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It's Thursday! Okay, we are in the middle of the summer heat, at least in the northern hemisphere. Hot and sticky in some places. Hot and dry in other places. Soooo, what was your favorite summer treat when you were growing up? Let’s make it a great Thursday! KGM

It's Thursday! Today we have an open ended #TBT post. An all-inclusive #TBT post. This one is depending on you to share with us where your mind goes when you have a few minutes to reminisce. Sooooo, what do you think about when you want to think back on something nice from the past? Let’s make it a great Thursday! KGM

It's Thursday! We are getting closer to that time of the year. I do hope you are all doing well and taking care of yourselves. I think for me, it is either "All I Want for Christmas Is You" by Mariah Carey or "Last Christmas" by Wham! Soooo, what is your favorite Christmas song? Let’s make it a great Thursday! KGM

It's Thursday! I don't know about you but I am a creature of habit. It takes me a while to get used to new things, like clothes, and I seem not to use them very often first after I get them. Then I finally take to them and start using. At that moment, I seem to switch over to use-it-all-the-time mode :) I still remember…

It's Thursday! Hope you folks are having a fine week. When I was young, I didn't have very many friends during a period of 2-3 years maybe. I think it was my mom who suggested I´d visit the library. So I did and started reading quite a bit. Here is a picture of some of the books I read: Hardy brothers, the Adventure series…

It's Thursday! Sooooo, I am old enough to remember when some of the streets in my neighborhood had not yet been paved; they were dirt roads. One of the games we played was something about drawing a large circle in the dirt (with a wood stick or something). Divide it up and then I can´t remember the rest :/ All I remember…

It's Thursday! We've done one similar to this one (favorite snacks) but today I want to reminisce about candy :) When I was about 13 until 17, there were 7 candy shops (think they are called Newsagents in England) within walking distance from my home! And I love candy. I still remember stopping in a candy shop as I walked…

It's Thursday! Two years ago, I did this post but back then I couldn't find the pictures that I knew were taken. Well, I just found the pictures! So now I am going to redo the post :) In 1983, Vigdís Finnbogadóttir was the president of Iceland. She was the world's first woman who was democratically elected as president. I…

It's Thursday! I don't exactly know where I am going with today´s #TBT but here it goes. Back in December of 1978, my parents took me and my sister for a 3 or so week vacation to California and Florida. Both these places are hot; Iceland not even warm. I must not have had very many shorts, which makes sense, I was living…

It's Thursday! Now that...... the leaves have almost all fallen off. We had rain and hail yesterday then it all froze last night. I do enjoy the dark evenings, cosy up under a blanket, with hot chocolate, and watching TV. However, spring and summer are my favorite seasons! Soooo, what season of the year do you like best?…

It's Thursday! The oldest piece of electronics I still use, apart from a watch is my 1st‑gen iPad, model A1219 with 64GB. I got it for my birthday in May 2010, the spring Apple launched the iPad. I’d seen a commercial earlier that year and was instantly fascinated. It felt like the future in my hands with such a big…

It's Thursday! Here is a picture of me when I was about 5 or so years old, rocking out to some super nice 1970's music just before going to bed. Not sure how effective that calming down before going to sleep exercise was... I'm sure my older siblings were babysitting that night :) Soooo tell us, what is the favorite…

It's Thursday! I know it is summer! But the other day, I was contemplating what I should write about in my future #TBT and this topic came to mind so here it goes :) When I was an exchange student in Arizona, my senior year in high school back in the good ol' 1987-88, it was a rush home to be first for the microwave to…

It's Thursday! I got this fine, gold Timex watch as a Christmas present in December of 1987 - whoppin' 37 & 1/2 years ago! I need to find a new battery for it. I think my kids gave this retro Casio watch about 10 years ago. I use it frequently: Soooo, want to tell us about some of your old watches? Let’s make it a great…

It's Thursday! This here is my grandson, Ragnar. He is playing with one of the cars I had when I was a boy. He LOVES cars. Fascinated by them. The picture below is of the bottom of that Coast Guard Jaguar. I think I got it back in 1981 or so. I was really into cars when I was a boy. Soooo, what was your favorite childhood…

It's Thursday! I am the youngest of my siblings so by the time I was born, my family had gone through the tent phase. My parent's business actually sold tent extensions for camper trailers in Iceland so we had a camper. I am the one sitting looking down. Sooooo, growing up did you go camping using a tent or a…

It's Thursday! I mean, the command palette (or the old dot shortcut beefed up) is the ultimate power keyboard shortcut. If you’re a Mac user, press command + K or if you’re a Windows user, press Ctrl + K to open the command palette. That is for sure the best. I use E a lot in Confluence to edit pages. Soooo, what is your…

It's Thursday! I just realized that today is my dad´s birthday. Next month, it will be 33 years since he passed away, a month after his birthday. He was 58 and had colon cancer. I was 23 at the time so we didn't have much time together after I became an adult. Most of the two and a half years prior I had lived in England.…

It's Thursday! I want to wish all the Canadians happy Canada day yesterday. 159 years! I hope the celebrations went well and you all had an awesome time. And on Saturday is America´s independence day - whopping 250 years! Congratulations all Americans on the semiquincentennial. Party safe on Saturday. Let’s make it a great…

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It's Thursday! Here is a picture of Suðurgata 23. This is the house my parents lived in when I was born and I grew up living there until I was 11 years old. My older brothers had rooms in the basement . My sister and I had our rooms on the 2nd floor (or 3rd floor if you count the basement as the first floor). This house is…

It's Thursday! Alright, let's talk about cool tricks/tools/gizmos/stuffs in the Atlassian products :) I want to mention two of my fave. 1) Contexts for Custom Fields. I especially like this feature since I mainly work on Jira Server / Data Center and then I can create a general field (like "Type") of type "Select list" and…

It's Thursday! This post is not so much a question as it is informational (or I hope it is!). Do you ever wonder how a certain website used to look? Want to go back and check it out? Well, as it turns out, you can! I've used the following two a little. Archive.org has been taking snapshots af webpages since 1996. It can be…

It's Thursday! To be honest, I couldn't remember so I took to Facebook and asked my old school mates. That was actually fun and we reminiscent on some fun things we did back in the day. All of mine are in Icelandic :) - iiiiiiii (said in unbelief) - Glætan (again unbelief, kind of like "no way!") - Séeeeensinn (another…

It's Thursday! My family had a business so all of my siblings got their first job there. But my real first job was at Hard Rock Café in Reykjavík, Iceland. I worked as a bus boy during two of the years that I was attending technical college. So after school type of work. Bussed tables (cleaned tables). I remember we were…

It's Thursday! Only two more days until the weekend ;) Ok, when I was six years old and living in Iceland, my family went on a holiday to Guernsey and Jersey. I remember going to a war museum (like a bunker), remember walking to the beach, and how I was told that you had to be approved / admitted in order to live there :)…

It's Thursday! My family did not have many animals when I was growing up. I am the youngest so my older siblings had ruined that for me - like one of my brothers had a hamster and then when he couldn't sleep at night, he put the hamster in the closed (which my parents bedroom was on the other side) and my parents didn't…

It's Thursday! Okay, okay, okay! I know! I know! This one is not fair at all. But please, do notice that I did put songs, as in plural 😀 Soooooo many to choose from... What helps me is that I was a teenager in the 80's (born 1970) and there are some awesome flashback 80's stations on the internet. So at work, I often…

It's Thursday! I grew up in Iceland in the 80's. We only had one TV station until 1987! That was our only TV until VCR's came along in the early 80's (but then you had to rent a VCR + tapes and as a kid I didn't have that kind of money). The TV station was the national TV station and it would broadcast everyday except…

It's Thursday! It July already and we are into that time of the year when county and state fairs start popping up. Carnival rides, live stock exhibitions, vegetables competition, food trucks, ... all the good stuff :) I think I enjoy the most just walking around, seeing people, and getting grilled corn on the cob. Lathered…