Modern Life is Rubbish

Hey!
Congrats to Tommy and Anna with their first born!!

Lot's of work, gotta go!

Wish you all a nice weekend!

Today is a sad day in many ways. Thomas and KM's cat was found dead after being hit by a car two days after it disappeared. I was not allowed to take one and a half day off to go with my friends to London mid-march. Think maybe my easter holydays will be in danger as well, because of this two months overtime-campaign.
My colleagues has decided to go back to play squash on tuesdays as we did before christmas after trying to play on wednesday instead, because I had to change my TDK practise to tuesdays and thursdays. Today will be the last squash day for me... Buhuu..

Took over my neighbours internet yesterday after he moved. I can't make it work. Crappy stuff.

The weather has (finally) turned here in Norway. A lot of snow and freezing cold. Now I can a last start to use my nice hat from Russia. But the cold weather due to irregularities around the world might be disastrous for many. Like this guy. Sort of a funny photo, but there is probably a good reason that drove him to this drastic way of getting to some warm clothes...



Wish you all a nice day.

Yeah, we had to write this personal hse commitment at work (we get a reflex vest for doing it). Anyway, as for my commitment at work I wrote among other things that I would start drinking less coffee.



But, in order to do that I have to monitor how much I really drink. And that I will try to do here. One cup is 2 dl.

So far today: 4 cups of coffee.
Time: 1035

OK, I think I might be drinking too much...


How many cups do you drink?

We made sushi this saturday! Haha, never thought I'd ever do that..
The complete book of sushi came very in handy.
So after finding the best piece of raw salmon at the quay, and buying all the other ingredients we could start.

Makeing the sushi rice was actually the most complex and time consuming. After cooking it in a rice cooker together with some sea grass, it had to be cooled down with a fan at the same time as it was mixed with a mix of sake and sushi vinegar.



Time to put the rice and "filling" on the see weed and roll.






Then cut the roll into eight pieces. These are filled with cucumber.



Then cucumber and salmon:









Then salmon on a "ball" of rice.



Ah! Looks very nice!



And tastes very good!







By the way; to answer a question: The meaning of the expression "good thing the houses are hollow" is that it is good to be able to go into them when the weather is very bad...

Have a nice day everyone!

This is photos from the Oseberg A platform in the North Sea. My technical leader sent me these:



At the time these photos were taken the wind was measured to 60 knots(111 km/h). Later it was measured to 100 knots (185 km/h).....



If you see some gray rings on the shaft, that is the 30 meter mark. (from platform deck)



Good thing these things are placed on the sea bed...

Hey!
Then it was monday again... not so tired though, but that might be because of the two cups of coffee I've just drank.
This weekend almost blew away, full storm here, and hurricane back home in Haugesund. I have to go back home on friday in order to help my father fixing some of the garage roof. The naighbours fence also blew away, but it was kind of rotten, and I had to clean up from all the garbage containers...
Anyway, as they say in Arendal; "Good thing the houses are hollow!".
If you don't get the meaning of this, tell me and I'll tell you.

Saturday I got a hair cut. Kind of strange as my hair was very long. I has become about 5 degrees colder outside and I can hear thing I didn't knew mad sound.

Saturday we also made sushi. Haha, never thought I'd ever make it my self, and the strangest thing is that the result was excellent! Just like in the resturant :-)

I forgot the photos at home, but will post them here tomorrow.

Wish you a nice week everyone!

The Guantánamo military base is a very bad place and yeah; I know I work for AK, and might not be able to comment on anything. But here is the internal press release:

Aker Kvaerner dismisses Amnesty claims as wrong
Oslo, January 11: Amnesty International Norway has today informed Norwegian media about the conclusion in a legal evaluation ordered by Amnesty, with focus on Aker Kvaerner's previous project at the Guantanamo Bay navy base. Aker Kvaerner has dismissed the allegations as incorrect.

Amnesty's legal evaluation claims that torture and violations of human rights have taken place at the prison for terrorist suspects at Guantanamo, and that Aker Kvaerner indirectly was complicit because of the company's project at the base.

Aker Kvaerner's comment to the media on this case was: ”In the middle of the 1990s, the previous Kvaerner corporation started on a contract for various maintenance and upgrading tasks at the 100 year old US navy base in Cuba. When Aker Kvaerner was established, this was one of the contracts the new corporation inherited, and the contract was ended already in 2005.

We register that Amnesty wishes to use this as a symbolic case, but conclude that we disagree with their claims that our activity had anything to do with violation of human rights."

Document Owner: Torbjorn Andersen Created: 10 Jan 07 22:44 CET

OK, it is friday; time for something totally mind dead and fun. Seen many of these before, but I can't get enough of them. One of the norwegian news papers are serching for the all time worst album cover. Here is one of my favourites.
Haha :-p
I apologise to those that might be offended.



You can see more of them here:
www.vg.no/asdfadsf
And of course:
http://www.zonicweb.net/badalbmcvrs/

Wish you all a nice weekend! I'm going out for beers right after work.

Hmm.. did I tell you that I graduated the 12th of december? Don't think so, but anyway, yeah, I'm now the proud owner of a 1 inch thick stripe made of electrician tape. Almost double graduated, but no.

Ahh.. I need writing inspiration.. I want a new camera to take photos.. But life is good.. I'll try to keep my new years resolution..