Another week went by. Temperature has been hovering a tad over zero outdoors and indoors I had to turn on the radiator a bit. Wool socks are also back in fashion. Football and art The main event of the week was going to watch a football game at the Helsinki Olympic Stadium, where the national … [ read more » ]
Posts tagged as "football"
October 9th, 2023
Modern gladiator entertainment
Clearly colder and rainier days the past week. Warmer clothing is needed (even indoors). Autumn foliage has begun too. October, the last tolerable month before the darkness of November starts. This week I picked up a free month trial subscription for a tv bundle that shows matches from the UEFA Champions League. I thought a … [ read more » ]
September 24th, 2023
Lost in side quests
Warm and humid, which is somewhat unusual in late September in Helsinki. Feels again like a week when I didn’t do anything special, yet I did go see a football match, had my Rolleicord film developed, started a new video game and even fixed an old website I made maybe ten years ago that got … [ read more » ]
September 11th, 2023
Autumn is coming
The weather hasn’t felt like autumn yet as it has been unusually warm. Not sure is it a good or a bad thing. I went to see Aki Kaurismäki‘s latest movie Fallen Leaves at Cinema Orion, which was sold out (quite rare, that). The movie offered no surprises, it was a classic Kaurismäki tale of … [ read more » ]
July 30th, 2023
Football and fantasy
Returned to work, but it was a rather quiet week as everyone else was mostly still on vacation. Weather has been rain and sunshine, I’m okay with that. I saw the much hyped Barbie movie, which I really wanted to like (even though in ways I wasn’t the primary target audience), but fell a bit … [ read more » ]
July 23rd, 2023
Crime & Chaos
As usual, I’ll start with the weather, which has been quite nice, or at least not alarmingly hot as in other parts of the world. But about me then. I managed to finish two projects during my final week of vacation. One has reading the classic novel Crime & Punishment by Fyodor Dostoevsky. The new … [ read more » ]