has only been in an English pub once, to buy his wife cigarettes.
34. The Little Britain wheelchair sketch with Lou and Andy was inspired by Lou Reed and Andy Warhol.
35. The name Lego came from two Danish words "leg godt", meaning "play well". It also means "I put together" in Latin.
36. The average employee spends 14 working days a year on personal e-mails, phone calls and web browsing, outside official breaks, according to employment analysts Captor.
37. Cyclist Lance Armstrong's heart is almost a third larger than the average man's.
38. Nasa boss Michael Griffin has seven university degrees: a bachelor's degree, a PhD, and five masters degrees.
39. Australians host barbecues at polling stations on general election days.
40. An average Briton will spend £1,537,380 during his or her lifetime, a survey from insurer Prudential suggests.
41. Tactically, the best Monopoly properties to buy are the orange ones: Vine Street, Marlborough Street and Bow Street.
42. Britain's smallest church, near Malmesbury, Wiltshire, opens just once a year. It measures 4m by 3.6m and has one pew.
43. The spiciness of sauces is measured in Scoville Units.

44. Rubber gloves could save you from lightning.
45. C3PO and R2D2 do not speak to each other off-camera because the actors don't get on.
46. Driving at 159mph - reached by the police driver cleared of speeding - it would take nearly a third of a mile to stop.
47. Liverpool has 42 cranes redeveloping the city centre.
48. A quarter of the world's clematis come from one Guernsey nursery, where production will top 4.5m plants this year alone.
49. Tim Henman has a tennis court at his new home in Oxfordshire which he has never used.

50. Only 36% of the world's newspapers are tabloid.
51. Parking wardens walk about 15 miles a day.
52. You're 10 times more likely to be bitten by a human than a rat.
53. It takes 75kg of raw materials to make a mobile phone.
54. Deep Throat is reportedly the most profitable film ever. It was made for $25,000 (£13,700) and has grossed more than $600m.
55. Antony Worrall-Thompson swam the English Channel in his youth.
56. The Pyruvate Scale measures pungency in onions and garlic. It's named after the acid in onions which makes cooks cry when cutting them.
57. The man who was the voice of one of the original Daleks, Roy Skelton, also did the voices for George and Zippy in Rainbow.
58. The average guest at a Buckingham Palace garden party scoffs 14 cakes, sandwiches, scones and ice-cream, according to royal accounts.
59. Oliver Twist is very popular in China, where its title is translated as Foggy City Orphan.

60. Newborn dolphins and killer whales don't sleep for a month, according to research carried out by University of California.
61. You can bet on your own death.
62. MPs use communal hairbrushes in the washrooms of the Houses of Parliament.
63. It takes less energy to import a tomato from Spain than to grow them in this country because of the artificial heat needed, according to Defra.
64. New York mayor Michael Bloomberg's home number is listed by directory inquiries.
65. Actor James Doohan, who played Scotty, had a hand in creating the Klingon language that was used in the movies, and which Shakespeare plays were subsequently translated into.
66. The hotter it is, the more difficult it is for aeroplanes to take off. Air passengers in Nevada, where temperatures have reached 120F, have been told they can't fly.
67. Giant squid eat each other - especially during sex.
68. The Very Hungry Caterpillar has sold one copy every minute since its 1969 publication.

69. First-born children are less creative but more stable, while last-born are more promiscuous, says US research.

70. Reebok, which is being bought by Adidas, traces its history back more than 100 years to Bolton.
71. Jimi Hendrix pretended to be gay to be discharged from the US Army.

72. A towel doesn't legally reserve a sun lounger - and there is nothing in German or Spanish law to stop other holidaymakers removing those left on vacant seats.

73. One in six children think that broccoli is a baby tree.

74. It takes a gallon of oil to make three fake fur coats.
75. Each successive monarch faces in a different direction on British coins.
76. The day when most suicides occurred in the UK between 1993 and 2002 was 1 January, 2000.
77. The only day in that time when no-one killed themselves was 16 March, 2001, the day Comic Relief viewers saw Jack Dee win Celebrity Big Brother.
78. One in 18 people has a third nipple.

79. The section of coast around Cleethorpes has the highest concentration of caravans in Europe.


80. Fifty-seven Bic Biros are sold every second - amounting to 100bn since 1950.
81. George Bernard Shaw named his shed after the UK capital so that when visitors called they could be told he was away in London.
82. Former Labour MP Oona King's aunt is agony aunt Miriam Stoppard.
83. Britain produces 700 regional cheeses, more even than France.

84. The actor who plays Mike Tucker in BBC Radio 4's The Archers is the father of the actor who plays Will Grundy.

85. Japanese knotweed can grow from a piece of root the size of pea.
86. Hecklers are so-called because of militant textile workers in Dundee.

87. Pulling your foot out of quicksand takes a force equivalent to that needed to lift a medium-sized car.
88. A single "mother" spud from southern Peru gave rise to all the varieties of potato eaten today, scientists have learned.

89. Spanish Flu, the epidemic that killed 50 million people in 1918/9, was known as French Flu in Spain.

90. Ordinary - not avian - flu kills about 12,000 people in the UK every winter.

91. Croydon has more CCTV cameras than New York.
92. You are 176 times more likely to be murdered than to win the National Lottery.
93. Koalas have fingerprints exactly like humans (although obviously smaller).
94. Bill Gates does not have an iPod.
95. The first traffic cones were used in building Preston bypass in the late 1950s, replacing red lantern paraffin burners.
96. Britons buy about one million pumpkins for Halloween, 99% of which are used for lanterns rather than for eating.

97. The mother of stocky cricketer - and this year's Strictly Come Dancing champion - Darren Gough was a ballet dancer. She helped him with his pivots.
98. Nettles growing on land where bodies are buried will reach a foot higher than those growing elsewhere.

99. The Japanese word "chokuegambo" describes the wish that there were more designer-brand shops on a given street.
100. Musical instrument shops must pay an annual royalty to cover shoppers who perform a recognisable riff before they buy, thereby making a "public performance".

Andy; you don't need to make a simular list... :-)

Thanks BBC!

Well, home early from a little trip to the city. Was at home drinking beer alone and thought it would be nice just to go down town to drink a couple of beers there. Well, did that, and nothing more to say..

Friday: As I was about to leave work, I met this Indian guy that was looking for the gym room. He was talking exactly like Apu in the simpsons. It was quite funny. (I am a very bad person)

Saturday. Went to down town and saw this incredible cheap hair cutter. 130 Kr!! Well, about time to cut my hair. So what the heck.
Hmm.. I'm not sure what word I can use for it. I look like I've joined the army :-|

Monday to Friday I will attend this offshore safety course. Really looking forward to it. Life boat drop and helicopter roll over :) nice.









Good night!

Yesterday evening I was out drinkin with my colleagues. It was great. Lots of beer and funny people. We left the first place after some time to find a place that sold liquer. And then it was more beer, old danish and tequila :-| The biggest tequila shot I have ever seen! (only drunk it twice though...) Well, it was free, so who can say no? Anyway, I had to skip getting up at 0600 and got up at 0700 in stead. Man I felt like I was dead! But was alive again fifhteen minutes later. Or awake that is...

Checked my bank account and say that I had spendt 400 kr that evening, even though I used my old student card to get discounts... Scheit! Well, well... Got cake and coffee after lunch today. One of the guys was quitting.

Wating for the washing machine to be finished. WANT TO SLEEP!!

Yeah, and on reader request I am going back to the multiple day index :-)

Good night!

Hmm.. why are you always tired in the morning, even though you have had seven and a half hour of sleep?

Then there is nothing like a cold morning walk to work.

Well, time for coffee break!

Have a nice day!

I love my flexible work hours.

I'll start at 0700 tomorrow as well.

There is something that makes going to work two hours before one has to very satisfactory.

Got my first pay check yesterday. Had plans of buying something nice with it, but it was already eaten up by my loans..

Night

Here's some photos. 35 sq.m. Bloody cold. But ok as long as you have a scarf.



















Will drive to Haugesund this weekend. Still struggle with the cold. Starting to get fed up by it...

It is valentines day today.


Will drive out to Kvadrat kjøpesenter in half an hour. All my single layer windows has a strong draught going through them... need to buy some silicon. Yeah, and a new mobile phone charger. Have been without power for two days. Thanks to my naighbour with internet I haven't been completely cut off... Thanks.

Here are some photos I took this weekend:


This is close to my place on the way to the city center at night:


Close to my place:


Close to my place again:


My car at work :-p


Passed these guys saturday actually playing lacrosse! First time ever
that I've seen that...


A stavanger overview:


A rainbowstreet in stavanger:


An old sardine factory:


Some local art sculpture:


The city bridge:


Two dogs:


The view east:

My mother and step father are selling their appartment in Oslo to then buy an appartment in Berlin.

Here is the prospect:

http://www.aktiveiendom.no/Pages/Property.aspx?PropertyID=78189

Have a nice day!

Well, still got a cold, and still staying inside in the evening...

Just saw "Mulholland drive" by David Lynch. What a movie! It is still twisting my brain. How does it really stick to gether...? The movie that is... Has anyone else seen it? One of the first things that hit me is that is some sort of loop, but then again I might be to ill and tired to take a stand. Anyway thought it was great!

Well, half eleven, going to bed. This new life of mine has made me go to bed early every night. Sheesh!

Night night!

Have been walking around all day. Gotten to know the city a bit more.
Tried to enter my working place to go online, but something was wrong with my access.. sitting on a internet cafe now.

Here is my street:



My building is the red house with all the green trees on the right side :)

Wish you all a nice weekend!

Cheers

Today is friday and I have been here for one week.

Everything has been great except from the fact that I caught a very bad cold the day before my first day at work. Still struggeling with it, but with heavy medication I get through the days.

People here are very nice. We are a team of twelve people, who work in the inspection planning department. Yeah; my title is "inspection planner". I'm currently working in the "Tampen"-project with the oil rigs Statfjord A, B and C.

At the moment I'm just reading procedures and learning parts of the job. But very ok.

We have also sort of flexi-time with core time from 09-15 and two hours flexi before and after this. (if you start at eight you finish four and at 9 you finish five a.s.o) This can be very nice if you have an "inspection beer" in the middle of the week, like this wednesday. Or you can use it to get to a state office before going to work... or after work.

Well, will write more later. Have to go back to work.

How are you doing?

Cheers!

Peace..?



© Zieler 2002-2006

Good Morning! I've caught a cold! Tomorrow it's my first day at work. Well, guess I deserve it...

Got a cup of coffee and a cat by my side, so I'll survive for little while.

Friday: The "go away" party was a success. Got really drunk in the end. Everybody was continiusly feeding me with alcohol.... why? :-D

After a strickt censorship I am happy to give you these photos:

Thomas, Christine and Asbjørn:


Me, Christine and Håvard:


Laila and me:


Christine:


Me and Thomas


Asbjørn and Håvard:


Christine, Thomas and Asbjørn:


Tommy and Guro:


Elisabeth and Karen Margrethe:


Sunrise and time to go to bed.


Saturday:
SNOW! Help! Didn't dare to take a drive before four o'clock. Need to have my car on top of the hill when putting all my stuff in it. But the ground condition tested OK, so I got out to buy some food.

Played cards and Kokkili Monke at Thomas and KM together with H, G, M og E.

Have to go and start packing.

Have fun!

At 16.15 I rang this guy about an ad on the internet. "Sorry, but this apartment has just been rented. But, we have another one a little smaller and a little cheaper in the same building if you are interested."

Had to think quick. *** So at half four I was on my way to Stavanger again. Big risk since I was only going to look at this one apartment.

The apartment was very nice actually. 35 sq.m., fridge, freezer, stove and oven. And a washing machine. 3500 Nkr. I ended up signing the contract and was handed the keys.

I hate the bumper-to-bumper driving from the ferry and home. Tired now...

To morrow I have to take a brake and relax, or I think I will die before 40. Maybe.

Cheers

Had to cancel my trip to stavanger today.
The appartment I was going to look at had gotten a new "move in" date after the landlady had spoken to the girl who lived there now, and there seemed to have been a misunderstanding.

Back to square one.

Talked to an old school mate who lives in Stavanger now. He offered me a room from now to monday, but think I might drive directly from Haugesund monday morning since I'm starting at 09.00 am.

Since I'm about to pass away, I'm thinking of having a "fare well party" tomorrow, friday.

Have to go and work some in the forest and carry some logs.

Cheers

Ok, here I will start at 11 and maybe finish the whole thing. If you strongly disagree with the content of this list; tell me :-D

11. Muslims who burn the Danish and Norwegian flag just because some stupid newspaper published some drawings of their prophet Mohammed. (I'm sorry, but can't see how it can be much of a religion if it can't bear something like this in a better way.)

12. Sour, old and burned coffee.

More in part three...

I'm starting work monday.

I have no where to live :-p

You might think "He has gone mad!", and you might be right, but Anders triggered something in me and I just want to make more lists. Thank you Moon for idea and inspiration!

When living in a protected and nice life, one quickly start to be annoyed by bagatelles. Here is mine:

1. People stressing me about not being at home applying for a job.

2. People who work behind the counter at a supermarked and always have to talk for two minutes to the custumer after paying.

3. Drivers who drive careless.

4. Bad loosers (Including me)

5. Bad winners (including me when I'm evil)

6. People who can't wait five minutes to find out the same thing in the movie as they are asking loudly about when in the cinema.

7. Sledgehammer mechanics when a careful machanic is needed :-p

8. People who fuck up DVD's when borrowing them at the libarary so they won't play when I borrow them.

9. People who jump ahead of you in the que.

10. People who cancel appointments whitout telling you after the appointment was supposed to be.

Oh no! Anders have passed this "chain mail" in form of a list over to me among others. So in order not to be put under a spell I'll do it. Argh! :-)

Four jobs I have had:

* Plant Operator, Statoil, Kårstø.
* Mechanic, HEMEK A/S, Oslo.
* Storesman, Ringnes A/S, Haugesund.
* Ad delivery boy, Lørenskog.


Four movies I can se over and over again:

* In China They Eat Dogs
* Cowboy Bebop: Tengoku no tobira
* Buffalo 66
* Spirited away

Four places I've lived:

* Berlin, Germany
* Karmøy, Norway
* Oslo, Norway
* Trondheim, Norway


Four TV-series I like to watch:

* The Simpsons
* Futurama
* Lost
* Six feet under

Four favourite food dishes:

* Homemade Biff lindström
* Homemade pizza
* Homemade Pan cakes with bacon
* Homemade Salmon with potatoes and sour cream

Four websites I visit daily:

* Dagbladet.no
* VG.no
* Startsiden.no
* Finn.no

Four things to do before I die:

* Have children
* Complete at least one year of work at AKOP
* Save the life of at least one human being
* See the midnight sun at least 24 hours

Four persons to pass this on to...:

* Anders?
* Hogne
* Marianne
* Spirit!