Bops world

2011-05-24T22:12:00.001+02:00

LUCK - NYC Wedding Proposal from Aria Melody DJ on Vimeo.

Pretty cool proposal

2011-05-17T20:31:00.000+02:00

Talented family..

2010-09-12T19:30:00.000+02:00

Danny and Annie

2010-08-19T22:54:00.000+02:00

Danny & Annie from StoryCorps on Vimeo.

Sweethearts

2010-08-03T21:14:00.000+02:00

You are gonna love this :-)

A proposal

2010-06-01T22:13:00.001+02:00

Cat Cardiac

2010-05-01T11:27:00.002+02:00

Grab your kleenex..

This stray cat was filmed in Turkey( Kızılsaray district of Antalya ) trying to reanimate his female friend who got hit by a car. Even though some people tried to help him, the white cat wouldn't let them come near for two straight hours. ...

Validation

2010-03-03T21:50:00.001+01:00

An Invitation (yes - its to a wedding)

2010-01-25T22:19:00.002+01:00

First snow

2009-12-17T21:46:00.001+01:00

It started snowing yesterday, and now we have a nice white cover that just might last through christmas.

This will really make you weep.

2009-12-14T22:58:00.000+01:00

Oh, and a soldier returning home..

2009-12-07T23:14:00.001+01:00

Vivian Maier

2009-12-07T22:54:00.003+01:00

If you enjoy photography you should see this blog, about a woman Vivian Maier whos pictures were discovered recently by John Maloof, who himself has made some great street photography.

Relationship status

2009-12-03T21:19:00.000+01:00

Agootchiieegootchiieego

2009-11-28T21:20:00.000+01:00

Are you up for it Ange?

2009-11-11T22:13:00.001+01:00

Veterans day yesterday is the excuse for this one. Not because I enjoy bringing Ange to tears. :-)

Happy birthday

2009-11-10T23:17:00.002+01:00

Sesame Street 40 years old. I did'nt watch until we got cable, and then I was really not the target audience, but I watched none the less.

Cutesey enough for you ;-)

Another fun wedding.

2009-11-09T10:13:00.003+01:00

I really do like weddings..

And with how many T's do you spell that?

2009-11-03T23:41:00.000+01:00

Dont need no stinkin kleenex..

2009-11-01T22:25:00.002+01:00

The Return from Iraq - The most amazing videos are a click away

Autum in Sorø

2009-10-26T17:31:00.001+01:00

A perfectly good reason..

2009-10-24T00:29:00.001+02:00

The reason I hav not been writing anything here for quite a long time is perfectly described in theese lyrics. So I will let them speak for me:

That didnt last long

2009-07-31T12:54:00.002+02:00

Well sadly it ended in a divorse it seems.

:-)

Nom nom nom

2009-07-29T13:27:00.002+02:00

This is just one among many songs this guy makes, i personally enjoyed "Sandwich". uhm nom nom.
:-)

More wedding fun

2009-07-23T20:33:00.002+02:00

These guys are also going to have a good time..

Webcam colaboration

2009-07-04T00:36:00.002+02:00

Does not look like much at first, but after a while you realize that it must have taken quite a lot of planning to make this.

Hibi no Neiro by Sour
"The cast were selected from the actual Sour fan base, from many countries around the world. Each person and scene was filmed purely via webcam."
found at Metafilter

Segway street performance

2009-06-24T21:36:00.000+02:00

I guess it rains

2009-06-11T20:48:00.001+02:00

Listen to the first 2 minutes of this, thats pretty well thought out.

Mary P to the o to the pop pins (or somethin).

2009-06-09T22:11:00.002+02:00

By the same guy who made this.

Do not watch this

2009-06-02T20:45:00.004+02:00

- If you don't want to sing or hum this tune all day long.
Having a wedding video like this made is an excellent reason for marriage in my opinion - I want one.

Brian & Eileen's Wedding Music Video. from LOCKDOWN projects on Vimeo.

Litteral Eclipse of the heart.

2009-05-31T23:21:00.000+02:00

Calm..

2009-05-02T23:58:00.000+02:00

Bathtub IV from Keith Loutit on Vimeo.

Canada/US - Day 15

2009-04-30T05:32:00.002+02:00

So were on the final stretch, two of my collegues left today and we have been busy trying to fix most of those tasks that people always seem to save for the last minute. We started the day by attending a before work networking meeting at the local IT company, very annoying! Total waste of time - I cant believe how many people, all local company owners and decission makers that bothered showing up just to exchange business cards..
Tomorrow we will leave at around four, hopefully after having solved a few more problems.
My bags are packed and Im ready to go..

Canada/US - Day 14

2009-04-29T05:48:00.002+02:00

Work was a breeze - really! everything seems to work so far - or people are just shy. Afterwards we went to Hooters where surprisingly it happend to be my 45'th birthday, even though I thought that it was at least a year away..
I had the 911 chilli chicken wings with a big boy American Ale and an even bigger hug from our waiter Carrie for goodbye. - not so bad. :-D

Canada/US - Day 12+13

2009-04-28T03:47:00.003+02:00

Yesterday were ok, we finished up stuff on schedule, my two collegues went to Loincoln to watch some dirt track derby driving thingy, while I stayed behind with the finance guys to finish up a few loose ends. Today Monday, D-day we went live with all the users on the new systems. Lots of work, primarily on getting the Sprint Blackberry Shiiite to work with the mail stuff, but everyting worked out and tonight we were taken to Alexanders steakhouse for biig steaks. i had a 18oz new york strip that was so juicy and tender, that were I not such a Butch fella i probably would have cryed a little.

Canada/US - Day 11

2009-04-26T05:44:00.004+02:00

We worked again today! - nothing exiting happend until lunch, when the boss took us to a neighbouring classic car dealer/museum - Oh Boy! I need to win the lottery to bring this baby home!

When we finished work at 6 or so, we met up with a couple of collegues back at the hotel and went with them to a Kobe restaurant. That was pretty good food, ad decent entertainment as well. But who teaches those cooks that they must make so much noise when they prepare the dinner??

We were seated at a 'table' along with some college students that were out on their prom night, cute kids in their rented toxes and fancy dresses.

Canada/US - Day 9+10

2009-04-25T05:26:00.002+02:00

The Internet at the hotel did'nt work yesterday.
We worked all day, Went to dinner at a mexican style family restaurant, with lots of noise and people and senior citizens and families and kids and college kids and noise. Went shopping at wall mart that is just next door to the hotel.
Today we worked all day, the boss came by and invited us to join him and his family to dinner at Alexanders, a place where we had to grill the meat ourselves. I chose the filet which was very tender and surprisingly jucy. My collegues both went a little overboard and had to give up - sissies.
Went to wall mart again bought a sixpack of RedBridge a nice ale that is.

Canada/US - Day 8

2009-04-23T05:09:00.002+02:00

Im back in the USSA - or something to that effect.
The morning started after checking out with us waiting for the shuttle bus in a freezing 37 deg. farenheit (3 deg. Celc) then the long drive to the bridge where we crossed in to the US without any trouble at all.
The drive through Detroit was a little sad, its clear that the city is in some kind of crisis.
We flew in a small 48 passenger jet from pinnacle airlines tothe tiny Bloomington airport, where we were picked up by a collegue who had a rental car waiting for us.
He then took us to the hotel and after that to Logans roadhouse for dinner and some Red beer which I forgot the name of, but these red beers are not bad at all.
We have settled in at the hotel and are ready to start business tomorrow.

Canada/US - Day 7

2009-04-22T05:03:00.001+02:00

It was the last day of the Canada leg of the trip. Tomorrow morning we leave for Bloomington. As per tradition there were a lot of last minute tasks here. And 3 additional collegues from denmark plus 4 from US came to join the seminar, and they had a couple of tasks for us as well.
All in all we feel that it went allright and look forward to the next site. We all went to Jack ASstor for dinner which was fun being so many collegues together.

Canada/US - Day 6

2009-04-21T05:09:00.002+02:00

Today we started early in the rain - in order to be in the office when people clocked in. There were not to many problems though. We helped and expalined throughout the day and didnt have time for lunch, so we decided to tell the boss that we would leave "early" (at 4) in oder to go the the London Labatt brewery and join the guided tour just to be a little touristy on this trip.
It was a nice tour, awfully thin beer that budwiser stuff - but the Labatt 50 is not bad, also the Blue tastes somewhat like a proper beer.

Canada/US - Day 5

2009-04-20T02:37:00.002+02:00

We had only a few things we wanted to do today, but as it turned out we were not able to do them remotly from the hotel, as we had originally planned. So off we went to the office again. And time flew - before we knew it the clock was 3 and we desided to take the backroads back to London, just to see something else.
Back at the hotel I went for a run while my collegues kicked back, as I returned one of them had become so tired that he had gone to bed for the night.
After my shower the other collegue and I went to Tony Romanos restaurant around the corner from here, to try his famous ribs.
So not quite the day we had planned.

Canada/US - Day 4

2009-04-19T04:41:00.003+02:00

We were just pulled over by the OPP. On our way out of town heading back to London, my collegue who were driving mensioned that the light on the car were pretty tame, and just as he was looking for the light switch, the road narrowed in and he hit the grawel.
This were noticed by an OPP patrol car behind us and they drove up behind us and pulled us over and asked if we knew that we were driving without proper lights. Now my collegue were asked for his drivers licence and stuff which was pretty exiting because the picture is more than 20 years old and he has changed a bit on top of that he has changed his last name so its not the same on the passport and licence, and on top of that we came straight from dinner where we had each had a beer, so he had to blow in the meter as well.
How about that for an eiting evening.
Jobwise we are ok, we might have tomorrow off and perhaps we will drive up to the falls and do the tourist stuff.

Canada/US - Day 3

2009-04-18T04:01:00.002+02:00

We started from the hotel in Lontdon after breakfast and drove in the van they rented for us, to the company in Strathroy for our first full day at the office.
As per tradition the folks back home had a lot of "important" jobs for us that we had to work our way through before we could get started on the things we came here for.
The day passed rather uneventfull, we dont have to struggle with language problems like we are used to this time. And the people aer nice and friendly So things are going allright so far.
We went to The Keg with a collegue and his wife this evening, for a nice steak dinner. I had the Prime rib with garlic mashed potatoes which was pretty good.

Canada/US - Day 1 & 2

2009-04-17T03:18:00.002+02:00

That was one long jurney. I think I went 27 hours without sleep but we finally arrived at the hotel in London Ontario at around 6 in the morning, so we slept in till 10 o clock, before we left for the office and said hi to the people there.
Were a little groggy most of the day.

Oh ohh!

2009-04-07T21:31:00.005+02:00

There's a rerun of MyGirl 2 on the tube tonight. It's soo cute!!!
(im such an old softie sometimes).

I can do that!

2009-04-05T16:19:00.001+02:00

a' la Financial crisis

2009-03-31T20:18:00.003+02:00

Today all the office staff were asked to meet at 10 in the canteen, where the boss she told us that the company had to let go of 6 collegues in the danish office.
And that the management would ask the rest of us to take a monthly day off, and a paycut to follow. To try to prevent having to lay off any more of us.

So a slightly sad day, apart from it being busy as usual. But if this is the worst it gets then i guess we will have been in luck - we'll have to wait and see.

--
When I came home I found this in my mailbox, from a local estate agent.

I have looked at it many times, and I still cant tell...

Im beat

2009-03-28T21:13:00.002+01:00

Been with my two sisters at my mothers place all day today.
We'we been building a fence around her front garden, to keep her daxhound Tjavs in.
It took us 8 hours, thats 24 hours in total - we're such pathetic handymen we are.

But the ground was very difficult to get into, stones everywhere and then at two places I digged into some plastic drainpipes, and at some places there were concrete a foot down. One hole were straight and easy, soil, sand and clay 5 feet to the right it was soil followed by clay and peach sized stones and mud.

But we finished at last and the result is not to shabby. - Or mabye it is and we just couldnt see it because the sun went down.

Anyway - I'll have a beer and go to bed early.

Davids new snail

2009-03-23T19:50:00.002+01:00

Cute little story

Nemesis

2009-03-21T23:25:00.000+01:00

And the videos..

2009-03-21T00:36:00.002+01:00

Here is the speeded up version of our drive in Orleans.

And also a quickie of the drive to Loudun which is the nicest one so far.

Loudun - Day 8

2009-03-20T21:31:00.001+01:00

Finished up and left at around midday and headed for Tours to take the TGV to Roissy airport. It was fun to drive at 302 km pr hour watching the landscape wisk by. At the airport we just waited and waited for our plane, and apart from one of the collegues who got stopped in security carrying a soft cheese, his surprised response "But it's for my mother!" didnt seem to render the officers in a more agreeable mood.
Got home at around 1 last night and its pretty good. My mother and syster had payed a visit and left fresh flowers, milk and bread for me.
And Cat was happy to see me, he has almost slept on top of me all night.

Loudun - Day 7

2009-03-20T21:25:00.003+01:00

We finished early today, and left the office at 15:30 to try and find the winyard that made the wine we had yesterday. It was pretty cool to see the cellars and fields, and obviously we bought a few bottles to take home. Afterwards we went to the hotel and I even had time for taking a short run which was really nice, unfortunately there is no denying that my condition is not benefitting from the restaurant food and lack of running that I put myself through these days.
So I felt like a light dinner and chose the salad with slices of smoked duck and a poched egg. I didnt notice the part that said foire gras. So the diet part of the meal was kind of spoiled.

Loudun - Day 6

2009-03-20T21:24:00.000+01:00

Work all day, not many big problems here, made a driving video.
Ate dinner at the hotel, and got a 36eur wine for the price of a 26eur, not bad.
and tonight there were finally wifi connection at the hotel...
Oh and my bedroom doesnt smell like sewr!

Loudun - Day 5

2009-03-20T21:06:00.004+01:00

We got up early as usual and after the same charming service as we have gown used to, we went to the factory, where we just went on our business as planned, no big surprises during the day, execpt perhaps that the test of the PXE boot went without a hitch, which means that the server I built from home that saturday 14 days ago, is actually set up as it should be - Yay..

We left early at around 3 and felt almost like we had cut class or something. but we went to Chinon and dropped our bags off at the hotel, and then headed for the nearest bar, where we sat outside in the sun enjoying all the parading cars, motorcycles and girls passing by.

After a beers time we went sightseeing in the town, and saw a bunch of charming houses, streets and the castle. allthough that part were cut short because we were there to late in the day. Did get a few nice pictures though.
we finished with another beer at a brasserie, before we went to the botel and had half an hours siesta before dinner.

We were disturbed by our collegues who has gone to Spain to teach the ERP system, they complain that the line is way to slow, so we had to see if we could help out, not easy though, because this hotel has the worst wifi ever. did manage to stop the DFS syncronisation, and will attempt to find the problem for them tomorrow if I can.
Dinner was ok, not brilliant, but ok. Not its 10:30 and im going to get some sleep, Im just beat.

Loudun - Day 4

2009-03-20T20:44:00.003+01:00

The landlady at our hotel is not a morning person. Bonjour madame gets a grunt as a reply, perhaps she is amgry we did not eat at the restaurant last night.

We worked all day at the factory, it's a little sad to see the way the factory is still marked by the faded memories of earlier 'greater' days. I am pretty sure that is a big part of the reason for the negativity that we feel around here, the partly empty building, the empty cardholders for the timeregistration clocks that have not been used in more than 10 years, but still are here. As well as all the old equipment that should have been scrapped, for instance telephones that look like they come from russia in the 70'ies.

--

I have met a french female named Mimi, we have petted, and she have bitten me when my dinner arrived and I mistakenly ignored her.
We went to the same restaurant as yesterday, and the cat seemed to remember me. Its called the red house and if you come this way you chould visit. it is run by a dear old lady all by herself - yesterday we were the only guests, but today there were 6 other guests besides us so she were wery busy, but still smiling and freindly, not like the madam in our hotel.

Oh and tonight when I came into my room it smelled like sh*t, I think it comes from the drains in the bathroom.

We are doing pretty good time, if we are lucky we can finish early tomorrow and perhaps find time to look at the city of Chinon, I would like to take some pictures in daylight, of the places we have walked at night, there is also the castle to see.

Loudun - Day 3

2009-03-19T22:27:00.002+01:00

Fun day. we worked a lot, for the first part of the day I we were mostly busy taking care of people else where in the organisation, Sweeden being a pain, as well as some collegues in denmark. after lunch a couple of finance collegues from Orleans came to install a finance application on one of the nw PC's.

Tonight we were trying to find a supermarket to get some shampoo, as I had forgotten mine, we walked along some of the narrow streets, and every place was closed, then at one point we seemed to have gotten out of the general shop area, my collegues wanted to turn around, but I just wanted to look around the next corner, and there was an oooold street with wonderfull buildings, one of which looked like an old inn. we thought that at least we could et a beer before we found a place to eat. but as it happend it was quite a charming restaurant.
One older woman and her cat. we were the only guests that evening, litteraly. and we had the best meal ever, at the lowest price. a really lovley place. from the 14th century, the ghost of jean d'arc was said to haunt the place ;-)
I had the duck and it was terrific It was such a great place - except for the mucic, jazzy mideveal 12 tone stuff.. But other than that higly highly recomendable.

Loudun - Day 2

2009-03-19T22:19:00.004+01:00

The first day at Loudun was ok, we said hello, had a look around and made some plans. This place is a lot different than Orleans, we have come to the rough farm country, where people are more hard.
The factory used to be much bigger, and there are a lot of empty office and factory space, as well as old signs, neglected installations, offices and such. I dont think it provides the best kind of energy to the people working here. - But still right now I have a better feeling about the job at hand than I had only 24 hours ago.
And we live nice at this river.

Loudun - day 1

2009-03-19T22:10:00.002+01:00

We borowed a car and a GPS then headed for Loudun. First stop were a small castle called Chambord that the manager in Orleans told os me had to visit.

When we got to Tours one of my collegurs visited his brother whom he haden't seen in 10 years - and we two others went for a bite to eat at a bistro, while enjoying the almost spring-like weather.
I bought some specialities for my cat-sitter from a store that has this website.

Then we drove to the Loudon facetory and said hello to the people there, worked for an hour or so before we drove to the hotel.

After a beer enjoyed in front of a bar next to the river Vienne, in the last rays of the sunlight (yes it's ok to be a little jaloux) We stolled back to the hotel and got dinner before getting ready to go to bed, to blog and so on.

NOTICE: The internet at the hotel was so lousy that I haven't been able to write here for a while, so you will get all the days in a big pile!

Orleans - Day 5

2009-03-10T23:28:00.002+01:00

It was raining most of the day, but even so it was a pretty nice one. We got to fix a lot of 'nice to haves', and had time to show and tell about some of the new possibilities.
The people here have been happy and positive about our stay, and its such a nice feeling to leave with for once.
We didnt leave that early but earlier than we are used to, and we got a little shopping done, I bought a couple of bicycling jersys for a boy whom I happen to know is getting a mbx next weekend, I think he will forgive me for not attending his birthday now.
We went to a seafood restaurant tonight, and had a very nice meal with the manager here. So now we are ready for the next site in Loudun, ill add the driving video in a little while, just because its fun to see the difference between the countries.

Orleans - Day 4

2009-03-09T22:27:00.003+01:00

The day started early by collecting a present in the recepton that i had asked them to wrap for me last evening. Just a baseball cap with the hotel logo from the gift shop, as a present for one of my collegues who had birthday today.
After breakfast we went to the office and helped out the users with their new logons and showed them the way around the file locations on the new server, how the new mailsystem works and other similar stuff.
We let the manager know about the bírthday of our collegue and in the afternoon he had arranged for Champange and petitfours for all the emploies as well as a small present to celibrate him.
After that we just hung around, solving small tasks, flirting eith the girls and asking if there were ANYTHING that we could help with, but no they were happy, and even tried to invent tasks that we could do, just to please us...
Tonight we had a wonderfull meal in the restaurant (the one with the stupid waiter from yesterday) - I had tatare of salmon for a starter - highly recommendable. cown of lamb on a pancake of some sort and a selection of cheeses as dessert. off cause a couple of the locally produced red wine to accompany.

Compared to the experience we have had in Denmark, Poland and Spain this is strangely surreal and I dont particurlarly want to be pessimistic, but I cant help but feel that it is calm before the storm at the next french site.
Hopefully I am wrong and we are just getting more experienced.

Tomorow we will work for a few hours, then spend the afternoon shopping and sightseeing in Orleans, and in the evening the boss will take us to a seafood restaurant for fruits de mere.

Orleans - Day 3

2009-03-08T22:52:00.002+01:00

Today was not bad, we feel almost finished with as much as we can for tomorrow.
It rained all day, and we did not leave early - as in the afternoon, but early enough for me to get a little run before it became to dark.
We went to the restaurant at 8 and there were only one guest besides us.
It took about one hour before we got the starters - poached eggs on a green frisée salad.. after that another ½ hour before the main dish and about the same for dessert. The food was good though and perhaps I was just a little to impatient.

And the even though we were only us in the restaurant the waiter managed to mix up our orders - I have desided that he is an arrogant french 'asole'. The last two times we ate there, he gave us french menues, even though we asked if he happend to have them in english or german. But today my collegue spoke to the one other guest that were there before us, and he told us that they did have english menues, and got one for us. - as I said 'Asole' waiter!

Orleans - day 2

2009-03-07T22:18:00.002+01:00

I am pissed off! - and slightly pissed, as well.

After more than 10 hous of working on a saturday (and that is on "Job salery", no overpaym no diets, no compensation, no nothing)! - We get to the hotel have a beer, and go to the hotel's restaurant. The only restaurant within walking distance, only to have them refuse us because all is booked..

So all I have had is two handfulls of chips and 3 pints of beer for my 'supper' - Im in a Baad mood. I know that compared to people elsewhere in the world its not a big thing; me not having supper once in a while, and in a way I feel that I should be ashamed, But none the less I also feel that I have been cheated, Eff the arrogant french waiter who blew us off, and eff the hotel for not telling us that we had to book a table even when we are guests. And I could probably find a couple more to hate. Grrrrr - Try me....

The day started well though, we slept in and didn't leave for the job until 8:30. We mosied on intil 8 in the evening or so only interrupted by a short lunch (a light lunch for me, because I were not that hungry, and planned to eat a 3 course meat at dinner...)and we feel that the worst is behind us on this site.

Tomorrow we will roll over a few pc's, see if we can fix the Juniper traffic shaping thingy, and then perhaps have the afternoon off for once.

Orleans - Day 1

2009-03-06T23:36:00.003+01:00

We arrived at the hotel a little late last evening, there were a car accident on the periferique around Paris, so the drive took a little longer than planned, but we had a very skilled driver, which I found interesting considering her very pointy and higheeled shoes.

Today started crappy like always. the server back home acted up, and there were a couple of other issues in other places than here, which forced us to work on something completly different than we had planned.

On the plus side things look pretty good so far, we all have good, or at least not a bad feeling about the job at hand so far.

We have been put up at a hotel in a golf resort, food is nice and the rooms are good or the other way around.

Last night when we checked in, the pretty and wery gernerously built receptionesse gave us our keys along with a bottle of wine each! - The wine may be crap, I havent tasted it yet, but it does make you feel a little more welcome somehow.

Here is a picture of me actually working - or at least talking to one of the girls at the office here.

My hero

2009-03-04T22:23:00.001+01:00

He'll give you a good woopin allright!

Barcelona day 6

2009-02-25T20:20:00.004+01:00

The last day of our stay. After a couple of hours we finally got the PXE boot to work, the one thing that bothered us the whole week. And THEN we got busy configuring the last 3 computers. And we almost got everything fixed in the end. Still a few loose ends, but in the light of the problems we saw a few days ago. I asked the boss If we could leave so the taxi driver could make a quick stop at the F1 Track of Catalonia, because one of my collegues who is here too, really wanted to see that. So the boss suggested that he took us to dinner and that we mad a pitstop there first.

So we DID get a little sight seeing during our stay, even if it were only 15 minutes.
And not that im not a guy who enjoys horsepower and gasoline like any other guy, but I couldnt help but noticing and enjoy this as well

Here is the slightly more upbeat video than the last one, of our drive to the factory one day.

Next is the two companies in France..

Barcelona day 5

2009-02-23T22:58:00.002+01:00

Beautiful weather today. To bad we didnt get a chance to enjoy it...

I had promised myself that I would find time to go for a run in each of the countries that we get to. But we have not had the time for much sightseeing.

working 12 to 13 hours a day does not leave time for much more than finding places to eat and waiting for the diner to get ready.
We eat well, most of the time, and we get a few beers or wine. But its a pity we don't really get to see anything.

Job is bla bla finished. There is a few loose ends as usual. And off cause the big one that wont let us install new OS on the Pc's - but there might be a chance tomorrow, we'll see. - I have made a driving video that I will upload tomorrow, so you'll see the difference between here and Poland.

Barcelona day 4

2009-02-22T23:40:00.005+01:00

Less suckyness today. Not that things have changed much as to what works, but we have cought up with lost time and have come to terms with the situation. A kind of giddyness occured amongst us late afternoon. I am pretty sure some phsyck student would be able to identify us as being at "that" stage in the "process" but hey! as long as people don't gather round to see us break down, im ok with that.

We worked from 8 to 9 and apparently since its Sunday, most restaurants are closed.
So we walked a bit and finally found that the one where we ate the first evening were open. Apart from a few mixups with the orders (my collegue got a rare steak when we all agreed he said 'well done' - and i got a 'salad' of raw fish with salsa when i believed to have ordered a salad Niçoise (the waiter was quick to replace mine, but my collegue were to slow)).

So here at a quarter to twelve I'm happy to report that Im tipsy from half a botle of the house wine (which is billiant). And feling relaxed and ready for tomorow.

Not least because i found some earplugs at the factory. Last night I didnt sleep a wink because of the noise from the street. At 3 i got up and fabricated some earplugs from toiletpaper, that finally bought me a couple of hours of sleep.

I hope this post isn't to incoherent, if so blame it on the Rioca :-D

Barcelona, day 3

2009-02-21T22:00:00.002+01:00

Today sucked slightly less than yesterday.
The server is still not delivering packages for PXE boot, but ordinary packages seem to get through, allthoug the DSF is using up all the bandwidth. We started at 8 and drove home at 8. Were all very tierd and chose a cheap pizza place just to get something to eat quickly, so that we could get back and get som rest for tomorrow.

Barcelona day 2

2009-02-20T23:49:00.003+01:00

The day started good, I had fresh orange juice with my breakfast.

We discovered that the new server did not perform as it should, far from it actually.

Part of the problem were solved around 6 this evening, the whole day spent waiting thinking, worrying.
It is still not up to 100% but we hope to get some work done tomorrow.

Went to a small restaurant and had a really nice meal and a couple of cervesa's
On the way back we saw this typical example of parking.

This is normal, around 40 cm at each end of the car - apparently no problem for the average driver here.

Barcelona, day 1

2009-02-19T23:26:00.002+01:00

Arrived a little after 6, funny to get out of the airport to 13 degrees c. after having left -4 degrees back home, it was snowing this morning back home.
Tonight leaving the restaurant and walking back to the hotel, it was with open jacket at 11 degrees c. here at 10 in the evening. - NICE!

It beats the hell out of Kutno so far.

Looking forward to seing what tomorrow brings, hope we have most of it figured out and that the surprises are not to big.

Obamas Elf

2009-02-18T19:42:00.000+01:00

Heheh

For my Valentines

2009-02-13T19:30:00.001+01:00

Be sure to visit the site, it takes a while to load, but is full of good fun - also for adults.

The Open Doors...

2009-02-11T22:04:00.000+01:00

(about 9 minutes)

127.0.0.1 sweet 127.0.0.1

2009-02-07T23:18:00.003+01:00

Got home at 11 last night, Cat was happy to see me I think, he's kept close all day.
I made it easy for him, was'nt feeling well all morning, so I mostly spent the day sleeping on the sofa, with him as a warming blanket.

Im feeling better now and its so good to be home again.

Here's a short film of the trip from the Hotel to the factory, from yesterday morning. Just thought I'd show that it really is as boring as I told you.

last day

2009-02-06T16:32:00.000+01:00

Im finally at the airport waiting for the bording call.
as usual the last day is a bit hectic. final tasks. and people who arrive with things in the last minute, when asked why they did'nt ask about earlier. oh but you were so busy... yes - and im not here w hours before i should leave... oh well. ill be home in a few hours..

Day 8

2009-02-05T23:25:00.002+01:00

Im pretty mutch finished. Just wants to leave. Kutno is gray, dirty and boring.

Tomorrow at this time ill be home.

Next time its Spain.

day 7

2009-02-04T18:44:00.002+01:00

My collegues left today, and Im left with a few tasks, such as setting up printers, answering questions, and making sure things are in shape.
I still flinch when people come up to me and says "problem!" - but generally the problems are small - I guess im just a little worn out.
Cant wait to get back home, I miss my own bed and i miss Cat.
I went to Carrafour today and bought 2 kilos of chocolate for my catsitters.

Day 6

2009-02-03T21:42:00.002+01:00

A day of fixings, just correcting bits and ends. No major issues. A little tension as we told the manager that some data that people had saved on their desktops were lost. But tomorrow at the status meeting at 8 we'll see how serious it gets...

Still stressing at times, its incredible that i cant seem to relax. I tense up and my stomac hurts, its very hard to relax those muscles.

Went for a short walk in Kutno center tonight when we came home to the hotel. That also felt a little strange - some people here look pretty dangerous when oyu meet them in the street on a cold and dark, windy evening, you kind of feel that it's important that you look tough and inaprochable when you walk here.

Day 5

2009-02-02T21:36:00.002+01:00

Our Polish frind Piotr had translated a note for all the offices explaining how to log on to the new system and what to do.
A few problems, some minor some bigger and things got pretty busy for a while there in the beginning of the day. but as it progressed things calmed down and stuff got fixed. Still a couple of things I would have liked were different, but all in all not so bad.
Still not entirely calm, but I dont think i really will be for another 6 months until all the companies are transferred.
We finished at 5 or so, and went to chauffour or what ever the local supermarket minimall is called here. Stuff is dirt cheap (Ange!) my collegue bought a pair of shoes for less than 1/3 of the price at home.
I'll probably go back there during the week, to by something for my Cat-sitters.

day 4

2009-02-01T21:33:00.002+01:00

"Nie ma problemu"! we were tought by the barman at the hotel - Supposedly it means "no problem", although it could mean "not my problem". We will see tomorrow when the users start arriving with tasks for us.
The day has been long, transferring computers from the old to the new domain, trying to preserve most of the data that people save on the desktop, allthough they should know better.
Slightly tipsy after a couple of beers, not minding to much that I know of a few items that Will be a problem/challenge tomorrow. We just calculated that in the four days we have had 35 hours of overtime.. to bad we dont get paied for overtime..
.

Day 3

2009-01-30T23:30:00.002+01:00

just got home from work, we are having trouble uninstalling old software from the computers in an automated way. polish errormessages and windows interface does not make matters easier.
Also installation of automation clients fails. Not one PC has been transferred to the new domain yet. very dissapointing.
The accountant Alina offered me a hug, i needed that.

Day 2

2009-01-29T19:50:00.004+01:00

Was picked up from the hotel at quarter to eight and arrived at the factory where we met the managing director, he was kind enough to show us around the production and offices. A lot has happened since I was last here. They are in the process of expanding, buildings for assembly lines and cold storage.

Not everything has been prepared as we had hoped, and the first half of my day was spent trying to fix a problem in the datacollecting server for the job and time registration, rather than preparing for the move this weekend. But that is about normal in these situations.

This evening i needed to unwind so back at the hotel i changed and went for a little run up the road, just a couple of miles, but they did me good.
Its apparant how this is place is changing, but still there is the smell of lignite in the air, and there are still roads and houses that look poor and neglected.

Now We wait for the others to arrive here at around eight, so we can get something to eat. Im getting hungry.

Day 1

2009-01-28T22:11:00.003+01:00

We landed in Warzaw late afternoon, 2 hours drive to Kutno. Dozed off in the car, the last week or so has been busy, and I'm getting tired, my stomack hurts, I'm much to tense, just cant seem to relax .
Had a couple of beers with the guys at the hotel while going over the gameplan, I'll probably sleep ok tomight.
I am a little anxious for the week ahead.

This is A FACT!....

2009-01-25T20:44:00.000+01:00

4- Redheads may be aliens
There’s a conspiracy theory that redheads are alien-human hybrids. Think about it: Why did several kings and queens of Europe have red hair even though, percentage-wise, redheads are fairly rare? Why do so many Southies have red hair and speak a different language than other Boston locals?

It sounds crazy, but carrottops do have biological differences other than appearance. Redheaded women bleed longer, which is why doctors make special preparations for them in childbirth. They also have the smallest hair count on their heads, about 90,000 as opposed to 140,000 on people with blond and brown hair. That’s why Kick a Ginger Day began, just to keep these possible aliens on their toes.

Fun porn

2009-01-23T20:40:00.004+01:00

mkaayy...

And the Blooper reel:

Cat does not care much for wasabi...

2009-01-17T23:04:00.001+01:00

How about that...

2009-01-14T21:32:00.003+01:00

made here

Uhh Cowsies!

2009-01-12T20:56:00.001+01:00

So its 2009 already!

2009-01-05T22:03:00.005+01:00

First of all, I want to send everyone the very best wishes for the new year, may your worries be few and small and your blessings plentifull.

I really feel like I have nothing worth while to say these days, I have briefly considered taking a picture of my toe nail clippings just to at least post something, but my inner censor board voted against me.

The last couple of months have been kind of difficult, a mixture of missing and needing the sun to come out and brighten the days in any sense imaginable, and fighting the dragons/windmills at work. There's a long way yet but at least the days are getting longer and it wont be long before it's noticeable.

I was ill the week up to x-mas, longer really - but i had to stay in bed that week, and I had'nt even had time to buy any presents, so it was with a slight fever that I went shopping on the 23'th (we celebrate on the 24'th in denmark) and I did get some presents, but they were not as inspired as I would have liked. But we had a nice evening with dinner and dancing around the tree.

On the plus side I was all well again at new years evening, which I celebrated up north of copenhagen, a very nice and cosy time was had by all - "Hyggeligt" as we call it.
Next day we went for a walk with the kids just to enjoy the frost* - which I soon regetted, or rather the fact that I was wearing a pair of stupid summer shoes. But it was a beautiful day none the less.

Since then it has become January with the traditional clearing sales all over, which has actually better savings than ever this year (economic crisis and all), so I went to a hunting store and got me a pair of warm gore-tex boots, so now the winter can just come-on, i'm ready. - Allthough I discovered that they are rather big and not at all well suited for driving my tiny car, the pedals are quite close together and driving with a stick-shift clutch and all it was not pretty, hitting the brake and clutch at the same time followed by speder and gas simultaniously, thankfully there were not much other traffic at the time, but I did get the evil eye from a woman on a bicycle at a stoplight.

* I know that minus 2 to 6 degrees is nooothing to some of you, but to us its something (they promise -12 tonight).

he he he

2008-12-02T18:55:00.003+01:00

this is more fun.

I know, I know Im just posting links to other peoples stuff lately, but Im just not in the mood to do anything else. Im stressed out at work, my house is a mess and I haven't even digged the vegitable patch yet.

Eyeballing

2008-11-19T22:16:00.002+01:00

This is fun.
I had a score of 2.18 i'll have you know.

Genre

2008-11-12T22:23:00.002+01:00

Genre

Atom.com: Funny Videos | Cartoons | Cartoon Carnage

When yóu have watched it, then play it again while you read other blogs or whatever. The soundtrack is good fun in its own right.

Lol-ninja

2008-11-11T22:43:00.001+01:00

2008-11-07T19:29:00.001+01:00

Quirky - who, me?

2008-10-22T20:01:00.007+02:00

Im not quirky! I have caracter and developed certain habits.

Zilla wants to know my habits because she secretly finds me so facinating.

The rules:
Link the person who tagged you.
Mention the rules on your blog.
Tell about 6 unspectacular quirks of yours.
Tag 6 following bloggers by linking them.
Leave a comment on each of the tagged bloggers’ blogs letting them know they’ve been tagged.
Here it goes:

- When I speak to forengers I adopt their accents.

- I like to watch romantic comedies.

- I am a regular John Travolta on a dance floor.

- When alone I sometimes talk to myself in funny voices.

- I listen to, and love music from Metal over Electronica to Classical and everything in between.

- Occationaly I can be an evil sarcastic bastard when im rubbed the wrong way.

- I like to sleep, but feel very guilty if i sleep to long.

Tagging 6 people, who's blogs I like:

Asbjorn
Ange
Suzy
Therese
Alpharat
Capac

And remember since some of them are in danish its possible to translate.

Doh

2008-10-22T19:41:00.002+02:00

Its a quarter to 8 and i have only just had dinner. Got home late from work and while i prepared some grub, my neighbour interrupted, if I could drive him to his car in the woods 2 miles away.
He and his young son had been out running and he discovered to late, that he had a hole in the pocket of his pants - the key had fallen through..

So away we drove and when we got there, I drove along the path they had been running, it being October and with the leafes fallen, we didnt have high hopes, but just wanted to see if we could spot them along the first couple of hundred meters.

On the way back along the path he got out and I drove ever so slowly while he scanned for them. Then once we got to their starting point, he stopped and bended over. I thought perhaps he had found them, but he was fiddeling with his shoelaces it seemed - he wasnt.

Turned out he had just realized that his pants have elasticband at the ankles - and yes. his keys were caught there...

Im just so happy it wasnt me...

hehe

Retards - We all know one.

2008-10-19T21:35:00.002+02:00

Presenting my cat. I think he might be a bit wierd.

I was emptying the rainwater reservoir for the winter, before I forget. And he played with the water for the entire 30 minutes it took to empty the barrel. Hope he doesnt get a cold - perhaps I should get some boots and a raincooat for him.

Surprise.

2008-10-12T20:04:00.001+02:00

Just saw this on ABC.

Too nerdy?

2008-10-10T20:58:00.001+02:00

So, a neutron walked into a bar and said "I’d like a beer, please."

After the bartender gave him one, he said "How much will that be?"

"For you?" said the bartender "No charge."