I was born and raised on the West coast of Norway. I did my years in school until I reached the age of 19, when I had to take a year in the military. A mandatory thing for us Norwegian boys After that year I worked for a year processing aluminium at the local plant, a factory co owned by Norsk Hydro, and the Canadian company known as Alcan. in 1992 I served as a peacekeeper in southern Lebanon for the UN. That took 9 months of my life, and after that I went back to school for a year studying media in print, sound and images. I then started working for the aluminium processing factory again, and I currently work in the electrolysis departement of the plant. I live in the small town I grew up in and I have a fiancee and a little boy. We’re getting married on the first of july this year! (2006)