Randi back to Work (Monday, Day 5)

Today was a nice "relax & catch-up" day. A chance to do some laundry, fix breakfast & lunch for myself (raspberry jam [bringebær syltetøy] on bread [brød] for breakfast, and salami [gullsalami] & tomato [tomat] slices with mayo [majones] on bread for lunch) – while Randi is at work.

I fixed the cabinet door for the garbage in Randi's kitchen – it just needed a couple of Phillips screws tightened. I also got started on working on Mathias Olsen's probate record scans, and got about 14 of them resized to 50% of scanned size and uploaded and linked to him and the album I created for them, but then I decided to get them down to original size (33% of 300DPI), so I got them all scaled down and cropped and renamed again before I gave up for the day.

Randi got home about 5, and fixed a sweet rice porridge for dinner, with fresh pineapple and melon pieces as side dishes. They have just the porridge for dinner sometimes, sweetened with sugar, cinnamon, and a big dollop of butter to melt in the middle. It was pretty good, but I didn't know how my stomach would handle so much rice, butter, and sugar at one time, so I took enough to satisfy my hunger for the night, and made sure with Randi that it would microwave well later for leftovers tomorrow.

Randi is going to send me on a 9:15am train on Thursday to Vinstra to visit with Håkon Sveen (pronounced "Hoe-kohn Sveh-ehn"), an "online" cousin descended from Randi Olsdatter too (like Randi is.)

Randi also called Gunnar Rundtom, and he asked to speak with me as well. He is hoping to have me (us?) come up on Saturday to hold Ole Pedersen's, my 4gg father's, walking cane from the 1800's!

Randi suggested a couple of Norwegian job search websites, as well as recommending that I try contacting the Regional Archives to see if they may have a need for me and my skills, with references from Anka Moss in the FHL, as well as CindyLee Banks, and Ken Muztafago.