It’s the last day of January 2025, dear reader, and I’m trying to sum up what this month has been like. Truth been told, this has been a really uneventful few weeks. After Christmas, I just kinda laid down on the couch in my infrared sauna blanket on low, and watched TV. What January was like The weather has been terrible, with a lot of snow and rain. The winter days are too short up here in Norway to get anything done. The sun rises around 9am, and sets behind the hill at 2pm. Yes. That is a whole of four hours of sun, providing you can actually see it…

It’s been quite a while, dear reader, since I last published. I had all the good intentions in the world about this blog, but then life happened, and it got a bit dramatic, too. You see, I have this chronic kidney disease called igA nephropathy, and just after I published my last blog post in March, I started to feel very ill. My mother, who lives a few blocks away, came down and called the ambulance, and soon I found myself in the emergency room with a doctor confirming that “you are very ill now”. My blood pressure was through the roof, and the blood work soon confirmed that my…