• PC rebuild and sewing

    April 13, 2023 in Norway ⋅ 🌬 8 °C

    Today's main tasks were rebuilding/upgrading Nina's PC, installing a plant hangar and moving some furniture. On the sustainability theme for this trip, I also finished patching my work trousers with my terrible Frankenstein-style hand stitching and the knee from an old pair of mountain biking shorts. This means I'm now ready to start the paining jobs.

    Its been a mostly straight forward day, other than hitting my head repeatedly on that cursed lump of pig iron Nina calls a lampshade; it hangs at precisely the right height to bash me in the temple, and I think has managed to bash most of the circumference of my head.

    Rounded out the day with a walk in the direction of the tip of the peninsula upon which Bodø sits. Bodø is a growing city hemmed in by water and mountains; our walk took us around a relatively new development that built both up and out: tower blocks set on reclaimed land built up from the rocky shoals near the harbour entrance.
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