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    Pining For The Fjords
    jdettmann
    • Oct 10, 2016
    • 3 min

    Pining For The Fjords

    I’m doing that thing I always do when I come back from new and wonderful, and I try to transport the lifestyle. When H and I went to Borneo by steamer sometime back in the 1800s, we came home and bought an entire pantry’s worth of ingredients to make complicated sambals and rending pastes, not to mention buying five limes for what would have bought us 100 kilograms of them in Kota Kinabalu. I’m doing the Scandinavian equivalent. I’m eating rye bread and smoked fish, putting d
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    Terrible Syncing Feeling
    jdettmann
    • Sep 15, 2016
    • 4 min

    Terrible Syncing Feeling

    This useless slack-jawed snake will not do its job. I swear to Odin, the first thing I am going to do when I get to Scandinavia is go find the iCloud. I presume it’s up that way somewhere, around the top of the world. Surely that’s where you’d put it. Then I am going to go through it and figure out if any of my photos are really in it and if not why not. I’ve spent hours trying to back up and sync and download and delete and free up space on my phone and my computer so I can
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    Area of Particular Interest
    jdettmann
    • Aug 25, 2016
    • 5 min

    Area of Particular Interest

    That aside, we are really very extremely excited. We are going to Finland, Sweden and Denmark. The trip has come about because Jess is a teacher and very interested in the schools in that part of the world, which are apparently better than ours for reasons that will be revealed to me as we go along. I believe it has to do with starting school a bit older and not having homework and maybe also herrings? To be confirmed. Anyway, Jess wants to visit some schools since that is he
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