Blommecider

Blommer (mirabella)

7 liter

Saftkogeri

Iodophor

Filtrering

På køl

Gæring

På flasker

Tilføj sukker (kulsyren)

og Lactose (sødme)

Påfyld

Klar til servering

Nu er blommecider færdig! Den vinder kulsyre ved lagring, men smager allerede fortrinligt og bobler en smule!

Bobby McFerrin – DR Koncerthuset

Bobby McFerrin i den nye koncertsal var en kæmpe oplevelse. Han performede solo, a capella som human beatbox og han var monsterdygtig som man kunne forvente.
Der var masser af interaktion med publikum

Bobby McFerrin

Blacbird
Opportunity
Drive my car
Over the rainbow
Baby
mm.

Der var
Tapdancing.
Kor.
Scenekants-duet.
Dansk folkevise fællessang med publikum.

Til sidst tog han imod spørgsmål fra publikum..? !
Hvor mange gange kunne man ikke lige tænke sig at picke brains på nogle af genierne. Her fik man faktisk chancen for at spørge ham personligt om hvad som helst. Han blev bl.a. spurgt om han har absolut gehør, om der findes en ucensureret version af hans krop online og hvordan han teknisk laver de forskellige lyde.

Warhammer fantasy

I fear I already have a new addiction even though I have yet to invest in a single unit.

Warhammer @ Frederik. Skaven has just been pummeled by the Dwarven cannons and the Dwarves are now being defeated by the high Elves.

I feel like this hobby would completely be to my liking. Actually since I knew about my cousin Anders I have ever liked that style of living. He is very creative and relaxed, goes hiking, plays music, paints warhammer and I have a feeling that he does roleplaying as well. I know warhammer will be just for me. I would love to get really creative and productive about painting and I love gaming. Now considering my love of goblins I would love to control the Greenskins but Philip has already chosen that. I could do it anyway but it would also be nice to control a new faction that noone from SSNA currently owns. Normally humans are to my liking. I usually play terran in Starcraft Broodwar as well as Starcraft 2 and Warcraft. But it seems that when it comes to real figurines I find them a little bit dull. Maybe I’m going Ogres or Vampires.
Then I just need to spread the word and convert others!

Thy kingdom come!

Puppies

So Chili got her puppies this Friday. Sadly I was not there at their birth but I came the day after. So young and small and fragile. Very adorable.

A litter of puppies

They have no eyes yet and cannot hear but they feel touch and warmth and can smell. And they squeek a little bit. When they move they almost swim in the sea that is their siblings. Their initial weight was just below 200g and after a day they have gained 20-60g each.

Detox

I have an addiction to coffee.

I drink too much alcohol.

And now I know that I am addicted to sugar as well.

So I am doing a cold turkey (that sounds rather morbid) and laying off all of that stuff. That means no coffee, no alcohol and walking around hungry. Every time my energy levels go low and I get hungry I force myself to stay that way for a couple of hours at least. Then I can be certain that I am spending more energy than consuming. When I do it again I try to reduce the amount. With my exercise habits and this method I am basically never on top energy-wise.
Before I drank 4-6 cups of coffee each day. Now the lack of caffeine is making my head ache. Also for a long while I indulged myself on beer every day because of the home brew and dorm beer race. It came so far that it became a comfort and I would drink with no occasion at all. In comparison that is easy to skip but I think that it is the right thing to do at the moment. Maybe the reduced calories can help remove my small many-year old potbelly.
I have currently made it to day 5 and I am basically a zombie at the moment. Don’t know how long this will go on but I will at least continue as long as the head ache plagues me. If I see results on my manbelly maybe I will get so exited that I make it a habit to eat minimally, but I doubt it. Food is too awesome.

Update
This Saturday on the 6th day I ran 11.5 km to Lyngby and back solely on my fat diposits and will power. I recognized the feeling and strong compulsion to stop from my marathons. It was a very tough run for me, but the first definitive day of Spring and very beautiful indeed. I fixed my GPS watch in Lyngby and bought a new long-time friend: Notebook. After breakfast I could do no other than fall back asleep. After waking up every action that I made took thrice the normal time. The weight told me that I had lost 4 kg this past week and I actually think it is visible. My pants are a little bit wider than usual around my waist. After a couple of weeks I’m gonna look like this guy

Abs of steel

I spent the rest of the day at Thea’s parents place in Birkerød where I was served cream puffs and dinner. But I had a hunger that would not be sated and even though I ate triple the amount of the last couple of days I went to bed hungry.
Sunday, the 7th day, was almost biblical for me. It felt like complete restitution and being completely on top. I ate my late and small brunch with a cup of coffee and worked out in the basement. In the afternoon I went to Frederik to watch some Warhammer games and got another coffee and a cinnamon snail. I had a wonderful time there with Kim, Philip, Jon and Frederik. For the whole day my energy levels where high and I was very happy and motivated.
This whole business has so far been a weird cocktail of feelings and sensations and I look forward to find out what the next period will offer me. Today I start again on another tough week. Going like this I guess it will be possible to do for 3 weeks which was my initial goal. My only worries are that I lose too much protein mass before the pot belly is gone so I guess I need to be quick and effective. I start the day with a run with Patrick.

1k+ km

10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10 + 10

1000 kilometers is a lot

Since I started counting distance two years ago I have run a lot. First year I did about 700 km, and last year it was more relaxed with just above 200 km. Today I ran with Jens and Patrick. It was a tough run in the terrain of my own forest Ragneholm. Just then I crossed the magic 1000 km marker! It is a wonderful and very rewarding moment. Now I need to celebrate extraordinarily in some way!

Ravneholm forest

Next up
After celebration I will try to reach the next goal which is incidentally also my New Years resolution to run 500 km in one year. I know it can be done since the last two years I have done just that on average. Actually my hope is to do that for as many years forward as my legs will carry me. Now you, the world, is witness so I’m obliged to follow through!

Baking Course

I am not even gonna write about my lack of activity this past half a year. Maybe one day I will sum it all up. Now I am just to eager to get on with another post.
This saturday Thea and I went to a brilliant baking course at Meyers Madhus. Have a look at these pictures. They also host a sushi course which I believe we will take some day.

SSNA cottage

Once again the annual SSNA gathering in the summer cottage on Mols was conducted and it was a great success! I chose to bike once more and was accompanied by my girl from Århus to our destination. This time I had better knowledge of the route and departed at about 03:00 to be in good time for the ferry at Kalundborg. Last year Thomas and I arrived only 10 minutes before the ferry sailed which was a bit of a gamble, but this time I got there 1h 30min too early. It was preferable because I had time for a cup of coffee and a shopping tour in the local supermarket which drastically reduced the cost of the trip (last time we spent 300 kr as I recall at the ferry on food and snacks).

The tour to Kalundborg (111 km) took 6.5 – 7 hours. I had forgotten how boring the last 40 km towards Kalundborg is but I was well prepared having downloaded all the starcraft podcasts I could find on sc2gg.com and at blizzard. The rest of the trip was even better than the first time and also the way home didn’t seem as long. After some careful planning involving me being stubborn and know-it-all-ish we managed to arrive at the ferry in Ebeltoft in much better timing with only 2 minutes to go (it is 19 km away, not 13 as the first sign suggested). Thank god we made it, I almost ruined it completely being all too certain of my case.
Later we arrived at Sølager and after signaling the crew on the other side, we took the small ferry over Sølager-Kulhuse which was a funny 8 minute experience. We were the only two people on board not counting the two captains.

At Mols Peter and I brought up the old agreement from last year and tried to kajak around Helgenæs. Unfortunately we didn’t make it past “the horn”. The wind was relentless and we had to yield, but next year I am certain we will accomplish it!
Also worth mentioning is that all of us played a lot of Magic the Gathering including the girls. I always enjoy when girls get geeky ..
I must remind myself to complete the Goblin deck that was so difficult to get going. I spent all night trying to beat Anders with absolutely no luck but we had a blast to Peters dismay (as he was trying to sleep right there in the living room).
Also homemade cherry pie was something we definitely have to do again next year.

Enough with the tools already!

I’ve just gotten home from a 12 day vacation on Iceland. I went there with my girlfriend and also Bjørn and Jens whom I have been running Helvede i Nord and Copenhagen Marathon with earlier this year. The main event for me was Laugavegurinn Ultra Marathon which is a 55 km run from the interior to the southern part of Iceland. Check out the routes (part1 part2) in Google Earth. I finished in approximately 8 hours which I found is quite a long time to spend on the move without any breaks other than stopping for water and taking pictures. But it was definitely worth it. The route is normally a 4 day hike and is very spectacular to behold with a lot of different beautiful landscapes.

Even though it was a tough run the following days I felt way better than I did after my previous marathon. Now I know that if you train and keep healthy your body can do almost anything. Your body is a miracle!!

Now that I have completed the run my mind is more at ease and I will be able to focus on other exciting stuff to do. I can’t wait to come up with another challenge. But not before I have gotten thoroughly wasted again 8)

Vim and Vimperator

Recently I’ve made the transition to VI Improved (Vim) and uninstalled jEdit, an editor I’ve been very happy with so far for all my programming tasks.

Even though Vim is as old as myself it is capable of doing almost anything when editing text. A lot of hardcore programmers swear to the tool and the rest use Emacs. These editors make the foundation of the editor war. One of the strengths of Vim is that it runs on any terminal with or without a GUI which makes it extremely light-weight and an excellent option for remote editing. Another great advantage is that because of the lack of GUI everything is possible to do with the keyboard. The learning curve is a bit steep but when you get the hang of it your editing speed will increase. The more I use Vim, the less I have to move my mouse (maybe I am a bit lazy).
Now that I have used Vim for some time and come to love it I have found a plugin for firefox which makes browsing simulate Vim. It goes by the name Vimperator

follow links by title or number

Vimperator is of course as Vim itself extendible so you can map all kinds of shortcuts and special behavior to your sites. Try it out!
My boss enjoyed it a lot as well – points for me right there.