What can you say :o(

"Bit" of a paradox puzzles my small mind...
There's lot of talk about the necessity of raising the age of retirement so that our economy will survive the aging population.
Also, lot of talk how our youngsters should go to universities etc. immediately after high school and also graduate as fast as possible so that they can start producing income for the state.
Yet, at the same time for example the company employing most of Finnish engineers in practice states that if you have worked over 15years they pay over one year salary to get rid of you. (Noble generous offer I admit but very depressive in terms of human value base).
So, basically on the other we are very strongly told that we should be ready to work until we are about 70years old, but at the same time it seems that employers here want to desperately get rid of you when you are about 39years old (=18y+1y in army+4.5y for studies+15y work)? And since this is a cautious consensus society, not a single politician says a word about this. Not even when the hugely expensive education of these engineers is been fully paid by government, that is us all as tax payers.

I could go to Pihtipudas as pro fisher, but I don't really like fishing that much, nor lake fishes and actually there has not been too much to catch in Alvajärvi for many many years.

Laajalahti at the dawn of the evening

Sort of relaxing to go after work, slide and experience the coming of the evening.

Sweet!

Long silence in the frontier of mouth explosive beers... and then this:

Very very nice!

Close but not quite how you imagined it...

Sometimes (or actually too often?) everything is almost perfect... theoretically.

Buy a new big kite especially for light wind perfect untouched lake snow, open it up first thing in an early nice morning and find out that there is a hole in the kite.




Plan and buy a trip to what you think will be a windsurfing paradise, everything looks super cool from wind point of view... and spend 3-4 days looking at winds which blow nice and hard in about 500 unreachable meters away in the sea. If you try to get there you swim back. Get to kindly organized highwind excursion to flat water area and find yourself standing ashore and feel like little needles sticking your legs due to sand flying in 25m/s in gusts.













But not to complain but to learn about life in little lessons.

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19.02.2009