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Olipa viikonloppu, jonka haluan kirjata muistiin. Tisk otti ja tuli pidennetylle viikonloppuvapaalle Ouluun. Ohjelma rakennettiin jo vuosia sitten hyväksi havaituista elementeistä.

Torstai
Töideni jälkeen kaupasta mätöt. Sitten kokattiin kanaa jogurttikastikkeella + naan + riisi. Sauna. Dark Horizon 2. edition. Unta.

Perjantai
Kävin tekemässä puoli päivää töitä, jonka aikana Tisk ja Johanna pelaili pari erää Dominionia, joka on varsin mainio korttipeli. Pelattiin viikonloppuna yhteensä jotain 5 raundia. Puolilta päivin lähettiin vesijumppaan ja uimaan, mistä jatkettiin Amarilloon meksikolaista sapuskaa maistamaan. Sitten todettiin, ettei Leskisessä ole istumapaikkoja, joten käytiin takkatulibaarissa juomassa yhdet pitkät. Illalla otettiin perinteinen Elma läpi ja kuusi olutta -kisa, jonka vein kolmen minuutin marginaalilla. Ennen nukkumista käytiin vielä hakemassa Heikki juna-asemalta.

Lauantai
Jo pidempään oli ollut tarkoitus järjestää perinteikäs olutkävely, mutta ihmisillä on nykyään liikaa menoja. No päätimme kävellä Tiskin kanssa vaikka kahdestaan, mutta onneksemme ajankohta sopi myös Johannalle ja pxlle. Lisäksi myös pitkin talvea olutkävelyn perään haikaillut nSika ehti mukaan ja lajin elävä legenda, Heikki, ehti tulla piipahtamaan Oulussa.

Lähdimme liikkeelle Rotuaarin pallolta aamuysin tienoilla. Startissa oli mukana minä, Tisk, Johanna, px ja Heikki. nSika lähti hieman myöhässä kävelemään starttipaikalle, joten hän joutui kirimään noin tunnin etumatkamme bussilla. Reittimme suuntasi ensin Kaakkuriin, josta haettiin vähän sapuskata ja jatkettiin sitten Linnanmaalle. Matkalla poimittiin mukaan pxn pikkuveli, Jukka, joka tepasteli ex tempore Järvigrillijärven grillille, josta on haettu useilla eri kävelyreissuilla evästä. Grillille saapui myös vesvir ja Juha.

Grilliltä matka jatkui Kaijonharjuun hakemaan Tapania, josta jatkettiin Linnanmaan Alkoon ja sieltä Rajakylään saattamaan nSika kotia. Sitten jatkettiin Herukan Shellille, josta taaperrettiin Syynimaan kautta takaisin keskustaan. Johanna siirtyi bussilla kotia vajaan 50 km kävelyn jälkeen. Syynimaalta jatkoi reissun loppuun aloittajista neljä eli minä, Tisk, px ja Heikki. Iltasapuskat haettiin Swingistä. Päivän lopuksi alkoi reilu 10 asteen pakastuminen hyydyttämään kävelijöitä ja pysähtelyä välteltiin. Takaisin oltiin noin 13 tunnin päästä aloituksesta ja hieman kävelijästä riippuen matkaa tuli 60km +-2km. Oma ennätykseni jäi muutaman kilometrin päähän. Jos olisi ollut GPS mukana eli olisi tiennyt, kuinka paljon oltiin kävelty, niin olisi varmasti ollut melkoinen houkutus yrittää rikkoa ennätys. Ensi kerralla sitten.

Illalla saunottiin ja jatkoiltiin ydinporukan + MaijaJuhaTapanin kanssa.

Sunnuntai
Pyhäpäivä oli pyhitetty makoilulle. Pelasimme Dominionia, kokkasimme kreikkalaistyyliset pöperöt (kotikebabbia, tsatsikia, ezmeä, raakapaistettuja pottuja, salaattia), saunoimme kahdesti ja koomasimme. Heikki lähti joskus su-aamuna klo 5 tai jotain.

Maanantai
Back to arki. Tisk lähti myös jollain kello viiden junalla.

Mietteet
Etukäteen tuli mietittyä, että vieläkö tälläiset tapaamiset ovat hauskoja, mutta jälkikäteen on sanottava, että itselläni oli kyllä hauskaa ja lauantai, miitin pääpäivä, onnistui todella hyvin. Matka taittui, osallistujia taisi olla yhteensä 10 (parhaimmillaan yhtäaikaisesti 9) ja ilmeisesti kaikilla oli hauskaa. Harva etukäteen arvaa, kuinka hupaisaa tälläinen harrastetoiminta onkaan. Kiitos kaikille ja erityisesti Tiskille ja Heikille, kun jaksoitte matkustaa luoksemme.

Ensin oli unski pidennetyn hups-viikonlopun ja sitten tuli mr kylään viikoksi. Siispä laatuaikaa olen viettänyt.

Munskin kanssa käytiin Tiinun synttäreillä, tehtiin lättyjä ja käytiin mörkömetsässä. Emo tarjosi myös kreikkalaisen ruokailun meille.

mr:n kanssa kierreltiin Oulun kirpputorit metsästämässä oluttuoppeja (mr kerää) ja joku 43 niitä löytyikin. Hän voisi joskus kyhätä sivut harrastuksestaan. Sitten syötiin Mäkkärin juustoburgereita kilpaa ja tällä kertaa minulle upposi tasan kymmenen (10) ja mr jäi kahdeksaan ja puoleen (8½). Muutenkin tuli taas panostettua ruokapuoleen ja paino taisi pari kiloa nousta. Vissiin pitää taas alkaa enempi diettaa, kun meinaa 85kg huonommalle puolelle kallistua. Edelleen se 7x kg olisi tavote, mutta hitaastihan hyvä tulee?

Alunperin oli tavoitteena yrittää myös legendaarista 100km kävelyä, mutta nyt Mikko oli sairastellut pitempään ja hän ei ollut valmis koitokseen. Lauantai-iltana lähdimme kuitenkin seitsemän tienoilla iltakävelylle, ja koska kävely tuntui ihan hyvältä niin päätimme kokeilla hieman rajoja. Lopulta kävelimme 56.9km, joka ei kovin kauas jäänyt meidän omista ennätyksistä (Mikko 58km, minä 62km), mutta tällä kertaa ei rahkeet riittäneet pitemmälle. Tämä oli myös minun virallinen 100km yritys tältä kesältä. On se vaan kova matka kävellä…

Elmaa ei niin hirveänä pelattu mr:n kanssa. Mitä nyt hieman Belmaa testailtiin ja mr höyläsi Freefallia 1-6h päivässä. Itse hieman lämmittelin Expert Systemiä.

Ostin Samsungin halvan monitoimikoneen firmalle, niin onnistuu printtailut ja skannailut kätevämmin. Tähän asti olen tehnyt ne yliopiston koneilla. Ilmankin olisi tietenkin pärjännyt, mutta kyllä tämä helpottaa elämää todella paljon.

Tällä hetkellä työnalla on kuntasivuni uudistus. Päivitän uudet kuvat ja hieman tarkennan kuvien infoja.

Ensi viikonloppuna on tulossa Ulko-ovimiehet -tapahtuma. Tänään voisi käydä treenaamassa kananmunien heittelyä Andyn kanssa ennen saunaa.

About two weeks left of my summer vacation. So it went .. almost four months ehm, what did I do? These two last weeks will be pretty empty so I’m trying to do as many summer todos as I have time for. The previous week I’ve been coding a cool virtual exam software as a work task. Yesterday I was playing board games (Menolippu / Ticket to Ride), today tennis and on Sunday I will try the half triathlon (1.9km swimming, 90km cycling, 21km running) if weather is ok and legs are in shape. Last monday we made too tough exercise and since that I’ve been incapable to do any real sport. This weekend is free but the two next (at least) I hope to spend with Johanna. Then starts uni and blah.

I want to found a firm of my own.

For skint0r here is a short summary of my previous posts:
- in June I, my neighbour and my gf (omg!) traveled in Finnish wilderness to trek, it was a mega nice trip and it’s been a long time dream to trek (a few years ago I bought trekking equiment by big money but never got company for a trip)
- organized my closets, sold Donald Duck magazines and threw a lot of stuff to trash
- I’ve been sick two times (two weeks totally), first time I played Belma and next time coded websites
- spent one month in Helsinki hosted by Tisk, was very coal too; collected embassy pictures and visited all the must-see places of the city, I’ve never really been there to see places; many friends visited me too; we also had an unofficial FEM07 there
- I bought a new web hotel service from dreamhost.com, the transfer is in progress
- I’m planning to install linux to my main computer and will use both laptop and the main computer via KVM by same input and output devices
- last weekend I got a ride .. on horse (first time btw) and that was an Experience, at the same time it was scary, amusing and cool; we rode to river to wash the horse and dame I enjoyed it

I didn’t get any nice summer job so lots of free time again. Fortunately there are some web site projects which should give me enough money to live. I will also attend some summer courses in university which means I’ll get some money from society as well.

I haven’t made any strict schedule yet but only listed a bunch of events I would like to do:
- ½DONE Triathlon: I’ve done the 1/4 triathlon: 40:43, 1:24:20, 50:03 (total 3:04:31) and the 1/2 one: 56:58, 3:39:39, 2:18:12 (total 6:52:49), in the end of summer I’ll try the entire thing
- DONE Trekking with a few buddies in the 7th of June, we are quite amateurs so the trip will be quite short and easy
- 400km cycling (trying to beat px’s 353km)
- ½DONE 100km walking (not high priority because I’ve got better result than mr and px)
- 15km swimming (might be impossible, but at least I will give a try)
- DONE Go in for orienteering every tuesday and thursday if possible
- DONE Organize my closets (take old magazines to trash etc.)
- ½DONEInstall Ubuntu server, Linux to my main computer and install a clean OS to Vaio laptop (three computers)
- ½DONEWrite a bunch of reports (I’ve got a huge list of awaiting ones)
- ½DONELearn Assembly, C, PHP
- ½DONE Organize one special summer cottage meeting (beer + sport involved), more to come
- ½DONE Have one normal summer cottage meeting with some friends
- ½DONEPaprika (Community, Records)
- Finish Army diary
- DONE Visit one friend by bike and try horse riding with her friend’s horses
- DONE Spend one month in Helsinki and cycle around the city (geocaching, municipality signs), I’m going to cycle down there (some 900km)
- Watch 24 season 4, 5 and 6 and Prison Break season 1 and 2
- Many more in my todo list but I guess I’ve got enough here already

Shouldn’t get boring?

Hm, today I’ve been sick and felt quite terrible. I’m not often ill, maybe once in four years (not counting hangovers).

UPDATE: I highlight the row when it’s done.
UPDATE 2: Helsinki month is done but without the 900km cycling.
UPDATE 3: added orienteering: I’ve orienteered about 15 times during the summer which is more than I dreamt; in addition I visited my friend (well, actually my girlfriend) by bike and did some horse riding, not actually in the same trip but anyway
UPDATE 4: tried to walk 100km but stopped at 56.9km -> ½DONE; installed Vaio + was half-way done with installing Ubuntu and then Vaio’s screen got broken and no time anymore for this -> ½DONE; some other things I label as ½DONE too; two cottage meetings are still progressing
UPDATE 5: two cottage meetings done: Ulko-ovimiehet 2007 and a normal one

I’ve devoted some time to Paprika and Teams section is getting ready soon. We just need to insert some data to databases before public launch. It’s quite a job to find out dates when players have been in which teams. Actually that’s almost impossible for us to find out (except WR holders) and therefore we will need your help. But more later.

After Teams we will make a quick release in Meetings and Relations and then probably skip the rest Community sections and start doing Records.

It’s almost -25 degrees here and you don’t want to ski or do any other sport outside. Hopefully it will get warmer in the end of the week so I can test more my new snowshoes which I bought yesterday. Also got new trousers and shirt, quite nice they are. We were planning a trekking trip to Kuusamo in the next weekend to test snowshoes but seems like we would have been only me and Heikki so probably we will skip it then. Third mate and the trip would had happened. px is coming to Oulu today but he doesn’t have too much time to do anything.

On Saturday there should be some party which I’m interested to join. Not really keen to drink alcohol but but, we will see.

Tomorrow I will be doing some work tasks. Got some new site projects for clinics.

In the end a small summary in English.

Kaipa sitä joutaa taas kirjotella mitä eloni tiellä on tapahtunut viime aikoina. Otsikot ovat jossain järjestyksessä, alussa on varmaan ne perinteisimmät. Ja otetaan tällä kertaa suomeksi, niin ei tarvi ressata ymmärettävyydestä.

1. Koulu
Tämä viikko on pitkästä aikaa ollut hyvä kouluviikko. Tilille napsahti 7op lisää joten tilanne on nyt 122/300. Lisäksi viikolla kirjoteltiin 6 sivun kirjareferaatti ja 8 sivun essee Johtamisen perusteet kurssille, mistä varmaan napsuu 5op lisää tässä piakkoin. Syksyn opinnot etenevät lähes suunnitelmien mukaisesti, yksi 3ov kurssi jäänee suorittamatta tosin. Ruotsin kurssiki alkaa kääntymän voiton puolelle, vaikka vielä muutama tuskallinen harjoitus onkin jäljellä.

2. Työ
Tämä rintama on pysynyt aika samoissa. Voi olla, että pääsen laajentamaan sarkaa myös lastentautiklinikan puolelle nykyisen naistentautiklinikan puolelta. Olen myös valmistellut kesätyöhakemusta HYKS:iin. Olisi kiinnostusta päästä ensi kesänä töihin Helsinkiin. Majotus on vielä hieman ongelmallinen.

3. Elmamiitit
Ismo vieraili luonani pari päivää jokunen kuukausi sitten. Elmanpeluun sijaan aktivoiduimme sosiaalisen elämän puolella ja kävimme yksissä hipoissa, mistä kehkeytyi jotain pitempääkin. Joinasin uudelle IRC-kanavalle! :P

Tästä parin viikon päästä MP kävi oleilemassa jokusen päivän ja ryyppäämiseksi sekä teinien narraamiseksihan sekin meni.

Tisk lähti viikko sitten pois oltuaan melkein kokonaisen viikon luonani. Oli kyllä erityisen laadukasta aikaa, koska onnistuimme pääsemään kolmiin eri pippaloihin. Ensimmäisissä käveltiin, paistettiin lättyjä ja saunottiin tyttöjen kanssa. Toisissa syötiin taas lättyjä ja leikittiin hauskoja seurasanaleikkejä. Kolmansissa tehtiinkin sitten kaikkea irstasta. Parit Elmaskabailutkin kerettiin ottaa: 24 levelin beerbattle ykkösoluella (voitin 14-10) ja kaksi kertaa kilpailu, missä juodaan siksarit olutta ja pelataan Elma läpi. Paras tulos minulta oli 1h 3min.

4. Kämppä
Alan olemaan kohtuullisen tyytyväinen asuntooni. Nyt täällä jo mielellään pitää illanistujaisia yms. Toki pitäisi vielä juliste- ja mattopolitiikkaa säätää sekä joitain muita pienempiä juttuja. Uuden leveämmän sängynkin ostin, siinä on niin loistava nukkua. Ja yövieraitakin ottaa mielummin nyt, saa tulla :]. Niin ja Antero lahjoitti vanhan näyttönsä minulle, Sonyn 21 tuumanen putki. Kiitoksia vain! Taino buffetin Hai Longissa olen velkaa… Mistä tulikin mieleen, että se pitää käydä mahdollisimman pian testaamassa. Ovat uudistaneet systeemiä ja normaalin buffetin rinnalle on tullut sellainen, että kerätään itse raaka-aineita ja annetaan ne kokille paistettavaksi. Todennäkösesti aivan loistavaa.

5. Paprika
Todettiin vk:n kanssa, että Recordeihin pitää päästä käsiksi _pian_. Skippailtiin jotain turhia ominaisuuksia Nat/Team osioista, että joudutaan. Ollaan molemmat otettu vähän lomaa Paprikasta nyt, mutta viime päivinä on taas tullut koodia kirjoiteltua. Kyllä se tästä taas.

6. Sarjat
Kaksi jaksoa katsomatta 24:n kolmoskaudesta. Myös Prison Breakista on katsottuna noin 10 ensimmäistä jaksoa. Ozin haluaisin ostaa DVD:inä, mutta 250e on tähän saumaan vähän turhan paljon valuuttaa uhrattavaksi.

7. kalorilaskuri.fi
Taas vaihteeksi on menossa laihdutusprojekti. Tällä kertaa listataan kaikki syödyt ravintoaineet kalorilaskuri.fi ja näin seurataan, että mitä saa syödä ja kuinka paljon. Ihan lupaavalta vaikuttaa ja kolmen kuukauden aikana on noin 7kg paino pudonnut (87kg nyt). Liikuntaakin on tullut ihan hyvin viime aikoina harrastettua. Esimerkiksi eilen juoksua, uintia, vesijuoksua, soutua, kuntosalia ja kävelyä. Tänään hiihtoa ja huomenna taas vesijuoksua, jos kykenen heräämään. Heikki on loistavaa liikuntaseuraa, kunhan vain löytyy treenit, jotka molempia palvelevat. Ollaan kuitenkin kunnon suhteen hieman eri leveleillä. Tosiaan talven ensimmäiset hiihdot nyt takana, joku 10km taisi tulla mittariin. Hiihto saattaisi olla se oma lempilaji kautta aikojen.

8. Alkoholi
Turhan paljon on tullut ryypiskeltyä viime aikoina. Mutta onneksi aina hyvällä syyllä, eli en ole kalsareita yksinään harrastanut. On vain ollut niin paljon kaikkea projektia, mihin on kuulunut alkoholi. Useammin tulee tänä vuonna juotua kuin koskaan aikaisemmin. Onhan se hyvä, että on aktiviteettejä, mutta on tässä omat huonotkin puolensa.

9. Teh
Edellinen postaus tässä blogissa ja leveämpi sänky antavat viitteitä johonkin suuntaan. Viime kuukausina olen aktivoitunut hieman myös naisrintamalla, joka on oikein mielenkiintoinen elämänalue. Tästä syystä myös suurin osa tietokoneella tehdyistä projekteista on ollut telakalla. Mutta koska asiat ovat mutkikkaita ja mikään ei ole tällä hetkellä varmaa, niin jätän tätä tarkemmin kommentoimatta. En ainakaan vielä tee tästä blogista ihmissuhdeavautumiskanavaa.

A summary in English
1. School is going well.
2. Maybe I’m getting more job. And I’m trying to get a summer job in Helsinki next summer.
3. Met Ismo, MP and Tisk (each of them separately). Great time with all of them.
4. Apartment is getting to satisfy my needs. Even bought a new bed.
5. Paprika has been sidelined for a while but now me and vk are back to it. Records section has been priorized.
6. Watching 24 season 3 and Prison Break season 1.
7. Trying to lose weight again. Have managed to lose 7kg in 3 months. Skied today first time this winter.
8. Booze is having a too big role in the current life.
9. Some boring stuff.

Lumina Polaris is a band playing rock metal music. They started in 2000 and three of the members are my good old friends. The other two I know pretty well. Recently they released their debut album and the success has been remarkable. This is an Elma issue as well because four of them played in MC Studios.

The topic is hot because we’ve been designing a new band page for them and it got published last night. The process took several months but when thinking now it was worth it. It’s by far the coolest web page I’ve been taking part to development. One other guy made the graphics but the XHTML, CSS and PHP codes are written by me. Naturally Viper_KillerGuy has also helped.

Very proudly we present: http://www.luminapolaris.net

A lot has happened since last blog entry. This post tries to be some kind of update of my current life situation. The sections are not in any particular order.

1. University
The last spring was my best university term so far, I passed all the courses I’d applied. The grades could have been a little bit better but I’m satisfied anyway. At the moment I’ve got 115/300 credits. The next year will be more challenging though, bringing some of the most difficult and toilsome courses of the degree.

2. Livelyhood
Seems like I didn’t get too much earnings in this summer which make some things harder. Luckily I have some savings in pocket. However, no work but lots of free time and that has great benefits too.

3. Paprika
About 100 days ago Paprika got released. It has worked nicely and recently we launched the first version of Players section which although is lacking some features. At the beginning we were a bit disappointed about the reaction because not many people seemed to be (sincerely) interested at all. But on the other hand it’s understandable because there really wasn’t anything cool for the visitors. But you are expecting some positive response after working hard.

4. New apartment
I will move to a new apartment during the next 48 hours so it’s a bit muzzy situation here now. All the package and furniture all over the place. The primary reason for moving is because my room mate’s (Carju) leaving together with his forthcoming (wrong word?) wife. All this was planned when we rented the current apartment.

I’ve had great time living here and something to remember with pleasure in the future. While residing here we have gone together in for some sport, cooking and board-gaming. But by far more than nothing else we have talked about the issues of life around the kitchen table. Dozens times we have ruined our sleeps with 6-10 hours talking sessions at night. Some people you get along with and Carju is one of them for me. All the respects.

The new apartment will locate next to the university, actually it’s on the university, on the roof of the university and thereby way to school won’t be too long (5-20 meters depending on how you count it) and that I like. It’s 34m^2 one-room flat and I’ll be living there alone. Entirely alone first time in my life. But that’s fully fine.

5. TV
A big football competition is going in Germany (I guess this wasn’t the first time you heard about it). Tour de France, the most interesting annual sport event, starts in a few days. And those are happenings I would like to be spectatoring. One month TV-licence costs 17 euros and besides that I need a television set. I’m not sure yet but I might be trying to find a TV. Why this is worth writing is the fact I haven’t really watched TV for almost 4 years now. You need to dispense with something in order to gain more time for things you value more (Paprika, Irc).

6. mr meeting
In May mr visited me for a couple of days. Was it like tenth time or something so that isn’t anything remarkable in the community but I decided to drop a few lines. We did our regular actions: nerding to teh max, walking and eating well. All the things we share devotion together with. The best periods of one’s life.

7. Cycling
During the last weeks I’ve broken a few personal cycling records. First me and px travelled to Åland for a cycling trip. In 6 days we cycled 601km which surprised ourselves as well, we had planned to cycle more like 50km per day. We were collecting the municipality pictures there and sightseeing the odd autonomous island of Finland. I’m writing a huge report of the trip so I won’t get to the details right now. The report will be in Finnish but maybe I’ll write a little summary later in English and of course there are always pictures.

The other record was cycled two days ago. Before that my longest (practically) continuous ride was 177km from last summer which beat px’s old 155km record. px’s current record is 211km (driven after my 177km) which has been irritating (without any real negative feelings) me since he cycled it and I wanted to beat it. So I beat it.

260.39km in 11h32mins at average speed 22.56km/h. Average hearth rate was 139. Max speed 61.06km/h. Route: Haukipudas - Ii - Yli-ii - Kipinä - Ylikiiminki - Muhos - Oulu - Pyykösjärvi. I’m satisfied and now the turn is again back to px.

As you noticed, 100%. Finally, finally!!!

I might write some deep thoughts when the biggest rush is gone.

http://paprika.moposite.com

Eventually it will happen. We have been working quite a lot latelly.

It’s been quiet… Depressing periods, almost gave up. But now it’s getting better. I’m again interested in the project and it’s progressing.

Like always: not much left, almost ready. To hurry up please help me in the Glossary task.

97.4%

Another summary. This time about Elma meetings. Juzam and Sathy visited Oulu and I saw Ismo and px in Tampere.

Juzam
He came here in January 2006 to buy a cheap USB keaboard for a multiplaying with Zweq, they drove two WRs after that. Juzam helped me to improve my multi total time by 10 seconds. We met about two hours.

Sathy
Sathy had some businesses here in Oulu in 20th January 2006. He had some hours time to meet me as well and so we did the Chinese restaurant lunch buffet and got acquainted with each other. A rare kuski to my Elma people met list, but that wasn’t the primary aspect because he seemed to be a very interesting and nice person in real life. Hopefully he will let me to meet him again in the future.

px and Ismo
Read the previous post. I visited px for a few days in February 2006, Ismo for 30 minutes. Ismo showed some MKup replays and we irced a few lines in #elma.fi. Quite a small meeting.

Mopolauta post of my currently met Elma people

During the two unblogged months I’ve travelled some. I had my new laptop along so no boring moments in train or anywhere else. Thanks to my new coal backpack too, it rocks. Here goes a small summary of the travels.

New Year eve 2006 in Lappland
Six friends spent one week in a cottage in Lappland. Played games, skied, walked, chilled and talked shiat .. all the normal stuff. Actually we are people from one IRC-channel and the tradition has existed since 2004. This year was my second one.

There are more pictures and a written report but they are kept for private use only.

Skiing trip at grandmother’s
I visited my loved grandmother and grandfather for three days and two nights. They live within 200km from Oulu. I happened to visit them many times in every year when I was younger but at teenage I found their company too boring or rather the activities they can offer.

They are getting old, at the moment the older one is 73 years old. If I still want to spend time with them it’s time for it now. So I was there, skied 39km kilometers, watched olympics and movies (Leon, Häjyt, 21 grams) and ate well.

Tampere tour 2006
Tre-tour is getting a bit traditional too, had similar one year ago already and a light version two years ago. I have a few good friends living there (500km from Oulu) and also the city is interesting with hills and technical university. Tampere might be the place where I could move if somewhere in Finland.

Met Tuska, px and Ismo out of Elma people. Also slept two nights at one army friend’s home and met another army friend. I was there for one week and again it was quite normal activities that we did: beer, wine, board and card games, walk, Taco House buffet, Steak restaurant, Pizzeria and an indian lunch. We also cooked some sweet and sour chicken with vegetables and steak with Greek vegetables (olives, potatoes, onions etc).

Watched Terminator 3, Time Machine and Forrest Gump in train.

I wrote a little bit more detaled report for personal use and it’s in Finnish. I can share it if you’re interested in.

Thanks folks, I had great moments. Next travels will head to Vaasa and Helsinki, most likely.

I’ve spent the last 2-3 days with family celebrating the Christmas: eating delicious food, receiving and giving presents and visiting other family members. Quite normal stuff, don’t you think.

The next week I’ll be in Lappland, near to Ylläs (about 400km to south from Oulu), spending great times with five friends (from IRC). We are going to ski, walk, do culinary, drink, play card games and other relaxing activities (at least if you ask me). I’m looking forward to it. Six hours sleeping and then we go.

I promised to update the Kinglist during the vacation. As you might guess I won’t do it in the next week because I won’t be available in net. But after that I hope… The studies start at 10th of January or something so there should be plenty of time. And also the Paprika. Yeas, we didn’t manage to publish it before 2006. But, it’s near.

Homokaasu.org offers an image editing service called Rasterbator. I gave a try and made quite a nice Elma raster. Any ideas of the level?

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16. - 20. November I was in Joensuu at mr’s home. It was our 9th meeting during last four years. That’s pretty good amount considering we are living 400km from each others. We also met Markku and The OooO. A small meeting report goes here.

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I wrote an uncommon meeting report this time because I was too lazy to put things in chronological order.

• The OooO nick was impossible to say aloud, I tried several times but never managed. Too confusing. I’ve never had the problem before (Luther and ramone wanted to be called as their real names). Hopefully he will change his nick or come up with some other solution.
• The OooO was a great buddy and I guess we will meet more in the future. Hopefully the brothers too: Munkki and Zox. How about FEM06?
• mr had found pets and I guess that’s because dz is having a hedgehog, two dogs, cats, mice, parrots, elephant…
• I met mr’s girlfriend, but she wasn’t as active chatter as she was 6 months ago in our team channel.
• We made a nice walking trip with mr: 31km around the Joensuu surroundings. And I finally got pretty familiar with that city.
• mr and Markku drove a multi world record - both parts were needed to be driven well: Double Trouble 35,67.
• Me, mr and Markku hoyled quite much multi times and we all improved our multi total times (I got about 20 new personal records). SveinR updated the lists a week ago. Markku has driven many of his multi times himself, with both hands having own bike - just incredible! And now I ‘m sure that we need to create top100 lists for multi times. They are so underrated.
• Markku watched mr hoyling Bowling (he has done that for 7 months now) for some hours and later at home he made 56secs - some people could appreciate that? Somewhy I made a conclusion that maybe some people might be a bit better players after all.

Super meeting it was again, already looking forward to next one.

When talking about next meetings I think I’ll visit the Tampere guys (px, Zebra, Ismo, Tuska) in a few months and probably in next spring I could spend a week in Helsinki at Tisk’s home. There I could meet several guys: Karlis, dz, Jokke, Sathy, kimitys, cyre and maybe Tisk.

We are working hard to get Paprika published before 2006. I can’t promise that but at least we are trying our best. I’ve used many 8h+ days for it during last month.

Unfortunately I’ve been rather lazy today, only been hoyling total time. But well, passed skint0r, Tisk, dynamo, petsen, MP, psy, pajen… I think it was worth. My newest times are told in Mopolauta and the current total time is 40:38,99.

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While nothing interesting happening in my Elma life (I’m just playing random pipe levels and making Paprika) I write something about my latest sport project: 50km walking.

A week ago I was having good time with some friends and met there one guy who is into the adventure sports (long running, bicycling, rowing trips). I was interested in his hobby and we came up with an idea to walk some kilometres together. I told that I could try 50km, my current record was 33km or something like that (army treks excluded because I can’t really say how long trips we walked there). So there we were and yesterday at 10:00 we started walking with two other guys.

The first 20km went pretty well but then I started to feel pain in right leg, the speed of walking was faster than my own usual. Heart rate was near to 145 which is way too much for 10h walking. The other guys were OK (two of them are in totally different level with me, doing double marathons etc), heart rate 103 or so. 5km more and a few beers (yes, we had some booze and beers there, it was Saturday after all) later one of those sick guys called his wife to come get him and he left us. After that walking was much easier for me because we dropped the speed from 6-7km/h to 5-6km/h. The last 25km were easier (at least relatively). We also met px (Elma aspect!) and his girl friend during the second half.

In the end we had walked 52.6km in 10h 12 minutes. I was satisfied. Then sauna, some party time and sleep. Today in the morning I couldn’t walk anymore. My legs hurt so much that I can’t stand or walk. I move by using a chair as a walker (rollaattori). Quite painful feelings.

100km would be so cool to achieve, but that won’t happen in the near future. The next goal could be a long skiing trip because now my record is like 40km and skiing is much easier (like 2-3 times) than walking.

Last two days have been very productive, hopefully tomorrow too. 90% now. I’m happy.

After Paprika is released I will be telling publically whats going on. But now I’m keeping this secret because I did that at first place. Actually I always try to keep secrets in Elma projects for two reasons: 1) it’s fun to get/give secrets 2) I don’t like people asking in IRC when x is ready.

+5 celsius degrees outside, summer soon gone. School has started, I selected 7 courses including two English courses. It’s pretty free term, I only have to sit 6 hours per week at university at certain time. The rest is up to me. I watch lecture videos at home, read book, make exercises and so on. The situation is pleasant, yet dangerous, because you need to have quite high self-discipline to control things. But I’m sure I will handle it.

One of my two English courses is called “Self Access Grammar” which can be done at home or in self-learning centrum. The second one is “Lecture Listening” where we listen to different kind of medium (TV, radio, speeches and so on) and write down notes. We also talk a bit there, which is good for me. Tiny speeches of our own will take place too but that’s not a problem.

I gave up in sport competition. I have had 2 points (90 minutes) per day pace for nine months now but it had gotten extremely annoying when you have to do night walks alone without any other reason except those two damn points. But I hope I don’t stop all sport, just that stupid sport-for-points. Today I will be swimming.

And finally about Paprika. It’s getting very near to publishing due to our good mood latelly. But to set your expectations down I must tell you that Paprika is just the first step of one, even bigger, project. So it might not be as grand as you thought. 88%