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Pine green paint

Dag is removing the old floor

Cecilie unmounting the old kitchen

Kitchen floor

Eira painting the livingroom walls.

not really… but sometimes the weekend, when you look at it in retrospect, seems like a whole week, because you’ve got so much stuff done.

One of these things was not blogging, since I had so much stuff to do. On friday I got the second stroke of paint on the livingroom and bedroom roof, before Posten came and delivered the new kitchen. Watching the Posten guys backing up a truck up to our door was quite an experience in itself. Then we got the rest of the kitchen furniture down.

Then, on saturday morning, which by the way was an extraordinary morning, with weather we rarely see in this city.

Cold, with crisp snow and partial sunlight.

On saturday we had whats in norwegian is called “dugnad” (which by a funny sidenote is translated “hard work” by google translate), where friends of ours came over and helped us with painting, and removing the several layers of floor in the kitchen.

We got more done on saturday than we had expected, we got a single layer of paint in the hall, and prepared for the pinegreen paint we painted on the lower half of the hall walls on sunday.

On sunday my mother visited and lended us her car for the next few weeks. That will make the moving process a lot easier.

Or, actually just the kitchen. Yesterday we removed almost all of the existing kitchen furniture in our new apartment, preparing for the IKEA delivery of a new kitchen today

So, here’s how the kitchen looks right now:

We also got the first stroke of paint on the livingroom and the bedroom roof. It’s nice to see progress

Okay, just had to…

more animals

So, we bought a new apartment. Before we bought it I checked that CanalDigital could offer both TV and Internet to the new apartment. And, according to them, then, they could.

Today however, after making three attempts to get through to them I was told that they now could only offer TV. That means I have to go back to the stoneage-performing ADSL technology. Sigh!

To top this, CanalDigital requires a two month notice on terminating a broadband subscription, and three months to terminate a TV subscription. And, even further, if you move your tv subscription they are counting that as a new subscription, which mean you’ll have to pay for two tv subscriptions for three months.

And, moving to another ISP has some costs in itself. Since there are no operational telephone in the apartment, Nextgentel charges NOK 499,- to enable the telephone line, and additionaly NOK 60,- each month to keep it open. Nextgentel is cheaper on the monthly subscription charge, so the monthly NOK 60,- doesn’t matter that much. But the reduction of 2Mbits of outbound speed matters. And, ADSL has generally a lower quality of service than cable…

Did I mention that CanalDigital probably charges for enabling TV in the new apartment as well? Sigh!

… again

Christer Solskogen complained about my blog design this week. Or rather the fact that I hadn’t personalized it at all. So, I decided to create a new design. Here it is… There is still a lot to do on it, but I feel its a step in the right direction.

I går gikk jeg for å levere macen min på service. På veien gikk jeg og hørte på Misjonen på P4. Et par ganger i timen var det da en stemme som i et irriterende volum og tonefall kunne fortelle meg at Misjonen PRESANGTERES av Telehuset, faghandel innen tele og data…

Fra bokmålsordboka:

Og…

presan’g m1 (fra fr, se *presentere) gave få mange p-er på fødselsdagen sin

Det er en sammenheng mellom disse. Men hvis en skal lage et ord som presangtere, må en vel tenke i retning av ordet pakketere, som selgerene på jobben er så glad i. Det er altså å gjøre noe til en pakke. Så å presangtere må da være å gjøre noe til en presang, altså en gave.

As you can see I ran memtest86+ yesterday, and it gave me lots of errors. However something wasn’t smelling right, so I thought I’d run the same test on two other macbooks and one PC. The PC was clean, but both the macbooks apparently had exactly the same bugs as mine. So, it seems memtest86+ isn’t really macbook compatible. Memtest86 wouldn’t even boot. It might maybe be better if memtest86+ also wouldn’t boot instead of giving me false errors.

However. There’s something wrong with the machine, it’s slow, it crashes, it has sudden reboots. It even has strange graphical artifacts on the screen and the operating temperature is about 85 degrees celsius.