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Day SeventyEight

Spent the whole day at a customer site. I now introduce a fourth line in the right sidepanel; my bedtime. I sleep too little or irregular, but it is my own fault. In a small effort to help myself, then best - I think - is to accuratly and honestly note down what one does. This way you can reflect on the state and improvement, or lack thereof. Just look at what has happened to my weight - not a lot. (But then I have not changed the habits of what I eat ... yet)		Weight: 99.0 Kg
		Portions: Normal
		Sweets: Cake at customer
		Sleep: 11pm, 8 hours

Day SeventySeven

Wednesday evening we are again having our "evening class" at work (for customers). I had the first half (a little over an hour). Last December I presented at a large conferance in the UK, and I choose to reuse the presentation here. I thus needed no preparation, it was a "simple" repeat show. It went down well. The subject was about the different alphabets (english, spanish, hebrew, japanese, sanskrit, viking runes ... there are hundreds!) and how this is solved in IT.		Weight: ? Kg
		Portions: single-"plus"
		Sweets: Cake in evening

Day SeventySix

What is this strange weight. I did not gorge myself last night. Or ? Working from home. My Norwegian/London machine is back. Agreeing with the CT to lock at a Plan B implementation. I also need to worry about my presentation tomorrow at our evening arragement.		Weight: 99.5 Kg
		Portions: ?
		Sweets: ?

Day SeventyFive

Started the day with a run with the wife. I do not run any real distance, so it usually s a longish walk, interspersed with short runs. My wife could run the distance non-stop. I weighed myself carefully before and after and there was a difference of 0.7 kilos. I use (misuse?) my time with computergames, and today I thought I would use the whole day, rather than just a few hours in the evening, just to get a thorough session. My wife decided to use the day to bake bread. We had closely watched a TV cooking series with just baking bread, and now some of the good ideas were going to be tried. She enjoyed herself with that, and then we had a good leisurly bread tasting session in the afternoon. The fact that I have a day off every Monday, is not something our customers need to know. Our company has no switchboard, our cell phone numbers are public and customers call us directly. This means occasionally my Mondays are interrupted by a customer. If it is a simple question I handle it there and then, if it is longer than that I arrange for a colleague to take over. This Monday I had three of those.		Weight: 98.5 Kg
		Portions: Double
		Sweets: -

Day SeventyFour

Nice slow start to the day - helped by the wife kindly serving tea in bed. We took a trip to the exhibition center, where there was a large fleamarked. We had to concentrate on keeping up with our daughter who kept on walking so as not to loose her in the crowd. She found a nice train but her meager 100kr was simply far too little for the antique train. Sigh. We were in a cafe for some refreshments, but they somehow lost my wife's order in the kitchen. To compensate I later bought some cake from the bakers and had a nice afternoon at home. A little later the customer from yesterday (& friday) called, and I spent few hours on the computer from home and we got his problem finally fixed. So he could have weekend, too - what was left of it. :-)		Weight: 98.9 Kg
		Portions: single-"plus"
		Sweets: Cake with the afternoon coffe

Day SeventyThree

I got woken up at 9am by an SMS from my colleague of yesterday. He wanted me to be ready to take a possible followup call from the customer. My colleague had worked until 5 am, and things were working now; but just in case... of course I say yes. Customer has not called yet. Otherwise the day is spent with a long walk with the wife and daughter, doing some incidental shopping in our neighbourhood. Quite unexpectedly we got to buy two gifts for a birthday party we will be attending soon, and we got to ook at a nice but pricey wallpaper. We are having some vauge ideas about redecorating our livingroom.		Weight: 98.5 Kg
		Portions: single-"plus"
		Sweets: None

Day SeventyTwo

Got a good nights sleep yesterday, and thus woke up very tired. Contradictory I know. At work is was the quarterly meet; the CEOs tell about how well (or not) we're doing, and our way of getting through the much talked about financial crisis. We finished early, there was free beer, but most people preferred to get home. I did the grocery shopping at the store next to my office, and went home. Got called up by a colleague with a sticky problem, so I used a few hours to help him out via the phone and remote connection. Otherwise a normal Friday evening.		Weight: 98.5 Kg
		Portions: single-"plus"
		Sweets: Cake with meeting

Day SeventyOne - No Sleep

Yesterday I could not fall asleep. I "fantasize" that it is the Full Moon that is causing it. I tossed and turned, tried with warm milk, reading, music and watching boring TV. Nothing, so in the end I gave up and YouTube'd all night. Here is a fun link, it goes to their website, mentioned on their videos. There was nothing to do at work. Well, there is always mail, trying new software, reading manuals, but nothing customer related. Just as well, as I (surprise, surprise) ocassionally, and far too late, was very tired. It took a quarter of an hour to think one thought.		Weight: (?) Kg
		Portions: Double at lunch - fish
		Sweets: A handful in evening

Day Seventy

I worked at home in the morning (this way I can enjoy my tea in peace). I was at the office from 2 pm until 8pm; we have an eveningclass-event running the next 10 Wednesdays.		Weight: 98.0 Kg
		Portions: Normal
		Sweets: One sweet.

Day SixtyNine

A busy day at work. It started even as I was trying to enjoy my morning tea at home, but it wasn't too early. So I had to connect up remote to the deeply troubled customer from home and fix his problems. Managed to get to the office proper just in time to get the lunch. Left for home even though I wasn't quite finished with the next customer, but the wife was going for her evening talk, and someone had to mind our daughter (and dinner etc). Still no real problem, I just finished the work after dinner, it was about half an hours work.		Weight: 98.5 Kg
		Portions: Normal
		Sweets: A few

Day SixtyEight

The usual swim in the morning. I then made a large bowl of porridge for us two. I had a dentist appointment (continuation of last week's visit) to redo a filling from amalgam to plastic. I always choose the local anasthetic, this way I can relax, close my eyes, listen to music, whilst the dentist does her thing. After a while she taps me on the shoulder and I can close my mounth again. I bought another three DVDs from Hayao Miyazaki, so we now have 8 of his works. We watched one in the evening.		Weight: 99.0 Kg
		Portions: Normal
		Sweets: One tiny

Day SixtySeven

During the morning my wife and I take our daughter to the local school where she participates in some gymnastics group. We keep the large ghettoblaster music monster for the group at out home, as we live the closest, so that has to be carried to and fro. This meant the wife and I had a few hours without our daughter, so we went to brunch at the café. A quick call to our son, and he could fortunatly join us. My wife decided on having only a single cup of coffe, as she had had breakfast before we went out. In the afternoon some family called and invited themselves over. They brought along some homemade cake with homegrown fruit, so the afternoon was spent chatting about this and that. Dinner was my turn, and it was traditional pork roast. Minor disaster - I miscalculated the time. Although the potates etc had had enough time in the oven, the roast was too rare. The indidvidual slices thus had a quick trip in the microwave, although this makes the pieces a little soggy.		Weight: ? Kg
		Portions: Normal
		Sweets: Cake

Day SixtySix

When I got in the morning, the wife had made pancakes for breakfast. Nice. I then spent a couple of hours to clean and tidy the kitchen (had been a bit remis in doing that for a few days - it really piles up). Did the groceryshopping with my daughter, whilst the wife was at an afternoon reading in town. I have to make 5 blog entries today. I did not have the time or drive to do them in the last four days. As I can set the publish date, though, all will look nice and tidy when I am done - one entry per day. It takes about a hour to do that much. Akthough I am writing todays entry already here in the afternoon, I expect nothing significant will happen as we end up watching TV. Well, I do have to make dinner first.		Weight: 98.4 Kg
		Portions: Normal
		Sweets: Some

Day SixtyFive

At work, business as usual. It being a Friday tough, it starts with a morning meting with bread and Danish and a good chat with all. I spend too much of the day fighting connection problems, but get them solved. The net work done for the customer was marginal. I also managed to get my SQLExpressServer to work in my virtual machine, so I experiment a bit with that, too. It is a another piece of software that I need to know. At home, after dinner, I briefly go out to get some more wood for the fireplace. When I get in the wife looks disapointed - she had hoped when she heard the fonrt door open, that I was on my way to the corner store for some sweets as we lounge in fron t of the TV. Well, later i sneaked out quietly and came back with a good one and a half kilos of it.		Weight: (Didnt weight) Kg
		Portions: Normal
		Sweets: Danish in the morning; A cake with the lunch; Lots sweets in front of the TV

Day SixtyFour

To ensure my daughter is fully recovered, they are staying at home. As I get ready to say farewell, my wife and my daughter are lying in the double bed, clearly intent on having a super cosy time. Well, good for them. Back at work. Fortunatly I did not have a large backlog, so easy enough. I spend most of the day battleing some connection problem to reach a customer's machines. I don't really suceed, but it is not an urgent issue. I do briefly revisit my Norwegian/London machine for a minor adjustement and it breaks down again. Discouraging. I inform the customer that there is most probably something wrong in the network hardware and he has to get that fixed before I waste more his money. It ends up being nearly 7pm before I leave for home.		Weight: (didn't weigh) Kg
		Portions: Normal
		Sweets: A small bag at work

Day SixtyThree

The second day with staying at home with my daughter. She gets some electrolyte solution in the morning to combat the dehydration - and to my relief it does not come back up again. In fact there is no more throwing up at all, and as the day progresses she gets better and can drink and eat again, carefully.		Weight: (Cant remember) Kg
		Portions: (Cant remember)
		Sweets: (Cant remember)

Day SixtyTwo

We had to get up during the night a couple of times, as mour daughter threw up. It happens she sometimes gets an irritated stomach. Well, I did not have any particular appointments that day, whilst my wife did, so I stayed at home with my daughter. Normally it is not a problem to do that, but this day I could not do much else, apart fro being ready to leap up with bucket and aid when she threw up again. Which happened a few times. Fortunatly with each time there was less, if anything, to throw up (but that did not make it less unpleasant for her). Experience has shown us it is no good giving her anything to eat or drink while she is that way. Besides she does not want to eat or drink herself.		Weight: (Cant remember) Kg
		Portions: (Cant remember)
		Sweets: (Cant remember)

Day SixtyOne

Another morning trip to the swimminghall, though after breakfast. Then I had to go to the dentist in town. Just a checkup against potential paradentose with some ultrasonic cleaning of the teeth. I spent some time shopping afterwards and ended up buying a stack of DVDs. Amongst them 3 films to complete our collection of Hayao Miyazaki. On comming home we watched Castle in the Sky.		Weight: (Didnt weigh) Kg
		Portions: Single
		Sweet: A couple of cookies

Day Sixty

The wife and I decided for an early swim at the swimminghall before breakfast. Then followed a little household chores, and I took a few hours extra with shuteye. As we were expecting a visit we bought a bunch of Danish Pastries. Our visitor came and went, we picked up our daughter and it was a normal evening.		Weight: 98.4 Kg
		Portions: Single
		Sweet: Several danish