Realm of Dobermann

New blog at dobermann.wordpress.com

2006-07-07T09:03:00.000+03:00

Believe it, all the new and COOL stuff is in my new blog which you can find at http://dobermann.wordpress.com! All the old stuff is there too, minus the comments in Haloscan, and you can enjoy my oldies in there too! So go on, get there! It's not any spam collecting stuff, or adware pusher, it's my good old blog in new location, nothing to worrie about. :) D-Ma

ATTENTION!

2006-07-05T13:25:00.000+03:00

I am going to move my blog to new location. The new address will be dobermann.wordpress.com!! I'm moving because I'm so fed up with this crap with blogger screwing up the post layout. No paragraphs, nothing. This shit just puts everything in one long string of words and who want's to read that??

I will be posting at the new address from this day on, but the start maybe bit slow and Haloscan comments will stay here. So in future and in new blog, the comments will be in the wordpress it self. I hope you can bear with me to follow to new addy, but if not: you're been great and now that you're not reading new posts: suck my balls! D-Ma

From dough-boy to lobster

2006-07-05T12:36:00.000+03:00

On monday we spent the whole day in Porkkala. It's beautifull area where cities of Helsinki, Espoo and Vantaa own land and that's for outdoors activity for citizen. It's beautifull place, rocky sea front and so on. I managed to turn from white to red in relatively dramatically even though I did have sun block and added it now and then. Fortunately my skin wasn't burn as bad as it looked on monday night. Just some after sun lotion and it looked better the next day. Didn't hurt at all. That's just how it is with me. I get bit burned when first time in the sun for the summer and then I start developing a tan. I'm not worried abotu it because it has been like that for ever. Kainu and Klementina enjoyed their time. Kainu spent almost whole day swimming, looking at sailing ships, rolling rocks in the water and barking at motor boats. He did take a nap in the afternoon before we left, but otherwise he was on the move all day. Klementina on the other hand did what she does in the sun at home on our balcony: se was laying in the sun and enjoying the rays. It's funny, she did playi with Kainu twice, for a moment, but otherwise she was just laying on the blanket and sleeping. This day was good for all of us, but espeically for the human participants, because the dogs were so tired that they didn't want to go for a long walk on tuesday! that's great! ;) I've got few photos and bit of video on Kainu doing his things in the water. I will post few photos and couple videos when I get my self to load them from my camera. In the mean time: I hope you American one's had a great 4th and 230th b-day! And I hope rest of you had fun anyway! D-Ma

Shopping cart

2006-07-03T23:01:00.001+03:00

Shopping cart
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Lonely cart that seems to have been in crash..

D-Ma

How it should be done

2006-07-03T23:01:00.000+03:00

How it should be done
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

This guy knows how to park, at least at this specific spot. Compare it to this asshole. Or maybe it's the same guy with different car and he saw my earlier post''?

As far as it gets.

2006-07-03T11:27:00.000+03:00

As far as it gets.
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Parking on the lawn of our building after driving over 1/4 mile on walkway (no cars, no no) seems to be the trick to get your car photographed and sent to internet for rest of the world to admire your mental capabilities as well as rusted old swedish crap you call a car.

D-Ma

Oh crappety-crap!

2006-07-02T11:16:00.000+03:00

I just realized that my mobile data plan with the old operator just ended on friday (ond of the month) and my new operator's sim card starts working on monday.. Why I tell you this? Well, I will not be able to sed out photos from the spot during this sunday. But I will try to be usefull and take photos with real camera and post them when I get back home. ..or when I have time. I'll be out of office until wednesday, so I might not post that much if all until tuesday evening or wednesday morning. I know that some of you are just glad that I take it easy blogging-wise for atleast couple days.. ;) Have a nice sunday and have fun! D-Ma

Guess if Kainu liked it?

2006-07-01T20:38:00.000+03:00

Guess if Kainu liked it?
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

We were walking through the fields again earlier this evening.

Them Bones

2006-06-30T20:43:00.000+03:00

Them Bones
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

We walked through the fields again and about fourth of the mysterious bones are still visible even though grass has grown a bit since mid-spring..

They come in all sizes..

2006-06-30T12:39:00.000+03:00

They come in all sizes..
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

How many handicap people drive big, old and ugly van?

Egan

2006-06-30T09:54:00.000+03:00

Egan
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

I've had this one for a while now, but never got myself to post it. In honor of our Seattlean Triathlon Master, Egan: here's a photo for you..

Oh, and I can even get a quiz out of this: what is that in the photo?

And don't ask where I got this photo, I don't even remember it myself, I think someone emailed it to me last fall..

Dobe on the wall

2006-06-30T09:27:00.000+03:00

Dobe on the wall
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

New gadgetry

2006-06-30T07:18:00.000+03:00

I finally got my new phone. I went for Samsung SGH-Z540 after all. I was about to go for the SonyEricsson K800i, but in the end I got the Samsung cheaper and faster. I have gotten used to the Samsung phones, so it's not a big deal. I might go for another phone next time I change phone, but that's not going to happen in year or two. Funny, once I used to change phones in about every 10 months, got nice trade price for the old phone. Anyway, I got the new phone yesterday afternoon and have had time to fiddle with it a bit. I did upload few mp3 songs in it, got all the settings done (for now) and now I'm sitting at the office and listening Godsmack's Sick of Life from the phone's speakers. It's not a hifi gardget, but it sounds pretty damn good considering the size of the speakers.

Here's few photos of the new Z540 compared to my old E700.

I knew that the Z540 was not the smallest one, but I didn't expect it to be that big compared to my old E700. I will get used to the size, but this is the only real disappointment at the moment.

Even though E700 is bit thicker, it's otherwise smaller phone.

Last two pics are my new Samsung SGH-Z540 next to my old Nokia 9500 Communicator. This just because you'd get the idea how huge that Nokia piece is and that the Z540 isn't as big as one might think from my earlier ramblins and those couple photos. E700 just is so small.. ..and still very usable. It has also good photo quality compared to the mpixes or lack of them in this case. I have taken couple pics with the Z540 and have been happy with them. Not surprised, but happy with the quality. For example the "Jesus wants to save you" photo was taken with the Z540.

EDIT: Oh, and I haven't yet decided if the phone will be called Sam Vader or Darth Sung.. For now it's just Darth Samsung..

D-Ma

Jesus Wants To Save You

2006-06-29T23:18:00.000+03:00

Jesus Wants To Save You
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Thanks, but the dogs need to take a leak and I need to hit the bed. See you later!

Lost is funny

2006-06-29T21:32:00.000+03:00

Lost is funny
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

At least if you ask from Kainu.

Blogger sucks ass

2006-06-29T14:58:00.000+03:00

This crappy and shitty Blogger keeps messing up with my posts and how they should look. For example FKT post: text is one long line and so is my "Boring.." post. It sucks so much it makse me mad!! If you want to read that boring stuff in a READABLE form, go check it out at my shadow blog at WordPress. If Blogger keeps sucking ass this hard, I will move there permanently. I do import my blogger stuff to the WordPress blog now and then, but I still use this blogger shit hole as my main blog. (only god knows why..) EDIT: I had to do some pretty weird html fucking-around to get those earler posts to look even remotely readable. it took some time and effort, but I got paid for every minute since I did it at work time. ;) D-Ma

Ok then..

2006-06-29T10:42:00.000+03:00

Ok then
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Take a closer look of the serach keywords this guy used when he found my blog via Google. I'm sorry I didn't have the information he was looking for..

D-Ma

FKT: Fully Klothed Thursday

2006-06-29T10:30:00.000+03:00

FKT: Fully Klothed Thursday Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

I decided to do this after all these months. I do think that I qualify:

-Longsleeve and worker-shirt on that

-Long jeans (not visible)

-Lame ass facial expression

-Some facial hair covering the skin

This is lot to wear on a day when it's 21C warm outside.

D-Ma

Boring, or is it?

2006-06-28T10:16:00.001+03:00

I didn’t have much to say yesterday and I still don’t have much to say. At least anything that makes much sense or is intersting at all..

Sometimes I wonder if my life is boring and un-eventfull because I have nothing interesting to post about in my blog. Just random photos of bad parking and rambling thoughts now and then. And when I read other people’s blogs there’s lot of interesting going on: triathlon, moving to new place and renovating, doing stuff in old european town(city) and posting about interesting things and so on. That really does bother me now and then. I do have couple ideas, but I don’t have the time to work on them at the moment and to be honest, I don’t know when I have the time..

This morning I yet again found myself thinking like this after going through few blogs I read semi-daily basis. Then it struck me: I might be too critical! Well, my life isn’t that exciting and I don’t do too many interesting things, but what if I do leave those funny and interesting events out of my blog? Ok, that must be the case, but I still need to filter that stuff and that might be the problem in the end. I have no filtering at all or I will filter 99% of the stuff. Damn, I need to find a way to get that filter adjusted.

Mean while I’ll just quickly let you know what has happened this morning along the obvious waking up, showering, taking dogs out and getting to work:

-Kainu puked after eating whole bowl of dog food. The puke contained lot of timber so he must’ve been eating sticks last night.

-The kid nextdoor (small one, barely walks and doesn’t really talk..) palys on their balcony and it’s next to ours. He starts shouting “pow, pow, pow” if Klementina isn’t on our balcony. This morning it took hitting the balcony floor and doing “jail thing” with a baby mug against the balcony rail to get Klementina to see what the kid was doing. After that it was”brrrrrr,brrrrrr…” with the cars.

-I saw post truck dude drop a large cart full of mail when unloading his truck at the local post office. There were envelopes and magazines everywhere. I told him I’ll kill him if any of my magazines were wet or dirty, and smiled at him. I do like to disturb people now and then.

-We got new guy starting at the office this monday. Today he came to say hi to me and started my asking “Do you work in here?” and I replied “No, I just pretend.”. He’s a nice guy after all.

That’s about it. There has been many interesting things going on at the office, but unfortunately I can’t talk about them in here..

D-Ma

Blind reading?

2006-06-27T15:43:00.000+03:00

Blind reading?
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Closer snap of the blind driver. She's reading something in the car, so close sighted? How did that cunt get driving lisence??

Must be blind?

2006-06-27T15:39:00.000+03:00

Must be blind?
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

That lower sign is no parking zone sign..

Monday after

2006-06-26T13:11:00.000+03:00

I didn't feel like getting back to work this morning. I would've rather spent rest of the summer bbq'ing and running naked from sauna to the sea and back. That much the mid-summer eve fest got into me again. I want to chill out in the sun and do what ever comes to my mind..

This feeling somehow amplified when I got to the office and noticed that the network is stuck. I would like to check out few news sites and blogs, but I can't because the network is too busy. It's because some people got back to work from vacation and their computers are downloading automatic updates. Also the geek department thought it's great day to run server and firewall updates.. I can't even work most of the time. It suck because I have nothing to do because I can't go net surfing!!

D-Ma

Must be retarded?

2006-06-26T12:05:00.000+03:00

Must be retarded?
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

It's the only reason this bitch parked in this handicap space..

Feels right?

2006-06-26T11:43:00.000+03:00

Feels right?
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Bigger automobile needs bit more room I guess..

The Juhannus Sauna

2006-06-23T19:07:00.000+03:00

The Juhannus Sauna
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Best one yet!!

View from sauna porch

2006-06-23T19:00:00.000+03:00

View from sauna porch
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Time to go get busy bbq'ing!

Inside sauna

2006-06-23T18:39:00.000+03:00

Inside sauna
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Real sauna, this type is called "smoke sauna"..

Sauna

2006-06-23T18:32:00.000+03:00

Sauna
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Real sauna..

Kainu

2006-06-23T17:48:00.000+03:00

Kainu
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

After running around mindless, momentsbefore sauna..

Summer rims

2006-06-22T21:00:00.000+03:00

Summer rims
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Unfortunately there's something wrong with them (shakes when speed over 45mph) and I have to change the small steel wheels on 1st thing tomorrow..

..and all they wanted was better sex (but cheese and crackers will do too)

2006-06-21T07:12:00.000+03:00

AT THE OFFICE This morning my office feels just right. It's not too hot for the first time this summer. I do not blame the sun, I love it when it's warm, but I blame the people who turned the air conditioning on saving mode. The sun shines in this freaking room all morning, from sunrise (around 3:30am) to noon. During that time it gets pretty damn hot even though I have shades shut and sealed and the temp set to "freeze". I even was stupid enough to think that maybe it chokes when it's on coldest, so I tried some bit less extreme settings. BS, didn't work. It's not much fun when it's 27C outside, sun shining straight in and despite the shades it's around 31 to 33C in the room. Try to work in this temperature! Thank god this is last day at work this week! GADGET TALK I did go for it. What? Well, I did get new mobile plan from another operator and went for the included phone. It's locked, but doesn't matter to me because I can unlock it anytime. The problem is that the warranty is thrown out the window if I unlock it.. I decided to go for this even though I'm tied to this operator for next 24 months. After doing some calculations I found out that even with the phone this new plan is going to be about 55 euros cheaper per year than my current plan. Of course there's few changes to the plan, but they're changes that are for good. For example, I don't need this heavy data package I've been having, but this operator don't have anything else available. In my future plan I have lighter data package where the speed compared to the data rate is just right. I mean, I dont need no broadband when I'm sending cameraphone photos to Flickr and to the blog.. I will still have my other plan with the old operator, the one on my Nokia 9500 Communicator. I will cancel that too as soon as I get enough dough to get HP IPaq hw6915 or Fujitsu-Siemens Pocket Loox T830 to replace the Nokia.. JUHANNUS Next friday it's Juhannus eve (mid-summer fest), but I'm going to take long weekend off. I got thursday and friday off so I have 4 day weekend. I was thinking about getting monday and possibly even tuesday off too, but I'd rather save my hard earned vacation days for my birthday weekend and for the end of this "goverment made one side agreement" that keeps me working on here.. I will possibly post a photo here and there like I seem to do when ever I'm not at work, but in any case: Have a good Juhannus! Don't drink too much, don't drown while trying to pee from a boat and don't burn yourself! D-Ma

Must see!!

2006-06-20T15:40:00.000+03:00

Bangkok has rocketed in my "must visit" list today and there's only one reason for this: a hotel. It looks nice and all, but the name is the reson I MUST spend at least one night in there. I also might have to make an offer to buy the joint. I can't pay too much, but it would be so great to own this place! lol D'Ma

300C that was raped..

2006-06-19T15:34:00.000+03:00

I just happened to surf around and found this Chrysler 300C car-hifi install. The Subwoofer box, amp and cd-changer work is great, nicely stealth, but rest look like it's just thrown in. I mean, this stylish car and then the ICE stuff is just put in rather than they would've gone the extra-mile they did with the sub, amp and changer! I bet it's not the shop's fault if the owner is an idiot, but still. You can also make conclusions about the owner if you look his car's front door setup.. Come on!! That might look good with doors that have frameless glass but this.. And since the car is white, it looks even more stupid. I mean, does that look cool to you? It looks like a opening hatch of a old russian submarine.. You know what I mean, the hole is smaller and in the front of the opening.. Some work, maybe if the edges were painted interior color, wider piece where the hinges originally were, would tone it down. I've seen it work in other vehicles. So, there you had another guy with no sense of style with a car that looks awesome like factory built it and would look really killer with some effort and eye for style.. And this shop who installed the entertainment system in this crappy 300C has done few amazing jobs, so it's not that they're not capable. Just compare the 300C to Avalance they did, a H2 Hummer they've built, installation in Maserati.. This shop has the skills, but when customer don't have the dough to pay to get it done right.. Well, you saw the Chrysler above.. D-Ma

Stupidity continues

2006-06-19T07:49:00.000+03:00

Stupidity continues
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Same from another angle..

Stupidity

2006-06-19T07:46:00.000+03:00

Stupidity
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

I'm out of words..

Underground

2006-06-18T21:02:00.000+03:00

Underground
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Again..

Clean..

2006-06-18T19:06:00.000+03:00

Clean..
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

..bicycle, for now..

Sunday Sunny Sunday

2006-06-18T17:20:00.000+03:00

I've been to a walk with the dogs in the morning, well at 1oam, but still. It was sunny and warm at the time, so both canine companions have been tired. I did take a nap a while ago, but otherwise I've been doing things. I have cleaned the balcony, washed my bicycle again, and so on. It's really warm outside, about 27C at the moment in the shade. I tried to stay in the sun for a period at a time so I don't burn my scandinavian pale skin right away. ;) Now I'm sitting on the couch, having feta salad and watching Ewan McGregor and Charley Boorman on "Long Way Round". This series is something I've been wanting to do myself. And I bet many of you want to do something like that too.. Yesterday I was having a brunch at my mom's palce and my grandfather was there too. He told couple stories that I hesitate to share with you, but maybe one day. Anyway, my mom told she was going to buy new cell phone sometime soon since her old one was not working right.. She bought her current mobile phone in 2000 (6 years ago..) when the model was discontinued and it was on sale ("pay for the accessories and get the phone for free" type of deal.. lol) with handsfree and extra battery. She wasn't too happy because she couldn't find the kind of phone she wanted. After half an hour looking models on her computer we found two and she ended up buying Samsung SGH-E530, a pink one. Now she's trying to learn how to use it.. lol I think it'll take about one month until she gets used to it.. Now she has a phone for next 5-8 years.. ;) I'm going to do some tasks in the house and then get out with the dogs when it's still sunny. That way I can enjuy the sun and we have quiet evening when those little dogs are tired and sleeping.. :) D-Ma

Dirty little..

2006-06-17T18:27:00.000+03:00

Dirty little..
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

..bicycle needs to be washed again..

What's my target group?

2006-06-17T14:20:00.000+03:00

I have noticed that I get lot of hits from Image/Brand Research companies. You know those companies that are hired to check out how's the client's (Company, their ptoduct, movie star, band, etc.) image is doing. Weird how they like my blog as much as rest of the people. I mean, I get almost as much hits from them that I get from you my friends who pop in here to see what's up in my little world. I started to think what kind of consumer I am and do I fall in some marketing group. I do fit in many in the first glance, but is you take better look, I don't fit in any group. I think that's with most of the people. But I was thinking that they need to find a group I fit the best.. That's still hard. My daily used products have been the same for long time. I use the same razor when ever I feel the need to clean my facial hair. It's old system, in fact I've had the "razor system" for about ten years. Why to change if it works for me? I the shampoo I use because it smells nice and works with my hair and feels good too, no need to change as long as they make it. I use same shaving foam I have used for ages, it has changed a bit, but it still feels and smells nice. I do use different aftershaves and deodorants depending on the day, time of the year and am I going out or staying home. I try to keep this one base scent, but then find variations for the occasion. I have found myself stuck in 2 series and I think I found third. I don't like to change just because.. And the ones I use are popular enough to keep them in production, but unpopular enough that I don't smell the same as every guy at the bar.. ;) And when I fee like change, I go and sniff untill I find the right, no matter how they advertise. Ok, I avoid ALL Axe products just because they have stupid commercials and ads, I don't even want to know about their products. I don't want to be connected to those commercials. I'm not that brand loyal when talking about cars. I have been driving with GM cars, but it has never been a concious choice or decision to just drive GM. They have felt right and have been available at the time I have been looking for car. I have found many nice cars from other manufacturers, but when it has been tie to get new car, it has been GM product that has felt right, was priced right and was just right. I'm also relatively open when looking for new car. I have my needs, but I'm not strictly looking for couple or SUV or sedan. I have my requirements and when they are all "cheked" in the list, I don't care what type the car is. For example: -I need room for two dogs and 2-3 people now and then. -Convienience accessories like electric windows, central locking, AC, etc. -RWD or AWD/4x4 -Larger/powerfull engine, but economical. Nice compromise.. -Seek styling (in my mind, that is) -"feels good" I have just as much money that I have, so I only have maximum price. I'm just happy if the car is cheaper! At this moment the cars that I have found suitable are very different but still have all I need. THere's just the price that might cut some out from the list. Age is not problem, but I prefer post-2000 cars.. - Chevrolet TrailBlazer - MB E430 STW - Jeep Grand Cherokee - Jeep Wrangler - Opel Vectra The Wrangler doesn't have the two dogs and 2-3 passengers, but it gets so many "feeling" points and some extra style points to cover that shortage. The Mercedes is bit old fashioned and looks like old man's car and would need some work.. Cherokee would be nice and Vectra too, but I think at this moment the TrailBlazer would be the one. It looks good (especially with bit larger rims. ;) ), has the room, has nice torqueye larger engine, but has relatively good mileage. Only problem is that in Finland they cost quite more than the other ones in the list. I still think that it would deliver for every extra dime invested in the car.. Well, when I really do change car things might be different and the actual new car also depends on what is available at that moment.. D-Ma

How awesome is this!

2006-06-17T10:14:00.000+03:00

How awesome is this!
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Ford Mondeo man sure left enough room to get in and out of the car..

Dad Pride?

2006-06-15T13:32:00.000+03:00

Yet again Engrish made my day. Proud to be dad AND gay. Or is he?

Lazy fucker

2006-06-14T06:35:00.000+03:00

Lazy fucker
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

There's a truck parking about 20m away, but this guy decided to go on lawn..

Nice

2006-06-13T20:26:00.000+03:00

Nice
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Just about warm enough at around 8.30pm..

Where is as far as it gets? In west or in East? What about south?

2006-06-13T19:36:00.000+03:00

I have been thinking. I've had this urge to get out on the road and traveling, but unfortunately it's not possible this summer. I will have to try to get everything out from the couple weeks in late august when we're trying to get out and around Finland. Anyway, I was looknig at my Michelin maps and especially Finland when I thought it's not that long way to Nordkapp! Then I had this idea, many others might have had too. The idea was simple until I started to think more about it. The idea was to visith the northernmost point of Europe, Southernmost point of Europe, westernmost point of Europe and easternmost point of Europe. Sounds simple, right? Then I thought it should be the city, town or village, not the exact physical piece of turf.. After that I started to look at the map of europe and got another thing haunting in my mind. Should it be continental europe or should I include islands too. This because on islands the easternmost point would be in Rodos, Greece. And what about southernmost point? would it be Gibraltar or Malta? Or even Canary Islands? They're part of Spain and that way could be concidered as EU countries. If so, that would also be the westernmost place too! This dilemma was haunting me and still is. Which way I should go? And after all that, should I do it my driving or would it me ok to fly? And should I visit them all in one trip or could it be done in separate trips? What you think? If I don't get this things settled in my mind, I might have to do all variations and it would take years to complete!! I don't mind traveling to same places, but still.. Thank god the Nordkapp is definately nothernmost point!! lol D-Ma

Sun, sweat and smiles

2006-06-13T12:44:00.000+03:00

It 's warm, in fact it is HOT outside! No wind at all and sun is scorching.. The temperature is 25C in here, outside that is. In my office it's fucking 28C even though I have AC blowing my hairdo off! My little room is in the corner and sun is shining in from sunrise to about noon.. I do have shades in my windows, but they do help just a bit.. I don't complain, I just tell you this fact. Even though I'm sweating here (not pouring, mind you) I do like it this way better than looknig out the window into an arctic scenery.. I'm wearing shorts and short sleeve shirt and still I'm sweating. lol Cool. They even told (weatherman and -woman) that it's getting warmer tomorrow! Yippee!!! Summer kicks winters as any given day. ;) D-Ma

Monday after nice Sunday

2006-06-12T07:39:00.000+03:00

It's monday morning and I'm alive. Yesterday wasn't bad either! I assume that's because I was only able to spend 60e on alcoholic bewerages and we hit the bed before 2am! Yes that's about 2-3 hours ealrly compared to the "standard". I was bit tired and feeling somewhat worn on sunday, but not too much. The drive home did take extra hour, but it was because we got hungry on the way and decided to grab something to eat. We also had to stop on the way since we saw a strawberry sale stand and bought loads of them too! lol All in all it was fun night. It wasn't this mega-happy night that people will talk for decades, but I had a blast. And combined with the sunday that wasn't wasted on crying under the bed, this trip was A-grade. We picked up Klementina from my mom on the way home and my dad came from his cabin in the evening, aroud 7pm to return Kainu. Both dogs were happy, but I could see that Kainu would've liked to stay for lot longer. He had beed sneaky: my dad was at the lake with a friend who likes fishing. They were just hanging out with Kainu while this guy was fishing and when the fishing was done and it was time to get back, the fisher-guy noticed that two of his largers fishes were missing. Kainu tried to tell he didn't know anything about them, but the scales on his paws and nose gave him away. Yes, Kainu ate two approx. 3 pound fishes while nobody was looking! And Lex, I will have to get back to you on that black drink. I thikn you might like it. ;) D-Ma

Headtrip

2006-06-11T00:54:00.000+03:00

Headtrip
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

D-Ma in can..

Yummy again

2006-06-10T23:48:00.000+03:00

Yummy again
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

French Syrah.. Second bottle at second dinner..

D-Ma

Yummy

2006-06-10T21:35:00.000+03:00

Yummy
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

These are mine.. They appeared while I was taking a leak....

D-Ma

Cold one

2006-06-10T19:49:00.000+03:00

Cold one
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

That tap sure is cold..

D-Ma

One quart of Merlot..

2006-06-10T19:27:00.000+03:00

..and Discovery Channel aren't good combination. We just saw a program that could be called "Filippe and Porn-Frogs".

D-Ma

Dinner

2006-06-10T19:04:00.000+03:00

Dinner
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

About bottle of these per person on dinner. Nice, it was the house special in the hotel.

We're in Salo for a summer start-up party of this one large cell phone manufacturer.. I will try to post photos and drunken stories for your entertainment and my embarrasment....

D-Ma

Happy canine

2006-06-09T20:21:00.000+03:00

I've got loads of stuff from that walk about 2 weeks ago. Yes, lot of pics and few bits of video too.. So, here's one cip where Kainu shows how much fun one can have with little flat rock!

Yet another..

2006-06-09T08:24:00.000+03:00

Yet another..
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Agile guy for handicap..

Dreams of a little boy

2006-06-08T11:47:00.000+03:00

I'm back to work this thursday and it feels good which is bit strange! lol Anyway, I have done about two days worth of work and it's not even noon yet! Well, I have mostly been working on things that were lest undone while I was sick and had the days off. Nothing big, but somehow the things are so easy to do and I don't really care much about them. And what I mean by that is that the things do not annoy me at all. I have let my mind just wonder around while I have been working and I got thinking about those small and big childhood dreams. Things we wanted to do, not the dreams where we are filthy rich and famous. For me those were dreams that were about vehicles, air, land and sea vehicles. I never really were into space shuttles in means of flying to space. They were cool in mechanical sense and I always thought how cool it would be to hook one of those rockets into a car. lol My dreams were also the kind of what other kids mostly didn't care for. I didn't necessary want to own these things, I just wanted to experience, feel them. So, next I will reveal couple of those childhood dreams. The coolest supercar ever, for me, was (and kind of still is) the Lamborghini Countach 25th Anniversary model. When I was a kid it had to be black with red interior and definately with the wing. Yes, even though that the wing took few mph off the top speed. These days I prefer the wingless version. That car was something else! When ever I saw a picture of it in a magazine, I had to get that mag. I didn't have posters of it, I didn't want to have those posters because in a way I though they would degrade it. I felt that this piece of automobile history is worth more than some poster on the wall that would fade in time. I wanted to experience that car, I wanted to sit in it when a professional race-car driver took it to limits. I wanted to hear that exhaust note when the car accelerated. I wanted to feel the exhaust note when the car was standing still and on idle. I still want. I have seen the car live only once, when I was (I think) 26 and in Miami. I saw it drive a block down from me and still got the chills.. And I still would like to experience that car, if not drive, to be able to ride in with a pro-driver.. When I was a kid I got into the world of aviation because my dad was into planes and was avid RC-plane enthusiast. I did recognize a plane flying above me as long as I could see the shape of the body and wings.. But for me the ultimate flying machines were helicopters and especially AH-1 Cobra in all of it's variations. It was the first modern attack chopper in my books. It looked so sleek, even compared to more modern choppers. It was something else. I haven't seen one live, not even once, I have just seen it in tv and in movies. Still, I think it has it's on specific sound, like the UH-1. When I was a kid I wanted to take a ride in AH-1 and to be honest, I still do. AH-64 would do too, but it wouldn't be just the same.. AH-1 was my first helicopter love and it will have a special place in my heart.. D-Ma

Been there, done that

2006-06-07T15:03:00.000+03:00

So, now I'm back at home. We didn't have interview, even thoguh that I thought we'd have. There were this test and then an essay to write. I couldn't believe that it was all! I mean, I was expecting this inch thick pile of paper as a test and then that the essay would take lot of time.. ..it took me about an hour to do the test, go through it twice to check it and write the essay. And I wasn't being hasty, I did it as well as I could.. Ok, it wasn't easy in any means, but I thought I wasn't prepared well enough. The math part was easy for me and the essay was easy. I've always been good at essays. lol Anyway, I'm happy with my work and now I just wait to know if that was enough or were there too many who did it better than I was able. Now it's time to go for a walk with the dogs and start working on math and fysics since I have tech tests on saturday morning.. D-Ma

Chills

2006-06-07T11:47:00.000+03:00

I'm right here, nicely 30min early, found the right class-room and all. Yes, I did remember to take my writing gear with me and the invitation letter too. Just to find out I only need id-card. Better safe than sorry, don't you think?

I am not happy with my reading of the preparation material, but I will manage. There's lot of people reading the material, for example this one desperate looking girl. If she looks any more desperate, I will tell her it's going to go well. I mean, she's about to cry..

I know I will get more and more nervous every minute until I get into the class and get the papers in front of me. From that moment I'm in this calm place, just me and my paper. It's always been like that, but this time it feels that I have built up the nervousness lot later, but total amount is same as always. This means that I'm bit more nervous to the end.

TIME STANDS STILL

You know the feeling you get when you're anticipating something really hard? The feeling that no matter what you do, the time crawls slowly like weed smoking snail. You read every page in Readers' Digest and it only took 5 minutes. And you studied every picture really hard..

Well, I did start my usual time-killing thing, I started to observe my surroundings and people. Most of the fellow nerve wrecks look at the clock like they were waiting for second coming and some look like it's armageddon they're waiting for. Unfortunately that's the most there's happening, besides nervous chattering and giggles between friends. I hope I get bored soon, then I wouldn't be nervous myself. Thank good it's good kind of nervousness, anticipation and excitement.

D-Ma

Reading and changing plan

2006-06-07T08:31:00.000+03:00

It's about 8:30am and I'm up, reading. i'm trying to get everything read one more time. Well, it's time to go after that anyway.. Yes, I have just over 2 hours before I need to leave for the exams and interview. I'm feeling confident and nervous at the same time. I assume that's a good thing. lol I also made a decision last night. I did some calculations and ended up changing my mobile operator. It was easy decicion after I did some research. At the moment I have two numbers and two sim cards from one operator. The 1st is for talking and messaging and the second is my data sim that's in my Nokia 9500 Communicator. I will still keep the Communicator sim with the old operator, but I will remove the data service from the plan. This way I will have no monthly fee, only for calls I make, and since I do not make any calls, it's just right! I did order new sim with old number and a plan that covers my normal use. I did check my history and the minutes in the new plan are just right for me and the messages included in the monthly fee are around the number I send normally! There is some room for more calls and messages, but the monthly fee is still cheaper than with my old plan. I also got data package for the plan and all these combined PLUS the new phone included, I SAVE around 6e per month!! That's amazing. So, now I'm waiting for the phone that doesn't exactly meet my needs, but will work. lol I did some adjusting to my gadget list and by selling the Nokia 9500 and getting new PDA I will be able to fill the void. So that's about it for now, it's back to reading. I will let you know how it went when I'm out of there in the afternoon. D-Ma

Communicating device dilemma

2006-06-06T19:08:00.000+03:00

I need new phone, really bad. My old Samsung has served well, but is barely working. I would like to buy SonyEricsson K800i, but they're releasing it in mid june. This means that shops get just few units for sale and it wsould be widely available around mid to late july.. And I assume it's going to cost bit more than I will be able to pay for a phone..

I have an option, but it's not as good as I'd like. I can get a sim-locked phone bundled to my plan and my monthly payment would be about the same as now. Problem is that the phone they offer is not what I'm after. It doesn't meet even my minimum requirements, even though it's not too far from them. There's 1,3mpix camera and I want at least 2mpix. Of course the quality of the camera makes a difference, but in the end I'd rather pay a lot for the K800i with quality 3,2mpix camera..

D-Ma

Forever-teen studying

2006-06-06T13:14:00.000+03:00

All reading. I've been reading the preparation material for the test/exams and I'm getting somewhat tired. I've also been lazy. For some reason I end up doing something else even thoguh I should read. Then I read a page or two and find something else to do.. The positive thing is that I do remember lot of key things (at least I think they are) and on top of that I do recall things related to the subject, old things that happened maybe 10 years ago. I hope it's enough tomorrow at the exams. I'm bit angry at myself because I've been such a slob, but at least I do remember what I have read and what it was all about. Now there's one more pile of paper to read. I will have to then check out how they are related to each other. I bet they are not chosen randomly, there must be more than just the obvious connections between the material. Iy'll take all afternono and night and some of tomorrow morning before it's time to get to the school for the interview and test/exams. I am bit nervous, that's for sure, but not as nervous as I would've been 10 years ago. But I'm more nervous that I would've been 2 years ago.. Go figure. I try to take this as a good sign and get all the energy out of the nervousness. lol Well, I will definately post how it all went when it's done deal. It's going to be 2 months of waiting for the results.. I do hope they send the mail as soon as possible, because then I have few days to re-arrange everything.. I ean, I can't really apply for new job if I'm going to school. And if I don't get to the school, I do need a new job. Huh. Well, I have planned a 2 week vacation at the end of august, so I will have time to find a job if I need. And then it's time to get ready for applying again. I am able to do few jobs, but I do NEED to get new degree and new line of work, otherwise I just get stuck and I don't want that. I want to finish the changing I started. I have quit smoking, drinking, started cooking again and eating bit healthier and so on. Even my way of seeing the world has changed. I think it's good that I have had this project now, because I will not have time to have the 30's crisis:"I'm 30 and what have I accomnplished, I should act like responsible adult, etc. etc. jaada-jaada-blah-blah".. Ok, I'm not that kind of guy anyway, but now that I've got this project, I don't have time or the need to even think about it. Yes, I'm going to hit the 30 in july, but I still feel like 22 in some ways. And I try to keep the dreaming and "I can do anything if I want" mentality of a teenager. lol That way I feel like I can make a difference, if nothing else, in my own life at least. And it's something that helps when things are not going the best way they could. D-Ma

Running again

2006-06-05T14:11:00.000+03:00

This one is also from last monday's walk and yes, from the same field.. ;)

D-Ma

Field workers

2006-06-02T13:06:00.000+03:00

Keep Away

2006-06-01T21:09:00.000+03:00

Keep Away Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

I was just killing time on Ebay and happened to stumble upon few RC-cars. When I was a kid I had 3 of them and even raced with one. I wasn't champion, but didn't suck either. I just didn't like racing that much. I loved to drive around the track lap after lap, by myself, and perfecting my times. Well, now I found few really impressing cars with big gasoline engines, brakes and all. We didn't even dream about these when I was a kid. Ok, they cost anything from 500 bucks (with radios and all) and the sky is the limit. As you can imagine, I suddenly had the need to get one. How cool it would be to make own track in mall parking lot and drive it finessing my lines and top speeding at just under 50mph on main straight? Now you know what the title is referring to.. I will try to avoid Ebay and hobby stores for now. --Godsmack

Photos from the walk on monday, pt2.

2006-06-01T15:51:00.000+03:00

The creek crossing is right in the middle of the map. That is where these photos were taken. Quite close where the earlier ones. If you scroll the satellite photo a bit up and right, you'll see the Backas Gardens' yards and glass-/garden-houses where you can buy everything you need when working on your backyard.

Almost holiday, looking like summer and photoshop

2006-06-01T15:44:00.000+03:00

I called the doctor this morning and after she called back, I went to get examined. Nothing new, staying home for the rest of the week. I've got monday, tuesday AND wednesday off next week, so It's kind of like holiday. Well, I'm at home, doing nothing much fun with sore back.. And I need to read some of the material for the exams/test for the school I'm applying into. The interview and the test is on wednesday, so I don't have much time anymore. I'm confident though. ;) FInally the temperature and the nature around here are looking like they should when it s summer. We're getting some more rain (sez the weatherman) during the weekend, but I m not going to care about that. If it's sunny, I'll go out with the dogs, take my bicycle for a spin and so on. If it's raining we might have to go to movies and maybe to eat something out. Either way, I'm happy. Oh, I was about to do some tweaking in photoshop, but thought why not just poist the photos for you all to see. They're not best ones, but they were taken with compact and I haven't done a thing to them in photoshop. I will work on the best photos to make them decent and yes, I haven't posted and will NOT post all of the photos. There's lot of photos of the dogs that are out of focus, dog escaped from the fram, and so on.. I have saved them because maybe in future I will have some ideas with them. Maybe use some elements or parts of them in something else when doodling with the photoshop.. D-Ma

Photos from our monday afternoon walk

2006-05-31T20:14:00.000+03:00

Here's few photos from the start of the walk. You can find more from my Flickr albums. Do check out, there's also a map and so on. :) The doggie photos will follow later. D-Ma

Summer

2006-05-31T11:25:00.000+03:00

Summer
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

It's coming finally!

One of the things that happened yesterday

2006-05-30T14:21:00.000+03:00

Kainu decided it was time to have fun at the end of our walk (total of 3hours and 45minutes). This happened just about here.

On the way

2006-05-29T19:10:00.000+03:00

On the way
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Kainu seems to be happy little walker

Sore back, exercising, taking photos and blabbering

2006-05-29T16:48:00.000+03:00

Yesterday afternoon my back started to give some crap.. This morning I went to see the doctor and surpirse, surprise! I'm going to spend most of the week at home. I'll get back to work on thursday morning if nothing worse happens. In the mean time I will stay home, try to rest and do some light exercise. I got school related mail today. I didn't get to study what I wanted, but I got invitation to interview and a test for another studies in the school I wanted. It's ok, I can try to swap or take extra courses of those I really wanted and with some extra time and sweat and tears I might be able to get a degree in both: what I wanted and where I was able to get in. Well, I shouldn't get too excited, I'm not 100% in the school since the interview and test is on the way, but I do feel confident. Oh, and I haven't given up on that little dream of going independent and doing what I really want. That work idea is still in the processing. Maybe some day soon and if not, later for sure.. I'm feeling some what better, physicaly and thought I'd go out for a long walk with the dogs. I'll go easy and slow and rest now and then on the way, but it's too good weather to stay inside. I also thought that I'd take a camera with me and snap few frames too. Then post them with links to Google Maps satellite photos. It's going to be kind of way to let out some steams while I'm still working on one web idea of that kind. ;) That's about it folks, for now. I will try to post the photos with map/satellite photo links sometime soon, but it might take a while. I try to get things done so I get the photos for you by wednesday afternoon (no timezone specified..). D-Ma

Trying his best

2006-05-26T18:08:00.000+03:00

Trying his best
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Parked on handicap space, and why not go 45 degrees rather than just park the way lines are telling you?

Pink screen

2006-05-25T22:45:00.000+03:00

Pink screen
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Talk about crappy quality photos..

Parking in the night

2006-05-25T01:19:00.000+03:00

Parking in the night
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Was it too dark??

Whole lot in mind and watching people play with narcotics

2006-05-24T22:56:00.000+03:00

I'm too pumped, mentally, at the moment. I've seen so many interesting documentaries this week that my head is exploding. Everything from Hitler's Alzheimers to the history of terrorism (ETA, Baader-Meinhof Group, etc.) to the celtic tribes.. I even saw a piece of a program where some ignorant fuck said that terrorists are muslims and muslims are terrorists. Come on, what about Sendero Luminoso, Baaden-Meinhof, ETA? What about Oklahoma City? Was it act of muslim terrorist? No, he was labeled as madman. It's nice to think that, but I count it as act of terrorism. It's easy to label one as a madman when he's "one of us" and when the bomber is from another culture and/or religion, THEY are terrorists. I'm not generalizing here, there's lot of self thinking and educated, smart people out there. Just tose ignorant assholes make my blood boil. Now I'm going to watch "Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas" and have some Trempanillo. Just to let my mind rest for a while.. D-Ma

How to dig. Lesson one with Kainu and Klementina

2006-05-24T20:58:00.000+03:00

Blah, blah, video and lack of photos

2006-05-24T12:43:00.000+03:00

Tomorrow's a national holiday, which is nice. Especially since I was home for monday and tuesday.. I had sore throat, lost my voice and my nose is running, yippee. No fever this time, I just felt tired on top of everything. Anyway, this week I'm at work only on today, wednesday, and friday. I plan to get out of the office early both days. :) I have one more video clip of the dogs doing their thing in the filed, but haven't decided if I should post it. It's only 12sec long, but there's a moment where you can see how Kainu approaches the "dig out the gopher" task.. I just might have to post it, especially now that I brought it up. Ok, you have to wait until I'm home. :P As you can see, I don't have much to say.. I DID have an idea for this post, but I forgot it the moment I started with boring jargon about my week. I might be losing it, finally for good.. ;) Fuck. After this friday I should get mail from the schools I applied to. It's "Sorry, but.." letters or invitations to interviews. I need only one invitation. There's a test for the school I want in, but they have also an interview and they have 50/50 on if I get in the school. If I do moderately in the test, I know I can beat them in the interview and get in. But this is bit too early, I have to get the damn letter first. I'll let you know as soon as there's something solid. I've also been lazy asshole photo-wise. I have gazillion new photos, but I haven't posted single one of them to Flickr. I have only posted communicator photos from around, but they're just crappy quality shots. I'm waiting for the summer, I have even charged few battery pacs for my cameras and gathered all memorycards ready. Maybe I finally get done the little trip around my home and post the photos. Like a virtual tourist sightseeing for you who don't give a crap and for those who are just nosey enough to get interested. ;) No matter which way around, you rock. ..at least that's what I've heard.. D-Ma

Voices

2006-05-23T12:50:00.000+03:00

Voices
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

"Listening to the rain fall in day by day by day....."

Acoustic.

-Godsmack-

The Big Dobe Dig

2006-05-22T18:57:00.000+03:00

Dobe style.. ;)

Research and surprises

2006-05-22T11:35:00.000+03:00

I just drove by a car dealer since I had some extra time before doctor's appointment. I just thought I'd kill some time and check out what's there and made discoveries.

First of all, Mercedes ML has redicilous cargo space. Really, you can fit two dobermanns back there, but they're not comfortable. Even E-class wagon has better space!! Volvo V70 is another joke. It looks roomy to outside, but inside is another story.. ..and I'm not a Volvo guy. Beemer 500-series wagon is another lost case, no room..

Then I happened to end up to the SUV/4x4 section. Mercedes G-class would be good, it's offroad capable too, but it's expensive and ugly. Mitsubishi Pajero is ugly and expensive, plus I don't want to drive a wanker.. ;)

The price was right, looks ok, gadgets right, color black and some offroad capabilities are there.. What car? Well, Dodge Durango!! Yes, I found myself looking at one 2003 Durango. It has all the accessories I need/want, didn't cost too much compared to what it has to offer, included bling-wheels and tires plus offroad tires! It has enough space for two dobes too.

Most likely I'm not going to buy it, but this was interesting. This car was the one that met all my needs and was able to deliver few "nice to have" features with good price. This one has small runingboards and flares that don't look as tacky as they usually do and they infact compliment the car. Detachable tow hook with big rating is always good thing to have. With easy driver this one gets good mileage compared to the size of the ride. It has 5,9l engine. :)

D-Ma

Sunday special!

2006-05-21T18:06:00.000+03:00

Sunday special!
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

There were dozens of these along the way..

Sunday special!

2006-05-21T18:04:00.000+03:00

Sunday special!
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

There were dozens of these along the way..

Sunday special!

2006-05-21T18:02:00.000+03:00

Sunday special!
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

There were dozens of these along the way..

Rain

2006-05-20T16:22:00.000+03:00

Rain
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

-Breaking Benjamin-

Misinformer

2006-05-20T16:21:00.000+03:00

Ok, it's SEMIFINALS and the game started couple minutes ago.. Sorry about the earlier.. I'm bit dumb, you know..

D-Ma

Finland, Finland and Finland again

2006-05-20T11:47:00.000+03:00

Today all Finns have a dilemma: which one to watch? Let me explain to you who don't have a clue.

Finland got into Eurovision song contest final! the song is performed monster metal band Lordi. I'm writing this with my phone, so if you want to know more, put the band name in google. You can also check www.votelordi.ord.. Anyway, the finals start at 9:45pm tonight on tv.

Finland is also playing in quarter finals of Hockey World Championship. We need to win tonigh to get into final for gold. That game starts at 10pm or 8pm, I don't remember exactly. No matter which time it is, the two contests are going to air partly same time!!

One possibility is to view both on divided tv screen and swap audio when ever it is necessary.. I think that hockey is going to win, but not sure yet..

Oh, and I hope Canada beats Sweden in their game. Even though Canada is tougher and better team than Sweden and we lost one game to them.

D-Ma

Twice the fun

2006-05-19T16:58:00.000+03:00

Twice the fun
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Two parked on driving lane.. ..and right next to the prick trio!

Three times the fun

2006-05-19T16:54:00.000+03:00

Three times the fun
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

All parked on driving lane..

Meetings, yawning and happiness

2006-05-19T12:31:00.000+03:00

It's getting cold again, bit of rain this afternoon. I'm not going to let this bring me down! It's spring and all the rain will wash the dust away, I hope finally for good. This morning we had a meeting in another building, about 4km from our office. I of course were there early, only 15min early, because I wasn't sure where the parking lot was. I found a spot that was free and didn't cost a thing and parked there. Later I found out that it was employee parking for Forest Administration.. Luckily there were no notes on the windshield. This might be because the spot was right next to a bush and as you know, spring is the time when these fuckers dust your car so it stays for days.. And since I have black car, it was interesting sight to get back to the car. I was too pissed of to take a photo, sorry. Anyway, I got to the meeting, which was lot more boring than I thought. I didn't fall asleep, but I think I won the yawning contest. I still don't know why I had to take part of it, but now it's done. Our boss is away for the day, so the joy of getting out of the office for half a day wasn't as big as it would've been if she was in. Later this afternoon we have another meeting, but this time with the "Great Emperor of our Existence", yes the high chief, the greatness of this office, The Boss of The Bosses. I am waiting this a lot since we're discussing about someone's future and this someone isn't me. The someone is a person that hasn't found the right dosage just yet.. ;) It's not like me and my collegues have any power on decicion, it's just a meeting for getting our opinion out so the Big Giant Head of Our Work can get confirmation OR new information. I assume it will take rest of the day, so I don't have to worry about working. In fact, I think I can get just one or two things done today and I'm happy about it. D-Ma

Freaky freaking freak

2006-05-18T11:31:00.000+03:00

While I was writing my previous post about movies, I had this thought I've had every time I've posted something. sometimes it's hard to come up with something worth posting. Sometimes it's hard to get the idea to a post. Sometimes it's hard to end a post. But most of the time I have difficulties to stay in subject. My mind keeps rambling and sometimes I have mentally written a post before I type even the first letter. Then I feel like the thing has gone and I don't feel like posting it at all. Sometimes I start with one thing and end up posting about something else. I think it's same with most people. Well, at least I hope it is, otherwise It would make me a freak. lol Wait, I am kind of freak. So, that's covered. D-Ma

Sad endings, indie and Tom Cruise

2006-05-18T11:13:00.000+03:00

I haven't watched too many movies lately, until this week. I went through the sale dvds in local supermarket and found few movies from there that I wanted. I've seen Anna and the King few times already, but thought I must get the dvd. I watched The Aviator last night and liked it. It had this nice fairytaleish feel and DiCaprio was right guy in the lead role. I also watched United States of Leland, a movie I had wanted to see for long time but never had the time. Now I bought it (like all the others) for 5€ from the sale bin, not bad and worth every cent. The US of Leland was good one, touching and didn't have that "forced" happy ending that I hate about most Hollywood flicks. I know that movies are not meant to duplicate real life, but there's tons of movies that deserve the sad ending they were meant to have, but it had happy ending just because it sells and/or the studio desn't want to upset the viewers. Come on. The Pledge has a great ending. It's sad but still in a way has a glimpse of happiness in the ending. You know what I mean if you paid attention to the porcupine hanging from the rearview mirror. ;) The Narc has good ending, Memento has good ending too. There's lot of good movies, but they never get the maistream attention they might deserve. In a way thet is good thing, the underground and indie movies sometimes give a new direction to mainstream movies and the makers have more control over their work. Sure the big name film-makers have their say, but they have work to prove they're right AND they have the energy to fight the machine to get what they want. I'm somewhat generalizing here.. I like smaller movies mostly because they have more to offer. Despite that I do like blockbusters and Hollywood flicks too. They're great entertainment when I'm not looking for something new and have something to think. This doesn't mean I'm going to see the MI:3 in theater, no. I will be waiting until it's in sale bin for around 5€ or when I see it on TV. But it has something to do with the fact that I have lost my faith on Tom Cruise. When I finally started to appreciate his acting, he has become something weird.. D-Ma

Elephant in the bottle and elevator shaft

2006-05-17T12:58:00.000+03:00

When we left for lunch and were entering the elevatot, a co-worker told that he always worries that he drops swomething and it falls through the tiny gap and ends up in the bottom of the elevator shaft. As he finished he accidentally dropped his keys. And as you guessed, the fell right through the gap. They went right through, didn't make a sound!

Fortunately the janitor has has access to the bottom on the shaft and was able to help us. He told that we wouldn't believe what people drop in there. One unbelievable but frequent faller is a cellphone! I asked how they fit through the gap. Janitor just replied "beats me" and left..

D-Ma

Scene

2006-05-16T15:03:00.000+03:00

Scene
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Nothing interesting..

Ice hockey and how they invented cricket!

2006-05-16T07:32:00.000+03:00

It's Ice Hockey World Championship tournament going on and I've watched 3 games to this point. Finns have won 2 and lost one, to Canada. it was great game for Canadians, but Finnishteam woke up in the end of the 3rd round and as we all know, it's bit late to start running on the finnish line.. I'm not into hockey too much, in fact only sport I like is football (not soccer, mind you). Problem is that I can't see too many games in here, no NFL games on tv every sunday.. We do get Super Bowl live and I watch those games if possible. Few times they have aired european league games and finnish games, but not too many and couple conference finals. All this in all these years. No, no ESPN in here and Eurosport is just rallye, soccer and tennis.. ..and Tour De Lance.. So no help from them really. I do like to watch almost any sport if I happen to change channel and there's nothing else on, but I'm not making sandwiches and snacks ready half an hour before program nor am I going to rush home for Formula1 race. I have to admit that most interesting sporting event EVER on tv (for me) was a cricket game where Team Aussie and Team India were against each other. This was many years ago and I had a huge hangover. That might explain a lot, but still, that game looked like nothing else. Just when there was long time nothing happening, this one dude slings a ball and another smacks it with a paddle! Then they run here and there. It all happened really quickly and before my hungover mind could realize what happened, they were doing nothing again. Even though I do appreciate and respect the noble game of cricket, I can only wonder who intvented the sport and how. I have an idea that might not be true, but somehow I assume it's not that far fetched. Imagine bunch of lads drinking single malt and pints of stout in lazy afternoon. The jolly chaps have been trying to get the hangover out by having few sips of these fine British bewerages. They're getting bored and are wondering what to do until one stands up: "I got it, fellows! I got it! We do need to come up with a new sport that is just right for British minds on sunday morning." The other lads are bit puzzled, but anxious to hear more. "Right, you have a ball in there your pocket, Patrick and I noticed that William has his indian canoe's paddle with him, I don't even dare to ask.. But then there's these sticks lying around here. Shall we come up with something using all these marvelous objects!" All agree and after few more clod ones they decide that they could use the ball and the paddle in similar way as the Americans do in their Baseball game. Yes indeed, what a marvelous idea! Now they needed to come up with an idea what the guy throwing has as a goal and why the jolly chap with the paddle would want to smack the ball like there's no tomorrow. The answer was the sticks. I know that story was somewhat inaccurate and simplified, but I think that's the basics how it went.. D-Ma

Boring!!

2006-05-15T22:33:00.000+03:00

Boring!!
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

This is how much Klementina cares about Finland vs. Canada hockey game..

Manic monday

2006-05-15T12:37:00.000+03:00

It's yet another monday. Yesterday afternoon we had a bit of rain, not much just few minutes, but it was better than nothing. It's been so dry for weeks and the dust is everywhere. Now that it rained a bit the dust has settled.. ..for a while. Today it's been colder, about +10C and cold wind. And when I walked home for lunch it was raining. )I had to put a jacket on today!! ;) It's not any better day at the office. THis morning our boss had another of her un-controllable fits and had a talk with everyone, in their offices. I don't know why she bothered since the "conversation" was loud enough to hear across the hall.. Anyway, it's out of the way and since she has a meeting in the afternoon, it's going to settle down in an hour.. All this doesn't really boost the morality and motivation at the office. To me it has given an excuse to work in nice and slow pace while day dreaming. lol And every minute the thought about jumping out of the wheel and doing something my own, despite the risk, sounds like a good plan. I have even decided that if my "work in progress", the studying idea, back fires, I will go for this crazy idea I have had for a while and even posted that mysterious post about it a while ago. Have to see how things turn out and usually they turn out the way they should. ;) D-Ma

Acoustically

2006-05-13T17:35:00.000+03:00

Acoustically
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Godsmack..

Blown fuse and the idiot who got blown

2006-05-13T17:11:00.000+03:00

I don't know what the problem is with people. They lose control when it's bit crowded. Every one starts to just run around and act like mindless.

In the gardens, where I got the flowers, this one couple was in two lines and since the one where I was seemed to be faster, they ran in front of me. The guy ran the fucking cart over my foot. I asked if that was ok and it was ok for them. I had to calm down, I don't want to explode in fornt of a small child, they get scared. And this couple had a baby with them.

Already annoyed, I went to the department store in the mall to get a gift to the birthday party tomorrow. There were another brainless couple. They cut me in line and I just couldn't take it. I suggested they go in the end of line, but the bitch told that they're just fine. I then suggested them to go the fuck away from infront of me. Now the cunt asked what I was going to do since they weren't going to move. I informed this woman that I was going to beat the shit out of her man and then throw her as far as her skinny ass would fly. And I gave them 5 seconds. Now the suit wearing asshole got mad and accused me of threatening her wife. My fuse blew, I gave that clown a nice punch right in the face and told it was not a threat it was fact as he could see now. I asked the lady if she though I should proceed with the plan or do they wish to leave. They fled, I paid and apologized from the woman behind the counter.

I was so embarrassed when I left and met the grinning security guys on the way. They didn't even escort me out, just told to take it easy next time.. I know they deserved it, but I shouln't have let myself go crazy. Especially when the two were TOGETHER as big as I am.. And even worse is thet it felt really good. Next time I have to go to the gym the second I'm getting that aggravated..

D-Ma

Napping Dobe blabbering

2006-05-13T14:11:00.000+03:00

Last night our team beat USA hockey team in Wolrd Championship games 4-0. There you have it! HAHAHA!! It wasn't even quarter finals, I think (I'm not into hockey that much) but we won the game 4 to NOTHING. What a feeling, I must say. I haven't watched much, just the USA game last night and the game on tuesday. I can't remember what game that was. lol You can see how enthusiast I am. REally, it's nice to watch good hockey and WC or Olympic games, but I don't care about Finnish Hockey League or NHL at all. I do not have a team that feels like mine. But in those international tournaments there's "us" against "them". ;) I have spent this saturday by doing nothing. I've watched some tv and then took a nap on the sofa, about an hour. The sun was warm on my feet and it was nice to nap. I didn't really sleep, I was half way asleep and that's just what's nice to do when you have nothing to do. Now that I'm up, gone through my emails, and doing this post, it's time to get something done. I thouht I'd wash the bathroom while I'm going to get a shower. It's not a big deal, but I think I'd better do it now when I don't have any excuse to leave it for later. It's going to take just about 30min to get everything washed, cleaned and arranged but for some reason I haven't had the "time" to do it. There's not too much goo or anything around, just dog hair and maybe some sand. Yes, I have washed the dogs coule times this spring.. I think I'll stop blabbering and go get things done. Then it's off to mall to get new shoes and groceries before I get some flowers for my mom. Tomorrow's Mothers' Day, but I'm seeing my mom today since there's a birthday party tomorrow. ..oh, good reminder, I need flowers for that too! D-Ma

King of parking

2006-05-12T14:24:00.000+03:00

King of parking
Originally uploaded by D-Ma.

Even small car can take lot of space with some thought and skill..