When I took the drivers licence in 91′ I learned to hold the steering wheel this way:
But now I read in the media that this is the position because of the damage airbags can do:
I tried this but I felt that I had less control of the steering, how to you hold the wheel? Ten to two or ten past half four?
PS! Don’t ask how I took the photos in my car, it still kinda hurts. 
I received a lot of nice things on my birthday, caps, gift-card, tie, t-shirts, book, jogging shoes, mountain shoes etc but most important to me my better half and the three young ones woke me up singing for me and I got a muffin with a candle. A perfect start of the day. Its a tradition we have and I love it. Later that day we met my parents, sister, brother in law, niece and nephew to eat dinner in Aya Napa – a perfect day.
The mountain shoes I got was a bit too small so I went to the shop today (XXL) to change them. The second I went in I was met by a smiling girl.
Her: Hi there, do you need to change that?
Me: Yes
Her: Do you have the receipt?
Me: No, sorry
Her: Thats ok, I’ll sign a note so you can change them, there, please go to the shoes department
It was kind of hectic there, they were setting up new displays but a new girl saw me and dropped what she were doing.
Her: Hi can I help you?
Me: Yes please, I need to change these one size up
Her: Sure, give me two seconds
Two seconds later:
Her: Here you are, try these on
Me: Perfect, thanks!
Her: I’ll register it and print out a confirmation note to you for the cashier, here you are.
Wasn’t that beautiful? It took me max 3 minutes, they were great.
I just wanted to share it…
Our 2,5 year old daughter had high fever for many days until we decided to visit the medical emergency last weekend. She didn’t eat well for days and she we’rent the jumpy girl we’re used to.
They checked her and decided to give her antibiotics for a throat infection. We were kind of happy that they found out what it was that fast but we forgot to check her CRP. The day after she got worse and we took her to our family doctor, he checked her CRP and he was shocked. It was 200! Their device stop at 200. He wrote a reference to the hospital and we took her there directly. They ran a lot of tests and we waited and waited, when the first tests arrived they decided to submit her, it wasn’t her throat that was the issue. I have to admit that I was worried, its our little princess and it feels terrible when we don’t know whats wrong with her and we can’t help her.
We got a room with a bed and they started to test further, later she got something to eat and she got painkillers to control her fever – its not fun when a little kid has 41 degrees Celsius. We were told that she had to stay for the night, we decided to let her mummy stay with her – since she is very dependent of her mummy when shes sick. The next morning we went to the hospital to visit them and bring some fresh clothes, there we still no news, they hadn’t found out what caused this. But her CRP had dropped to 165 which is very good, still way too high though but at least decreasing. Her fever still raved though so it was still in her body. They took an ultra-sound check on her and everything seemed fine and they are leaning on a theory that it is a virus infection.
I am always worried that doctors think we overreact and treat us differently but that was not the case this time, they kindly explained to us that we did the right thing and that it was important to monitor her health closely. Today her values were better and they decided to let us go home but we have an open submission in case we need access to them again and then we don’t have to go through the paper work.
They are still waiting for some lab-results, I think they will be ready tomorrow. Since she started on a antibiotics cure that interfered with some tests and they had to grow something. I don’t understand everything they say. They asked us to come up to them tomorrow anyway to take a new blood test to check her CRP. It feels good to be helped taking care of our little one.
ESA’s Planck mission has delivered its first all-sky image – all sky! Its our universe! The Egg!
It reminded me of something Andy Weir once wrote, I really recommend reading this: The Egg.
It starts like this:
You were on your way home when you died.
It was a car accident. Nothing particularly remarkable, but fatal nonetheless. You left behind a wife and two children. It was a painless death. The EMTs tried their best to save you, but to no avail. Your body was so utterly shattered you were better off, trust me.
And that’s when you met me.
“What… what happened?” You asked. “Where am I?”
(Photo: Terje Engås)
Tomas Tandstad is turning 98 in a few months and the other day he bought a 98 model Subaru Justy, a 4 wheel drive. He needed the 4 wheel drive because of the road up to cabin. The car was found for sale on Internet, his youngest son (54) helped him to order it.
Every day he drives 9 kilometers to visit his wife, shes at an elder center – isn’t that awesome?
His secret to long life is fresh fish, dark bread and a glass of hombrew ale.
Links to newspaper-articles on him (in Norwegian)
Sunnmørsposten
VG
Anyone know if there exist cheap machines for counting chromosomes and analyze strawberry dna? Or some students who have time to do a few dusin tests?
The reason I ask is that now that the strawberry season starts here in Norway people are trying to lure us with important berries, yet selling them as “Norwegian strawberries”.
Sweden also have this problem but they’ve hired some experts to find the swindlers but Norway does not have any plans fighting it.
Just curious. I want to find out where the strawberries came from, and wondered if it would be possible to have dna-database for Norwegian strawberry-producers.
My better half found a wasp nest yesterday – it was well developed as it was hidden behind a wall, and our barbecue. Our kids play here a lot so we decided to buy some Permetrin and Pyretrin to get rid of it. This is how it looked:
I waited til the wasps fell to rest and sprayed the entrance, it became quite a chaos and listening to all the wasps in there was kind of frightening but some of them blocked the entrance and they couldn’t get out. I wish they built this in the forest instead, I don’t like to do this but we had to think about our kids’ safety.. Heres the aftermath:
Lots of the larvae were alive and about to hatch so we threw the nest on the fire to get rid of the rest. Icky!
A few days before our new light-rail system Bybanen in our city were supposed to open it crash and derail!
Photo: Stian Hæreid Espeland
This is tragic, lots of people were against building this system and now they are laughing – I can’t believe how cruel people can be. On the display it says “Practice driving”. I am glad this didn’t happen on the opening day, several kindergartens are supposed to be passengers on the first trip.
Here are more photos from the crash:
Photo: Stian Hæreid Espeland
Photo: Jon Tufto
Photo: Stian Hæreid Espeland
Something happened during trail-change and one of them ran i the wrong direction, and then… bang.
Its sad that they have to start their carrer by reparing those. I wonder if they make it before the opening.
Now the fire department are trying to get it on tracks again:
Millions of people gets bitten by dogs each year, it happen in Norway too. Today an 8 month old baby got attacked by a Rottweiler near me. I thought this dog was illegal. I’m not much into dog but its sad to read about these attacks. I have a feeling its all about how the dog has been raised, or am I wrong?
I noticed in some statistics that 5 millions in USA gets bitten by dog each year, but aren’t there about 50-60 million dogs in US? I’m not sure how many dogs there are in Norway.
The article is updated now. A mother were carrying the baby out of a mall and the dog jumped up and bit the baby’s leg…
A paint job was long overdue, we figured out this was our last chance to paint it else it would have to be removed and replaced next season. This is how it looked before we put the stain on:
We bought 4 litres of stain and a roller, but first I washed and scrubbed it with something I don’t think is very environmental friendly..
Heres how it turned out:
And then my better half bought new furniture, doesn’t it look great?
Heres Carrie Fisher on an Aktiv 600 snow scooter on the Hardangerjøkul in Norway, its while filming Star Wars – The Empire Strikes Back. I thought it was an awesome photo.
Check out more photos here or the May edition of Maxim.
A traditional May 16 and 17th celebration this year. First the local match and celebration in the city center the 17th.
Our view at the match:
Huseklepp takes a corner:
Bergen center.
Thor Thordarson, a vulcano researcher prepares us for decades of ash-trouble. Its incredible to see how dependent we’ve become of the air-traffic. What will happen the day Katla awakens and we can’t use airplanes for weeks, or months?
I follow vedur.is every day and jumps in my chair each time I see red dots around Katla, I’m thinking “Now its happening” but then the dots vanish. But one day…
In Norway we have an old train-system – people want the fastest route so people choose air and not train – will this change?
I’m always on the lookout for moments that gives me the chills, you know – the ones that comes when you’re not expecting it. Especially in the “… got talent”-concept. The other day I found one that gave me multiple chills. A 38 year old man sings in Sweden’s version “Talang” (Talent). He presents himself and say that he comes from Norway. ….WHAT? Awesome I thought, is it a joke or something? Norway and Sweden are like bitter neighbors, we always compete and try to be the best ones. He explains that hes a Norwegian living in Stockholm and that his dreams are getting famous and going on world tours, earning money etc and that hes a tenor.
He seem to be a nice guy and hes a Norwegian in the Sweden got talent show, and hes being warmly welcomed. 1 Chill. When he start to sing another chill arrives, hes a great singer! The judges’ reaction is awesome, people rise and cheers. Another chill. He sings so great that one of the judges start to cry, the well known Bert Karlsson starts to cry, another chill. Hes a entrepreneur, publisher, writer, debater, program leader, publisher director etc and many known artists can thank Bert for their career. Seeing Bert’s reaction is awesome. The judges are so impressed that they ask him to sing another one, then he sing a Norwegian song in Swedish. I just sit and enjoy the show.
Her is the Norwegian Stephen Brandt-Hansen in Sweden’s Talang:
After this incident it has come in the open that Stephen is a performer and is well known. Well, I didn’t know him and I don’t think hes a celebrity. The media writes about “Swedish people boils of anger” because of this. But I just read that the Talang invited him so I don’t think he has do defend himself. Hes got talent! I bet this irritates a lot of Swedes, and I have to admit that I think it is a bit funny..
What do you think?
I struggle with irritated eyes these days because of pollen allergy and today I had to look twice at something I saw outside work. Can you see it?
We are expecting moderate spread of Alnus and Corylus avellana tomorrow but I think it a day or two earlier. They say cold weather gives lots of pollen, and this time we’ve had a long and cold winter..
Are you affected?
