Dagbók Hrefnu og Finns

Functional Fireplace / Hvanneyri Folf / Data Funsies

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[Photos taken 19 – 25 October 2024, posted online 18 February 2025. I’ve caught some virus, which has me in a limbo of body is sick/not-very-sick but my brain isn’t really braining. Expect weirdness.]

Finnur’s year-long project to replace the open fireplace at the summer house with an enclosed one, finally got almost completely finished, with the help of some good friends. Before returning to town, we visited the frisbee golf course in nearby Hvanneyri with Emma. It was a good one!

Accepting my friend’s offer to come play in her data-playground, I got busy restarting the coding part of my brain. Turns out the AI Github Copilot is amazeballs.

Saturday 19 October 2024

Music-Theory Walks / First Snow / Odd Jobs

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[Photos taken 09-17 October 2025, posted online 15 February 2025. Daylight keeps increasing every day, it is still bright outside until almost dinner…!]

The job market was pretty sad, so all I could do was just keep my eyes open. Meanwhile I kept busy doing various things at home, and elsewhere. I also managed to go out on walks to enjoy the autumn colors during Emma’s weekly music theory class, and had good sessions at the gym.

We woke up one morning to a bit of snow on the ground, which was ominous, but not unexpected.

Wednesday 09 October 2024

Late-fall foliage on a walk while Emma attended a music theory class.

EE Undergrad 25th Anniversary / Appointments / Knitting

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[Photos taken 01 – 07 October 2024, posted online 01 February 2025. Life’s been busy, but maybe it’s settling down now for a bit…? I started a new job on 07 January!]

The job market in Iceland was rather sad and slow, so I kept being unemployed. Life kept on happening though, and I never managed to get bored. There were always more things to do!

Cases in point: doctor’s appointments, a lunch-seminar, knitting, gymming, celebrating 25 years since finishing EE undergrad, a visit to the summer house, gaming, and going through old crap.

Tuesday 01 October 2024

Downtown-ish with Emma to visit her orthodontist.

Fall Colors / River Walks / More Knitting

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[Photos taken 22 – 30 September 2024, posted online 16 December 2024. Woke up to about 5 cm / 2 inches of snow on the ground. It lightens up the city so I hope it sticks around!]

The pretty shrubs in the back-yard were too tempting not to take photos of. More nature was found by a lovely path along the river close to the music school.

Odd jobs were a-plenty, such as car cleaning, more garage-purging, veggie-box-area-clean-up, epic-failure of a shelf-hanging, studded-bike-tire time, drainage-unclogging, cozy-sweater-hunt, sub-closet-cleaning, and most evenings were spent happily knitting to stay away from doom-scrolling.

Oh, and we finally got our act together and went out on a date-night!

Sunday 22 September 2024

Every time I take my macro lens out for a spin and take hand-held photos, I always regret not bringing the tripod along for that extra bit of sharpness. So these are just fun photos, and I know they’re not “up to standard”.

Lady-Living / Hiking The-Other-Skálafell / Concrete Surveillance

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[Photos taken 13 – 20 September 2024, posted online 13 December 2024. Warm weather has washed all ice and snow away, so today it’s just cold and dark. Only 8 days until the days start getting longer...]

One of the sewing club members kindly invited us all for a sleep-over at her estate, a hop and a skip outside the capital area. The afternoon-weather was gorgeous (it turned miserable the following day) and we had a lovely time, managing to celebrate a birthday.

Two days later day I joined another group of ladies to hike up a mini-mount (Skálafell á Hellisheiði). That week Emma got a plan to align her teeth, I met old coworkers for dinner, checked out the massive construction going on by the music school, and the small scale fiber-optic-laying-stuff by our house.

Friday 13 September 2024

Arriving at the house after work on a Friday, in amazing weather.

Redcurrants & Wood / Sweater-Knitting Begins

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[Photos taken 01 – 12 September 2024, posted online 11 December 2024. My existence lately has been defined by gift-finding/buying/tracking/packing, and cheerleading kids through last weeks of school.]

The month of September began with us in the summer house, where there were berries ripe for picking, and wood to be cut/stacked/burnt.

School/music/practices/gym-stuff fell into a rhythm, and I attended a lunch-symposium. One of those practices ended with a trip to the ER, that thankfully had a positive resolution.

I jumped on the lets-knit-a-sweater/jumper bandwagon that got going in my sewing club, fulfilling a life-long I-want-to-do-that dream. I didn’t really stop to think if I wanted to own and use said jumper though…

Sunday 01 September 2024

The redcurrant bushes outside the summer house were laden with berries!

Volcano Visiting / More Odd Jobs / Art Show

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[Photos taken 24 – 31 August 2024, posted online 19 November 2024. Iceland is living up to its name these days.]

The day after the volcanic eruption began, we were invited to dinner a hop and a skip away. In daylight on the way there, there wasn’t much to see, but when we drove back the sky was dark and the volcano was in full “show-mode”. This time around the road towards Grindavík was open part of the way, so we joined the other spectators there for a bit.

The week was spent doing more odd-jobs, such as staining and clearing and sorting various things. I also finally finished the Lego Mars rover I got for Christmas! That weekend I met friends at an art-house, and then drove to the summer house to spend quality time with more friends.

Saturday 24 August 2024

Birthday Celebration / Heel Test Hike / Odd Jobs

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[Photos taken 17 – 23 August 2024, posted online 18 November 2024. The world has frozen over.]

We celebrated Finnur’s dad’s birthday as is customary. How time flies! I tried hiking around our extended backyard to test my sore heel, and deemed it not fit for purpose.

The rest of the week passed doing odd jobs, and ended with yet another volcanic eruption on the Reykjanes peninsula.

Saturday 17 August 2024

Munich Bike Tour / To Iceland

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[Photos taken 12 – 13 August 2024, posted online 14 November 2024. Weather-whiplash incoming, going from 10C/50F to freezing starting tomorrow.]

Our last full day in Munich was predicted to be yet another excessively warm day (31 C / 88 F) in a city that isn’t really built for it, air conditioning wise.

I was therefore a little apprehensive about having booked a guided bike tour, but with a backpack full of water, a flat city, and the built in air-movement of biking, it went better than expected. In the evening we returned downtown to eat dinner in the town-hall cellar.

The day after that, we finished packing our bags, took the trains to the airport, waited in line for almost an hour to check in our bags (staff shortage still?), and then happily walked to the car park in Iceland in t-shirts in the glorious chilly breeze!

Monday 12 August 2024

At Marienplatz again, to meet our guide at 10:45 in the morning.

BMW Museum & World / Sea Life Aquarium

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[Photos taken 11 August 2024, posted online 13 November 2024. It’s now fully dark in the mornings, but it’s been warm… we could do without the rain and wind though!]

On Sunday’s, most everything in Germany is closed. This day was predicted to be very warm, so I tried finding something that was a) open, and b) probably air conditioned. I ended up dragging everybody to the BMW Museum which fulfilled a) but failed spectacularly at b). It was so warm in there that one child wilted soon after entry, and another became nauseous half-way through.

After all but running through the BMW display rooms, we walked across the way to the newer BMW Welt / World which was nicer in air-temperature but didn’t have a lot of things for us to do.

Then we crossed another street into the Olympia park, where we finally found a respite from the heat inside a mostly subterranean aquarium.

Dinner was at the same place we’d eaten on our arrival day the Sunday prior. Why mess with perfection?