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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;Ignoramus Maximus, post: 4551517, member: 104741&quot;]Hi everyone</p><p><br /></p><p>Thanks for sharing your stories. Here&#039;s mine:</p><p><br /></p><p>My name is Dan Herschberg.</p><p>&nbsp;I&#039;m originally Dutch, but live in Norway these days. 57 years old now ( time flies!). Studied Slavic languages in university, but completely lost interest in both the country and the language after living in the USSR for the better part of a year. I still read Chechov and Paustovskij every now and then, but that is it. Perhaps it is true what they say, that the book is much better...</p><p><br /></p><p>I live in a small village nobody except possibly Svessien has heard of. It&#039;s only claim to fame is its notouriously cold winters, also rumour has it it&#039;s the worlds leading player in the manufacture and distribution of a type of sled called &#039;spark&#039; in Norwegian.</p><p><br /></p><p>I work in an institution for the mentally disabled, mostly at night. Why?</p><p>Mostly because they&#039;re nice people. And also, honestly, because I&#039;m lazy.</p><p>Other interests? I play guitar ( for some reason right handed although I&#039;m left handed, which can be frustrating). I like to read, ( right now &#039;Daily Life in Ancient Rome&#039;) and I started collecting ancient coins about a year and a half ago, so my collection is small (Bing made me smile when he modestly wrote:&#039; my collection is rather small with somewhere near 800 coins&#039;. God, I thought my 60-70 was pretty cool and impressive! <img src="styles/default/xenforo/clear.png" class="mceSmilieSprite mceSmilie1" alt=":)" unselectable="on" unselectable="on" />). I collect mostly Greek, but won&#039;t shy away from a nice Roman. I have always been fascinated by ancient Greece: mythology, history, philosophy. Great to see that reflected in coins.</p><p><br /></p><p>Lately I&#039;m toying with the idea of laying my own mosaic floor using motives from Ancient Greek coins. If only I owned a house instead of renting one. (So perhaps there&#039;s a downside to all this laziness as well...) Must be great to cut your own tesserae, to design a mosaic and then lay it. Perhaps one day...</p><p><br /></p><p>Other than that I&#039;m happily divorced from a Norwegian woman and father of two boys.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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