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build upgrade worked well, though with few observable differences.

it is a shame i have been unable to write recently, as tediousness has ceded to an unbroken string of events worthy of the telling. since I came home I have conducted secret raids on doomed libraries to salvage a handful, at least; purchased a car unseen, a mighty vessel capable of the tundra; given away much and moved more, hundreds of kilos of things, incorporating years of my life and all my possessions in the scant space of one room, back here in norway; located after years of despair a soft copy of my old journal, the maelstrom hypothesis; hooked up with old friends, scavenged through ten years of gifts and letters and adventurous mementos of a life surprisingly well spent, so far, stuffed away in old drawers - one of three locks of women's hair I have asked for or stolen in my life - an unsuspected picture of that spider! the beast that shared a terrace with me for a month in paraguay - a tentative letter from, and a diary entry about a girl long ago, that nothing ever happened with - a shrunken head, a bug in a jar, a picture of another girl, lovely but since fallen out with... shrapnel and paraphernalia discarded by the wayside, now come back. less to haunt than to greet merrily.

...and finally, finally I have now remembered how to put names on paper and invoke the norwegian mail system - I haven't sent a letter since 1997! but now there are three parcels at least primed and ready for shipment, sitting in my living room. perhaps my future biographers will thank me for leaving a trail, like malinowski.

haven't been able to log on from my laptop for a few weeks now, hence the long moratorium... a slightly bizarre error had introduced itself into the file system - one of the modules had been received an extra letter in its name, making it inaccessible. i suspect this had something to do with the various server changes and data transfers that have been ongoing at my service provider recently, but still - a strangely specific, easily identifiable error. makes one wonder - the latent paranoid at the bottom of my well of consciousness stirs.

anyhow, a quick scan and a few keystrokes and all was well again with the world. will now try to update the operating system of my weblog, so this might be a very short intermission of functionality.

meanwhile, I am about to head north to the tundra, two days from now, finally about to embark on fieldwork. have purchased a car and made some initial contacts. hopefully i will have internet connection at least early on, in order to post pictures and suchlike. hoping also to be able to provide at least semi-regular verbal updates on my progress along the cold and perhaps also quite painful via crucis of anthropological initiation. wish me luck now, in case everything goes down in a blaze of flames the moment I try to update the OS.