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Today has been a good and relaxing day. The day can be described like this: made and ate waffles, gave the dog a haircut, watch soccer game on tv, made and ate Taco and are, as I type, baking rolls for tomorrow, which by the way is Norways national “birthday”. 191 years ago tomorrow Norway got its own constitution. Will celebrate quietly, though. Just watch Maikens school parade and go to Moss to barbecue. I just hope the weather will be good.
Yesterday we sold one of my old mobile phones. I hang out on the chat-network IRCNet. Suddenly someone asked if someone had an old cell phone for sale. Since we have loads of them laying around the house. So since we were going almost to Oslo in the first place, we popped by the fellow and sold him one of the phones for NOK 100. He was happy and we were happy getting an extra ride in the car we are borrowing right now. OK to get rid of a phone we won’t ever use again also.

Another thing I am verry happy about these days are that I have definetely regained my ability to read a book. I have about 40 pages left of “Basket Case” by Carl Hiaasen. I am planning to get through these pages tonight. That will be a BIG victory for me. I haven’t been able to finish a book I have started this decade and large parts of the previous one. Good to have a head that is starting to work again.

I dag har vært en god og avslappende dag. Dagen kan oppsummeres slik: laget og spist vafler, vasket og klippet hunden, sett fotballkamp på tv, laget og spist taco og holder på å bake rundstykker til i morgen akkurat nuh. I morgen er det forresten nasjonaldag her i norge. for 191 år siden fikk Norge sin egen grunnlov. Blir dog en rolig feiring. Skal se Maiken i skoletoget og deretter dra til Moss for å grille. Håper bare været blir bra.

En annen ting som jeg er veldig fornøyd med nå til dags er at jeg så definitivt har gjenerobret evnen til å lese en bok. Jeg har ca. 40 sider igjen av “Splitter pine” av Carl Hiaasen. Jeg har planer om å pløye gjennom disse i kveld. Det vil være en STOR seier for meg. Jeg har ikke vært i stand til å lese ut en bok dette tiåret og heller ikke store deler av det forrige. Greit med et hode som er i ferd med å begynne å virke igjen.

I really don’t have anything special to blog about these days. I just have to brag about my perfect little daughter. She is nothing but sunshine these days. Her laughter, smiles and smart looks and makes me forget everything else. She is the most perfect “thing” in the world. She is everything to me.

Jeg har egentlig ingenting å skrive om for tiden. Jeg må bare få skryte litt av min perfekte, lille datter. Hun er bare en herlig solstråle for tiden. Hennes, latter, smil og lure blikk får meg til å glemme alt annet. Hun er den mest perfekte “tingen” i verden. Hun er alt for meg.

I am so god damn fed up right now.

Jeg er så ufattelig drittlei nå.

I always like to have the latest stable versions of the software I use. 3 days ago Wordpress released 1.5.1 and I always dread upgrading web/php/mysql-applications, but have learned that with Wordpress it’s extremely simple. Just remove everything but the config file and the customized files, put the new files in place and run the upgrade script in the browser. It was all done in less than 3 minutes. I love wordpress and recommend it as a perfect blogging system to anyone who asks. The back end interface, where you write posts and configure the blog, is also very easy and user friendly.

My foot is hurting very much today. I am almost unable to walk at all without a sharp, stabbing pain. Wonder why it has gotten worse now. It is almost as bad as it was the second I twisted it. And the whole foot is turning more and more red and blue every day. I guess I will go to the doctor tomorrow.

I am so extremely fed up of being hurt now. I feel I have been “handicapped” for ages. First it was my hand. That is almost well now. Actually I decided it was time to start ignoring the dull pain in the hand just the day I hurt my foot and back. Quite ironic, aint it? I had planned to go to the gym the friday I hurt myself, but I guess I wasn’t supposed to do that. I really, really, really, really, really miss working out now. Going to the gym gave me an energy kick I haven’t felt in years. The endorphines also made me a happier and more comfortable person to live with.

I guess I will stop whining about it and just enjoy the spring, even though it’s hard to enjoy a season when all I can do is sit in a chair with my foot high and pop pain killers.

Jeg liker å alltid ha den siste, stabile versjonen av programvaren jeg bruker. For 3 dager siden ble wordpress 1.5.1 sluppet. Jeg gruer meg alltid til å oppgradere web/php/mysql-applikasjoner, men må vel bare innse at Wordpress er unntaket. Wordpress er ekstremt enkelt å oppgradere. Man fjerner bare alle filer fra web-området med unntak av konfig-fila og de filene man har endret selv, legger på plass de nye filene og peker browseren på upgrade-scriptet. Alt var gjort unna på under 3 minutter :). Jeg elsker wordpress og anbefaler den som det perfekte blogge-systemet til alle som spør. Baksiden av wordpress, der man skriver innlegg og konfigurerer bloggen, er også veldig enkel og brukervennlig.

Men nå får jeg vel slutte å syte og prøve å nyte den deilige våren, selv om det er ganske vansklig å nyte en årstid når alt jeg klarer å gjøre er å sitte i en stol med foten høyt og stappe innpå smertestillende.

Wifey found a way to fix my back last night. And I love the way she did it. I have to get back pains more often so that she can fix me again. I love my wife. I love her so very much. I wondered if I should ask her to do the same to my foot, but that would just be sick.

After she had fixed me I picked up my book and read some pages again. When I got depressed a long time ago I lost the ability to read books. I started reading a page and when I got to the end of a sentence I had forgotten the beginning of it. This was really depressing since I love reading.

This weekend I wanted to try reading one of the books I bought and was unable to read: Basket Case, by Carl Hiaasen. It’s a black humour chrime type book. Last night I burst into laughter when the lead character, Jack Tagger, finally got his mother to tell him how she had found out about his fathers death: She had read his obituary in the newspaper. Jack Tagger lost his father before he can remember and has been degraded from a journalist to an obituary author in his newspaper after an incident of saying too much at the wrong place. Nice irony.

Kona fant en måte å fikse ryggen min på i går kveld. Jeg elsker måten hun gjorde det på. Jeg må få vondt i ryggen oftere så hun kan reparere meg flere ganger. Jeg elsker kona mi. Jeg elsker henne så veldig masse. Jeg vurderte å be henne gjøre det samme med foten min, men det ville bare ha vært sykt.

Denne helgen ville jeg prøve å lese en av bøkene jeg kjøpte og aldri leste: Splitter pine, av Carl Hiaasen. Det er en svart humor, krim-type bok. I går kveld brøt jeg ut i latter og lo lenge når hovedpersonen, Jack Tagger, omsider fikk sin mor til å fortelle hvordan hun fikk vite om sin fraseparerte manns død: hun leste nekrologen hans i avisa. Ironisk nok så er Jack Tagger en journalist som har blitt degradert til nekrolog-forfatter i avisa han jobber i etter å ha sagt et sannhetens ord til ledelsen midt under et møte med 500 potensielle investorer til stede.

Entered a shoutbox in my sidebar. Pretty incredibly cool. If you feel like shouting or saying something spontaneous to me without entering a comment, just type your name and shout me something.
Lagt inn shoutbox i sidemenyen min. Ganske så kult. Hvis du føler for å rope eller fortelle meg noe spontant uten å måtte gå inn på kommentarene så bare skriv inn navnet ditt og rop det ut!.

I am totally handicapped these days. My foot is getting slightly better, but my back is killing me. If I sit or lie in the same position for 15 minutes or more I use 15 minutes to get up. This is the first time ever I have had back pains and I cant say I like it. I don’t have the energy or ability to lead a very healthy lifestyle now. I try to eat right, but it’s hard staying motivated when life generally sucks bigtime.

Jeg har fullstendig bevegelseshemmet for tiden. Foten min har blitt hårfint bedre, men ryggen holder på å ta livet av meg. Hvis jeg sitter eller ligger i samme stillingen i et kvarter eller mer så tar det 15 smertefulle kvarter før jeg klarer å komme meg opp igjen. Dette er første gangen noensinne jeg har hatt vondt i ryggen og jeg kan ikke akkurat si at jeg liker det. Jeg har ikke energien eller evnen til å føre en spesielt sunn livvstil nå. Jeg prøver å spise riktig, men det er vanskelig å være motivert når livet generelt er helt for jævlig.

I am so very much in pain right now. When I woke up this morning I had an extreme pain in my lower back. I have stretched something down there. I have had the same pain before and went to the doctor. He just asked me to pop ibuprofen and it would go away by itself. So I won’t bother to go to the doctor with it.

But as if that wasn’t enough I twisted my ancle when Wifey, Charlotte and I went to town to do some shopping and stuff. Almost down by the bus stop my shoe slipped and I twisted my left ancle badly. I have done this many times before and have just walked it off. I tried that today too, but when I came home the pain was so extremely bad, so we went to the hospital to check it out. After the X-ray, the doctor said nothing was broken and I should just walk on the foot as much as possible and keep it elevated when sitting down. Fun, fun, fun. I am totally unable to walk at all because of the pain.

To top it all I have gotten a fever too. With 2 grams of paracetamol in my body I have a fever of 38.5 degrees celsius. I am not particularly happy right now.

Since my hand has gotten well now, I had decided to go to the gym today, but my foot has put a stop to those plans for some days ahead. I hope I will be able to work out agin soon. I really miss going to the gym.

But the day has been good too. When we were in town, the foot wasn’t that bad and we enjoyed the town in the wonderful weather. When we came home, I took Charlotte, Calvin and my laptop outside and surfed happily while Charlotte slept and Calvin sniffed around the house. I love the spring time. It’s my favourite season.

Jeg har det så ufattelig vondt akkurat nå. Når jeg våknet i dag tidlig hadde jeg fryktelig vondt i korsryggen. Jeg må ha strukket noe der nede. Jeg har hatt den samme vondten før og gikk til doktoren med den. Han sa det var muskulært og ba meg spise ibux, så ville det forsvinne av seg selv etter hvert. Så jeg gidder ikke å dra til legen med det nå.

Men dagen har da vært bra også. Da vi var i byen var ikke foten så vond og vi koste oss virkelig i et fabelaktig vær. Når vi kom hjem tok jeg med meg Charlotte, Calvin og pc-en ut og surfet lykkelig avsted mens Charlotte sov og Calvin sniffet rundt huset. Jeg elsker våren. Det er min favorittårstid.

But I have eaten today too, Men jeg har spist i dag også:

1230: 1 taco baguette and a chocolate milkshake.
1800: 3 or 4 whole grain rolls with cheese. Eaten in the waiting room at the hospital.
2300: 5-6 buns.

1245: 2 slices of bread with mackerel in tomato sauce.
1530: Home made meatloaf with boiled veggetables and potatoes.
2100: 2 half rolls with boiled eggs.

Also ate 3 or 4 carrots.

The geek part
I was unable to sleep last night and decided to read some logs on my server. Yes, I AM a geek, deal with it :). I found out that for the last week or so someone has tried to hack into my server the way I log in when I not at home, via ssh for those who knows about these things. I think theres a kind of worm raging the internet and has found my server. But they will never be able to get in. I have set up ssh way to secure for that. You cannot log in with only a password. To be able to log in you have to have a keypair consisting of a public key on the server and a private key on the client. To use the private key, you must have the keyfile locally on the client computer AND the >20 character long password/passphrase to unlock the key. Unless there’s an unknown bug in the ssh server I think it is virtually impossible to break in to my server that way. But only idiots are completely sure of anything, so who knows. One have to have a little trace of healthy paranoia to have servers connected to internet.

The Chef part
The Chef part is actually a bit of a geek-part also. I have found a fantastic recipe program for linux. It lets me keep a pantry register and connects this to my recipes. If I want Taco for dinner one day, I can add the Taco recipe to the shopping list in the program and the program gives me a shopping list containing the things I don’t already have in my pantry. This is a great little program that will make the everyday of my teflone brain a bit easier. I won’t forget half of everything I was supposed to buy in the store. So now it remains to see if I have the discipline to keep my recipe- and pantry-database updated.

Bla bla
I am having a hard time sleeping these days. I feel very restless and I am thinking a lot of the fact that I do not have a job to go to from july. It worries me. I know it’s stupid to worry about something I cannot do anything more with than I already do, but that is just the way my mind works. Or do not work. I think that was the source to the sleepless night last night. I layed awake until 230am and was as awake as a kid on a chocolate high before getting presents on christmas eve. Finally I got up and spent a couple of hours by the computer. I think I fell asleep (in my bed at about 530am.

At 645 my wifes alarm clock rang so that she could get up and get Maiken off to school. But she had one of her bad headaches and I had to get up to send Maiken to school. I had decided to go to bed when Maiken had left at 800, but before I could even get into the bedroom, Charlotte woke up and demanded breakfast. I fed her and at about 0930 I tried to go to bed again. But right then an attack from the people in the geek part started and I tried to find out more about who they were. I managed to find out who their Internet Provider was and sent an email to the abuse-department there. Wonder if I get a response from them.

After the mail was sent, the clock had turned 1045 and I decided to try to get some sleep while Charlotte slept. And that was Charlotte’s cue. She woke up and demanded attention again. But now I was so exhausted I had to kick Wifey out of bed to tend to Charlotte while I slept. And FINALLY. I got another 2 hours of sleep and actually felt a bit rested afterwards. I reallye hope I will get a whole nights sleep tonight. I hate the way my body, head, mood and everything feels when I am sleep deprevated.

Den nerdete delen
Jeg fikk ikke sove i natt og bestemte meg for å lese noen logger på serveren. Ja, jeg ER en nerd, hva så? Jeg fant ut at i løpet av den siste uka eller så så har noen prøvd å hacke seg inn på min server den veien jeg går inn når jeg ikke er på hjemmenettet mitt. Dette kalles ssh, for de som kjenner til det. Jeg tror det er en orm som snor seg rundt på nettet som har funnet min server og prøver å komme seg inn. Det får de ikke til. Jeg har nemlig satt opp ssh altfor sikkert for at dét skal fungere. Du kan ikke logge inn med bare et passord. For å komme inn må du ha et sett med nøker som består av en offentlig nøkkel som alle kan lese og en privat nøkkel som bare er for meg. Den offentlige nøkkelen må ligge på serveren og jeg må låse opp den private og vise den opplåste nøkkelen til serveren for å få logget inn. Den private nøkkelen krever et passord på minst 20 bokstaver/tegn for å bli brukt. Jeg tror det er bortimot umulig å bryte seg inn på ssh-serveren min med mindre det er en bug der som ingen kjenner til. Men det er jo bare idioter som er skråsikre, så jeg føler meg ikke HELT trygg. Litt sunn paranoia må man ha hvis man skal koble servere til internett.

Etter at den mailen var sendt hadde klokka blitt kvart på elleve og jeg skulle prøve å sove litt igjen. Men da våknet Charlotte iegjen. Men nå var jeg så utslitt, så jeg sparket kona ut av senga for å ta seg av Charlotte sånn at jeg kunne få meg litt søvn. ENDELIG. Jeg sov 2 timer og følte meg faktisk noenlunde uthvilt da jeg våknet. Jeg håper jeg får sove godt i natt. Jeg hater hvordan kroppe, hodet, humøret og alt føles når jeg lider av søvnmangerl.