Gathered

Gathered, originally uploaded by mandus.

From the funeral for the 26 year old boy I wrote about yesterday.

Sad, sad, day, but approx. 300 people was gathered with the family,

to tell them that we care.

Leaving work

Leaving work, originally uploaded by mandus.

Time to go home. These lines drawn with snow and concret right outside our office building is kind of nice, but not well captured with this camera. But the rest I had today was even more crappy - that's the curse of doing this onceaday thing. In other news, tomorrow I will og to a funeral for a son of some friends. He died of an overdose way to young, only 25 years old. I don't know him that well lately, but he used to be a nice guy. It is terrible that things like that happen - and it happens all the time in this world So, stay away from the drugs.

40 years

40 years, originally uploaded by mandus.

By accident, I have uploaded something wrong in my onceaday series.

The entry for 24.02 was actually taken on 25.02 - so it's invalid. I

am so sorry! But this one is from 24, as I know my sister was 40 on

that day, and this is a shot from the party. She is in the background

with her youngest daughter. By the way, I should mention she is the

mother of 10 (yes, that is ten) kids. I admire her!

Spices

Spices, originally uploaded by mandus.

There is no good history to this one. It's the last day of the vacation, we have to clean up the cabin and go home. But before we do that we will have some family for dinner. To make dinner, you will need something from the grocery. And in the grocery at the resort, Maximum, they have spices. Not so strange. Tomorrow I og back to the normal routine - that's good too!

Skiing!

Skiing!, originally uploaded by mandus.

Entry for saturday 24.02. The winter vacation soon comes to an end, but there is still time for some cross country skiing around on the resort. Rebekka and cousin Natalie getting really good at it. Btw, my oldest sister is 40 today - congratulations to you, Ingrid.

Skigear

Skigear, originally uploaded by mandus.

Another vacation-type shoot. My gloves and hat during a break.

feets

feets, originally uploaded by mandus.

A short break for the feets during the vacation. The last couple of days we have got some snow, so it is great staying outdoor playing with the kids in the snow.

Rioja

Rioja, originally uploaded by mandus.

A quite nice Rioja from 2002. My brother in law, Ruben, is finally 18

years old, and the family was gathered for some nice food and drinks

today. Congratulations Ruben!

Apple

Apple, originally uploaded by mandus.

Need some supplies! These are some apples at the REMA 1000 grocery

store in Stokke where I went to get what we need for the week. Today

it was quite cold, and we had some snow; nice weather for the kids

who want to play in the snow, but not so great for good photos. I

have a few on the 350D I want to process, but I think I do that

another day.

Dots

Dots, originally uploaded by mandus.

Entry for 2007.02.19. Busy more or less the whole day with cleaning

up the bathroom after the fire, and then packing up lots of stuff for

a week of winter vacation. We are leaving for our small cabin located

2 hours drive southwest of Oslo.

Dressed for dinner

Dressed for dinner, originally uploaded by mandus.

Grandparents invited to dinner today because Rebekka turned 6 the

other day (16.02).

Celebrating 90 years

Celebrating 90 years, originally uploaded by mandus.

Our dear friends Esther Smith is soon 90 years old. Today the church

threw a giant party for her - about 800 people gathered. We heard a

lot from her long and interesting life, and we get some nice food,

cakes, ice, coffee, etc. A nice feast.

After the fire

After the fire, originally uploaded by mandus.

Last night the engine on the jacuzzi suddenly caught fire. I manage

to get rid of the fire with a fire-extinguisher, but the firefighters

wanted to investigate a bit further, and teared the whole thing

apart. The engine was located under the tub, in the back, so it was

hard to get to. So, now our bathroom is a big mess, but the insurance

will probably cover that. Thank God we was awake when it happend and

was able to take care of it before it become to bad.

Something to read

Something to read, originally uploaded by mandus.

Today I got the last version of the Linux journal. Something to read,

and guess where you can find a quite place to read such things in a

house with 4 kids running around :-)

Burgers

Burgers, originally uploaded by mandus.

Made some burgers for dinner today. Home-made junk food; that isn't

to junky at least. In other news, I probably catched wathever illness

the kids have, I'm sweating and coughing and don't feel very well.

Hopefully I good night sleep helps!

Burn

Burn, originally uploaded by mandus.

It is cold outside. Luckily we have a fireplace, so we can make it warm and nice inside.

Porridge

Porridge, originally uploaded by mandus.

Todays dinner - rice porridge served hot with cinnamon, sugar and

some butter. Mmm... Good traditional food. Maybe not to fancy, but

definitly fills up your stomach. In other news, all the kids have got

some illness (the flu or something), with fever and sore throat.

It'll last a few days, and then they back to normal - such is life :)

Waiting

Waiting, originally uploaded by mandus.

Had to wait for a quite long time today. Due to the cold weather, the

car battery went flat while my wife was at work. She got home

somehow, but I had to go back there in the night and try to get the

engine running. No sucess, had to call for help. And wait, and wait,

and wait. This is where I waited.

Keep it slow

Keep it slow, originally uploaded by mandus.

From a walk a very cold and snowy saturday - we had about -15˚C

today, but besides that weather was very nice. There may be some

better shots with the real camera later on!

Climbing stairs

Climbing stairs, originally uploaded by mandus.

On my way back from a visit at the dentist with my little boy, climbing some stairs to get back to the car. At least, I stick to friday selfportrait in the pad series...

Waffle & Jam

Waffle & Jam, originally uploaded by mandus.

Wife made some waffles today. Still warm, crunchy outside but soft

and smooth in the inside, with some nice strawberry jam. mmmm!

Coffee and work

Coffee and work, originally uploaded by mandus.

Hard work with C++ designing something, drinking an espresso, eathing

some swedish style breads. Hmm :)

dropped paper

dropped paper, originally uploaded by mandus.

Someone dropped the local paper on the floor!

GTD

GTD, originally uploaded by mandus.

With all this electronic abstractions, you just have to sit down with

a cup of coffee and an oldfashion notebook from time to time. The

"GTD" (Getting Things Done) movement, e.g. from the community

spinning around the lifehacker blog, suggest to use old fashioned

systems for organizing todo lists. They present a much more thorough

system than just one notebook, but I'm trying out the simplest

solution. We'll see if GTD really happens that way ;-)

Breakfast

Breakfast, originally uploaded by mandus.

Sunday morning breakfast!

daVinci sunset

daVinci sunset, originally uploaded by mandus.

Sunset and the daVinci bridge. The bridge is located next to the gas

station where I went to wash my car!

Blueish cast

Blueish cast, originally uploaded by mandus.

Need to keep some kind of schedule I guess to keep this going. In

some PaD communities it's seems to be a custom to do a selfportrait

on fridays. Maybe I should stick to that as well. Of course, crappy

camera and bad light will maybe not make it very interesting, but

let's see where it goes. Any way, that's me using the macro-function

(actually a physical slider on the lens) on my HTC TyTN/Hermes. Not

that bad when it comes to details.

lines

lines, originally uploaded by mandus.

Another kind of abstract lines-shot. I'm not sure how satisfied I am

with it, even though I use the "crappy camera" for the onceaday pic.

Maybe I should experiment some more with it.

Moon is up

Moon is up, originally uploaded by mandus.

Sun going down, coloring Oslo and the garage nicely. The moon is

already up. Usually I don't crop the 'onceaday' shoot, but today I

had to as this was the only one I got.