Almost as soon as we had the keys in hand, we started the hassle of moving from one apartment to the other. After just a few days, we were incredibly thankful that we bought a place so close to our old one!
The first weekend we borrowed a dolly from work (and a shopping cart from [...]
Unfortunately my plans for blogging more regularly were hindered last week by the flurry of moving activity! However, things are starting to slow down a little now that the new place is finally livable!
To recap the whirlwind home-buying process:
Sunday 23 August – We went to the visning for the apartment, and spent about 15 minutes [...]
A while ago Lucas picked up a copy of this book. He loves computer books and reads them the same way I read poorly-written vampire romance novels critically-acclaimed literature. It’s bad enough that he brings programming books along on vacation, but “Professional Multicore Programming?” I don’t know if you can get much nerdier than a [...]
I love food, and I love flags. So imagine my delight when I came across this article about the Sydney International Food Festival: National Flags Made Out of Food!
The creators used regional foods to recreate the flags of the countries participating in the festival. What a wonderful idea, and some of them were very well [...]
Today was our first full day back in Oslo. It’s a relief to be home after our crazy trip, and the cats are certainly glad to see us. Even Maia, the reclusive cat, seemed a little more social than usual.
Being away for two weeks isn’t usually so exhausting, but this time it was essentially three [...]
The last stop on our crazy two-week whirlwind trip was Chicago, where we squeezed in some sightseeing between catching up with Katie and Shane. We did the architecture cruise on the Chicago River, which was even more interesting since we were still in apartment-hunting-mindset and there are a lot of nice riverfront condos. We visited [...]
A few photos of Stavanger after dark:
We spent last weekend on the beautiful Koster Islands in Sweden to attend our friends’ wedding. I just got a chance to upload some of our photos, so I thought I’d share a few:
Lucas and I are in Stavanger for a class on geophysics for work, and last night we decided to have Chinese food for dinner. Since we can expense our meals, we opted to have a beer with dinner (a luxury we usually forgo at home). This was my bottle of TsingTao, which cost the equivalent [...]
Today I happened on a blog article titled “Why Norwegian is the easiest language for English speakers to learn.” What a depressing headline for someone who has been trying to muddle her way through learning the language for over two years now.
The piece outlines in very clear grammatical terms why Norwegian ought to be the [...]