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So other than that I’m REALLY late.. well not a whole lot have happened to be honest, the usual, work…

I’ve also been working a bit on a couple of projects, one is at least enjoyable for most(in a way), a project server hosting a bunch of stuff I’ve made, and this a project to create a proper DNS implementation in C#(most out there are partial or buggy, or both).

I’ve also bought a new phone, a Sony Ericsson Xperia X10 Mini Pro, which is very good and small.

Lastly, vacation plans, well are ambitious…

Plans are to Bike from where I live to Amsterdam, a trip that is at shortest(according to Google) only is 224KM, which is roughly the route I’m going. I will try my best to do daily updates on that trip, but erm… no guarantees, I’m going to be dead tired

Ps. picture above is taken with my new phone :3

This is what I met when I was 10 min late

Or should I say non-traveling, I managed to miss my flight by 10 minutes, darn train was late…

So anyways, got to fly the day after though, cost me “only” 218€ and a night at a 3 star hotel that sucked more than the no-star hotel i stayed at the first week I was in Germany…(for the future for those that happen to have to sleep over in Düsseldorf, it’s name is Wartburg).

This week I’ve been alone handling Norwegian calls, as one of my colleagues got promoted and the other is on vacation, I save my vacation until the end of July beginning of August :p

We celebrated my sister’s birthday on Saturday, went out to a Greek place, nice food and things, but a bit slow.

Sunday was sunny and nice, went out with Hege and a friend of hers

Jamboree Allstars on stage at Eurocityfestival in Münster

So yea, Woopsie, a day late again, too much fun in the weekend

So there was this Festival in town… Eurocityfestival, kinda fun, lots and lots of stages and good music, It started off for me with The Baseballs concert at Domplatz, and later that night went to a place called Gleis 22, which is a indy place, good music there as well

Saturday was spent in town as well, again listening to music, in particular Jamboree Allstars, a Ska band from this area :3.

Sunday was relaxing and was also spent in town, listening to music of bands I don’t know the name of :p.

Most of the week was kinda boring though, little to do at work, and a short break at Thursday, before going to work again on Friday, where I thought there would be even less to do, but that was quite the oposite…

Oh and today is the Norwegian constitutional day… rain, cold, and no stream working from NRK(Norwegian Broadcasting Company), the two first would’ve been ok if the NRK stream worked <.<, So Imma head out now and shout “hurra” just to get a little bit of 17th of may feeling…

ps. I hope you guys like the new design

Sorry for a bit late posting, I was too tired last night to write :/

So just a quick update, cause I write this before work x), Yesterday I biked 24km, 12km of them(after a dinner break) at high pace with avg. speed at 19.9 kmph, Friday was the most boring day ever at work, totally 3 phone calls, where only 1 was norwegian, and my supervisor threw staples at me

and finally… Survey is back up, so head over and be nice and tell me what you want to see more of!

ps. I promise the next post will be longer

Photo of one of the many churches in Münster by Allie_Caulfield (click pic for flickr page)

Yea, I bet you can’t guess who had a birthday… no… noo.. not me either… uhm, yea it was my Tenant’s birthday yesterday actually.

So yea, spent roughly 3-4 hours chatting only in german, and surpisingly I understood most(I think….)

Then later I was off in to town to go out with Nikoletta and a couple of other people, and wound up with 1 beer and about 1 1/2 hours on the bike to a bar that was closed

Work’s been a bit dull though, not a lot to do, and most notably the friday, I had a blazing 3 calls and 0 emails at least I got nice co-workers

I tried to do some geocaching yesterday as well, didn’t go that well, I got stuck on one (forgot to bring the instructions) and the other was “just” 6 meters up and I had nothing(or nobody) to climb on… I did contemplate about jumping down from the bridge onto a statue, but that was a bit more stupid than what I can do :p

Overall, Life’s great here in Münster now.

ps… Got a beta blog up and running here, this may be the future for my blog

Easter buhhen!

Finally moved in and everything is set, and got the keys, bike, food and work in place.

Thursday was the first time I got proper work(outside training) and wound up answering emails on my own, which went pretty well, had a couple of trips over to the helpdesk to ask some questions, and afaik only did 1 mistake :3

Easter have sadly been a bit lonely, but managed to keep myself entertained, usally out biking and learning to know the city.

It was raining yesterday though, so I was pretty wet when I got home :/

<- ohbtw, easter bunneh dropped by

I kinda miss Oslo, but at the same time I’m a bit relieved I’m not there at the same time.

Feels like it’s just going to jump up in your face and say “SURPRISE!” and you’re dying from the shock, but meh, it’s only been 2 weeks… too early to get home sick :p

:3 chocolate bunneh and a flower I got from the German piracy party.

yea, 7 days, and just 3 more days of training, it’s kinda scary.

At least I got banking and all other stuff done going to meet up with the lady I’m renting from tomorrow and get the keys etc.

Other than that, there’s been a couple of nice warm and sunny days, today was off course one of them

I’ve been walking around the city and gotten to know a couple of nice places, but my feets are hurting

I can’t wait to get my own pc back though! getting tired of this small keyboard

For some wierd reason people answer to the question “How are you” when you say “Sup?” to them.

Why so? there is no resemblance to “how are you” in the term “sup” which comes from “Whats up”.

Do anybody know why this happends? It only caught my mind today, as I was talking to random people, and way more than usual answerd to the question i did’t ask…

comment or twitter me if you got any ideas.