Roffes blogg

Today a lot has happened. One not so good thing and a lot of good things.
I started the day with calling the doctor. My hand hasn’t gotten any better at all since I saw him last. The sinew inflammation should get better within a week he said, but that didn’t happen. I got an appointment at 1400.

Before going to the doctor I had to go to town to buy tickets for a soccer game on sunday. I have promised Maiken this for a long time now and finally I am going to keep my promise. But before going to town to buy the tickets, I had to walk to the store to withdraw money from my bank to get the money to take the bus to town.

When I finally got to town I got some fantastic tickets right down by the field and right by the supporter stand for the home supporters. This is going to be a great experience for both me and my step daughter. But at the supporter store I found a pasifier I just had to buy for Charlotte. The colors and the logo are those of Fredrikstad FotballKlubb, the soccer team in my heart. Isn’t she just the perfect supporter?

When I got home from town, I got half an hour to relax before it was time for my doctors appointment. And here’s the bad news. It’s probably not a sinew thing after all. When I told the doctor the pains started the day after falling on my rollerblades he asked me to bend my thumb in a particular way. It hurt like h… and he changed the diagnose to a possible fracture in one of the bones in the thumb. I am going to the hospital to be X-rayed tomorrow. Can’t say I liked those news. I guess it’s at least 6 weeks with my arms in a cast if it’s a fracture. That means my exercise will suffer even more. I have walked a lot the last few days, but my feet and knees hurt very much when I walk a lot. And rollerblading and bicycling is out of the question just like going to the gym. But I guess I will just keep walking and popping painkillers when my legs and feet hurt too much.

After the doctors appointment, wich got an hour delayed, the whole family went to Moss to go to the CD Signing of the Norwegian Idols. This Idol thing is just insane. The line for getting the signatures went all through the mall they were in and actually to the outside of the mall. Completely insane. I was happy I could just sit in a cafe and sip coffee while the others stood in line. Luckily we got there almost 2 hours before the signing started, so Maiken and Wifey was practically all in front of the line. I am SO glad I didn’t have to wait for the length of that line. I am still amazed of how many teenagers and kids that showed up. It seemed like everyone in the whole county was there.

After the signing in the mall we went home to my in-laws and was there for about an hour before we left for home again. We had forgotten to bring food for Charlotte, so she got quite hungry on the way home. But she was very good all the time and didn’t start to cry until we were almost at home. My wonderful little girl.

I dag har det skjedd masse forskjellig. Én ikke fullt så bra ting og masse gode ting.

Etter signeringen dro vi hjem til mine svigerforeldre og var der en times tid før vi dro hjem igjen. Vi hadde glemt å ta med mat til Charlotte, så hun ble ganske sulten på veien hjem. Men hun holdt ut veldig lenge før sulten tok overhånd. Flinke jenta mi.

0800: 2 slices of ingers rye with mackerel in tomato sauce.
1100: 1 whole grain baguette with Tandoori chicken.
1345: 3 slices of thin crust pizza with just tomato sauce and cheese.
1630: pizza bun and taco wrap.
2100: 80 grams of milk chocolate.

I have been struggling a lot with the built in network card in my computer. The linux driver, orinoco, has been buggy for the Intersil Prism 2.5 chipset and it seems they haven’t been able to fix it. So I tried installing ndiswrapper to use it with the windows XP drivers for the card, but that broke my system completely. A library file got destroyed and rendered me unable to boot the system.

So the Intersil Prism 2.5 card DOES NOT WORK WELL WITH NDISWRAPPER. You are hereby warned. It might break your system completely.

So I had to download the Ubuntu cd image to reinstall my computer. Luckily I had installed some synchronization software and synced my data to the server so my data was safe, but all my configurations got lost. So since monday morning I haven’t done anything but trying to get my laptop up and running again. I think I will back up the configurations also from now on. I do this on my server, but not on my laptop. *sigh*

But ubuntu is such a dream to install, so it wasn’t really a biggie and it’s actually good to get a fresh system up and running after all the experimenting I have done with this ubuntu thing. But now I have learned. I will back up the configs in addition to the data.

Jeg har slitt veldig med det innebygde nettverkskortet i pc-en min. Linuxdriveren til kortet, orinoco, har masse feil med Intersil Prism 2.5 brikkesettet og det ser ut til at de ikke har klart å fikse det heller. Så jeg prøvde å installere ndiswrapper for å bruke xp-driveren for kortet, men det havarerte pc-en min helt og holdent. En bibliotek-fil ble ødelagt og jeg var helt ute av stand til å starte opp systemet.

Men Ubuntu er en drøm å installere, så det var ikke spesielt vanskelig og det er faktisk deilig å ha et ferskt system oppe etter all eksperimentering jeg har gjort med denne ubuntu-tingen. Men nå har jeg lært. Jeg skal ta backup av konfigurasjoner også. Ikke bare data.

0730: 3 slices of ingers rye bread. 2 of them with mackerel in tomato sauce and 1 slice with turkey slice and red bell-pepper.
1130: 2 slices of ingers rye bread with mackerel in tomato sauce.
1715: 4 turkey hotdogs with cucumber relish.
2130: 2 slices of ingers rye with white cheese.

I feel like I am slipping these days. My motivation is at an all time low and I “forgot” to step on the scale today in fear of what it would show. I cannot work out in the gym because of my hand and because I am too lazy by nature I don’t get to walk long enough walks. I would love to ride my bike, but the smallest hump in the road sends extreme pains up my hurt arm. I also has days where I don’t bother to write down what I eat. Sunday was one of these. Why am I like this?

I will try to pull myself together until monday and i won’t weigh in this week. I feel I have enough to think and worry about with jobb hunting, market research on smubuntu.org, lack of money and so on.

Jeg føler det som om jeg holder pÃ¥ Ã¥ gi opp for tiden. Motivasjonen min er lavere enn noensinne og jeg “glemte” Ã¥ veie meg i dag i frykt for hva vekta ville vise. Jeg kan ikke trene i treningssenteret pÃ¥ grunn av senebetennelsen i hÃ¥nda og fordi jeg er for lat av natur blir det ikke noe særlig turer med bikkja som har noe særlig treningsverdi. Jeg hadde elsket Ã¥ sykle, men selv den minste humpen i veien sender ekstreme smerter opp i den skadde armen. Jeg har ogsÃ¥ dager hvor jeg ikke gidder Ã¥ skrive ned det jeg spiser. Søndag var en av disse. Hvorfor har jeg det sÃ¥nn?

Jeg skal prøve å skjerpe meg til neste mandag og vil ikke veie meg denne uka. Jeg føler jeg har nok å tenke på for tiden med jobbsøking, markedsundersøkelser på smubuntu.org, pengemangel og i det hele tatt.

Menu today:

0730: 1 slice of bread with light liver pate (10% fat) and 1 slice with sandwich creme. Both with loads of cucumber on.
1115: 1 pizzaslice.
1715: 1 large bowl of mexican casserole with 5 small slices of garlic bread. My wife made dinner for me today. So now she’s clear for the next 2 years.

1100: 2 slices of bread with lettuce and turkey. 1 carrot.
1600: WAAAAY too much waffles.
2030: 2 meatcakes, 2 boiled potatoes, 3 leafs of lettuce and 1/2 cucumber.

0730: 2 thin slices of bread with cheese, cucumber and red bell-pepper.
1030: 2 clementines and 1 carrot
1245: 1 whole grain taco baguette, without the sour cream.
1630: 2 small potatoes, 1/2 head of broccoli and 3 meat cakes.
2100: 3 slices of thin crust pizza with turkey, cheese, red bell-peppers and mushrooms.

Has also eaten a twix bar today.

I was surfing the web yesterday and came over some pictures from just before I met my wife and a few months after. I met her in July 2001.

In november 2000 I was bigger than I am now. I decided that I wanted to lose weight and started an extreme regime of exercising and a very strict diet. This gave ekstreme results and I lost almost 50 kilos in 7 months. By July 2001, that is 7 months I had lost so much weight that I looked extremely good. The photos were of me in July 2001. One of them really shows how good I looked back then. This was actually the night I met my wife for the first time.
Jeg surfet litt på nettet i går og kom over noen bilder fra tiden da jeg traff min kone. Jeg traff henne i Juli 2001.

I November 2000 var jeg større enn det jeg er nå. Jeg bestemte meg for å gå ned i vekt og begynte et ekstremt regime med trening og en veldig streng diett. Dette ga ekstreme resultater og jeg mistet nærmere 50 kg på 7 måneder. Bildene jeg fant var av meg i Juli 2001. Et av dem viser virkelig godt hvor kjekk jeg var den gangen. Dette var faktisk den kvelden jeg møtte kona mi.

Roffe, July 2001
Until yesterday I had forgotten how good it felt to be this thin. It’s not the most flattering picture, since I was quite drunk and had fallen asleep. I am going to look that way again. It is a bit depressing that I didn’t manage to stay there 4 years ago, but I will get there again. I don’t have that much time to work out now, so it will take more time, but you bet I will get there again.

Inntil i går hadde jeg glemt hvor bra det føltes å være så tynn. Det er ikke det mest smigrende bildet siden jeg var ganske full og hadde sovnet. Men jeg skal se så bra ut igjen. Det er litt deprimerende at jeg ikke klarte å holde meg der nede for 4 år siden, men jeg SKAL komme meg dit igjen. Jeg har mye mindre tid til trening nå, så det vil nok ta en del lenger tid, men jeg skal dit igjen.

Roffe, April 2005
This is how I look now. Quite a difference, eh? I have decided that looking and feeling as good as on the other photo is worth a lot of blood, sweat and tears. By summer 2006 I will look like that again. Care to make a bet about it?

Dette er sånn jeg ser ut nå. Ganske stor forskjell, ikke sant? Jeg har bestemt at å se og føle meg så bra som på det andre bildet er verdt MASSE blod, svette og tårer. Sommeren 2006 skal jeg se sånn ut igjen. Lyst til å inngå et veddemål?

The last few days I have spent brewing up a business idea I have been thinking about for a long time. I have now established a website and changed the name of my company. I want to try to start my own business and I think I have found a nitch it might be possible to earn a bit of money on.

In short, I am going to sell linux servers to small and medium size companies especially configured for that segment in the corporate world. The solution is also suitable for home networks, so I will offer the solution to households for a lower cost too.

Read about my idea on my companys homepage. Since I only aim to sell to norwegian customers, I haven’t made an english version of the website. I apologize for that to my non-norwegian speaking readers. If you want to konw more about it I have an english version of my brochure, so let me know if you want that mailed.

Important notice: I have asked the ubuntu-team if I am allowed to use my modified logo and the SMUbuntu name, but haven’t gotten a reply. If they turn me down I will change the logo and the concept name, but the concept will be the exact same.

De siste dagene har jeg brygget opp en forretnings-ide jeg har tenkt på en god stund nå. Jeg har etablert en webside og endret navnet på firmaet mitt for dette formålet. Jeg vil prøve å starte min egen forretningsvirksomhet og jeg har funnet en nisje jeg tror det kan være mulig å tjene en del penger på.

Viktig notis: Jeg har spurt ubuntu-teamet om jeg får lov til å bruke den endrede logoen og navnet SMUbuntu men har ikke fått noe svar fra dem enda. Hvis de sier nei, vil jeg endre logoen og konseptets navn, men selve konseptet vil være nøyaktig det samme.

I am sorry I haven’t blogged my menu for yesterday. I will not blog it either, because my wife and I had a romantic day and I didn’t take notes of what I ate. It wasn’t too unhealthy, but not very unhealthy either. Todays menu is also hard to blog in the usual way, since the day has been one long meal from noon until bed time. I haven’t eaten very much, but have spread it througout the day.

today I have had: 2 slices of bread with lettuce and turkey. 4 chicken/turkey low fat hot dogs. 60 grams of potato chips, 30 gram of pretzels, 3 carrots and 20 grams of milk chocolate.

I went to the doctor with my hand yesterday and he told me it was, in norwegian, senebetennelse. I haven’t found the english term for it. He said I should get a supportive wrist bandage and keep the hand still for a week and a half. So I don’t get to go to the gym, but I will keep taking my 30-60 minutes of walking the dog every day, so I wont be totally passive.

Jeg beklager at jeg ikke blogget menyen min for i går. Jeg vil ikke skrive den ned heller, siden kona og jeg hadde en romantisk dag i går og jeg skrev ikke ned det jeg spiste. Det var ikke for usunt, men heller ikke direkte slankemat. Dagens meny er også vanskelig å få skrevet ned på den vanlige måten, siden dagen har vært et langt måltid fra frokosten kl. 12 og nå til sengetid. Jeg har ikke spist så mye, men jeg har spredd det godt utover dagen.

Jeg dro forresten til legen med hånda i går og han fortalte meg at jeg hadde fått senebetennelse i hånda. Han sa jeg skulle kjøpe meg ei håndleddstøtte og holde hånda i ro i halvannen uke. Så jeg får ikke dratt og trent, men jeg vil selvsagt ta turene med hunden, så jeg blir ikke HELT passiv