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Dagsavisen had a small item today on a British government site which has interesting documents available for download, amongst them the last wills and testaments of several famous people, like Shakespeare, Jane Austen, Lord Nelson and such. Some you have to pay for (Austen), some are free (Shakespeare). Even with a charge I think this is an excellent service.

I “accidentally” bought a new mobile phone. I’ve been quite happy with my Nokia 5210 – but it’s been looking increasingly tired as I’ve somehow managed to get a pretty nasty scratch across the display in addtion to the cracks I made the first week I owned it… And it’s almost two years old. So.

I’ve been oogling Nokias with inbuilt cameras for a while (it’s not that I feel particularly loyal to Nokia, I just can’t be bothered to learn all the menus, functions and shortcuts of a new system, so I’m sticking with them anyway), especially the one Meg has. And then the other week Tele2 advertised a Nokia 3200 for only 200 nok! Now, it turned out that to get it at that price you had to get a “business” account at 149 nok a month, with a 12-month contract as minimum – so it wasn’t such a brilliant deal after all. But with a 49 nok account you could get the phone for 850 nok – I thought “That’s more like it!” and hit the “Order now” button. Ooops.

Well, nevermind, it’s a nice present-for-myself-for-getting-a-bonus (the rest of the bonus going towards a kitchen, which, though good, is not much fun).

So. New toy. Mucho fun. Unfortunately my laptop’s in for service so I have no infrared port for downloading pictures from the phone at the moment, but that’s a temporary glitch. However, I was pleasantly surprised at the concept for changing covers that this model has. The actual plastic case is see-through and you can create your own paper covers to go inside (much like those mugs I used to covet when I was a kid). The phone comes with two ready-made covers, one of which is a nice blue with a somewhat hypnotic effect… The design “changes” as you move angle of viewing it – like those stickers that have an “action” effect by having several designs that are visible depending on the angle (you know what I mean?). Hours of amusement.

Picture:

Other Good Things: I now have a spare charger so that I can keep one in my bag for work etc. (I keep running out of battery at inconvenient times) and the battery on the old one is the same type as the new one, so I have a spare battery, too. And I’ve got a spare mobile phone. Useful, I suppose. At least if anyone makes good of the threat of banning phones with cameras.

Well, it’s Friday:

1. What was the last song you heard?
Shania Twain’s Up! on the radio a few minutes ago.

2. What were the last two movies you saw?
You know, I can’t remember… I think one of them might have been Master & Commander, the other, hm, well, I saw most of Singing in the Rain on the telly about a week ago.

3. What were the last three things you purchased?
New mobile phone, stamps and water.

4. What four things do you need to do this weekend?
Some more tidying and packing in boxes to make room for Martin. Sorting through some photographs. Fix layout at Rubberstamps.

Oh, and a whole lot of nothing.

5. Who are the last five people you talked to?
Martin, my mum and three guys at a customer site.

Voice in my head: Pink – Get the Party Started

A clever Monday Madness – on a Wednesday. Oh well.

Ridiculously happy
Optimistic
Brilliant ;)
Irreverent
Never far from laughing

Refurbish the kitchen
Offend as many pig-headed people as possible
Buy som interesting whisky (shouldn’t be too difficult)
Invite people for dinner in newly refurbished kitchen
Natter on in this blog

How about a real entry at some point? Would that be nice?

Waiting for some scripts to finish, so let’s do the Friday Five.

What was…
1. …your first grade teacher’s name?
Kitty Fløne

2. …your favorite Saturday morning cartoon?
We didn’t really have them until I was about 10 or 11. I can’t remember watching television much in the morning before that. Once we got cable my brother and I would watch Transformers, Mask, He-Man, She-Ra and Inspector Gadget. As a young kid my favourite cartoons were Pink Panther and La Lina which would be used as program fillers and so would show up when least expected, which was part of the charm. Regular scheduling would have cartoons on for children at six in the evening (six thirty in summer) and some of my favourites were Balthazaar and The Mole.

3. …the name of your very first best friend?
Torkjel

4. …your favorite breakfast cereal?
Weetabix

5. …your favorite thing to do after school?
Read

Monday’s Monday Madness: How many hours do I spend per week on the following… These will be guesstimates, obviously, I don’t normally time myself…

1. Watching television Varies between 1-2 and 20ish depending on what else is going on. Normally, I’d say, somewhere around an hour a day, somewhat more on a Friday, somewhat less on Saturday (there is nothing on on Saturdays).
2. Sitting at the computer Yikes. Uhm. 45 or thereabouts.
3. Reading a book As many as possible… Say 10, maybe, on average – a lot of them simultaneously as the television-watching (that goes for the “sitting at the computer” as well, I use the tv rather than the radio as background noise).
4. House work Including cooking, 7ish, excluding cooking, perhaps 2, probably less.
5. Cooking Ah, 5ish, then. More if I’m having people over for dinner, but that doesn’t happen very often.
6. Eating I eat quickly, most meals take me five minutes or so, I try to spend a little longer over dinner, so say 3-4 hours of actual eating – but although I finish my food in five minutes, I still stay at the lunch table for half an hour, for example.
7. Driving Duh. None. I don’t drive.
8. Working outside of your home 37.5, according to my contract – tends to be a bit more than that, though.
9. Blogging Less lately, but perhaps a couple of hours.
10. Sleeping 7×8=56… I wish. Somewhere around 40-45 is probably nearer the mark.

Voice in my head: that 70ies group (?) singing “Near a tree by a river there’s a hole in the gound where an old man of Arran goes around and around” over and over and over again, which I’m getting heartily sick of

Postatem obscuri lateris nescitis.
“You do not know the power of the Dark
Side.” There are two possibilities: you
are a Star Wars geek, or you are unreasoningly
scary.

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Well, I’m not really a Star Wars fan (though I won’t deny being a geek), so I suppose that really only leaves one option. Oh well.

(Via Donna)

If you were moved by the pictures from San Francisco (the emphemera site seems to be down, let’s hope it’s just a bandwidth glitch and not a permanent problem) and want to show your support in a somewhat tangible way, Flowers for Al and Don is the place to go.

Voice in my head: Vonda Shepard – I Only Want to be with You

You are Woodstock!

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(Via Theresa)

Monday madness, on a Tuesday evening.

1. If I could write an instant classic effortlessly, I’d be so happy!
2. Maybe one day I will try my hand at canooing (actually, I already have, but I couldn’t think of anything else starting with c – and I’d like to try canooing again).
3. Before I started blogging, I used to start journals on paper and forget about them after anything from a day to several months. I probably have the world’s largest collection of started journals. Now I just blog.
4. Library fires sure make me scared!
5. If I could fly, I would fly to Arvika and visit Linda – anything else seems like it would be too tiring a trip.
6. If more people were narcoleptic, the world would be a better place. (Sleeping people don’t go to war.)
7. I thought this meme was madder than usual this week. (any letter will do for this one.)

Now, let’s have some tea.

Voice in my head: Vonda Shepard – I Only Want to be with You