Christmas goat

* Knut will devour your souls! *

Joulupukki, Christmas goat, literally, that's our santa here in the North ^___^ The original Finnish Santa was known as Nuuttipukki, Knut goat. Young men dressed in inverted goat fur, leather or birkbark mask and goat horns. On 13th of January the Xmas goat wanders around the houses demanding food and alcoholic beverages while scaring the kids. If they were not offered any beer they might break something and leave. Sometimes he may bring small presents for the kind kids and twigs for the naughty ones.

In some regions in Finland they still carry on this tradition, however, as everything, it's toned down a bit and it's more like a funny play for the kids and stuff.

As the old Finnish proverb says "Good Thomas brings the Christmas, bad Knut takes it away". Have a nice and traditional Christmas where ever you are and try to be nice and stay on the better side of Knut so that he doesn't come and eat your soul! o/ ... you have been warned...

Jazz!

* oldschool hipster *

This one was supposed to be called Harry the Hipster but apparently in the olden tiems there has been a famous Jazz guru Harry "The Hipster" Gibson... and as this picture and/or post doesn't have anything to do with jazz or Mr. Gibson I decided to call this just Jazz!... but then again it doesn't have anything to do with jazz either. I'm just too stubborn to give up with my original catchy title. And then again, now, so far it's been all about jazz and Mr.Gibson. So, should I just change the title back? I give up.

We got the internet yesterday, yay! It's slow as hell (booooo!) Still renovating the kitchen (another booooo!). I asked another ISP to check if they are able to offer us fiber which would mean speeds around 100-300MBps They will also check what it would cost to create such a line. The starting price is 1800€ and the help desk guy said that in some cases (if you live in the woods) it could be more than 10 000€... so no... let's hope for the best though. Google told me that in most cases here it's normally around 2000€ which is still ok... I'm a nerd and I need my cat pictures to load without any lag!

beyond redemption

New house, kitchen renovation, oh man. The house is great so far... I'd love the internet to work though :/ I need to call to the ISP and ask if they have even connected us... and check if the lines in the house are working. Fortunately we have 4G LTE router so we have at least some internet connection but it gets stuck if two devices tries to do anything heavier than just browse the internet so there is a constant argue who can watch Netflix and who can play online. :)

Lyhyestä virsi kaunis, until next time o/