The little guy in the background is the main character and presumed future emperor of the galaxy, but people do whatever they want without considering him at all. With me it is the other way around: I am just some guy, and yet the mighty rivers of the air change their course to accommodate me. I am not sure what is the more disturbing of these two situations.

Well, you could wonder. The weather stayed mild for approximately one day, from Saturday evening to Sunday evening. Then the land went back into the deep freeze, even more than before. It is around -15C now, varying from -13 to -17 (8 to 1 Fahrenheit).

It was enough for my water pipes to thaw though, so I still have water. Even the shower has worked since, though one may wonder how long that can last. It seems unlikely that this whole thing happened over all of southern Norway (and probably some more) just for my sake, though if I had been the main character, it would certainly have made sense.

I think I’ll wait a bit longer before declaring myself the Most Important Person of Scandinavia though. I am reminded of a Christian meeting I was on shortly after the fall of the Soviet Union, at which point an elderly man in the congregation got up and told us all that he had prayed for just such an outcome. That was almost certainly true. But I suspect that pray for this also did a large number of the tens of millions who were murdered, directly or indirectly, by the Soviet system, and a goodly number of their relatives as well. And while I cannot say for sure, I would not be surprised if their prayers were at least as fervent.

In fact, being the main character in one’s own eyes is one of the biggest problems of being human. But that said, I do appreciate having running water in my bathroom again, even if I’m not the Main Character except on my blog!