Work more or less continues, somewhat more difficult lately, but doing what I can. Confuzzled in general went well, this year certain improvements were once again in place, making the Hilton somewhat more pleasant. I still do miss the Miller's bar, though, nowadays reserved for the common people (typically all three of them), it was a nice place to ( Read more... )

Work has been rather usual and gone well the intervening two weeks. I also have been considering a MSI GT80, being the only laptop with a mechanical keyboard, and being an unusual design due to that, so it interests me to some degree despite the price. I do currently use as main laptops an older fully ruggerized GETAC and Dell Precision M6600 I ( Read more... )

It has been a while, and I am again trying to post here regularly. I am unsure how much of the fandom is anymore using LJ, but I also am a regular at one MUCK with about three regular, active users left, so it is not exactly my first consideration ( Read more... )

'It's a nice day to start again ( Read more... )

I finished putting together my new bicycle yesterday. It has taken a while with some help from my brother to finish it, as I custom-built it altogether from parts. I found an earlier model year Centurion frame for a low price and started building onwards from there. It took some time to find a sanely priced rear suspension shock absorber, as the ( Read more... )

Arrived back from Confuzzled a couple of days ago, and mostly had a great time. There were two matters that made me thoughtful, so I am writing about them.

This years there were very nice sponsor gift tankards, with a laser-engraved design and the usual possibility to have one's name or nickname engraved to the remaining space. I had mine engraved ( Read more... )

Will be traveling towards Frankfurt and Fellig tomorrow morning. Suprisingly work got well busy immediately preceding departure, so I do have meetings until right before taking bus to Lahti to spend overnight at Junkvist's place. I do have rather good expectations for the event, as it is a much smaller convention, and typically such do have a ( Read more... )

My contract at work was extended for two years, but in a project totally unrelated to my intended doctoral dissertation subject, so it will not really progress for now as far as I am currently aware of the situation. At least the work situation itself is again stable for a bit longer while than the usual six month extensions ( Read more... )

Somewhat difficult day at work, mostly related to intended focus of research and such discussion, never an easy topic.

I picked the corn a few days after arriving back from EF, and indeed, the ears of corn looked promising:


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Once again time to depart towards EF, still at work and leaving towards Helsinki later in the afternoon. I will overnight as Kisu's place, and afterwards on Friday morning fly to Frankfurt. Bardolph will again be joining me for a weekend in Nuremberg before we travel by train to Magdeburg on EF early arrival day ( Read more... )