I should really post those photos that go with last month's post :D. I keep thinking about it, but for once, the sheer number of them seems to defeat me, and I keep putting it off... Oh well.
In the mean time, it's snowed some more! The snow from October did disappear after about a week, but since then the temperature's been below -10°C and now the snow seems to be back! Not quite enough to get into cross-country season though.
Or, maybe it's just been a bit too hectic for that. It is that part of the year, where being active and lively takes that much more effort, everything feels dreary and somewhat miserable. Yup, not my favourite time of year in Norway. However, it's less than a month now till the days start getting longer!
It was nice to get away for a long weekend to the UK actually! Nicer weather, more autumn than the depressing part of winter :). Met family, ate amazing food. The usual :). Well, almost followed India losing the CWC finals... Can't have everything I suppose.
And then at the beginning of this week travelled to the Netherlands for a work trip and the colds and what not that seem to have been felling people all around us finally caught up with me :(. Amersfoort was nice though, what little of it I got to see in one short evening stroll. At least it wasn't raining then :|. So yeah, this week's kinda been miserable. But working from home does have it's perks, extra sleep, let stress, less talking. I guess I'm also in my not too happy to socialize phase just at this moment. Hmm.
I guess there's also the fact that I've basically not been reading at all for most of this month. And I partly blame Votan. It's one of those books I bought because Neil Gaiman wrote an amazing intro for it that I read. While it's not been 100% the case, but I'm beginning to get the feeling that while I absolutely love his own writing, and I do appreciate from time to time where he gets some of his ideas from, his actual taste and mine probably differ quite a bit :|.
So yes, Votan. Cheeky, annoying, and quite mean mostly. But also one of those characters that seems to be around at least partly to hold a mirror up to everyone and everything around them. Well written, no doubt. I guess just not a great read for the darkening miserable winter :).
Instead, I've been spending a bunch of the time I'd otherwise be reading, playing NFS No Limits! And loving it! It's been absolutely aaages since I've played anything Need for Speed :D. It also turns out I'm eight years late to the party, but who cares?!
It's really fun to get into something that does, by and large, let you get on at your own pace. Unless you get bored accumulating XPs (or whatever they're called in this one) to get to the next level in the campaign that is. But I'm just happy racing with as little drama as possible. Yes, swiping and tapping on the phone is not nearly as fun as mashing the arrow keys and slapping the spacebar, but hey, still a lot of fun :). I suppose I will get bored at some point, but not yet :D.
Right, that's enough screen time for now.
