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Delta Life - Oulu 26
I work on my reputation for being the fastest blogger around and almost do live-blogging here. This event took place two soon two three weeks ago and it had been quite the fun one. The first half of t... more
New Pen Day: Uni Jetstream “Pure Malt”
It’s new pen day again. I routinely change my preferred pen (because why would I decide on anything) and now, after a couple of months sticking to the Uni Zento I switched back to a Jetstream pen. The... more
The Straight Life Audiocast
I wrote at some point how much I enjoy reading other people's diaries and in the past I had been particularly fascinated by autobiographies of my favourite Jazz artists.{.intro} My copy of this book.... more
I guess I prefer Possessions, Hauntings, Exorcisms, and Scary Nuns
I like horror movies and earlier this week I watched "Obsession" with the older kids and am not sure what to think about it. And since I have a blog that doesn't though stop me from telling you about... more
The Traveler's Notebook 20th Anniversary set arrived
I had been debating with myself whether or not to order the 20th Anniversary Customization Set from Travelers Notebook and in the end couldn’t resist.{.intro} I already own the 10th Anniversary box an... more
The Overthinkers Guide to rekindle your Blogging Mojo
So, you haven't been blogging much lately? Had a break? Didn't found the time or inspiration to write something? Too busy? And now you are annoyed because the blog lies dormant for a while already and... more
Delete All
It had been on the horizon for a while and as of now, all other instances of my blog that I had around on different platforms have been deleted and accounts have been closed.{.intro} Over the course o... more
My favourite way to type at the moment
During the Black Friday sale last year I got me an inexpensive and small Lenovo tablet with the idea of turning it more or less into my mobile writing setup. Since then it had become my favourite way... more
New Pen Day: Uni Zento Signature
It's new-pen-day! The Zento Signature has arrived. {.intro} I have been using the Zento 0.38 refill in the Zento Flow (?) barrel for the past three months and have enjoyed quite a bit. It writes nicel... more
New Baum-Kuchen Patches for my Travelers Notebook
My Travelers Notebook with both new patches I have the bottom patch for on both of my Travelers Notebook covers but had been eye-balling with the "Wabi-Sabi" and the "Trust the Process" from Baum-Kuch... more
Introducing Emma
I have not yet came around posting about this, but two weeks ago Emma came to us and unsurprisingly, kept us busy since I will post some more pics at some point more
Weeknote for Week 13 of 2026 - So, what have you been doing?
Let's put it aside that it's been a while since the last weeknote, but Spring is keeping me certainly busy. Well, not Spring really, but rather my own stupidity.{.intro} I bought another Travelers Jou... more
What I did instead...
The other day I was in the fortunate position that my work started late, way after lunch, and I could have use the free time in the morning to:{.intro} continue working on at the least one of my draft... more
With the TMQ Quintet at the Journalisti Gaala
On Thursday we performed with the Tapio Maunuvaara Quintet at the Journalisti Gaala 26 and we had a great time playing there. The lighting had been quite nice there and I took the liberty to take some... more
A Walk through the Woods
Earlier today we took the chance for a quick walk through the woods. The path in Pilpasuo has two path options: the blue or the red path. We took the red one, which despite the color-designation, had... more
I finally consolidated all my Digital Journals
Day One had been the app where I started to journal digitally in. I don't recall when that had been, but my user id had been 510. I guess it must have been quite early on. more
(Almost) The last piece of the Puzzle
After tinkering with the CSS of this blog, my OMG.LOL profile page, my Miniflux theme and even the open-graph image, the one missing piece of the puzzle, that is the themes of apps I am staring most a... more
My "new" Miniflux theme
The other day I wrote how much I am satisfied with the new theme for this blog and how I implemented one on the same style on my newly launched omg.lol landing page. I enjoy this style and since I lik... more
I am actually quite happy with this
I am having a good run in the moment and finalizing the setup of this blog is getting closer. One of the things on my todo-list had been a somewhat decent open-graph-image. more
Weeknote for WK 07/2026
As I went through the motions of importing posts into this blog, it became obvious to me that I am very bad with doing the weeknote thing. Since it is rather a "a-few-times-per-year-thing" I probably... more