Day FiftyNine

Saturday without our daughter. In the morning some daily grocery shopping, then the bus to see the movie. A cosy lunch in town. Then home, where I made dinner. I tried to do some chinese SweetandSour Pork, using the deep frier and batter. It was OK, need to adjust the vineagre in the sauce next time.		Weight: (not weighed) Kg
		Portions: Single
		Sweet: A few

Day FiftyEight

Got to work early, so as to participate in the friday morning office "breakfast" (some bread with cheese or marmelade). Finally cracked the problem with the Norwegian/London machine, just before lunch. Missed lunch, but had a couple of hours work at another customer, on site. Our daughter was given a lift to were she will spend the weekend. The wife and I bought a couple of movie tickets to a new film (Men who hate women) which we will see tomorrow at noon. Otherwise the evening was spent in front of the computer and TV.		Weight: 98.4 Kg
		Portions: 4 stuffed Pitabreads
		Sweet: filled chocolate pieces with the evening coffe

Day FiftySeven

Sometimes I think I should title each entry "Night FiftySeven", instead of "Day ...". Worked from home in the day, just in case I needed to have a short nap or rest. The wife came home early, so I took a long-ish lunchbreak and we went for a walk and had lunch at the 3rd of our local cafés. In the evening there was a mail about a old/ex-employees at Oracle, where I have worked, meeting at a not to distant pub. I read the mail too late, but I threw myself on my bicycle and ended up having a nice evening talking to old nearly forgotten colleagues.		Weight: 98.0 Kg
		Portions: Normal
		Sweet: None

Day FiftySix

Had a bad night with stomach- and head-ache. Slept until 4 pm..

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Day FiftyFive

Work: An hour long visiting a customer in town, the rest of the working day at home. Home: The wife was to have been away all evening, but she came back early, as the presenter at the talk she was going to did not turn up. Just a quick coffe drink at late evening at the other local café.		Weight: 98.3 Kg
		Portions: Normal
		Sweet: None

Day FiftyFour

The usual visit to the local swimminghall. This time we rode on the bikes as the weather was OK for that, although cold. A bit of daily grocery shopping, a visit to the local café, otherwise again - easy life. I made dinner.		Weight: 98.0 Kg
		Portions: Normal
		Sweet: None

Day FiftyThree

In Denmark this the day of Festelavn where kids put on costumes, and bash the hell out of a small barrel, which contains sweets to be collected on the utter destruction of the barrel. So I attended the neighbourhood arragment for that with my daughter. The kids may also go from house to house and trick-or-treat, but we did not do that. Otherwise a leisurely Sunday. Baked some bread. Had a small walk. Did fun things with the computer. Made dinner.		Weight: 98.5 Kg
		Portions: Normal
		Sweet: Cake at the Festelavn

Day FiftyTwo

A plain Saturday The wife was out to the movies and dinner with friends. My daughter and I had a very late and large lunch at the local cafe, so we skipped dinner, except my son who was happy with warmed up leftovers. In the late evening he started the deepfrier and made some chips himself, sort of as an experiment. It worked, they were a little to brown, but next time he'll tweak the temperature and time to get it better.		Weight: 98.5 Kg
		Portions: Normal
		Sweet: None

Day FiftyOne

A whole day spent at the problem mentioned yesterday. Progress. Now (yes, this late) I have to mail a long report of things tried, results, hours used and so on. At our spot here in Denmark we've now had our yearly week of winter, i.e, snow. This means shoveling the few centimeters from the pavement outside our house in the morning. It also means the fireplace gets used and it feels supercosy.		Weight: 97.8 Kg
		Portions: Double both at lunch at evening
		Sweet: Friday - cake for desert

Day Fifty - Already?

So, already 50 days of the year have elapsed, and I have achieved nothing significant (yet). At work is was not a nice day. I have a project that is almost stranded in technical difficulties. I had to spend most of the day writing mails and status reports, but success; the customer feels he is in good hands, and I get another shot at cracking the problem.		Weight: 98.3 Kg
		Portions: One
		Sweet: Someone gave cake at work

Day FortyNine

Whilst on route to the office, got a call that diverted me to custome who had an immediate need to check on his system. Spent most of the day there. At home, after dinner, had a short walk with my daughter to the local café.		Weight: 98.5 Kg
		Portions: One, plus
		Sweet: Nope

Day FortyEight

Plain day at work. Wife was out in the evening at an evening class.		Weight: 98.9 Kg
		Portions: One
		Sweet: Nope

Day FortySeven

Svimminghall in the morning, 1 km (20 lengths). Baked bread with the wife at home. An hour walk in the park in the falling snow. Cosyness all round. On Mondays, too, I usually make dinner. Fortunatly there was still plenty left from yesterday, so I only had to make a fresh supply of potatos and a salad, the rest just needed warming. So what is this with the weight?! It just shows all eating and nothing to counter it is not good. I will introduce another "fact"-item to the right: the portion. Did I stick with one serving or go overboard?		Weight: 99.2 Kg
		Portions: Nearly two
		Sweets: (Too much marmelade?)

Day FortySix

Spent the morning at a board meeting for my daughter's organization. In a couple of weeks, at the next general meeting, I will retire from that post. The afternoon was spent dazing in front of the TV, and a nap or two in the sofa. We were supposed to have guest this evening, who had to cancel due to illnes. On Sundays I usually make dinner, and I had prepared a large but simple "meat&potato" meal. The (expensive) rare roastbeef was so tender - well worth it!		Weight: 98.4 Kg
		Sweets: A cake with the coffe

Day FortyFive

Today it is my wife and my 24th wedding anniversary. We did not do anything special - except smiling warmly to each other, and thinking of what we will do on the big 25th next year. We were to dinner at and with family. We have a large European Cooking book, where we take turns to invite to dinner for a chapter. This evening the theme was Italian. There were 3 courses and a dessert. One of my brother in laws was on visit, too. He, too, is technical-minded, so we talked about such things until late in the night. (Forgot to weigh myself this morning, thus the "?"-mark)		Weight: ? Kg
		Sweets: Dessert

Day FortyFour

I arrived late at work today. It is one of the fringe benefits of flexible working hours. I value that a lot. In the afternoon I had an incident. I had adjusted the disk configuration of the system I worked on and after a reboot I could no longer connect to it. The problem is the machine is a long way away (at least an air trip to abroad) so I have to wait until whoever can go to the machine's local terminal and correct the error. In the meantime, it is weekend :-) At work I also renewed my membership of the "Old Men and Mobile Phones"-club. This happens, quite automatically, when you turn up at work and have forgotten the mobile at home. We do not have any other office phome system, so it does limit one a bit. "Sweet:Desert" - What is that in the sidebar? Well, it does have an effect whether you loose weight or not. If I have had a bag of sweets, a cake with the afternoon tea, or a dessert, then it is noted as a "minus point" for the day. I will do so from time to time - after all I am not on any diet. But it must not end up something I do every day. Thus it is noted here. There will be a bad day tomorrow in that sense - long dinner on a family visit.		Weight: 97.9 Kg
		Sweet: Desert

Day FortyThree - 99½ !

I was on the scales recently, weighing myself. I do not do that often these days. I know I am "little" over my ideal weight. What might be called "heavy", "chubby", "fat", "overweight" or downright "obese". I know, I know. Our scales is a proper model, where you push the counter weight around until it balances. It is very sensitive and accurate. It balanced at the depressing weight of 99-and-a-half kilograms. I have always said a three digit weight is too much. I have got to pull myself together on this. This morning it showed a slightly better weight of 98.7. The loss is probably due to the late night yesterday, where I had missed dinner. I think one kilo swings are expected, dependning on whether I have been to the toilet or dehydrated due to too much coffe. In my opinion, claims like "I lost 200 gram yesterday" are therefore rubbish. But the trend of the curve is vital, and from now on must be downwards. This blog is not to turn into another "slimmers dairy", but to keep my motivation high, I will put the daily weight in a sidebar of each entry. I have plans for other realted stuff, but all in good time. To give myself an easy start, I'll use the heavy weight from a couple of days ago as the starting point.

Weight: 99+ Kg

Day FortyTwo (42)

The number 42 has a very particular meaning to me. So this blog entry should be full of deep and philosophical comments. Unfortunatly I worked all day and half the night yesterday, so I dont have the time/energy for it now.

(Actually, I cheated; this entry was written the day after, the 43rd)

Day FortyOne

A lousy nights sleep, and little of it, too, for no real reason. Drat, that means I am "low" on sleep again.

In the morning I made a weak attempt to move some of the wood. Of course I knew I could not finnish it before I had to work (whether at home or at the office), and it is not because we have any defined meeting time, but rather, the customer is waiting for his job to be finished.

In the office the whole day was spent battling a Linux RedHat Rawdevice udev issue ... good thing I decided to be at the office today, as several colleagues could assist in cracking this (minor?) problem.

Back at home, the good wife had finished moving the wood. :-)

Day Forty

Woke up arund nine-ish - that's twelve hours of sleep. Nice.

Spent the day at home, interrupted by the daily shopping and such like. Despite it being my day off, I did work a little for a customer (the internet has been invented), it sort of fitted nicely into the day, this time.

In the evening at a spanish "Tapas style" resturant that was quite cosy (as was the company).

When we got home the wood for the fireplace had arrived, in a standard 2meter high wooden frame. We just hoped it would not rain (too much) during the night, and move the wood piecewise to under a roof tomorrow.

Day ThirtyNine

Got a litte too late to bed yesterday, because I just wanted to have one tiiiiny little game before I turned in. I got up around 10:30 am this morning and had then slept about 5 hours.

Three of us went to the Zoological Museum (part of Copenhagen University). So did a lot of other people, especially with small (preschool) children, so we decided to try again some other day. Instead we went to a local bowling hall for a quick hour.

Afterwards a short café visit, and the rest of afternoon/evening was "just" at home. It is now around nine o'clock and I am going to bed.

Day ThirtyEight

Late morning, a very short exercise run - my head was heavy like a headache, dont know why.

The afternoon was spent at the Louisanne museum with the wife for four hours. In the evening we first watched a french DVD, an ordinary love story, I din't quite watch it, and then with my son we watched the spoof/sendup version of "300", "Meet the Spartans" to great amusement.

Day ThirtySeven

A slow day with almost no work at work (everything waiting for something) except for an awkward meeting with a customer where we had to decide how to finish off a project that wasn't going to finish in the forseeable future.

My daughter is at her "away place" for this night so the rest us are just relaxing, at home. A simple DVD with snacks evening. Just seen "Knocked up" and will see another one shortly.

Day ThirtySix

Worked from home today. That means peace and quiet for breakfast (after the others have left) and I got done what needed doing. Gave my self a small treat of one (1) coffe (instead of the usual 5-8 cupsat the office) and some fresh air at our local café round the corner.

This evening saw the last episode of "Green Wing" on the DVD set I got for christmas (from myself), and my wife and I laughed a lot. I am confused however, as I remember a rather different ending to the series when watching it on TV.

Not playing any computer games tonight, this means I will be in bed <gasp!>BEFORE midnight.

Day ThirtyFive

Ordinary day at work with some meeting, and nothing happened at home either. Oh well, we did get the new router and it has worked with error for several hours now.

And it is wayyyy to late - several hours past midnight. (Yes I have cheated on the "published date" for this entry)

Day ThirtyFour

Got to bed a little to late (again) yesterday. This is something I think I will blog a little more about. I am speculating whether to add some "threads" to this blog, where one is the "daily" as it has been until now, and another physical and emotional wellbeing or "caretaking" thread. Maybe some otherstuff, too.

Today was a simple day. Normal work, mostly with the remote Norwegian machine in London.

At home, the wife was out for the (early) evening at an evening class/lecture on danish architecture. Us remaining at home decided a quick takeaway pizza would be a good solution to the dinner problem.

Day ThirtyThree

Up in the morning and call the drainage company. "We will send a man around some time later today". Great they could come the same day, not so great I have to wait the whole day.

In he swimminghall, I managed to do one kilometer. Just as we got home and were thinking about the breakfast, the drainage guy arrived. He flushed and rinsed all the drain wells, and now it flows freely again, and that should be that. Of course, need to keep an eye on the drain well, and maybe in the summer I could dig it up and get a new one put in place.

Then I remembered to call the ISP Support. Bit of a wait on the telephone, though not bad, only a quarter hour or so. I briefly described my problem, and the conclusion was quick and simple; They will send a new router, my one is getting "too old". So on Wednesday or so.

Lastly I ordered wood for the fireplace. It is quite expensive, I think it is roughly the same as the district heating costs, to heat the house. On the other hand it is very cosy :-) ! When it is below zero and windy outside, then my radiators can not cope, and the house doesnt heat up proper. It is not "tightly" insulated, a bit of draught so we pay more for the heating than we should. On the other hand we do not have "stuffiness" or damp problems in our home.

Day ThirtyTwo

An even more "busy" Sunday. We were going to have a visit of an American university student. (They take a term here in Copenhagen and some have opted to have a Danish family to visit). Easy enough, we have had some student live with us a few years ago, so we knew roughly what to expect. We had mailed we would serve a typical Danish lunch (smørgåsbord). This had to be bought and served, and the house needed a "little" tidying, too. Fortunatly, although shops normally are closed on Sundays, the first Sunday in the month is the exception to that rule, so shopping the ingredients was without stress. And that is the great thing about guests - you get a clean and tidy living room.

The visit went very well, we had pleasant lunch and talked a lot.

For a change and challenge I tried to make dinner, porkroast, in the tiny oven that is part of our fireplace. It did not work, I had to use the microwave to get the meat done properly.

I was just sitting down to write this days blog entry, and note that the support guy from the ISP probably was right as the internet connection now was stable .. and the router died there and then. And came back again. So tomorrow, Monday morning, I will call a sewage company. Because, today, also, there was water in the cellar and one of our drain wells seems to be blocked. Fortunatly it only is the one from the kitchen, so there was no shit stench. I will of course also call the support line of the ISP. One of the good uses of a non-working workday.