Kate: Re: Stormy Christmas!

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Thank you, Kate! Sounds like a rainy and windy Christmas on your end, too. is doing well, she is enjoying her time off (which is this week and next). It's much needed. Her MS is behaving very well, though.We won't be doing much for the holiday, maybe catch a movie or two. We have been talking about go see the American remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, we have read the books and seen the Swedish movies, so it might be interesting. We will be trying to find a replacement for our Time Capsule, that died on us a couple of weeks ago, we won't be getting an Apple Time Capsule this time though, the lifespan problem ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/jul/12/apple-time-capsule-recall-replace-fault ) which we were not aware of until we ran into it... is just not acceptable in a product with that price (we paid somewhere between 400 and 500 USD for ours). We'll just try and get a wireless router and a hard drive for backups separately instead. Other than that, we'll just take it easy. Read, eat, take walks, that sort of things...love/Reb> > Subject: Stormy Christmas!> To: MSersLife > Date: Tuesday, December 27, 2011, 1:22 PM> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > >  > > > > > > > > > > We've had a windy Christmas in Scandinavia! But apart from not getting much in the way of cell phone and/or internet coverage, we were absolutely fine, Norway, the north half of Sweden and, I think, Finland were so much worse off (electricity out, traffic stopping, roofs blowing apart, that kinds of things...). So we are most certainly not complaining! It is, however, an explanation of why I've been missing in action here. > Talking about windy, we heard a humorous Norwegian song on TV, using the expression "full hurricane". Don't know if that's an expression in English, but it would be the literal translation of the expression in Norwegian, and Swedish, meaning when a storm reaches hurricane strength of wind (according to some scale or other). However, and this was the basis for the pun in the lyrics, the word "full" is in the Scandinavian languages not only the word for, precisely, full, but is also the word for "drunk". > The lyrics went something like (in translation): "No use trying to stop a hurricane when it's drunk, it'll rip apart the city as it pleases. But in the morning it will lay down, and feel remorse for what it's done."> OK, probably funnier in Norwegian/Swedish, but anyway....> Here's hoping you'll be spared from a hurricane that is drunk! ;-)> love/Reb>

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Here's how dense I am, Reb. I thought the time capsule you referred to is the type that you leave historical information and then bury in your back yard or such. Then I saw that you meant something computer-wise. lol.Tell us how the movie is, if you see it.There is this fun and interesting game (that I personally stink at, as I've seen very FEW movies)--"Pass the Popcorn"---it is like a Trivial Pursuit, sort of, solely about movies. My 11 year old did well, I failed!It's worth looking into getting this game--I'll bet you and would 'nail' it all the time. I am wondering if they have this game in other countries, with YOUR movies, and not American ones...? love to you and ,KateSubject: Kate: Re: Stormy Christmas!To: MSersLife Date: Wednesday, December 28, 2011, 7:58 AM

Thank you, Kate! Sounds like a rainy and windy Christmas on your end, too. is doing well, she is enjoying her time off (which is this week and next). It's much needed. Her MS is behaving very well, though.We won't be doing much for the holiday, maybe catch a movie or two. We have been talking about go see the American remake of The Girl with the Dragon Tattoo, we have read the books and seen the Swedish movies, so it might be interesting. We will be trying to find a replacement for our Time Capsule, that died on us a couple of weeks ago, we won't be getting an Apple Time Capsule this time though, the lifespan

problem ( http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/blog/2010/jul/12/apple-time-capsule-recall-replace-fault ) which we were not aware of until we ran into it... is just not acceptable in a product with that price (we paid somewhere between 400 and 500 USD for ours). We'll just try and get a wireless router and a hard drive for backups separately instead. Other than that, we'll just take it easy. Read, eat, take walks, that sort of things...love/Reb> > Subject: Stormy Christmas!> To: MSersLife > Date: Tuesday, December 27, 2011, 1:22 PM> > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > Â > > > > > > > > > > We've had a windy Christmas in Scandinavia! But apart from not getting much in the way of cell phone and/or internet coverage, we were absolutely fine, Norway, the north half of Sweden and, I think, Finland

were so much worse off (electricity out, traffic stopping, roofs blowing apart, that kinds of things...). So we are most certainly not complaining! It is, however, an explanation of why I've been missing in action here. > Talking about windy, we heard a humorous Norwegian song on TV, using the expression "full hurricane". Don't know if that's an expression in English, but it would be the literal translation of the expression in Norwegian, and Swedish, meaning when a storm reaches hurricane strength of wind (according to some scale or other). However, and this was the basis for the pun in the lyrics, the word "full" is in the Scandinavian languages not only the word for, precisely, full, but is also the word for "drunk". > The lyrics went something like (in translation): "No use trying to stop a hurricane when it's drunk, it'll rip apart the city as it pleases. But in the morning it will lay down, and feel remorse for what

it's done."> OK, probably funnier in Norwegian/Swedish, but anyway....> Here's hoping you'll be spared from a hurricane that is drunk! ;-)> love/Reb>