Kristján Geir Mathiesen Community Champion

It's Thursday! This is Sigga. Well, that is her nick name. Her real name is Sigríður but we always called her Sigga. She was my teacher for 5 or 6 years. We go to know her pretty well. She was a great teacher. Patient yet would push us to our limits to help us grow.Fun bonus story: after my wife and I moved back to Iceland…

It's Thursday! Last month, I drove from Utah to the other end of Nebraska. 14 hours in the car. We only stopped twice, which is amazing! Longer yet was when we moved from snowy Utah to sunny Florida in 2019. That was one heck of a trip! Here is a time laps video of it.Soooo, what is the longest car trip you´ve been…

It's Thursday! I was recently in Omaha, Nebraska visiting my daughter and her family. As I was looking around downtown, I came across Pioneer Heritage park. It is pretty darn neat! Has massive bronze statutes. Actually, the two sculpture parks combine to form one of the largest bronze sculptures in the world. The park…

It's Thursday! Tomorrow is Valentine´s day in America. My wife's birthday is on that very same day. It is always a huge hassle to take her out to eat on her birthday so in the last few years we just try to go out to eat before or after her birthday... But I do try to do something special for her on Valentine´s day.What are…

It's Thursday! I was about to write a #TBT about something else and then all of a sudden I remembered my "Flights that KGM has been on" list. (KGM is me). Little background on this. About 10 years ago, my wife and I were thumbing through a history of this 87 year old man. He had been retired for so long that he started…

It's Thursday! I remember, back in late 1980's, meeting a guy who was about 21 years old who had never peeled an orange in his life. To me that was so crazy somehow! I felt like peeling an orange would be such an everyday, normal thing yet he had lived 21 years and never done it. As I get older, I realize that what we feel…

It's Thursday! I´ve never been to Italy (closes is probably being in Malta) but really want to go. So I, unfortunately, don't have any Italian memories :( But I am counting on you ;) Sooooo, do you have an Italian memory you wanna share with us?Let’s make it a great Thursday! KGM

It's Thursday! Not too long ago, I was going through a small cedar box of "memorabilia". (Actually, a box that either me or my friend made back in 1988). Part of the stuff inside of this box were these cards :) One is an employee pass from a company in Iceland, where I used to work at. The other is a rail card, actually a…

It's Thursday! I bought these two bad boys just before Christmas for us family to race and play with. We had some real good fun with them. One of them came with tiny traffic cones so we setup a little track and raced. One of the car came with 2 sets of tires: rubber and hard plastic. Super fun!These aren´t the first RC…

It's Thursday! New year; new heights to reach and new things to do! One of which I think I will probably never do is skydiving. I am just too much of a chicken! But I will try something new this year, I'm just not sure what it will be...Sooooo, when did you skydive for the first time? Or have you thought about going…

Hi all I'm over my head with this ask, that I got last week. Quite specific: - Every Friday run a JQL query to list up open "Blockers" (scheduled automation rule can do that) - For each issue, extract the key, Assignee, and Summary - Send a single Slack message to a shared channel with these 3 fields (1 line per issue) and…

It's Thursday! Pretty crazy that 2024 his over! Where did all the time go?!?! In Iceland, we shoot up fireworks on New Year´s eve to say goodbye to the old year and welcome in the new year. This photo was taken of me on Dec 31st, 1979. Thank you for all your comments and your time on the #TBT thread during 2024. I wish you…

It's Thursday! When one of our daughters was young, she used to take the corner of her pillow case and rub it around her eyes and ears when she was tired and wanted to fall asleep. Sometimes she would even, ever so slightly, stick the very corner of her pillow case in her eye (as in eyeball).Soooo, what was your favorite…

It's Thursday! Gleðileg jól! (It's Icelandic for "merry Christmas") I just want to wish everyone in the Community a very merry and happy holiday season.I found this photo and card in my photo album the other week. It was taken in the USA in December of 1978. Me and my sister. Let’s make it a great Thursday and holiday…

It's Thursday! End of the year is fast approaching. Some use that opportunity to do some cleaning in Confluence, Jira, etc. Sooooo, what are some of your Atlassian December cleaning rituals?Let’s make it a great Thursday! KGM

It's Thursday! Alrighteo, let's settle this once and for all. I grew up in the 70's and 80's in Iceland and there were not too many artificial trees around (or they were expensive) so we always had a real "life" tree, which of course was dead since it had been chopped down.Sooooooooooo, did you grow up in a household that…

It's Thursday! It's Thanksgiving already again! Amazing how fast time flies. Feels like fall just started...For those of you who celebrate it, happy Thanksgiving! Hope your holiday is turning out wonderful. Share some pictures of your feast, if you have time and opportunity to do so.Let’s make it a great Thursday! KGM

It's Thursday! I grew up in Iceland and my parents would count down to Christmas starting with the first Sunday in advent. She would make a wreath, similar to the one in this picture, with 4 candles. On the first Sunday in advent, the first candle is lit. On the second Sunday, 2 candles are lit, etc.Sooooo, tell us about…

It's Thursday! Last week was my daughter's birthday and one of our neighbor gave her over 30 lbs. of ground game meat (minced meat)! So, that got me thinking what would be some good ground game recipes. Therefore, I took to Google :)Sooooo, what are some of your favorite recipes or homemade food from the past? Some that…

It's Thursday! Okay, today we are going to talk about swimming in cold water. This picture was taken 9 years ago in Iceland. The woman in the picture is someone's grandma from Holland, visiting Iceland. That day, the ocean was 0,7°C (about 33°F). Obviously, I didn't swim very far or for a long time but did get some…

It's Thursday! This week´s #TBT is inspired by @Dan Breyen ´s comment couple weeks ago. He asked if we had ever tried tick or treating knowing a blizzard was coming. Well, he has!Soooo, tell us about some snowstorm memories that you have :)Let’s make it a great Thursday! KGM tried trick or treating knowing a blizzard is…

It's Thursday! Amazing that it´s Halloween already! This year has really flown by. Last year, I asked about your favorite Halloween candy. If you didn't comment or want to update your comment there, feel free to do so :) This year, my wife bought a lot of glowsticks and we will be giving them out. Just to decrease the…

It's Thursday! I grew up in Iceland, in case that has not clear by now. Iceland is an island (and is spelled Ísland in Icelandic). So the school system teaches us how to swim. I think we started swim lessons at age 6. And it is built into the school schedule. Like in 3th hour, we´d go into the bus, which took us to the…

It's Thursday! 3 years ago, we moved to a new town and a couple of weeks later, our church had new member meeting (i.e. new move ins had a chance to introduce themselves and we got to know the local church leaders). One of the leaders said he liked any "holiday" Reese's Peanut butter chocolates. This has really stuck with…

It's Thursday! And it's summer! Let's talk about some pool memories. Couple of years ago, when my life wasn´t quite as busy as it is today and when we had an access to a HOA pool, I used to take my youth books, in Icelandic of course, with me and go to the pool. Swim some laps, dry my hands and read some pages, swim some…

It's Thursday! I lived in the same house until I was 11 years old, then we moved. I remember that in this first house, the TV was in a kind of a family room in the basement. In Iceland, we only had a single TV station at that time. On Saturday nights, they would show a movie. It was a family activity to watch the movie…

It's Thursday! I am the youngest of 5 siblings so by the time I came around, my siblings had had all kinds of pets and my parents were tired of cleaning and taking care of their pets. Therefore, I didn't really have many. We had some bird but that didn't last. Too much noise and messy. But then we got a dog when I was…

It's Thursday! My mother-in-law, who has been visiting with us for the last 3 weeks, just left for Iceland. As I put her suitcase in the trunk of our car, I admired her brand new suitcase. Looking really good! The thing is that when she arrived here, one of the 4 wheels on her old suitcase broke off so she needed to get a…

It's Thursday! I spent almost 2 years in England and south Wales back in the early 90's. It was there, that I got introduced to the Magnum ice cream. Hard, Belgium chocolate with vanilla ice cream! Man, so good! Think the price was 99p back then. I´ve been a bit disappointed lately, though, because it's been hard to find…

It's Thursday! Okay, this one is probably not a pure #TBT but let's run with it. Lately I´ve been kind of obsessed with Rojo's Street Corn Dip (yes, I knew I shouldn´t have gone into Costco...). It's just SO good! Bought this bucket yesterday and almost 1/3 is already gone... Soooooo, what is your favorite snack as of…