Bits & Bobs in November

2021-11-01Us Standard

[Photos taken 01 – 19 November 2021, posted online 13 February 2022. Quite a bit of snow on the ground, and restrictions being lifted as covid blazes through.]

November saw more home-improvements, trips to the gym and into nature, a vaccination booster, living room re-arrangements, some social outings, a moon-eclipse, and a sadly dysfunctional car. (45-ish images total)

Monday 01 November 2021

I had a doctor’s appointment, had a tiny cold, and decided it would be prudent to take (my first ever) speedy-test. Was negative, yay!

Tuesday 02 November 2021

Our living room has remained unchanged for about a decade, and our sofas are slowly but surely losing their will to live. I was shocked to find a comfortable sofa in one store, but I figured a light colored sofa is too big of a gamble with kids in the house.

Wednesday 03 November 2021

Downloaded yet another gps game (now deleted) which had me out for a lunch walk (from the office!), where I discovered another path is being made through the pretty lava field.
When I arrived home I was surprised to find a radiator sitting outside.
Inside, some plumbers were hard at work replacing a few radiators that were close to rusting through.
I was supposed to go out on a scheduled walk with my hiking group, but the weather forecast was for wind and rain, so I decided to take a hike up through the forest area in my own backyard, as the trees provide shelter from the wind.
Muggy.
Headlamps are nice!
Made it to the mountain-scope, and went back down the same way again to keep my wind-shelter.
As the sofas had been moved to make space for the plumbers, I used the opportunity to move things around. This arrangement lasted until January, when I tried watching the TV from the lounge-sofa and it was not good.

Thursday 04 November 2021

Gym-time. Apparently sleeve-less tops are now fashionable, and I tried, but I don’t thing they’re for me!
Anna cooking her beets from the garden.
Red!
Emma discovering that mirror selfies are hard!

Friday 05 November 2021

We had a medical appointment, and on our way we walked past the huge big hole in the ground which is supposed to turn into a hospital building at some point.
I also began going to physical therapy as my shoulders locked up from alternating between the workstation at home and at work. Right next door, a huge month-long League of Legends internet gaming tournament was going on. Those “posters” were the entry area.
A team bus waiting outside.

Saturday 06 November 2021

Black mask day.
That afternoon we attended a birthday party in my family. I was a little too comfortable sitting on the couch to take photos…!

Sunday 07 November 2021

We had dinner guests and I drove to multiple stores to try and find no-additives frozen turkey breasts. These were not it. Surprisingly I found them at Bónus, the cheap-o store.

Monday 08 November 2021

The remnants of a pizza-party that one of the parents in Bjarki’s team-gym group organized (I was driver #2).
Bowling boys.

Tuesday 09 November 2021

Bjarki got a cold, and was hauled to the covid test site, as there was no going to school without an official result. He was negative.
The weather was warm-ish, so I decided to go out on a jog. Emma intercepted me, and walked with me up the hill, so that she could, finally, relay a story she heard when she was up there with her school many weeks prior.
Looking for the correct stone.
Tell me the story of the kid who disappeared with elves into the stone, and stepped out many decades later.
… and then it was time to jog a bit.

Wednesday 10 November 2021

Pretty skies at 5 pm while waiting for the light to turn.
Anna was on school holiday, between quarters, and decided to make a few croissants from scratch. They were utterly delicious!!

Friday 12 November 2021

Anna cut her hair (like she does) and we laughed at how much she looked like old photos of me.
International data indicated that covid-boosters were a good bet to guard against bad cases of covid, and I got assigned a time for mine. The location was in the hall where the League of legends tournament had just vacated.

Saturday 13 November 2021

Picking Anna up from staying over with some friends… like actually socializing! There’s been very little of such luxury these past couple of years.
I decided to finally attack the mess of clothes in my closet, which threatened to fall out every time I opened the door.
Neat-ish piles!! Yay!
Three bags about to go to the recycling center.

Monday 15 November 2021

Covid-vaccine-booster time!
Waiting for 15 minutes before being allowed to go.
At the gym, watching the mass of cars driving to and from the vaccination site.

Tuesday 16 November 2021

My immune system went all out getting rid of the newly made invaders, and I was in and out of bed that day.
Feeling pretty certain that if that was my reaction to the non-self-multiplying virus-bits that I really didn’t want to be unprotected from the real multiplying-virus itself. The next day I woke up feeling rather beat up, but was fine by the end of the day.

Wednesday 17 November 2021

A little bit of snow for a little bit of time.

Thursday 18 November 2021

Not sure what the photos-at-the-gym are for, except just to confirm that I did indeed go occasionally!
Documenting which Moomin cups we had… They’ve got pretty colors.

Friday 19 November 2021

I had a hankering for some actual coffee that morning, so I drove to one of the nearby cafes. On my way I noticed the Moon looking a bit weird, and remembered that there was a moon-clipse going on!
Cursing only having a crappy phone camera with me, but it tried!
In other news, our 2015 eGolf threw up this error, and got hauled to the dealer for repairs. It turned out the big battery was having issues, but thankfully it was still covered by warranty. As this is written, THREE MONTHS LATER, the car is still in the shop. It took 5-6 weeks to get a new control unit, and lid for the battery. When that arrived in late December, the shop discovered that the lid didn’t fit the old bottom of the battery well enough to get a seal (some corrosion or pitting), and we had to wait another month for the bottom to arrive (by ship, it’s so large). Once the shop had spent 40 hours transferring the batteries themselves from one bottom to the next, it turned out some other control unit was not operating correctly, and last I heard we’re waiting on this second unit…