Tollef Fog Heen's blog

Today started off with a bit of breakfast, as usual. Karianne left for an appointment, so I decided to pick up my mail from my father's place. It started raining a lot just before I was to leave and kept raining intermittently through the whole day.

The mail was just some bills and a note telling me I had to go to the local post office to pick up a letter (which I knew, it was my new and shiny ring which you can get after completing a "sivilingeniør" at NTH or now NTNU.)

Picked up some books from Amazon at another post office before going home. Afterwards, a short bicycle ride to look at a prospective apartment. It was significantly more worn that we expected, so we turned away fairly quickly. I tried to find a pair of non-jeans trousers. After having gone through a lot of stores without finding any I liked, I decided to go home. Karianne called while I was waiting for the tram, sounding a bit excited about yet another apartment.

Got home, and then we went off to the real estate agent to pick up the keys. The apartment was nice and Karianne fell completely for it so we decided to bid for it. An hour or two later, I got a call from the agent, congratulating me. Yay, new house and no more living in a large number of boxes.

Called around to parents, Anja and Kristian and told them about it before we headed out to a pasta restaurant and had a good meal there. All in all, a really nice day.

Slowly, DebConf5 is coming to an end. It's been great fun, I've met new friends and old friends. There has been interesting discussions about more or less everything under the sun, and there has been some conflicts where people (me included) have been singing at six o'clock in the morning, where people have not done as they've been asked to, but all in all, I think everybody has had a great time.

It's a bit sad and strange to see people slowly packing their stuff up, everything from not letting their things be all over the place to people actually leaving. I'm looking forward to next year and hope it will be even more fun.

I wish to extend a great thanks to the organisers, with special thanks to mooch and the people who have made the whole of DebConf5 a smooth experience. Rock on.

Debconf 5 has been a good experience so far. Mostly, at least. Talked with a lot of people. Many old friend, some new ones. Productive discussions about everything from how to handle libpam-umask and its integration with shadow and possible integration with upstream pam to more or less an reiteration of last year's discussion on how to handle Debian contributors who are not (package) maintainers. Other stuff we've done is building a Debian sand castle (with multiarch support), building multiple pyramids out of empty beer glasses and random other crazyness.

Karianne had to go home to Oslo today. She didn't feel too well, being tired and feeling unproductive here. I hope she gets enough rest until I get home and we can have some nice days before the LARP in the end of the month.

It's been a while since I blogged, mostly due to Karianne and I moving to Oslo. The move itself was fairly painless with about thirty boxes plus assorted single parts such as seven computers, Karianne's and my desks. Some furniture is still left in Trondheim so the flat isn't completely empty when people are coming to see it. We'll pick that up in late August or beginning of September.

vawad decided that she was lonely and stopped working once I left the city. Tickling her when we dropped by didn't seem to help so I went to Trondheim yesterday (by plane), then took her on the train to Oslo. She's now humming happily along in the offices of Hardware.no. She needs a little bit of reconfiguration so mail and all floats nicely to my inbox.

We're going to debconf tomorrow, so today will be a tad busy, but I'm so looking forward to meeting all the crazy Debian people again