When I went to take the subway home from work on Friday I found this book on one of the benches. At first I was going to leave it there, but I decided I had to take it, after all how often do you find a traveling book?

Not sure if I wan’t to read it yet, but I am leaning towards reading it. I am assuming that whoever first released this book thought it was good enough to share..Am I being too optimistic?

After waiting 30 minutes at Peppes Pizza and giving it up, then finally getting in at Egon’s after yet another 30 minutes of waiting, we got some good food. Bacon wrapped steaks

The board game is really easy to play, but you’ll also discover some interesting strategies as you start to learn the rules of the game. You earn points by building railroad routes between connected cities, and you’ll get extra points if you have the longest route by the end of the game. When you start you also receive secret goals (Tickets) that you have to fulfill, which gives you the task of connecting two cities far apart. The longer apart the cities are, the more points are given upon successful completion, but likewise you will lose points if you have not completed your goals at the end of the game. You must have a minimum of two tickets, but you can also choose to draw more if you wish.

Since I only see Hilde at the weekends for a few more months while she is away, we’ve only gotten to play three rounds so far (I’ve won two of them!) and we really love this game. It is a very good risk vs reward game, many fun strategies to learn, and easy enough for non-elf&orc-lovers to get in to.

Hilde is completely in love with this game and wants to play it all the time. She does not see the value of sitting down and evaluating your previous moves and contemplating a new strategy. This is why she does not win more. I win more.

I am a winner.

Unfortunately we did not have apple vinegar or a rotten banana, but the fruit flies seemed to enjoy the pineapple leftovers, so I stuffed a small piece of it in the bottom, taped up some paper and waited a few days. This is the result:

It works! What an ingenious invention!

After taking this picture I noticed 4 flies on the outside of the paper…I began to worry; Was the fly trap working as advertised, or did I just create a breedingplace for them? I immediately sprayed some cleaning liquids in the glass and filled it with water. I ran away before the flies started screaming and locked myself in my room.

It seems to work though, yay! I think I’ll have to try it again and leave it until I see some dead flies in there.

I hope this works

There are many products they have that I really enjoy, but how much information do they have about me at this point? Should a company that lives of advertising know this much about anyone?

I will definitely still use many of their products, but recently I’ve realized that I like having more control over my own stuff, more than I do at the moment anyway, also I think Google is lacking focus with what they are doing…They keep launching betas of new things instead of improving what they already have.

Anyway, it’s nice to have a blogging software that is more open, with loads of themes and plugins again.

I’ve been playing with Google Pages lately because I want to stop paying for webhosting, and if I can just move all of my domains and data over to Googles servers instead of wasting my money. While playing around with it I also exported my Video Podcasts feed to an OPLM file so you can import it and check it out, maybe you’d like some of them (I recommend using VLC media player to watch video files on your PC)

You can find my OPML file here: http://sundby.googlepages.com/KennethSundby-PodcastsVideo.opml

http://picasaweb.google.no/hildeulsaker/NyLeilighet

I’ll try to take some new pictures soon, but I think I want to borrow a real camera first.