So, guess what? This is my first trip to KONG-HQ since late November! Even during my Christmas holiday in nearby Berlevåg, I didn't manage to swing by. "Good weather" and "Weekend" just couldn't get their act together until today.
Not that I really needed to. Despite some wild weather, there haven't been any power outages, so our PCs and Perseus have been chugging along just fine. While I was there, I swapped out two of Ole's hard drives and hooked up a Sonoff plug to one of my desktop PCs.
The 170-km drive to Kongsfjord was pretty chill, with mild snow showers and calm winds tagging along. I was bracing myself for a trek through deep snow from the parking lot to the house, but nope! The wind had blown all the loose snow away, so I ended up walking on a nice, crunchy snow crust from the latest thaw (there's been a few), barely leaving any footprints
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| Very little snow left as I walked towards the KONG-HQ |
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| A well-known motif for my readers. The sea lyme grass isn't even close to being covered by the snow. |
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| Yikes! The plastic shovel I grabbed from my car was no match for this crust. And the steel shovel? Buried... under the crust! Took me a while to dig it out... |
+1 Celsius today. January's cold spells have been few and far between. Oh, and the sun officially made its comeback a week ago. "Officially" because the plains to the south keep it out of sight. But hey, it's nice to have lighter days. Any day now, it'll show up.
And while I'm at it - it might be a while until my next post - I hit up a thrift shop in Vadsø last Thursday and found this gem! Well, actually two!! This is the David Andersen Type 551 portable radio. With the lid on, it looks just like another suitcase. Made in 1954, it sold for NOK 427, which in today's money is half the price of an iPhone 15 Pro Max! No clue if they work 70 years after - probably not - but I'm still tempted. By the way, the thrift shop is called Det Hvite Hus, which, of course, translates to that funny farm in DC.
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| The David Andersen portable radios. Looks like they have been takes well care of. Interesting to note that even the NDB section was marked (Radio-navigasjon, I suppose I don't have to translate that). |
