Sunday, 1 November 2020

Too long wait again

18.10 Sunday

Great hair

On Sunday my hair looked great. I went jogging 11 km.

19.10 Monday

Monday was an exciting day. We pitched new ideas to the Finnish public service broadcasting company. I arrived early to work to prepare. It went well, I think and internet connection work.

Listen I have a good idea, photo by Maria

Titus doing his thing

For our kids show we are making a diorama.

Not the final touches
20.10 Tuesday

Tuesday felt nice and quiet after intensive preps for the pitch. However, intensive work continued with editing a corporate project. There was time to sketch some figures for the podcast we are working on.

Sketch 1

Sketch 2

Sketch 3

I went for a run 9,3 km and I wrote done at the time that the run felt good.

21.10 Wednesday

On Wednesday we worked the day and in the evening Titus and I drove to Isak's place. We had food and went to the sauna. It was very pleasant and a reminder that there is life outside work. We saw two deer fight on a field on the way back.

Meet Peppe

The smallest brother grew and became the biggest

It was late when we came back.

22.10 Thursday

I woke up in the morning and though, autumn, and took a picture.

Autumn at Vasagatan 

Off to work. We finished the diorama as filming it would take place the day after. Titus is the main architect. We went for lunch at a Chinese place on Backasgatan called Brokadi and the food is great there. Especially the included lunch salad with seaweed. Food coma ensued. 

As documented

We went to a second hand shop and bought tread and ice cream, sweets and beer from the supermarket. 

Artificial nature

In the evening I went for a run 12 km. The light was nice.

The Olympic stadium is glowing after its expensive renovation
A train passed by

The after work traffic is picking up

23.10 Friday 

At 9:30 Titus and I drove to Kinos rental to get a crane for the shoot. We got it and drove back. We filmed the whole day. We all tried and and did it in turns. It felt nice, the crane, and it was the first time in my life I tried one. 

Finding the right path, photo by Maria

Smile to the camera, photo by Maria

Visu-Ella @ work

In the evening I returned all stuff to Kinos and we had tasty tacos. 

24.10 Saturday

We drove via Lerbacka to Furuberg and chilled the day at our parents summer cottage. My parents were not at home and I left a note on the table. It felt like back in the days. Telephone killed note star (video killed radio star).

We tried paddling, went to sauna and bbqued. In the evening we had food at our parents place. Titus came to Jorvas in the night.

25.10 Sunday

Woke up in Jorvas and had breakfast.

Breakfast interrupted

Talking to Isak

After breakfast we went for walk. We inspected the areas where new houses have been zoned. Environment in destruction. 

The suburbia is spreading

Old bridge and boy

Inspecting heating systems from the past

Walkin' in, walkin in' Jorvas, walkin' in (Giant Robot - walking in Helsinki song)
Hello everybody!

Like in the UK

After sauna

After sauna 2

And then we drove back to Helsinki, with veggies in the truck as always at this time of the year.

26.10 Monday

The whole day was pod recording with Joni. We also took some photos and shoot some video. I offered old milk to Joni by mistake. I drank a large glass myself and only understood after having done that the meaning of the lumps that had rushed down my throat. I felt sick but a hard run cleaned my up from the inside. 14 km.

27.10 On Tuesday I have trouble recalling what I was doing but I assume I was editing the podcast. 

Our new office?

We checked a potential new office but it was too dark. Rent only 930/month so that was great. I have hopefully soon some exciting news about offices. 

28.10 Wednesday. I was working, mostly on the podcast. We had a nice coffee on the way.

Autumn light

29.10 Thursday. I played Fallout 4 and finished the game. I must say the game was great! Clearly one of the best games I have played ever. Especially the storytelling and the options in the game. I went briefly to work and then I went for a 13,2 km run.

Checking one last thing before sleeping, photo by Maria

The bed looked like this

30.10 Friday. A day of work where you mop up a lot of things and small tasks. By the end of the day all tasks were done and I had been fighting with Titus. We had some sparkling wine and it was hard stuff. Tacos at home.

31.10 Saturday. On Saturday I cleaned our whole place. I did it slow and focused on each task. I didn't hurry or think what I need to do next. It was wonderful. In the afternoon we went to Ikea and get two broken pieces changed for free. Then to Tokmanni and we bought loads of toilet paper, soap, detergent etc. of stuff you never want to run out of. In the morning three generations of Poutanen's had a call.

Screen cap from call

Look at that stomach, Icecream at Ikea

Driving home in moonlight

1.11. New month and it is November, my birth month.

I woke up already a bit past eight and got up. I wrote this in a calm fashion and I put up all pictures first and I check the running and work calendar so it was actually not so painful to get this post done. This is how I should write all posts. Ideally I would write one post a week. That's when you remember stuff with sufficient granularity. 

Ta-ta!