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We are in Skien for the weekend. The car trip here went amazingly well, and Elea slept almost the entire trip. The weather was nice, and even though the traffic was incredibly packed for the first hour and a half, it wasn't exhausting at all.

The past two days we have been doing the finalizing of a Human-Computer Interaction project we have at school. We were to go to a public office and analyse the queuing system. To be honest, I don't understand how the foreigners were able to use the system. It was localized in Norwegian, English and Polish. The English was incredibly poor, with words such as “queuenumber”, which I believe won't make any sense for one that has English as their mother tongue. By “queuenumber”, they meant the ticket with the given number. We gave them a jumbo grade in the end, but put it in quite a nice way. Let's hope the teacher agrees.

At Tuesday I noticed that my iPhone's outline didn't work. That is, I cannot listen through my headset. The treble and the bass is gone and all that's left is a garbled midtone that sounds like it lacks bit rate direly. I tried blowing hard in the outline opening, but it didn't help. Neither did hitting it or trying to twist the headphone. Anyone have suggestions? I have an insurance, but I don't know if it's applicable for this kind of damage. At worst case scenario I'll just have to find the hammer...

... and hence I changed my e-mail signature at work and profile at My Opera. :-)

In exactly 7 days we are well on our way to move into the new apartment. Today we went to IKEA to purchase some furniture for the new apartment; a table to have the TV on and some drawers to have various clothes in. One of the drawers is tall enough to use it to change diapers and stuff (with a pillow or some underlaying layer of some kind that the baby rests upon, of course).

Earlier this week we purchased a couch as well. I am really looking forward to getting this instead of the way too small couch we have now. Does it not look comfortable?

We still need to purchase a table to have with the couch, but they were sold out of the one we wanted, so we'll probably look closer into it when we've moved in. We have a temporary table we can use, but I'd prefer to have a new and suiting table.

Lastly, I'm a bit annoyed with our ISP, and more so with our ISP's provider. You see, about 3 weeks ago I ordered an Internet connection to be made ready just after we moved in, on Monday August 3. First off, the sales guy, apparently a summer fill-in guy, managed to file the wrong address, even though I repeatedly told him the explicit address. I got this fixed, and later on I got a confirmation date for the set up of the connection on July 27. That's way too soon, and I contacted them about it again, and it was fixed and pushed back to August 4.

Wednesday I received a mail that it had been pushed back to August 14, with no reasons provided. Naturally I was like WTF and called them straight away. It seemed the bread crumb sized brain of the summer fill-in had forgot to add the number of our apartment to the form for the Internet cable guy (or whatever to call him) to arrive. Instead of just calling me and asking, "Hi, what apartment number was it?", they pushed it back 10 days.

I was told to call the service company and ask them to pop the date forward, but it was filled to the brims, but the girl at the phone, whom seemed to be quite annoyed by whomever did this to us, encouraged me to ask our ISP to do an express delivery. I asked a guy I know inside about this, and he checked with some other guy whom said that they might request a service request whatever that is. I'll check in on Monday to see what's going on, but if we cannot get the Internet connection during next week (Aug 3 to Aug 7), I'll try whatever I can to get them to speed things up. The problem is that an express delivery costs about 10,000 NOK. But if they screwed up, you can bet that I'll try to exploit them for what it's worth.

I was like: \o. .o/ \o\ /o/ /o\ \o/

Then, by looking at the grade distribution, I suddenly felt a bit more special:

Since I don’t have internet onboard the train, I can just as well write a blog entry in my text editor and post it later on.

I am enroute to Skien where I’ll meet up with Anniken, and together we’ll sign under the contract for the loan for our new apartment.

This week has gone incredibly fast, eventhough Anniken has been away. It has mostly been due to me working late all nights. It’s great fun at work, and I am looking forward to continuing the work.
The weather has been incredibly warm. At least to be in Oslo. Last night, after watching the CNN News broadcast about Michael Jackson’s passing, the temperature was still way beyond 21 degrees centigrade – at 0200 hours! To find it in Fahrenheit, simply take F = (9/5)C + 32, where F is degrees in Fahrenheit and C is degrees in Celsius. In this case, the answer is 70 degrees Fahrenheit. To convert the other way, simply perform: C = (F – 32) * (5/9).

It will be awesome to have Anniken back. It’s been very quite since she’s gone. Except for the news broadcast I watched yesterday, there has been little noise, except from the occasional guitar I have played.

Last weekend we started watching more Battlestar Galactica, something we hadn’t done for a long time. This was mainly due to us focusing on completing Star Trek: Deep Space Nine before advancing to another sci-fi series. So far, I really like Battlestar Galactica. It is so professionaly filmed, that I often think that I am watching a movie. It is quality.

There were some happy gaming news earlier this week as well. Aion: The Tower of Eternity will be shipping September 22 in North America and September 25 in Europe. Why we get it three days later, I don’t know. But I don’t care. It ships before I thought it would, and that kicks arse.
The weather is incredible. It is truly amazing to sit here on the train, watching the nice weather and everything that passes by. We’ll be driving home to Oslo later tonight, so I hope the temperature chills down. I hate driving in meltingly hot cars.

Anyways, I have to change trains soon, so I think I’ll wrap it up here. Have a nice Friday!