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The One with the "Conjuring" universe
A couple of things happened at the same time and the whole thing ended with me watching a horror movie while moving blog-posts and got a lot less sleep than intended Just before going to sleep I was c... more
The Devil’s Soup Bowl
Over the weekend we went to visit the Hiidenkirnut, a leftover landmark from the ice-age. The place is located near Rovaniemi in the north of Finland. The place was interesting to explore. Especially... more
Weeknotes #5
Truth to be told, vacation has started and there is not much going on in the first place, so I guess this will be rather short. During the last few weeks I have continued working on improving my handw... more
Weeknotes #4
Since last week's Weeknotes was amiss, this is more of a two weeks' note. Truth is, not much had happened in the previous week and I had been rather busy, hence I kept things short during that week. A... more
Weeknotes #3
This weeks' Weeknotes are going to be much shorter than last weeks. It was a rather busy week though Things Watched During this week I managed to watch one thing. As a celebration of May the 4th we re... more
Weeknotes #2
The beginning of the week was a bit busy but I got some work done and currently I'm up in the north again for some concerts with the students. This turns out to be surprisingly less stressful. Since t... more
Weeknotes #1
It's a bit crazy right now. It's getting warmer every day (which is great) it also feels earlier than in the recent years, even though the average temperature is 5 degrees Celsius (according to Wolfram Alpha) and today it was only mildly warmer. But who cares. more
A Case of Minor Whisky Nerdery
Almost two years ago I read an inspiring article about single-malt whisky which set me to the road of learning to enjoy the drink.{.intro} To paraphrase the judge: the difference between a drunk and a... more
My “The Books I Read List for 2018”
I started out rather strong and finished a couple of books right in the beginning of the year, and then I explored Audiobooks, which was the moment, when thing got, not necessarily out of hand, but su... more
Some Stats for 2018
As in the previous year(s) I enjoy to have a look at the numbers. In this post I have put together mostly my online-stuff. My health stats could also be interesting to look at, but at the moment they... more
Stuff I watched during the last few weeks
The other week a nasty virus took me down and I had been on sick-leave for a couple of days. Since the kids were in kindergarten I had not much to do during the day, so I did the inevitable and checke... more
More Ninja Go Lego sets
More Ninja Go Lego sets have arrived in the form of our son’s birthday gifts in our household. These two models are very nice looking, large and surprisingly heavy and obviously from everyone favourit... more
The finished Lego BB-8
The other day I got the Lego BB-8 as a birthday gift and we had a blast putting it together. Some parts, especially the inner ones controlling the moving bits, were surprisingly tricky to put together... more
The One With All The Hama Beads
I think my wife has started this Hama-Beads-craze around here by un-digging the Hama-Beads which lay dormant for years on shelf in the kids room. In the beginning it were only a few random patterns an... more
Ninja-Go Lego Dragon
Spend a good time of the morning yesterday building this with our son. This turned out very nicely. more
The Books I Read in 2017
The stats from Goodreads came in the other week and I was happy to realize that I reached my reading-goal for this year. I didn’t succeed with big fanfare though, as I just nailed it with 17 out of 17 books. more
Finished: The Lego Millennium Falcon
This awesome Lego set had been a gift from my wife to our wedding anniversary and it took me almost a year to get it done. Naturally I haven't been working on this all the time, but it took surprising... more