Mediumgeek peeks through the curtains and whispers "is it safe to come out?"

Then she jumps out and shouts in a loud obnoxious way "I am back". The place is dead silent...
An eyebrow goes up and there is look of skepticism on her face.... a hesitant voice whispers "you have all left?" There is no answer...

After a awkward moment of silent there is all of a sudden a smile and she shouts "what the f%$# I will do it anyway. I am blogging again."

Yes, I am giving it a go! It is a new year and I am leaving 2007 behind together with all its problems.

I really miss blogging! It has been 5 months since my last entry, but I guess I really didn't blog much the entire last year. Why? Early last year I got sick and it just took me a little bit of time to get back on track. It was nothing serious really, just a mix of small ailments that really wore me down. I had to use all my energy on trying to get better and managing work. A bad case of allergies, some old injuries gone wild, a vitamin deficiency, and I could go on for few more lines. I realized I needed to do something. So I started a treatment, started eating healthier, and in addition started spending extensive hours at the gym. The result is an almost 100% healthy Mediumgeek, yet at least 10% smaller:).

The brain engine has started turning again. It is a bit rusty and making sounds but all the old stupid things I used to think about have started surfacing again. So be aware:).

Ok, to be honest I have ulterior motive for starting to blog again. I am going on a really cool and fancy vacation next Friday. It has been in the planning for half of a year and it feels like I have been saving money for it forever. The destination is Guadeloupe and Antigua in the Caribbean. I must admit that the fear of spending 3 weeks in a bikini also helped motivate me at the gym but that is another story:).

So my hope is that I can blog a little bit from there and post pictures in case anyone is interested (read: "I want to make my friends envious").

In any case, Mediumgeek is back!

I am still alive even if I felt like I would die for a while from over strained muscles and legs covered in bruises. Moving can really take its toll on you, even my toes got tired and stiff:-). I have pretty much
spent the last two weeks moving, cleaning, and getting settled into my new apartment (and in between I have been at work "resting"). I am really happy with my new apartment and I am looking forward to actually enjoying all the new space. Right now life feels a bit like the never-ending-unpacking-and-organizing story but things have almost started to look tidy.



In other news is that I have had a slight change of jobs. I am no longer just working on Series 60 but will also work on the Uiq user interface for the Opera browser. Fun to do something different for a change. I am also now a member of a Norwegian political party and am looking forward to getting a bit more engaged into politics.



So that is the quick update on what is happening in my life these days. Hopefully, I will have more time soon to waste my time on something like silly blogging sitting in my nice new office...

There is a lot of interesting things happening that would be worth blogging about. Ahhhh... it is simply sweet to watch the Norwegian government committing a slow, painful suicide. But I am selfish, I am pretty preoccupied with what is happening in my own life now...



Only 11 hours and 23 minutes...



Update: Mediumgeek is now the proud owner of a beautiful new apartment. Hopefully pictures soon.

How do you know if you just attended a good Opera party? Well, I at least know because I always feel like I have been twisted like a wet towel by some giant hand the day after. My entire body is aching (not just the head like with normal people).

I am just grateful to the wonderful guys that actually do know how to dance and have the patience to dance with me even if it is obvious that I don't know a single dance step. This time I even vaguely remember making it into the air... Great fun and worth all the pain! Well, at least now when the pain has started to go away:-).

I can feel the blogging cloud coming over me...

Summer has been so great that I simply haven't had the need to blog (nor time). This has made me realize that I usually blog because I either have to complain about something, or if I feel like airing my opinions. It just doesn't feel right to blog about happy stuff to much:-). Sure I have had things to complain about this summer but only so much that I have been able to relief my brain waste on friends.

This summer has probably been one of the best summer I have ever had but now when it has become gray and rainy outside, the bitter, frustrated, opinionated me is re-emerging. To spare my friends from having to listen to all I need to get out of my head I think it is time to dust the keyboard and start blogging. At least then they can safely ignore what I am saying/writing without me noticing that they don't give a damn. Aren't I nice:-)?

I might need few more days of rain to brew some frustrations to blog about or maybe I just need to think up some ways of disguising few of my recents frustrations...

Don't you just hate people that are really happy and seem to be enjoying their life to the
fullest? For example, people that are travelling, enjoying weekend trips to visit their friends,
trying new exciting outdoor activities in the sun, and telling you about it? The worst
cases are when you yourself have had a mediocre weekend and the only thing people want
to talk about is their exciting weekend adventure. It is not that you really want people to be just as miserable as you are, but you just don't want to hear about all the fun they had... or okey sometimes you really just wish they hadn't enjoyed their weekend at all. Anyone experienced this?



I definitely have so I have decided to be nice and not blog about my wonderful sunny weekend I spent visiting friends, kayaking, sunbathing, and partying. See how nice I am;-).

The biggest scam in history...

It is summer and Mediumgeek is way too busy to blog. Or so Mediumgeek believes... Mediumgeek at least belives it is enough to come up with bunch of reasons to excuse the non-blogging.

Mediumgeek is too busy to blog because mediumgeek is...

• ... travelling and spends a whole week afterward being jet lagged
• ... busy pretending to be watching movies for educational purposes (by putting Spanish subtitles on the movies)
• ... trying to recreate all the good food found in Texas (breakfast burrito, croutons, ranch dressing done, salsa, pecan pie, refried beans, and margaritas to go).
• ... getting to know the latest family member (an entertaining kayak)
• ... rollerblading (a really nice guy at work gave me his old rollerblades)
• ... busy reading a exciting Victorian lesbian novel...
• ... stealing the boyfriend's Nintendo DS Lite to play those really cool brain games (brain age, brain acedemy).
• ... working (bah that was a boring excuse!)

Blog entry continued the next day after being told that there were only 8 excuses. Here are the last two:-).

• ... is spending the time trying to come up with excuses why there is so little blogging
• ... is learning how to count again!

I can smell vacation, it is so close... No this is just the smell of a pre-vacation beer:-D.



Vacation starts tonight and tomorrow I will be on my way to Texas. Slightly odd choice of vacation spot, I must admit, but I am just jumping on the bandwagon with people that had planned this ages ago. I think I will enjoy to see Texas again and I best of all I get to enjoy easy American life for two weeks. Mmmmm... Mexican food here I come.



I went to school in Tulsa, Oklahoma which in theory isn't that far away, but I wont get to go there this time:-(. Cannot really expect the people I am going with to spend 2 days just driving back and forth. It would have been nice to meet few people there but the place itself isn't really a hot vacation spot.



The plan is to enjoy the beaches along the Mexican gulf (Galveston, Corpus Christi, and South Padre Island), do a day trip to Mexico from Del Rio, and then visit San Antonio, Austin, and Houston. I can't wait to lie in the sun at the beach even though I have a certain love and hate relationship with it. The beach is great but I really hate wearing a bikini.



Whoever came up with the bikini should be publically flogged in my opinion. You spend your entire day trying to make sure it is still sitting in place and covering all the appropriate spots. I worry constantly about the fact how white my uncooked chicken legs and the rest of me is (btw. progressive tanners only worked a little bit), and I am desperately trying to hold my stomach in so it looks nicer and flatter. I don't think being tired from the beach is really because of too much sun but rather lack of oxygen after holding in your stomach the entire day:-).



I found some consolation in the fact that 65% of the population in San Antonio is overweight and 31% obese. I will be a real babe there! Ok, it isn't very nice to joice the fact that 69% are overweight but right now I am in desperate need of any self esteem boaster I can get to be able to win the mental bikini battle. Amazing how much grief a tiny piece of cloth can cause women.



For anyone interested, here is our travel route badly drawn on a map which I stole from Only-Maps. Maybe I will blog some if I get Internet access along the route.

Knock, knock. Anyone still there? Helloooooo.... Guess who is back...:-).



Spring is in the air and Mediumgeek has seen the first green leaves. The first pain of spring (sore bum after riding a bike) has started to fade away, and I have already been harassed by drunk/drugged idiots once while biking. Doesn't get more like spring in Oslo than that.

My month off blogging was quite nice and could even been considered eventful. I took a week vacation up in north of Norway, involving (believe it or not) lots of sun, long walking trips, a fishing trip, reading, eating nice food, and relaxing. This time I even managed to catch two fish of proper size!



Work has been busy (more about that soon) and I got to see the Opera Gothenburg office for the first time. I have even delivered my tax return already and said enough mean things about the Norwegian tax system to give the entire staff of the Norwegian tax office a constant hickup for a year (Icelandic superstition says that if you say mean things about people behind their backs they will get the hickups).



Then I have just generally been busy with smaller stuff but I did manage to rest my brain a little with some trashy literature and relaxing. So you average mediumgeek is much healthier and happier and ready to enjoy spring to its fullest. Stay tuned because I am ready to spit out some of the usual nonsense on my blog.