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Nonus Aequilibrium

Another month skipped, argh.

So, statutory negotiations are over and I managed to dodge the bullet, phew. Two other of my team members didn't, but better them than me right? :p This also means more work for the rest of us, nice.

This was a quick one done whilst reading the emails and drinking the morning coffee at the office. A certain band might have inspired this, hint.

Swirl

Randomness \o/ I'd like to have even one note filled with random stuff so that the style stays the same through the whole note. Do I have any? I need to check the old ones through.

The statuotory negotiations are completed next week and I guess we will finally know if we'll continue the post-it art series from the home office for the rest of the year. Actually, I think that it will be somethong like 1-3 months before the actual resigning happens. Oh the 300 lucky ones, happy christmas in advance ^___^.

Ps. I'm posting this via iPad so I've got no idea how the picture will be implemented. Let's fix it tomorrow if it messes up the layout :p

Hush now...

...there are no monsters...

Yeah right,

Our oldest son is crying almost every night and it's starting to be annoying as hell I tell you. I'm sure there is a demon sitting on his chest, keeping him still and whispering awful things to his ear. That's at least what they did to me when I was a child... and still do every so often. Maybe I should call the Ghostbusters to the rescue.

You know the feeling? The feeling there is someone sitting on your chest staring at you? The feeling of the warm breath on your face? You can see the satanic evil grin through your closed eyelids? You can't hear anything, but you can feel the hatred and the evil... taunting. You try to scream but there is no sound, you can't move or wake up. The only way is to gather all your strength and anger and scream in your mind with all your might and face the demon "come and get me you... son of a... stupid... eh... person!". Anyhow, that helps and it's gone in an instant.

Or maybe I just need some professional help instead.

Fall

...walking on sunshine!...

You know?
The last rays of sun before it gets dark for the next six months or so. It's been a nice autumn so far and I've really enjoyed the bike rides to the office in the cool, refreshing, weather. And it's also been surprisingly dry, I don't remember many rainy days recently.

Why so happy? Well I don't know... I bought and installed a new 3GB HDD to the iMac and it's alive again! I'd like a new machine altogether, but I don't have a single Euro to spare into anything fun. And it looks like it's going to be this way for a long while... sucks to be me -___-

Dark tunnels

Dark times indeed,
my grandfather died couple of weeks ago and now my iMac is dying as well. Or at least the hard drive is. Funny thing though, first my backup drive broke just few months ago and I've been too lazy to buy a new one... and now this :p I managed to boot to the Windows partition and salvage at least most of the pictures ,iTunes library and PSX emulator and of course FF games and saves :)

Until next time my faithful minions! o/

Dead end

a grave situation

Bob didn't quite understand the gravity of the situation *nudge nudge*. Van Halen you bastard!

Snake

Undulatory locomotion

Apparently this snake is ready to hit the trails with his fancy Suunto Ambit GPS watch. I wonder if he's also got the hr-monitor... and how does he count his steps? hmm.

I was bored, my mind was blank and I happened to check the time from my watch... and this happened. I just wish there would be something more ... interesting, hidden, ehh, something in this note. I like the snake skull though :p

Domino effect

I did this about two months ago just before we got twins and I had a combined paternity leave and summer vacation. Seven weeks worth of sleepless nights.... oh, and the amount of poo is incredible! I managed to draw one note while on vacation, but I didn't have time/motivation to upload it to the blog. Coming up later...

Now I'm back at the office and its time to get back on the old and vague schedule ^___^

Everybody was kung fu fighting!

Yes,

The ingredients of pure win; martial artist, a head band and a jet engine!

I got the idea while watching the movie Ip Man... Despite the funny IT-hero-like name it's about a man named Ip Man who happens to be the teacher of the one and only Bruce Lee.  If you haven't seen the movies Ip Man and Ip Man 2 go and watch them now, gogo! Donnie Yen is one of the coolest martial artist actors ever.

I've been tired lately so I've been mostly sleeping every evening 19:00-> ... or playing World of Tanks if I've had the strength to power up the computer :p At the office I've been working more and more in various places so it takes time to get any notes complete -___-

Dream to die for

Kiwi!

I saw this rather old animation, Kiwi!, in Youtube and I just had to do this... It's guite funny,  cute and sad(ish) story about the wingless bird pursuing his lifelong dream, flying. I'm not sure why, but I felt inspired in pursuing my own dreams even harder after seeing this. I just hope that my dreams doesn't require that level of commitment and I would live to tell someone about my achievements :p

Does not compute

equilibrium

We had a mandatory two hour "work quality" course and questionary that you need to pass in order to get a "quality" certificate... yeah, I know... It was boring let me tell you. Two hours of ranting about the different standards that our company follows and how we've received global acknowledgement for the good work that our company have done. Well, awkward, you would think that they could have solved the minor technical issues such as... you can't complete the course at all before this self-praise manifest. I had to listen the whole thing and answer the questions twice and I actually still couldn't complete the course properly and didn't receive the "certificate". Oh well.

Until next time o/

Super Mario?

1Up

You know what, I'm not promising anything anymore :) New note at the end of the week my ass...

Yeah, I was planning to draw a monkey hanging from a branch... and I ended up with this guy crouching in a basement. He looks a bit like me so maybe it's a self portrait, I don't know...

I find it difficult to draw any details in the outskirts of the stack of notes. Every time when I try and fail, like those fingers up there, I want to quit doing these and start using bigger canvas where I have more room and I don't need to make use of every millimeter I can find.

...let's keep on doodling o/...

Bonus note!

DING DING DING! Bonus round!

Dungeon... flower... thing with a miniature bonus note!

The whole family has been sick, now that sucks. It's Tuesday evening 22:30 and it's my first time at the computer since last Friday, yay! Thank [insert deity here] for the Netflix and 5" screen smartphones. :p

It was fun to create this one. I don't know if it actually represents anything, but it was fun and easy. And I decided to add a mini-bonus note because I've been keeping forgetting to update the blog lately ^__^.

I have one new note ready and I'll try to post it in few days, kthxbai o/

No excuses

The winter came! and went away!

Been busy, forgot to post new notes...

Thanks to the crappy winter it's been surprisingly easy project to continue cycling through the winter. I bought Schwalbe Ice Spiker Pro studded winter tires so the ice isn't a problem. When it's cold the snow is easy to deal with as it's so light. It's not too slippery, and the trails and bumps don't suck the tire in...  However, the crappy winter continues and it's not even icy anymore... wet slush, now that is difficult stuff to pedal through :p The front tire just keeps searching for any solid contact with the ground. Just when you start to feel comfortable the tire climbs on top of the snow and your balance is off... And just when you think that it's going to be ok again the tire plunges through the slush moving the front part of the bike 10 cm left or right and the balance is off again. And good luck trying to steer through any tight corners.

It's still fun as hell though!

Friday!

Beer! GOOD! ... 

Napster! BAAAAD!

Right, a quick one. Last few minutes at the office and this is pretty much the only thing that went in my mind. It's sad that I don't have any of those here at home. Aand I think that I'm too lazy to go outside and freeze my ass off to get any. At least it's weekend again, YAY!

I'm back!

It's been a while. Happy new year to you all and stuff \o/.

"Let's see how many notes I manage to produce at home now that I'm supposed to be the housewife for the rest of the year :p" ... the answer is zero -___-

The seven week paternity leave was rough as hell. Not because I needed to take care of the kid but mostly because none of my friends are at work during the day so I was forced to be alone with my son most of the day... and it gets boring really quickly. There is a certain limit how many times "what does the dog say?" "woof woof" is amusing. :p For some vague pregnancy reasons I also needed to take care of the kid after office hours so majority of my time went with the kid... and rest of the day 20:00-> I spent with Netflix and World of Tanks :p

So, the picture, I don't like it.I forgot it to the office before the leave and I tried to continue it afterwards but I quickly ran out of ideas and interest. I like the few faces in there though.