Wood, more wood, empty buses, computer problems, 65 kgs (confirmed) - Nurhan's take:

Nurhan's take:

Kin helping with computer issues... not entirely true, there is a second box inside the one above and the second box has roast beef in it.

This blog is being written on a new laptop that is fantastically quick, and after two days of setting it up and getting it working just right, it's probably going back to the shop tomorrow. Story behind this laptop is that I went into various shops with a list of requirements, Startit came up with the best price and machine to meet those requirements, so I ordered the machine, before it arrived they rang me and told me that they'ed given me the wrong price, and it almost doubled in price. Not happy but that did bring it into line with similar machines and as I didn't want to have to go around searching again, and it was still within the price range that I'd set, I told them to go ahead with the order (I did check a second time that the machine had 'bluetooth'). Machine arrived on Friday, no DVD drive (as stated in the spec and when I'd asked specifically if it would have)- Now on a 13.6" machine a dvd drive is nice to have, but would not go up in size of machine just to have a dvd drive, not happy but they sold me one at cost for a low price (was thinking of insisting that they gave me one for free, but decided to save myself the aggravation). Just finished installing all sorts of odds and sods on the machine, have it working fine with all data from other machines on and sat down to write this blog. Transferred photos from camera and then tried to bluetooth pics from phone... and it all came to a crashing halt... No bluetooth...

Post script note: Turns out the machine does have bluetooth, it's just very well hidden. My mistake.

I've 'inherited' a Dell printer from an old job, when I lost the work e-mail, I lost the scanner on the printer. Today I spent almost an hour on the phone to Dell support and they were exceedingly helpful at getting the scanner to work; which it does now.

My two favner of wood has now arrived, 1/2 of Oak an 1 1/2 of birch. Kin wasn't so helpful in moving it off the four pallets that it arrived on and putting it in the woodshed. Still he wasn't as 'helpful' as Karma once was... Whilst piling up wood at one end, Karma was busy taking the wood from the other end and randomly stacking it in various parts of the garden. To move/stack the wood took me ~ 5 1/2 hours.

Kin's still mouthing, despite my best efforts to stop him. He doesn't do it to me much, as I'm firm with him, unfortunately as he's so gentle many folk are fine with it.

Still on wood, Jan (above) looks after Kin a lot. He has/had a tree in his garden that was getting too big and he wanted it removed, this tends to be quite expensive in Norway, and I'd mentioned that if I could convince a friend of mine (David) to bring his chainsaw we should be able to cut it down in six to eight hours... David brought his chainsaw, Jan took Kin for a trip and with ladders, ropes, and the chainsaw, ~6 1/2 hours later the 10 m high tree was reduced to a large number of limbs on the ground. David doesn't want to have the hassle of transporting the wood to the island that he lives on, Jan has more than enough wood, so I'm going to take it, split it, and stack it by the garage for next winter. Jan had Kin out for a short while, after that Kin was tied on the other side of the garden, well out of the way of operations, and if he could talk, I'm sure he'd be asking what foolishness I was up to now, up in a tree with some noisy device.

Now we have six months of traffic from the main road being fed into our residential streets, so Statens Vegvesen can build larger bus stops for the bendy buses, that have no one on them, I know this as they have to slow down to negotiate the corner where my house is and I can see how few people they are on the buses. There's plenty to object to with this, but it adds additional danger to Kin if he ever does manage to get lose.

This is Kin 'helping' fold a tarpaulin which was used to protect the wood before it was stacked.

Had Kin to the vet's on Monday as he's still limping on one paw. Vet believes that the limp is caused by a sore on two of his pads, she couldn't find any other problems. This is what I believed but there is always a worry with (especially) a giant breed that there is serious damage and as he was limping for a week, I thought it best to get him checked. He has some salve to put on his pads, but he just looks at the container, and one time he even tried to eat the container, so I've taken to putting it on for him. Weighed him at the vet's he's now 65 kgs (rather than the 67 kgs that I'd estimated).

He saw a new vet this time. Turns out that Kin and I have met her several times before with her dogs, she's very friendly, makes a fuss over him, seems through, and seems to know her stuff. Like this vet. (Take Kin to Stavanger Smådyre klinikk).