I use Jottacloud. 79 nok/month (9 euro perhaps?) for 1 TB.

Norwegian here. Met quite a few elk on my hikes, once a wolf passed the road some ten metres in front of me an early morning, a brown bears glimpsed far away once or twice -never afraid, always in awe. But also always with respect, knowing full well what they do.

Thanks for the book tip!

Finnegans Wake! Listened to the Naxos audiobook again-- wonderfully incomprehensible, gloriously elusive, magnificently playful, strikingly obvious, all at once (but of course, it's just five hours, the entire book would take much much more time).

Started Ulysess, but this version was read by an american. Irish or nothing! At last I found Molly Bloom's soliloquy read by an irish; didn't remember it as so risqué, if that's the word, all kinds of phantasies and memories, but it's still very very beatiful and moving.

so far exactly as last year. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demographics_of_Japan?wprov=sfti1#Current_vital_statistics

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Woman_with_the_Handbag

Same vibe as this legendary photo.

Always been good with kids. As life turned out, my partner has a career taking them around the world: i'm the tagalong spise looking after the kids. We have three boys, 19, 16, 12. They are all cooler than me in various ways and I have given them all so much more than my parents gave me: emotionally, materially, the lot. They are more open minded, more reasonable, better equipped for life, more stable, more secure... I have them a lot, "sacrificed" quite a bit, time wise, career wise, and soon they're all gone creating their own lives while i'll be following my partner around, trying to patch together a new meaning of this existence.

For a man, it's been an unusual journey. But worth it.

Big discussion in Norway atm about this aesthetic-- kitsch? camp? vulgar? too aryan? to chauvinistic? or just too close to nazi symbolism for comfort?

https://thevikingherald.com/article/the-vikings-return-to-america-norwegian-soccer-team-gets-in-the-world-cup-spirit/1395

https://www.dagbladet.no/sport/kritikkstorm-faen-sa-dum/84715979

yes. the text over is "Bestemor og mig 3mnd" -- Grandma and me three months ". She, this baby, died an old woman 80+ years later without any kids, never married, afaik never a boyfriend. Only my mother wanted to have her photo album.

thanks :). but they're probably from ice skates.

Not my tracks, but quite sure they're from ice skates.

snow last year, I have no idea, sorry, I moved back this summer... but if you're really interested, this web page has all the info you'd need https://www.senorge.no/

December was way too warm for snow, earnest on record by far, whereas Jan and Feb have been really really cold and dry. But in general, yes, climate change means less snow, as it's warmer. at least until AMOC collapses.

I wrote a one man play! I am not a professional writer, even though i have tried, and not at all an actor, and the play touches some things in me, i get both angry and sad for real while playing -- 13.1 is the date, and i'm both super stoked and super anxious. but proud! a real achievement in my world.