The first week of my Year Without Alcohol project is drawing to a close. It actually hasn't been that hard to quit drinking. Pretty much the only problem is a slightly lowered tolerance for drunks; It's no problem that they're not so much in control of themselves when you're that way too, but when you're sober and everyone else is not, it ( Read more... )

When I woke up today the weather was so beautiful I decided to begin my day with a morning swim (although at that point it was already afternoon). So for the first time in months I packed my speedos and a towel, drank some water and cycled to town. My body was still half-asleep - and I've been pretty lazy lately anyway - so I decided that half a ( Read more... )

The temperature sits at a balmy 0,3 degrees Celsius and the roads are a slushy mess. Cycling to the university took twice the normal time and quadruple the concentration. I managed it somehow, though. Here's to the weather getting warmer ASAP so that I can get the the birch allergy season over with and start enjoying the summer ( Read more... )

A nice lazy sunday yesterday; Boardgaming during the day and leftover pizza and anime through the night. (Weird trouble falling asleep yet again.)

Arkham Horror was quite an experience. I had seen it being played once in Jyväskylä and it looked pretty intimidating - A huge board with multiple piles of cards, chits, info sheets and loads of dice. ( Read more... )

You know, for a couple of days there I thought I had actually reached some sort of internal balance. Luckily events took place that returned me to my fast-becoming-normal off-kilter mental state.

It's spring again.

A high wind pushes the jet-exhaust trails in the sky making them scroll like a real-life parallax. The world looks like it's toppling over on its side. I almost feel like doing something. Every possible action feels like too much trouble, though, so I just sit and stare at things. The computer, the fractal poster on the wall, the amps, the random ( Read more... )

It is said: "If you have nothing good to say, you should remain silent."

So I'm feeling all warm and fuzzy inside. That's what single malt whisky and talking to someone who understands you does. Days like this one are what makes life great these days. Now if I only managed to settle down and have a good chat with the me inside me to reacquaint myself with him ( Read more... )

True to my ways, I put off writing the discourse portion of my term paper until late at night. Now I have something more or less incoherent; A bunch of proofs I only half understand and four or so pages filled with my squiggly handwriting. Presenting it will make the emergence of mildew on bread seem eventful and interesting in comparison ( Read more... )

"Let V be a nonempty set and E contained in VxV such that u is not equal to v for all (u,v) in E. The pair G=(V,E) is called a graph. The members of the set V are called the nodes or vertices of G and the members of E are called the edges of G. If (u,v) is in E, u and v are said to be adjacent, the edge (u,v) is usually denoted simply uv. If each e ( Read more... )