For something mad like 23 years, Bergen has had a festival of gingerbread houses. This is in a disused swimming pool, now filled with hundreds of gingerbread houses, churches, sports stadiums, lighthouses, ships, airships… We[…]
We took a funicular up to the top of a mountain today and looked down on Bergen. It was ruddy cold; although it hasn’t snowed at sea level, there was ice everywhere at the top,[…]
For the first time in more than ten years, I’m back in Norway. This is the second new country for the girls this year, after Sweden, and after getting here on a cheap flight from[…]
Although my flight took off about an hour late from Singapore, it made up time and arrived only ten minutes behind schedule. I slept for most of the flight. I woke up, discovered that The[…]
It’s important to prepare for a long flight by being rested and hydrated, which was why when I went to the office Christmas party last night, I was doublefisting champagne for the first hour, and[…]
Today I did half an hour of freestyle, wherein I kicked a bit too much and was probably showing how tired I was (up late last night prepping my facial hair for tonight’s party) and[…]
For a team building treat, we went to the Zero Latency VR venue near our old office. We’d been there once before to shoot zombies and walk through space, and I knew that zombie shooting[…]
After work tonight I came home to a freshly cleaned apartment. I had a beer, played 2 more games of Blood Bowl and fell into bed.
I overdid it on the pull ups yesterday – my strength has increased faster than the durability of my hands, and so I have a slight blister on my left ring finger, which precludes things[…]
This morning I went for a swim at my friends’ pool, and managed to do nine lengths. I had considered doing 10, but after nine I felt quite wrecked, and in any case, 9 was[…]