{"id":1259,"date":"2009-09-29T20:28:23","date_gmt":"2009-09-29T19:28:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/?p=1259"},"modified":"2009-09-29T20:28:25","modified_gmt":"2009-09-29T19:28:25","slug":"horny-climb-road","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/2009\/09\/29\/horny-climb-road\/","title":{"rendered":"Horny climb road"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Is it a sign from the Light? \u00c2\u00a0Probably not, but this picture is taken from the bus stop closest to today’s apartment hunt. \u00c2\u00a0It was taken this summer though, before I knew I had to move this fall.<\/em><\/p>\n

Another day, another apartment hunt! Today I was biting on a freshly announced apartment about half an hour’s walk from my current home, but on nearly the same elevation. \u00c2\u00a0Most of the distance is along the same way I use for my Sunday walk, \u00c2\u00a0which is a bike \/ pedestrian road along the main road which again is vaguely following the river. \u00c2\u00a0Near the grain fields I have photographed so often, you turn away from the river and toward the hills.<\/p>\n

The name of the road is “Grakleivveien” which means roughly “the horny climb road”. \u00c2\u00a0There may be other meanings, but that’s the obvious one. \u00c2\u00a0The Norwegian word “gra” means horny as in hungry for sex, but the common usage is restricted to horses. \u00c2\u00a0Colloquially it is used for people too. I know I heard it used that way when I was a teen. \u00c2\u00a0(The details of why I would hear that is beyond the scope of today’s entry…) \u00c2\u00a0The word “kleiv” refers to a steep road up a hill, from the Norwegian word “kliva” which means to climb. \u00c2\u00a0From the small village where I grew up, I remember there was a farm called “kleiva”, which was where the country road climbed from the bridge across the river and up to around the level of the other farms.<\/p>\n

This apartment is cheaper than the one I mentioned yesterday, but less stand-alone. \u00c2\u00a0So how feasible it is would depend on the immediate neighbors. \u00c2\u00a0I am kind of spoiled by having the whole house to myself \u00c2\u00a0here (although I could not use the whole house, as the landlord was stashing a lot of stuff and had the basement set aside for himself, although he very rarely used it.) \u00c2\u00a0Anyway, an affordable home, fairly large, close to my current location… it could be worse. Also the road is surrounded by primeval forest, so you don’t get that intensely urban feeling. And the bus I take to and from work passes a fairly short walk from the house, although further away than here. \u00c2\u00a0Actually I kind of like having to walk a bit to the bus. \u00c2\u00a0It is an excuse to use the body while I have it, instead of doing pointless exercises just for maintenance.<\/p>\n

Speaking of which, I did not get particularly stiff and sore from yesterday’s walk. \u00c2\u00a0My resting pulse is higher, as usual the day after an exercise, but it does not hurt anywhere. \u00c2\u00a0Perhaps I am not as old as I feel?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Is it a sign from the Light? \u00c2\u00a0Probably not, but this picture is taken from the bus stop closest to today’s apartment hunt. \u00c2\u00a0It was taken this summer though, before I knew I had to move this fall. Another day, … Continue reading →<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1259","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-slice-of-life"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1259"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1265,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1259\/revisions\/1265"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1259"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1259"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.chaosnode.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1259"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}