TrackPod

I am still working on my paper in New Product Development. It is a wireless bathroom scale i.e everytime you step on it, data is automatically transmittet to your computer which in turn sends it to your online profile. The idea is that you can track your progress without having to type it in yourself. The result is a upward or downward sloaping trend curve.

There will also be several add-on services, such as gold membership, competitions, date sevices etc. In addition, we will provide a utility for you facebook profile which feeds all your data.

Other tracking gadgets will be developed in the future as a derrivative to this product e.g. TrackSleep, TrackBP (blood pressure), TrackDiagnistics (urinsampler), and TrackWeather (weatherstations). They should all be cheap automated tracking system.

Playgroup

Rachel and I have a playgroup with some of the other mothers in the Stake once a month. We had fun learning new songs and socializing together during this month's playgroup on Friday May 23rd. As you can see, Rachel is a social bug and loves being around other babies:)

A child's dinner

What?! Did I do something wrong?

Cutie

I took Rachel for a walk yesterday to Lambertseter shopping center. I don't get as many chances as Maria gets to do that. It was nice to walk down the pavement on a sunny summer day with my darling. She's starting to get some brown color in her eyes now. We're not sure if they are going to be as brown as mine, since both my dad and Marias mom has brown greenish eyes. Time will show. As a looked down at my own daughter I came to realize once again how blessed I am to have such a wonderful family. I love my girls!

May 17, 2008

17th of May is the Norwegian national day.


We had friends over for breakfast bright and early at 7 am.

We watched the parade from the palace grounds.

Despite of the rainy, cold weather lots of people were out celebrating!

A picture speaks a thousand words...

Applied Miceroeconomics

I have just gotten home from studying with Daniel. We prepared for the exam in "Innovation, Sectoral Application" which we both will have tomorrow. Earlier today we had a three hour written exam in "Applied Miceroeconomics", hence the picture. I have never done so much computing and calculations in my life, as I've been doing the last few weeks in order to prepare for this exam. I know I have done my very best and I hope that will show for in the form of a good grade!

We were tested in the following:

• Domestic market equlibrium (in isoliation)
• Change in market equlibrium as a result of free import
• Change in market equlibrium as a result of change in world equlibrium (new price on imported goods).
• Game Theory
• prisoners dilemma
• sequencial move (game tree)
• credible threat and change in game outcome
• Cournot competition and its result (quantity and profit)
• Bertrand competition and ist results (price and profit)
• Shift in reaction functions

So, now I am one step closer to graduation. I connot wait for that day to come. I am really eager to start working and make a good living for Maria, Rachel and myself.

Laughing baby

Rachel is loving daddy's clogs!

Temple trip

Rachel and I spent a week at the Stockholm, Sweden temple with the Gjærum and Isaksen families:)

We all took the train to and from Oslo together. Talk about good times. Rachel slept between my legs under my seat...

It was a very memorable few days full of babysitting, temple sessions, and A LOT of elevator rides!!!

Family photo

Here is a little family photo for you to enjoy. We had fun taking these pictures, due to several attemts to get it right. It's hard for a little girl to keep her head up for 10 seconds (self-timer) :-)

Here is a really cool movie I found. I'll have to try this out sometime!

Sunday dinner with Paul and Carolina

We had Paul and Carolina Gardner over for Sunday dinner today. Paul and I played around on the computer while the girls made brownies. They were delicious!

Paul and Carolina in the kitchen

Rachel was also really happy to have visitors!

Krem krig

Maria og jeg hadde en uforglemmelig opplevelse i leiligheten på Karlsrud. Vi hadde hatt gjester på besøk hvor vi hadde servert deilig dessert med krem til. Da gjestene var gått var det mye krem igjen på kjøkkenet. Jeg kunne ikke dy meg. Jeg bare måtte ta en spiseskje og bruke den som en katapult mot Maria. Det var en fulltreffer! Hun tok godt igjen, men det behøves ikke å foreviges på denne bloggen. Bildet av Maria er mye mer vittig :-)

TrackPod

Dette semesteret har jeg et fag som heter "New Product Development". Christian og jeg har i den forbindelse laget vårt product; TrackPod. Det er en trådløs baderomsvekt (bilde til venstre viser nærbilde av undersiden av vekten). Hver gang du går på vekten lagres informasjonen i et minne som kan lagre 200 observasjoner. Når PC'en skrues på og automatisk oppretter kontakt med vekten, blir dataene overført til PC'en. Disse blir videre automatisk overført til brukerens profil på Gimme20.com hvor dataene blir plottet i et diagram. Brukeren kan dermed følge sin egen progresjon og alt skjer automatisk!

Gründerskolen

Til sommeren skal jeg til San Francisco i regi av Gründerskolen. Det er noe jeg har sett frem til lenge med spenning og angst. Spenning fordi det bor en liten gründer i meg og angst fordi jeg skal være borte fra Maria og Rachel i nesten 3 hele måneder. Jeg tror likevel at netto verdien vil være positiv!

Påskeferie

Påsken 2008 reiste Espen, Alexandra, Maria, Rachel og jeg til vestlandet for å feire påsken 2008. Det var veldig koselig å komme frem til dekket bord hos bestemor i Brakalia. Samtidig var det annerledes at det bare var hun i det store hjemmet. Det har alltid vært to herlige besteforeldre som har tatt oss i mot hver gang vi kommer på besøk, men denne gangen var det bare bestemor. Bestafar er nå på aldershjem. Han kaller det hotellet.

Vi tok også turen opp til Knøttebu. Det var fryktelig lenge siden sist jeg hadde vært der. Onkel Christer, som nå eier hytta, har bygget den ut enda mer. Så nå er den cirka 3 ganger så stor som da bestemor og bestefar kjøpte den i sin tid. Det er blitt veldig fint. Det var strålende vær. Jeg tok med meg en liten krakk og satte meg midt ute på isen en av dagen. Der satt jeg en times tid og hørte på stillheten. Det var hærlig! Ingen mobiltelefon dekning eller internett tilgang. Bare oss og naturen. Sånn tilværelse skulle jeg gjerne hatt mer av. Det gir ro i sjelen.

Tenk at familien nå består av fire generasjoner. Det er en ganske artig tanke.