Friday, Fire, Twins and My Son

Yes it's yet another Friday but this time it will be followed by a three day weekend since Monday is a Commerce Holiday in Iceland. I have no plans for the weekend other than to just take it easy and maybe go swimming with my son and meet up with a couple of friends (Elfur for instance who just moved back from Oslo, Norway). I can never be bothered to go anywhere (forecast for the weekend is miserable anyway (dreich as the Scots would say)).

I just spoke to a friend online who told me there was a fire on Princes Street today - see BBC and EveningNews. Always the old houses that catch fire, reminds me of the fire downtown Reykjavik just this spring see MBL mind you it's in Icelandic :)

My dear friend Helga Rós and her partner Jónas had twins on the 2nd of August. When I heard she was pregnant with them I declared immediately that I believed them to be boy and a girl (saw an image of her with pink and blue for some reason) but the whole pregnancy she never revealed anything about the genders. Now they are born and one of them is indeed a boy and the other one a girl :) Both big, strong and healthy. Can't wait to go see them.

Óðinn has been coming into work with me the whole week. I hate to admit that he's spending most of his time playing an online Star Wars game but he's also very helpful - in the morning when we come into the office he opens the doors and turns on the lights and the women working on my floor have been coming in to see him and talk to him and one just came in earlier saying how beautifully he sings because although he's on the computer he's singing the whole time and making up songs about the game.