Friday
Got to work at 08.00. All alone. Well, I had two people from software there too. They coded some project and did not talk much. Ofcourse I tried to do all the things I had put down to do this friday, but it soon dawned on me that this was trully one of the big "taking a day off" days. In fact, I only reached one of the people I were suppose to talk to, and he had his cellphone on by mistake because he had a day off.. On with the show I got to the Incubator-center to do my first day of Unix/Linux administrative tasks there. Having two jobs that close to each other doesn’t really bother me and I feel all great about doing some sysadmining again. Fairly easy going consulting business the first day. Signed a pretty standard work-contract and called it a day. Had food with Jorunn and watched Ocean’s 11. Took some much needed timeout and shut my phone off after it became clear that someone had by mistake gotten all the fibreoptic cables cut at Samfundet, hence I got a shitload of "boxDown"-messages from the SMS-service at NTNU. Yay..
Saturday
Got up at 10, only to find that my bike had been stolen during the night. Ofcourse it doesn’t cost all that much money so it was not insured. I had not locked it so I do not expect to get it back and not to find it either. Anyways.. I think that my satanic-music-loving neighbours upstairs may have a hand in this, but I’ll leave it to the past as I’m getting my new bike this week. Until then I’m loaning Andreas’ (falxx) bike. It’s a little heavier than the blackwood, but it’s an OK Merida-bike. After getting my anger about loosing the bike out on a railwaycompany-owned fence down by the road I walked with Jorunn to her house to do some cleaning. Spent some time cleaning up, then upgraded her laptop to Ubuntu hoary, only to find that I in some way must have been breaking the X-server setup as it failed to re-emerge. To make things even a bit more unfun for her I removed (by mistake) Windows from grub’s bootup menu. After figuring that I’d do the fixup on Sunday we left to hook up with Lars (N`Grath) and Jens Ådne (Quarryman) for taco at casa nerdehaven.
Taco have always made for a good dinner at casa nerdehaven, and with Magnus (meheeco), Christian (saddlark) and his girlfriend Line (no nick for her yet) also showing up it emerged to be one great evening. We ate and watched a movie. After a bunch of snacks, some crap talk about the navy, other nations and general politics etc we broke it all down around midnight.
Sunday
A day like this may bring you either up or down. Got up a bit late, at 12. Had 20 minutes to get showered and into my clothes before my brother showed up to drive me and him over to my cousins Confirmation. The dinner was huge and I’m pretty sure I do not want to go near any BMI-measuring for the next few days.. At 17 we picked up Jorunn and she joined us for some coffee and cake. She looked absolutely wonderful in her Bunad from her hometown of Røros. With sparkling eyes and a clean cut smile she had me on a short leash I’d guess. After having some cake and some still water we left with one of my Uncles. Jorunn walked with me down to Andreas (falxx) were she got to see his and Heidi’s home before I left on the bike I loadned from Andreas. A quick change of clothes later I biked down to the Incubator-centre to do some sysadmining before going to Samfundet to reboot the main diskserver. When I got to Samfundet Tormod (tormodg) and Steinar (Sesse) had done the whole job. Ofcourse I’m not upset that they did it, but I had somewhat been looking forward to actually do some sysadmining myself as it’s fun to do such things from time to time. I guess there’ll be more time for that later.
It’s now past 11 pm and I’m a bit tired. I think I’ll go to bed, all alone and hope that the sun will still shine when I get up at 6.30. Have a good one people. I’m back on track 🙂
