Modern Life is Rubbish

Got some photos from one of my colleagues, or former colleagues, he quit today.

This is from monday as we left for this island where we were going to look at palms and stuff and have dinner and drink. It rained so badly that the guide made the palm tour short and got us inside for some more welcoming drink.

Here two of my bosses, on the way to the island, me behind to the left:


At the table waiting for the starter. Yeah I have cut my hair recently..


The Statoil guys. Our customers and bosses..


A bit later.. my top superior is taking a photo with his cellphone..


Have to work overtime today to be able to take the day off tomorrow as I'm going to a wedding in Oslo. Will be fun.

Please ask for tickets I still got 3 left! (see post beneath)

Wish you all a good weekend!

Hmm.. long story short; gave some money to "The Norwegian People Aid" some weeks ago. Even though I didn't want it, they sendt me these scratch tickets. Eight of them.

As I didn't want them I thought I'd give them to you. Or; you say "give me a scratch ticket" or something like that and I'll scratch it for you. Do you win; I'll mail you the price and if you don't; sorry, you get nothing... but you'll have a good conscience for helping people in Libanon.

Rules:
You have to have a mail box/adress(only if you win of course...), only one ticket to each person (I'm not sure, but think there might be eight or more persons reading this if we say on a yearly basis) and(oh no; what a cheap bastard!) if you win 500'000, 100'000 or 10'000 Norwegian Kroners I hope you can spare me half of it:-P But that is intirely up to you of course :-)







This has been sort of a good week and a really bad week. Monday and tuesday I was at a seminar with my colleagues and Statoil. Went to an island with a lot of palms and a resturant in the evening after finishing the first day. Too much wine... and I was still hung over from saturday... second day, good, but I was sooo tired! And since I haven't done any work in almost a week I have to work long hours today...
Tip of the day: Don't walk in a steep stairway when wearing slippery shoes, and it rains outside and it is 0300 on a sunday morning. It sort of hurst for a long time.

Finally found my camera yesterday, in a hidden room in my suitcase. The one thing left to find is the transfering cabel... I must somehow left it in Haugesund, but I can't remember bringing it either...

Well, no photos from me for a while. But for you who haven't seen them; here are my San Francisco photos: http://vintersol.net/images/gallery/sp_index.php?dir=./San%20Francisco%20-%20Ragnvald's%20pictures

Had to go to work in order to fix something on the internet, will go and see if the cheap hairdresser has a vacant spot in his schedule.

Tonight I will go out drinking, most likely alone. But could be worse.

Some photos from the last trip to Kongsberg where we celebrated my mother and step fathers 60th birthday.

First I travelled to Haugesund to pick up my sister. And then we drove across Haukeli mountain.

Driving inside a fjord.


My sister. Had to stop for some coffee. And of course some germans(the red car) that was going fishing :-)


My uncle and my cousin and me outside our cabin. (we are not sitting in the middle of the forest)


My mother and sister. My step fathers brother in the background.


Have a nice weekend!

Yesterday I attended a street race in the Stavanger city center. It was HARD! And already half an hour before the start my mouth was so dry my tongue stuck to roof.. and no water around... well, I'm still here so guess it was good for me.

After showering and resting a bit, me and a colleague went to another colleague who had rented a 56 feet cabin cruiser as there was no free hotel rooms because of the oil exhibition. He didn't rent it alone of course, he is a consultant, so he rented it together with some other guys in his firm. So there we sat and drank beer and brandy till one o'clock.

At 2300 there was the biggest firework I've ever seen. It was supposed to mark the end of the oil exhibition. Wonder how many villages they could have fed in Africa with this money.


Anyway; this morning sux. Shouldn't have had the last brandy before I left the boat...

Just finished a 7 hour meeting with a guy from Statoil. We went through every detail of an inspection program I had made for a well at the Statfjord B oil platform.

Then they phone me from this platform asking for a work order number linked to the same inspection programme I had just had a meeting about! He said he had the programme in his hand right now! How on earth did he get his hands on that??? I hadn't sendt it to him yet! And I don't have the work order number he is asking for!

Did I just have a 7 hour meeting for nothing?!?!

And why is both the persons that can help me on vacation!!??

Argh!!

STRESS!!!

OK, probably no one has a clue about what I'm talking about, but I can tell you it sort of bad.

Suddently nothing happened in the world and Norwegian newspapers had to put a UFO-storie on the front page.



And; I have to stop surfing the net first thing when I get to work ._.

Me and a colleague just had a discussion about something called fatal Accident Rate (F.A.R) which is how many fatalities per 100 million exposed hours.

As my colleague is offshore on the Snorre A rig right now it was natural to discuss the F.A.R value for traveling by Helicopter.

F.A.R values for normal transportation is:
Airplane: 56
Car: 25
Ship/Boat: 9.1
Train: 6.2

Therefore it was a bit alerting that travel by helicopter had a FAR value of 160...

Well well, could be worse...


Anyway; I had enough, I'm going home to watch a re-run of Seinfeld.

Good Night

Oh no! I got tagged!! OK, in order not to have bad luck for seven years I guess I have to do this. The list of ten wierd things about me.

I'm sorry for all the sorrow I might cause..

The list of ten wierd things about me:

1. When I get tired I have the tendency to irritate my friends, and I do it even more if they show that they are irritated.
2. I have to check if I have turned off the stove, coffee machine and telly at least three times if I'm leaving the house... I hate that.
3. I haven't been in a long term relationship in 6 years because I always convince myself that I don't have time for it.
4. If I do people favours or lend people money I most often hope they forget about it.
5. I really look forward to talking infront of big crouds even though it is the most frightening time of my life once I start talking..
6. I collect "safety on board" folders from Airplanes..
7. I actually feel it was wrong to let me pass on my master assignment.
8. I complain about the weather in the winter being too cold, I complain about the weather in the summer being too hot. (Or do everybody do that?)
9. If I don't know the answer to a question asked by a friend, I always have guess an answer, before saying "I don't know".
10. I was bored at home, went to work to pass the time. Yep, the work I'm doing now could have waited until tomorrow.

There! I've done it :-p

Forget the potential thing...

Hehe, was just handed two tickets for the annual Offshore Northern Sea Exhibition and Conferance :-D Have heard there will alot of free comercial stuff and other things. And of course I will have a professional outcome of it....

And guess who just got a mail from the HSE-department! It said that I had won the monthly HSE-competition!
1000 Kr (130 Euro) on the local sport shop!

This day has potential.

If someone thought: How did it look like last year when they where in Kongsberg?

Visit archives or go directly: http://ragge80.blogspot.com/2005/06/across-mountains.html

When I drove from Kongsberg to Stavanger yesterday I made my car use 0.83 Liters per 10 Kilometers(!). Don't know what is happening, but the usage has declined sice I got it. Remember this winter... 2L/10km, but normal was 1.25L/10km
(THIS IS FUCKING BORING!!!) (ok.. I have terminated this monolog.)

Finally got the photos here.

Will, make the same trip with my sister today. Oh well, not the same road, but same goal. Will over a mounain pass called Haukeli this time. Much better road, but two hours longer...

These sheep had somehow learned that people who stop have food...


One of the was actually quite cute:-) This is not the one that tried to eat my toe.


But he/she tried to get me to give something.


Birthday present!


Fishing flies. Birthday present nr. 2 from Harald who made them himself the day before.


Harald infront of a lake up in a mountain called Blefjell.


My cabin, photo taken from the grass field. (no cows this time :-p)


The road to from the main road, and our garage.


The barn, that only works as a storage at the time.


Harald by the Jondals river, fishing for small trout.


The narrow and bendy road in the mountain.


Sry; me with my coffee and food.



Today was the day I was getting up early so I could leave early from work. But; overslept... again... so much for all the unpaid overtime I was supposed to use later today...

I was supposed to post photos from my trip to Kongsberg this week, but I been so busy!
Well, I've actually been training, playing soccer and swimming in the sea every day..
I'll try to do it tonight...
Anyway, one place that isn't busy at all (although it should be) is at work. Started my day today with a 45 minutes coffee break with the others that had gotten up early...
Tomorrow I'm going to drive to Kongsberg again. This time I'll drive to Haugesund first to pick up my sister. We are going to Kongsberg to celebrate my mother and stepfathers 60th birthday and the whole family will be gathered at our cabin. Will be a long drive, but time goes faster with company :-)
Have to get back to work... lunch in 20 minutes :-)
Cheers

omg.. what a trip, not enough with me driving the wrong way twice, but all the slow drivers!! Should think they had all the time in the world! Well, I had that too, but come on; 60 in the 80-zone without letting people overtake? Nothing unnormal about it though so why bother getting angry....

The most fun thing happening was these sheep that had occupied one of the car stops on the mountain. Here is one of the trying to eat my toe...



Have a nice weekend!

Hey!
First of all I finally got the amateur(read "made by me") video of my mothers apartment in Berlin online. Wanna thank Mayuko for giving me an idea of how to do it :-) Hope it works..



After a rather stressing two days I thought it was about time to go to the beach and pretend I have vacation. It was a bit cloudy and some rain drops, but warm. A colleague from work also came along. Frisbee, volleyball, the sea (and alot of stinging jellyfish) was excellent!

Me closest to the camera(yeah...I have shaved now..) and Jan Sverre witht the volleyball


A plane flying low over the beach, wise to keep some distance..


Will be leaving for Kongsberg to morrow!

Bye

My neighbour came knocking on my door approximately the time I came home yesterday and asked if I had talked to the landlord (or should I say landlady) lately.
I said no, but was planning on real soon actually.
Then he said that the landlady had been down stairs and knocked on my door. Since I weren't home she went to him and said that I hadn't paid my rent in two months and she found it suspicious that I never opened the door when she knocked...

Argh!

First of all; I WORK! I'm not home at 10 in the morning.
Second; I gave her my phone number and email adress when signing the contract. Why not try that?
Third; Why on earth does she go to the neighbour and tell him that I'm not paying the rent and try to hide when ever she comes over to ask me why I haven't paid it. Wise thing to do.



OK, so there will not be any misunderstandings: I have paid every single rent since I moved in. And I had to stop by work to print out every single receipt from my bank yesterday evening when going to tuesday-soccer. Then put them in their mail box.

Am I overreacting? Maybe. But accusing me of not paying the rent and then hiding not to get caught is rather serious. This kind of unjustified mistrust annoys me.

Should I now go to them or the police first because they haven't installed a fire extinguisher? Guess the police would be their choise.

Is your land lord just as unreasonable? Or maybe worse? Or better?

OK, now I'm over it. Just had to share it with someone(everyone?)