No, I’m not talking about the weather, but perhaps I should: The season seems to have taken a sudden nose-dive around here! On the weekend of our move (was that really only 1½ weeks ago?) I updated my Twitter status to comment how the weather was a perfect fall day. The sun was shining, the [...]
The UN just published their annual ranking of countries, determining where the best places to live by life expectancy, education, GDP, etc. Norway topped out the list, followed by Australia (Good on ya!) and Iceland (apparently their financial issues have not yet decreased their life expectancy). While we’re all proud of our surrogate country, it’s [...]
In my effort to post something (anything) more regularly, I’ve started keeping a collection of random links that have amused me. Since it’s Friday, and I worked late last night, I thought I’d post one today. I hope it makes your Friday more amusing too. You know all of those cute photos of animals that [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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 [...]
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: