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Cake day: October 16th, 2023

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  • I have a son that is the most important thing in my life. He is 2.5 now, but it took me a year to adjust to my new life, and I am shamed to admit that several episodes could have a been handled better. (No abuse, but daddy getting angry for a toddler being a toddler) It took a toll on the relationships too. Still does since tired people have shorter fuses.

    Bottom line now is that he fills me with joy. Watching him learn new thing like how there ia fluff between his toes (and do dad have it too?) to how all water used for painting turns grey. How he practices being a ninja sneaking up on me (but can’t contain his excitement and giggle) The texture of food, and how spaghetti sticks.

    Of course you are tired and stressed, and the random pain from unexpected movements when dressing him, or from death dives on the couch is always there. But I would not trade him for anything.



  • His show is entertainment, so he has this character who is semi- incompetent in everything. Yeah, he has this personality also, but not 100%. And some of what he does is just idiotic. The tractor is just him I’m that role.

    But the show highlights a lot of important aspects. The skill of farming, the sheer amount of effort, the risk and how much you get for all that risk and effort.

    For me it’s a missed opportunity that the farmers didn’t integrate the chain up like many stores have done down. That is buy the mills, bakeries and stores. Why can the grocery chains so it, but not the other way around?



  • When was he born? Not everyone knows all the “secret” signs for stuff. How 18 is A.H or how 81 is H.A (Hells Angels) 1% biker clubs have surprisingly much of such codes. 8 is also the number of Khorne in the Warhammer fantasy/sci-fi setting. And before we start with that there are surprisingly few Nazis who play, but the few are very vocal.

    Years ago I saw a guy in a crocery store in Norway wearing a “Combat18 Böhmen” hoodie. Buying ingredients for tex-mex taco incidentally. And when I pointed him out to my wife, she said that you are probably the only one in here to know this, and spot him for what he is.

    So if Andy was born in 1988 I hope it’s why he has 88 in his username.





  • This is tricky. I once was a Norwegian NATO soldier in the Balkans and while we usually was deminers we often was tasked to search for weapons in buildings. Once we searched this cluster of houses close to a combat zone where insurgents were known to operate when we came across what looked like a normal family with male and female adult and a small child of perhaps a year. Our policy was to be the least intrusive we could be, and mother and child stayed inside while we did the kitchen and toiler first and let the man inside. The child was screaming the entire time. After a while our civilian interpreter took us aside and said the was something off with the child. Something in the way they talked about it. It was still screaming like crazy, unconsolable. Our policy was that male soldiers did not search females or children under 16, but by some stroke of luck our company comander was present and his driver/clerk was female. So under our directions with British MP, Ukranian UN Police and mother directly present she carefully stripped the baby and found a cleaning kit for an AK-47 under the clothes. Mother had held the baby in a manner to conceal it. The child was creaming because it was in direct contact with its skin. Mother was under duress to do it it turned out, man was not related and in the end we found equipment and uniforms for a five man squad in the house. It served as some kind of staging area. And a weapon cach including AT in the forest nearby.

    Point of this long story… Searching children is tricky and should only be done carefully after a solid risk assessment