Pihtipudas Rock

Pihtipudas used to have a rock festival (pretty famous for quite some time in Finland) called Saapasjalka Rock. Well, that is gone for long but our family summer cottage for 41 years now is still there and going strong. It's having it's own rock festival, but actully totally silent one. Silence totally rocks ! Noise and all sort of sounds surround us so completely that we are able to only notice it when all the noise goes away... like in Pihtipudas besides the lake Alvajärvi.
That lake also rocks visually for me - the scenery has been sort burned into my head and whenever I see it captures me and I could spend hours to just stare at it (if it would not be the bloody mosquitos which this year are big and beasty ;o) ...and well ok, I'd need few beers with me too.

Slightly different Summer Party

This year instead of going to the central Summer party place in Karaportti me and TM went to one new (to us) near-by pub in Ruoholahti. Typically I've joined everybody else to "Karaportti party center" for some good re-unions with old collegues&friends, of course free beer and some buffet food ;o) .. it's been fun, but this year WidSets kept us busy so that we missed the last bus, my stomach was full and I've already (after 14 years?) learned that I'm doing just fine (or actually even much better) without that extra 3-4 pints of beer to kick start the evening. ...
So, around 6pm TM and I headed to this pub I've read about in Ruoholahti. Btw, they supposedly have the most expensive bottle of beer in town - 46€ per bottle or so. Well, we did not have that but quite many others. Simply from beer selection point of view (not to mention that the gent serving us there was very knowledgefull on beers) I personally now rank this place to top 3 of Helsinki pubs. Nice that it's so close to us ;o)

By the way, the guys in the pub had been in gigs of quite a many of the famous bands visiting Funland:














Then we paid a short visit to Kallio - food and drinks.

Finally we joined the rest of the celebrating Nokia gang in Kaivohuone for traditional "Move 10 meters in 1 hour"-dance. Good evening all together.

well, yes - there was thought also the after session also in Eatz's terass sometimes hhmm night time.

From HS/Sanottua...

(Had to go back to the old newspaper pile and do some serious digging for this....)

In Helsingin Sanomat there is a section which summarises "had been said" from all over the world. This one was from 17th of June:

"Politicians are like baby dipers. Both needs to be changed regurarly, and exactly for the same reasons."

Sort of makes sense ;o)

6.5 tons of rock - episode II

4 evenings, some selected cursewords, still shaking hands, back expected to get into muscular cramp anytime soon but it's done ;o)

An excellent presentation....

We had an internal strategy sharing session at work. I don't know why but this time our corporate level strategy made a whole lot sense and most of all "soitteli sieluni säveliä"/mentally touched me at some level. (It's very long actully since that has happened). I have to keep this in mind when the next "low" comes to flush me ;o)
Seppo presented our service to the whole audience, and did it very well. Ice man ;o)
We also had a demo stand there - Marko and I run the stand, and had some healthy number of interested visitors with some good discussions.

Old stuff.... "En mitn kuule, On meny zoppaa gorfaan"

Bumbed into this the other day....


Mr. Tilsa's production was (and still is) my all time favorites at university... . My good friend Jaakko Oksanen (who's also a devoted Tilsa fan... and actually originally introduced Tilsa's production to me at his cosy student "luukku" in Linnanmaa campus (Hmmm those were the days ;o)) went all that trouble and got me, Taisto and Pekka an album each with Tilsa's inscribtion to us. Jaakko I seriously Digg you !

ps.Mine is based on the fact that I specifically loved this Tilsa's story:













(I had almost forgotten this but hopefully will now not forget it ... ever)

6.5 tons of rock...

We are finally building the long awaited wall into our house entrance. The only "issue" is that there's 6.5 tons of rock and they are about 30 meters away along the road and 4 meters downhill. My hands have been and still are trembling from dragging about half of them uphill during the last 2x4hours and then placing them to the wall... but it looks promising.