Roffes blogg

Didn’t get the job. Feeling quite badly right now. My knowledge and experience was as close to what they wanted as it could get. So I keep wondering why I i didn’t get the job. Is it really so obvious that I’m a loser that they can se it in a 45 minute interview? Is it my ex-boss that didn’t like me that ruined things when they called him? Am I too fat? Did I stink? Agh!!!!! Life sucks right now.

If I don’t get a job soon we are going totally bankrupt. My income will be reduced by 40% from June 1 and we are already now extremely low on funds. How on earth are we going to survive this?

Fikk ikke jobben. Har det ikke spesielt bra nå. Min kunnskap og erfaring var så nære de de var ute etter som det går an å komme. Så jeg undrer meg på hvorfor jeg ikke fikk jobben. Er det virkelig så tydelig at jeg er en taper at de kan se det på et 45 minutters intervju? Er det eks-sjefen min som ikke likte meg som ødela ting når de ringte ham? Er jeg for feit? Stinket jeg? AGH!!!! Livet suger akkurat nå.

Hvis jeg ikke får en jobb snart kommer vi til å gå konkurs. Inntekta mi vil bli redusert med 40% fra 1. juni og vi har ekstremt dårlig råd allerede. Hvordan i huleste skal vi klare å overleve dette?

I have just gotten out of bed and have concluded that I am a bit better today. It feels like the mild fever has gone away. My throat is still very sore, but I hope a cup of coffee or three will mend that a little. My nose is also open and I can breathe through it without using any nasal spray. That is very good, because I get totally desperate when I can’t breathe through my nose. I feel like I’m suffocating. Hope the recovery will continue. And as I type this I feel my nose blocking up again. Typical.

My backup system has been up and running for a few days now and I must say it wprks extremely good. The utility I use for it is pdumpfs. The first time it ran it copied all the files I told it to copy to the backup disk. Now it is set up to run every night and compare the backup with the previous days backup and just copy new files and files that have changed. The first backup I copied to dvd’s. Hereafter I will copy the changes to dvd once a week.

This system enables me to recover not only files, but versions of files. For example if a user has made a lot of changes of his file after 24. may and wants to go back to the version he had then, he can just ask me to get that version of his document. I can also recover files deleted a long time ago, but of course after the initial backup.

Charlotte is getting better and better each day now, by the way. She is coughing a bit and her nose get stuffed now and then, but she sleeps all night and is almost back at her normal, happy, sunshine mood. Three minutes ago I put her in the play pen and she got really insulted, but as soon as I gave her the tux penguin she was happy and started playing with her toys.

But now I will enjoy my turkey toasts off line. Blog ya later.

Jeg har nettopp stått opp og har konkludert med at jeg er litt bedre i dag. Det føles som om feberen er borte. Halsen er fremdeles veldig sår, men jeg håper en kopp eller tre med kaffe vil fikse det litt. Nesa mi er også åpen og jeg kan puste gjennom den uten å bruke nesespray. Jeg blir helt gal hvis jeg ikke kan puste gjennom nesa. Det føles som om jeg kveles. Håper bedringen vil fortsette, men mens jeg skriver dette kjenner jeg nesa blokke seg igjen. Typisk.

Men nå skal jeg kose meg med kalkun-toastene mine offline. Blogges senere.

Backup
I finally have backup up and running on the new server. I haven’t had the storage space needed to backup the server, but now I have bought a separate 120 gig harddisk to keep my users data safe. I have been nervous about not having backups and it has almost kept me from sleeping at night. I especially got nervous the other day when I accidentally broke my blog database. Nearly 400 blog entries was totally gone. Luckily I found a script on the web that fixed and recovered the database. But if I hadn’t found that script it would be a big personal catastrophy. I would have lost a huge bit of my heart and soul. That was the day I ordered what I needed to get backups of my system again.

So now I back up all data to the separate disk every day and burn the changes out on dvd once a week. Now I feel safe. I realized that a lot of important things is located on the server. All documents I have ever written, a lot of photos, all my web sites and pages, blog and all the same for my wife. In addition to this we host mail folders for > 20 other persons. So backup is nice to have.
Job
Got mail from the job I was interviewed for. The will make their desicion on monday. Guess it will be a high strung weekend.

Cold
Something is trying to keep me from starting to work out again. I had planned to go to the gym today, but when I woke up my throat was so sore I could hardly speak, I felt feverish and my nose was totally blocked. So going to the gym was out of the question today too. I hope this cold will go away soon. I really want to start working out again.

Sikkerhetskopi
Endelig har jeg sikkerhetskopiering i gang på den nye serveren. Jeg har ikke hatt lagringskapasitet til å sikkerhetskopiere, men nå har jeg kjøpt en separat 120 Giga harddisk for å holde mine brukeres data sikre. Jeg har vært kjempenervøs fordi jeg ikke har hatt backup og det har nesten tatt fra meg nattesøvnen. Jeg ble spesielt nervøs her om dagen da jeg ved et uhell ødela databasen som bloggen min ligger i. Nesten 400 blogg-innlegg var borte. Heldigvis fant jeg et script på web som fikset basen igjen. Hadde jeg ikke funnet de scriptet så hadde det vært en gedigen personlig katastrofe. Jeg ville ha mistet en stor del av mitt hjerte og sjel. Den dagen bestilte jeg det jeg trengte for å ta backup.

Jobb
Fikk mail fra jobben jeg ble intervjuet for. De vil ta en avgjørelse på mandag. Tenker dette blir en rimelig spent helg.
Forkjølelse
Noe prøver å hindre meg i å begynne å trene igjen. Jeg hadde planlagt å dra på senteret i dag, men da jeg våknet i dag tidlig så var halsen så sår at jeg ikke klarte å snakke, jeg kjente meg febersyk og nesa var totalt igjenblokka. Så det var ikke aktuelt å trene i dag heller. Jeg håper forkjølelsen forsvinner fort. Jeg har så ufattelig lyst til å begynne å trene igjen.

Back home from the job interview. I think it went very well as far as I could see. My competence level suits the position they need to fill very well. They hoped to do with only one round of interviews, so hopefully I will know the result in a couple of days.

Hjemme igjen etter jobbintervjuet. Jeg tror det gikk veldig bra. Min kompetanse passer stillingen de ville fylle veldig bra. De håpet å klare seg med én intervju-rundte, så forhåpentligvis får jeg vite resultatet i løpet av et par dager.

Today i am going to Oslo for a job interview. I am a bit nervous, but I need to be to perform my best. Cross your fingers, toes and whatever can be crossed for me.

PS! The dishwasher has finally dried out and works again. YAY!

Drar til Oslo på jobb-intervju i dag. Jeg er litt nervøs, men det trenger jeg å være for å yte mitt beste. Kryss fingre, tær og alt som kan krysses for meg.

PS! Oppvaskmaskinen har endelig tørket ut og begynt å virke igjen. JIPPI!

First I have to say that it is extremely tragic that people get sick and dies. The Legionella disease is terrible and my condolances goes out to those who has lost someone they love to this disease.

BUT, and there’s a big BUT. Why are people so extremely stupid? They run and tries to hide from the contamination. I went to a shopping mall about 1 km away from here. We were practically alone at the mall in addition to the employees.

They suspect the contamination comes from the air condition system at one of the big shopping malls. The legionella alarm went on saturday and all malls that had the kind of AC that was at risk has shut them down and stopped the risk of spreading the bacteria. They are now in the process of cleaning and disinfecting their systems (after taking samples to find the source, of course).

The bacteria can be airborne up to 3 km away from the source, so staying away from the mall only gives you a false sense of being safe. Another thing is the statistical chance of getting legionella. So far 29 has a confirmed diagnose, whereof 5 have died. The average age of the persons contaminated is 65-70 years. There are about 100.000 citizens in the area. The disease does not go from people to people. You have to get it from the source.

In my opinion it is more dangerous to cross a road than visiting a mall. And the road-crossing danger is ALWAYS there. I suggest that people never leaves their house. They are in danger of tripping on a sidewalk and land head first, being hit by a car, getting killed by a piano falling from a tall building or so, so I guess everyone should just stay indoors. IDIOTS!

Først må jeg få si at det er ekstremt tragisk at folk blir syke og dør. Legionella er en forferdelig sykdom og mine kondolanser går ut til alle som har mistet noen de er glad i til denne sykdommen.

Jeg mener det er farligere å gå over gata enn å besøke et kjøpesenter. Risikoen ved å krysse en vei har du faktisk hele året. Jeg foreslår at folk slutter helt å forlate hjemmene sine. De er i en ekstrem fare for å snuble i en fortauskant og lande på hodet, bli påkjørt av en bil, bli drept av et piano fallende fra en høy bygning, osv, osv, så folkens: Hold dere hjemme, det er farlig å leve. IDIOTER!

1000: 3 slices of bread with cheese and turkey.
1300: whole wheat baguette with roast beef, lettuce, tomato, leeks, onion and mayo.
1530: 2 slices of bread with shrimp in mayo.
1800: 4 low-fat turkey hotdogs.
2100: 2 carrots.

It is NOT a good idea to clean the dish washer with non-dishwasher soap. Unless you need to wash your floors.
Det er IKKE en god idé å vaske innsiden av oppvaskmaskinen med zalo. Med mindre du trenger å vaske gulvet, da.

0800: 2 slices of bread with cheese, turkey and cucumber.
1200: same as 0800. 2 carrots.
1800: 1 waffle.
2100: 1 potato ball and 1 whole wheat slice with cheese.

The phone rang. In the display on the phone I saw a vaguely familiar number and suddenly it hit me: It was from one of the jobs I have applied for. With trembling thumb, I pressed the button and answered as calmly as I could: “Hello, this is Rolf Arne”. Just as I usually answer the phone.

And as I assumed, it was from one of the companies I have sent job applications to. He wondered if I wanted to come for a job interview and I responded “I’d love to”. So wednesday next week I am going to Oslo to convince someone to hire me. I am usually good at that part. Have gotten a job offer in 4 out of 6 interviews I have been to.

I am looking forward to this interview. This is the job that has looked most interesting of the ones I have applied for. Just the right size of company, very interesting infrastructure and in a line of business I have never worked in.

Telefonen ringte. I displayet på telefonen var et telefonnummer jeg kjente igjen, men ikke helt kunne plassere. Plutselig slo det meg: Det er fra en av jobbene jeg har søkt på. Med skjelvende tommel trykket jeg på telefonrør-knappen og svarte så rolig som mulig: “Hei, det er Rolf Arne”. Akkurat slik jeg pleier å svare.

Jeg gleder meg til dette intervjuet. Dette er den jobben som har sett mest spennende ut av de jeg har søkt på. Akkurat passe størrelse på firmaet, veldig interessant infrastruktur og i en bransje jeg aldri har jobbet i.