Roffes blogg

Idiots. Removed the shoutbox. Some idiots simply can’t resist showing their immense stupidity.

Idioter. Har fjernet ropeboksen. Enkelte idioter klarer bare ikke å unngå å vise hvor umåteligi dumme de er.

Got an excellent anniversary-present from my wife. A 1 GB Jens of sweden music player. Since the mp3 format has become non-free, I strive to not use mp3, so I wished for a player that could play ogg vorbis files and got it. The lovely little gadget looks like this:

It is just as cool as it looks. I have a cord that lets me hang it around my neck. It is about the size of a lighter. This player came stripped for everything (to keep the price as low as possible), so i had to buy some headphones too, and decided on a set of Sennheiser PX 200. Excellent headphones with nearly no loss of sound. That way I can listen to loud music without bothering the other commuters.

I love having a job again and and thereby being able to afford some nice stuff.

Fikk en flott bryllupsdags-gave av kona. En 1 GB Jens of sweden musikk-spiller. Siden mp3-formatet ikke lenger er fritt så tilstreber jeg å ikke bruke mp3, så jeg ønsket meg en spiller som kunne spille ogg vorbis-formatet og fikk det også. Se bildet over for hvordan den ser ut. Den er omtrent like stor som en vanlig lommelighter. Spilleren kom helt strippet for alt for å holde prisen så lav som mulig, så jeg måtte kjøpe noen hodetelefoner også og bestemte meg for Sennheiser PX 200. Fabelaktige hodetelefoner praktisk talt uten tap av lyd. Så da kan jeg høre på musikk høyt uten å plage andre pendlere.

Jeg elsker å ha en jobb igjen sånn at jeg har råd til litt kule ting.

I started my new job on monday. I had high expectations and was quite nervous on the train to Oslo. For the job to be worth commuting, it should really be exciting and interesting. And the first week has not been disappointing. This IS the job I have wanted for many, many years. I get paid to do what I like to do the most: hack away on linux systemss and make sure they do their job. I was really lucky to get this job, and my employer has been lucky to get me. Things will probably move slowly in the beginning, but as soon as I get going on my own feet I will really be of use to this company.

The commute is hard to start up again. I have done it for several years before and knows it will get easy as soon as i get used to it. The hardest part this week has been that I haven’t managed to get to bed early enough, but as soon as I get enough sleep during the night, I will be on top of things again.

The first three days this week I took the bus to the train station, but the last two I have used my bicycle. It feels good to get the body started in the crisp morning, but the ride home in the warm, humid weather is pretty exhausting. But when I get home, I have a wonderful, cold shower waiting for me, so it is not a problem.

I feel this job is doing me and my family very good. Even though I get exhausted during the day, I am not high tempered as i used to when I only was at home all day. I feel i have more positive energy to give to my family and i really feel appreciated when I get home.

I love my life right now. I really, really love my life and everything about it.

PS! The scale is also my friend these days. I lose about 200-300 grams every day now and at this rate I will be just skin and bones in a year.

Jeg startet i min nye jobb på mandag. Jeg hadde høye forventninger og var ganske nervøs på toget på vei til Oslo. For at jobben skal være verdt å pendle bør den være ganske spennende og interessant og den første uka har ikke skuffet meg. Dette ER virkelig jobben jeg har ønsket meg i mange, mange år. Jeg får betalt for å gjøre det jeg liker best: knaste av gårde på linux-systemer og sørge for at de virker godt. Jeg hadde virkelig flaks som fikk denne jobben og arbeidsgiveren min har hatt flaks som har fått meg. Ting vil sannsynligvis gå litt sakte i starten, men så snart jeg kommer meg i gang på egne føtter kommer jeg til å være til god nytte for dette firmaet.

Jeg elsker livet mitt akkurat nå. Jeg elsker virkelig livet mitt og alt rundt det.

Things have fallen into place the last days. Since I lost my previous job I have spent a lot of time worrying of what would happen when the money stopped coming in. That would have happened July 4th. My friends and family has always meant that I always land on my feet and it seems they are correct again.

I must admit that the last year has been ekstremely rough. I lost my job, wifey was so sick during the pregnancy that she flunked the first year of school and had to repeat it, this has cost us a lot in student loans. In addition she almost got killed by a screwup in a routine surgery. The money I got from staying home with Charlotte was way less than my salary and we started running behind on our bills. And I guess I could find more bad things about the last year, but I don’t care to dig more in that mud.

The last year has also been the best of my life, simply because we got Charlotte. She is the only “thing” that has kept me going. Without her I don’t even want to think about how our lifes would have been now. When I have been at my lowest it has only taken a smile from her to pick me up. She is such a precious little girl and I don’t have words of how much I love her.

Now everything is pointing in the right direction again. The cash flow is starting up again, wifey has passed her first exam and I bet she’ll ace the rest of them too, the family is mainly healthy and we all seem happy and content. So things are good now. I am so looking forward to the times ahead.

Ting har falt på plass de siste dagene. Siden jeg mistet min forrige jobb har jeg tenkt mye på hva som ville skje når pengene sluttet å komme inn. Det ville ha skjedd 4. juli. Mine venner og familie har alltid ment at jeg pleier å lande trygt på beina og det ser ut til at de får rett igjen.

Nå peker alt i riktig retning igjen. Pengene begynner å strømme inn igjen, kona har klart sin første eksamen fint og jeg regner med at hun får kjempe-karakterer på de resterende også, familien er ved god helse og alle virker glade og fornøyde. Så ting er bra nå. Jeg gleder meg så masse til tiden som kommer.

The job hunt is officially over

1430: The phone rings: “We want your references, what’s their number”
1515: The phone rings again: “We want to give you the job”

YAY! Starting on monday. Bye bye, dsl support.

PS! This is not a result of the bounty, but it is a result of a tip bye a person I like very, very much right now.

Jobbjakta er nå offisielt slutt

PS! Dette er ikke et resultat av dusøren, men det er et resultat av et tips fra en person jeg liker veldig, veldig godt akkurat nå.

I really need a new job. I hereby release a job bounty. The one who tip me about the job I get will get 10% of my net salary the first 6 months I work.

I want to work with:

- Network, firewalls, security
- Unix/Linux
- a little bit of Windows.

I want to work in Østfold or Oslo.

Jeg trenger virkelig en ny jobb. Jeg utlyser herved en jobb-dusør. Den som tipser meg om jobben jeg får vil få 10% av nettolønna mi det første halve året.

Jeg ønsker å jobbe i Østfold eller Oslo. Ta kontakt på telefon 4786 2732.

Since we joined vektklubb.no we have had a much better diet than we used to and that is good medicine. Earlier I had pains all over my body and was virtually unable to do any working out of any kind. But a healthy diet is extremely important. The whole family seems in better shape now and there’s a more pleasant environment here at home.

I stepped on the scale yesterday and I had lost 1.5 kilos since we started vektklubb.no. I stepped on again today and another 1.4 kilos were gone. I am loving this.

I now weigh 150.1 kilo. Here is a chart of my calorie intake. I am supposed to stay within the green area. One thing to notice here is that vektklubb.no calculates the calorie-burning during workout, so the days I have a very low calorie-intake I have just worked out a lot.

Siden vi meldte oss inn i vektklubb.no har vi hatt et mye bedre kosthold enn vi har pleid og det er god medisin. Tidligere har jeg hatt smerter over hele kroppen og har praktisk talt vært ute av stand til å trene i det hele tatt. Men et godt kosthold er tydeligvis veldig viktig. Hele familien virker i bedre form nå og det er et mye hyggeligere miljø her hjemme.

Jeg veier nå 150.1 kilo. Over ser du en graf over kalori-inntaket mitt. Jeg skal holde meg innenfor det grønne området. En ting å legge merke til her er at kalori-forbruket under trening blir trukket fra, slik at dagene jeg har et veldig lavt kalori-inntak har jeg bare trent masse. Jeg har ikke latt være å spise.

Job
So I am starting my new job on monday. I’m a bit conflicted of how I feel about it. It is of course good to start working again. I haven’t been working in 17 months. I am looking forward to feeling useful again, but I am NOT looking forward to being away from Charlotte more than 8 hours every day. I have been with her every day, every hour since she was born. That is going to be the toughest part. Luckily the job is so close to home that I don’t waste a lot of time traveling. It’s only a 10 minute walk there.

I also wonder if we will be able to live on the pay. The basic hourly rate is way too low, but the additions for working nights and weekends is fairly good. I hope it will be easy to get shifts on evenings and weekends. I need to provide for my family and that is impossible on just the basic rate.

New digs for Beppe
I moved Beppe into a new cage yesterday. We have a problem with his screaming. He screams all the time and only stops when we cover up his cage with a blanket. We had a spare cage that I moved him into yesterday thinking that a change of environment might help and make him like it better here. So far it seems it helps. Now he only screams when he can hear me and not see me, which is quite understandable. Of course he wants to be where the action is. Earlier it seemed he screamed just to scream.

Jobb
Så begynner jeg i min nye jobb på mandag. Jeg har litt indre konflikt om hva jeg føler om det. Selvsagt er det deilig å begynne å jobbe igjen. Jeg har ikke jobbet på 17 måneder. Jeg gleder meg til å føle meg nyttig igjen, men jeg ser IKKE frem til å være borte fra Charlotte mer enn 8 timer om dagen. Jeg har vært hos henne hver dag, hver time siden hun ble født, nesten uten unntak. Det blir den tøffeste delen. Heldigvis er jobben så nære hjemme at jeg ikke vil kaste bort masse tid på å reise. Det er bare 10 minutters gange unna.

Ny bolig for Beppe
Jeg flyttet Beppe over i nytt bur i går. Vi har et problem med skriingen hans. Han har skreket hele tiden og slutter bare når vi dekker til buret hans med et teppe. Vi hadde et bur til overs og jeg flyttet han og tingene hans over i dette i går. Kanskje han vil trives og brytes ut av mønsteret i et nytt miljø. Så langt ser det ut til å hjelpe. Nå skriker han bare hvis han hører oss, men ikke ser oss og det er jo ganske forståelig. Det er klart han vil være der tingene skjer. Tidligere skrek han bare for å skrike, virket det som.

This was fast. Registered my CV at www.it-vikar.no at 7pm last night. at 10pm I got a mail from it-vikar that said they had an assignment for me and wanted to call me this morning. at 9 am today the job was mine.
The job is on 1 line support of one of norways leading dsl-providers. I start on monday.

Dette var kjapt. Registrerte cv-en min på www.it-vikar.no i går kveld kl. 19. Kl. 22 fikk jeg mail fra it-vikar som sa at de hadde et oppdrag til meg og at de gjerne ville ringe meg i dag tidlig. Kl. 0900 var jobben min.
Jobben er på 1. linje-support for en av norges ledende bredbåndsleverandører. Jeg begynner på mandag.

I have joined a weighloss forum at www.vektklubb.no and will therefore not update very much on tawlc.net. One requirement for Tawlc.net to work was that we would get feedback from the readers of the blogs. This didn’t happen and, for me, tawlc.net got more discouraging than motivating. So I will do my weightloss at vektklubb.no from now on. I will post reports of progress at tawlc.net, but don’t expect a lot of input from my account. Max 1 update a week with the new weight.

Vektklubb.no sets up a suggested diet for me every day and a weekly exercise program. They follow up and tells me what I need to change if anything. Seems like a very good concept and might be just what I need.

Jeg har meldt meg inn i et vekttap-forum på www.vektklubb.no og vil derfor slutte med hyppig oppdatering på tawlc.net. En betingelse for at Tawlc.net skulle virke var at vi skulle få tilbakemeldinger fra leserne av bloggene. Dette skjedde ikke og tawlc.net ble for meg mer demotiverende enn motiverende. Så jeg vi gjøre mine vekttap-ting på vektklubb.no fra nå av. Jeg vil poste rapporter av fremskrittene på tawlc.net, men ikke vent spesielt mange innlegg fra min side. Det blir vel maks 1 gang i uka med den nye vekta, tenker jeg.

Vektklubb.no setter opp en foreslått diett hver dag og et ukentlig treningsprogram. De følger opp og forteller meg hvis jeg trenger å endre på noe. Det ser ut som et veldig bra konsept og kan være akkurat det jeg trenger.