Slow and steady.

During the last few days my father in law and I have been working on a new bathroom in my family's house. The floor heating has been installed and the new plumbing has been almost finished.

We will continue casting the floor before we start to work on the walls. Hopefully we will be ready for the bricklayers during next week. The week after I will work five 24 hours shifts in a row so there will be no time to work in the new bathroom. Anyway we are on the way getting a new bathroom for the teenagers in the basement.

Working night shift.

In January I started working night shift part time. It's a perfect match to my new project involving my new firm.
After working two or three nights I've got a week off. Combining this with working four 24 hours periods in a row every third week it adds up to a bit more than a full job. Still I do have several days in a row of where I can evolve my new project.
The two first months of this year has told me that this is a perfect combination for me, enabling me to consider even a few more projects.
I will have an evaluation in June deciding if I will continue or if some changes is due.
Working night shift is something that appeals to me and I am quiet sure that what ever the evaluation in June is telling me. Working night shift will be a part of the future.

Building a new bathroom.

The teenagers in our household has patiently been waiting for a new bathroom. Monday this week my father in law arrived and we started building a new bathroom. It's frustrating waiting for plumbers and electricians when we need them but at least we have moved from demolition to building during the last day or so.
This is what it looked like two days ago.

We will continue working and I will hopefully update with pictures of a new bathroom coming to life.

My mothers battle.

Wednesday my mother got her plan for fighting cancer. She will go to the hospital tomorrow, Monday, to start the preparations for  5 weeks with radiation therapy. The plan is an operation after radiation.
She is a tough woman and if optimism can fight cancer this will be no problem.
The rest of the family will support her and be by her side during her battle against cancer.  

Friday night on the couch.

I've spent 78 of the last 120 hours at work. That is resulting in a Friday night on the couch in front of the TV. I will have a quiet night with a beer or two and will go to bed early. I will not have the alarm clock waking me up tomorrow. I will sleep until I wake up by myself knowing that it is almost a week till I will be at work again.

I will spend the week at home starting to renovate a bathroom giving the 18 year old and the 16 year old their own bathroom in the basement.

Enjoy your weekend where ever you are and whatever your plan are.

African books.

I'm lucky having a few good friends from the African continent. Amongst them one from Morocco and a few from Uganda. I've spent parts of the day with one of my friends from Uganda and our conversation amongst lots of things was about African litteratur. He told me, in spite of loving to read and the fact that he had read lots of books at an early age, that he was almost 30 years old the first time he read a book by an African author.

He said that Africa as a continent, as far as he knew, and also Uganda doesn't do enough to  "market" the authors of the continent. As we where talking I asked him to recommend me a few books. And so he did. He gave me a list of three, actually it's five, books.

So Long a Letter by Mariama Ba
The African Trilogy by Chinua Achebe
Homegoing by Yaa Gyasi

I'll start the hunt for African litteratur and start reading. Please give me more recommendations.

Terry Hayes. I Am Pilgrim.

I've just finished reading the book I Am Pilgrim by Terry Hayes.

Last thing first, this is a book I will recommend you to read if you like thrillers and suspense novels.

It's a thick book but the biggest challenge is to stop reading once you have started. I read it in just three days and was disappointed that it didn't last longer. The book is a big, breathless tale of nonstop suspense.

Get up, get out and borrow or buy these 612 pages and start reading. But make sure that you don't have any plans or obligations before start the adventure.