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Christmas announcement

I've spent the last 2-3 days with family celebrating the Christmas: eating delicious food, receiving and giving presents and visiting other family members. Quite normal stuff, don't you think.

The next week I'll be in Lappland, near to Ylläs (about 400km to south from Oulu), spending great times with five friends (from IRC). We are going to ski, walk, do culinary, drink, play card games and other relaxing activities (at least if you ask me). I'm looking forward to it. Six hours sleeping and then we go.

I promised to update the Kinglist during the vacation. As you might guess I won't do it in the next week because I won't be available in net. But after that I hope... The studies start at 10th of January or something so there should be plenty of time. And also the Paprika. Yeas, we didn't manage to publish it before 2006. But, it's near.

Elma raster

Homokaasu.org offers an image editing service called Rasterbator. I gave a try and made quite a nice Elma raster. Any ideas of the level?



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Joensuu meeting 2005

16. - 20. November I was in Joensuu at mr's home. It was our 9th meeting during last four years. That's pretty good amount considering we are living 400km from each others. We also met Markku and The OooO. A small meeting report goes here.

Pictures

I wrote an uncommon meeting report this time because I was too lazy to put things in chronological order.

• The OooO nick was impossible to say aloud, I tried several times but never managed. Too confusing. I've never had the problem before (Luther and ramone wanted to be called as their real names). Hopefully he will change his nick or come up with some other solution.


• The OooO was a great buddy and I guess we will meet more in the future. Hopefully the brothers too: Munkki and Zox. How about FEM06?


• mr had found pets and I guess that's because dz is having a hedgehog, two dogs, cats, mice, parrots, elephant...


• I met mr's girlfriend, but she wasn't as active chatter as she was 6 months ago in our team channel.


• We made a nice walking trip with mr: 31km around the Joensuu surroundings. And I finally got pretty familiar with that city.


• mr and Markku drove a multi world record - both parts were needed to be driven well: Double Trouble 35,67.


• Me, mr and Markku hoyled quite much multi times and we all improved our multi total times (I got about 20 new personal records). SveinR updated the lists a week ago. Markku has driven many of his multi times himself, with both hands having own bike - just incredible! And now I 'm sure that we need to create top100 lists for multi times. They are so underrated.


• Markku watched mr hoyling Bowling (he has done that for 7 months now) for some hours and later at home he made 56secs - some people could appreciate that? Somewhy I made a conclusion that maybe some people might be a bit better players after all.

Super meeting it was again, already looking forward to next one.

When talking about next meetings I think I'll visit the Tampere guys (px, Zebra, Ismo, Tuska) in a few months and probably in next spring I could spend a week in Helsinki at Tisk's home. There I could meet several guys: Karlis, dz, Jokke, Sathy, kimitys, cyre and maybe Tisk.

Paprika before 2006

We are working hard to get Paprika published before 2006. I can't promise that but at least we are trying our best. I've used many 8h+ days for it during last month.

Unfortunately I've been rather lazy today, only been hoyling total time. But well, passed skint0r, Tisk, dynamo, petsen, MP, psy, pajen... I think it was worth. My newest times are told in Mopolauta and the current total time is 40:38,99.

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79/300

The first credits of this term received. I passed courses Operating systems and Complex analysis with decent grades.

Walking 50km

While nothing interesting happening in my Elma life (I'm just playing random pipe levels and making Paprika) I write something about my latest sport project: 50km walking.

A week ago I was having good time with some friends and met there one guy who is into the adventure sports (long running, bicycling, rowing trips). I was interested in his hobby and we came up with an idea to walk some kilometres together. I told that I could try 50km, my current record was 33km or something like that (army treks excluded because I can't really say how long trips we walked there). So there we were and yesterday at 10:00 we started walking with two other guys.

The first 20km went pretty well but then I started to feel pain in right leg, the speed of walking was faster than my own usual. Heart rate was near to 145 which is way too much for 10h walking. The other guys were OK (two of them are in totally different level with me, doing double marathons etc), heart rate 103 or so. 5km more and a few beers (yes, we had some booze and beers there, it was Saturday after all) later one of those sick guys called his wife to come get him and he left us. After that walking was much easier for me because we dropped the speed from 6-7km/h to 5-6km/h. The last 25km were easier (at least relatively). We also met px (Elma aspect!) and his girl friend during the second half.

In the end we had walked 52.6km in 10h 12 minutes. I was satisfied. Then sauna, some party time and sleep. Today in the morning I couldn't walk anymore. My legs hurt so much that I can't stand or walk. I move by using a chair as a walker (rollaattori). Quite painful feelings.

100km would be so cool to achieve, but that won't happen in the near future. The next goal could be a long skiing trip because now my record is like 40km and skiing is much easier (like 2-3 times) than walking.

Paprika progressing

Last two days have been very productive, hopefully tomorrow too. 90% now. I'm happy.

After Paprika is released I will be telling publically whats going on. But now I'm keeping this secret because I did that at first place. Actually I always try to keep secrets in Elma projects for two reasons: 1) it's fun to get/give secrets 2) I don't like people asking in IRC when x is ready.

Autumn Paprika

+5 celsius degrees outside, summer soon gone. School has started, I selected 7 courses including two English courses. It's pretty free term, I only have to sit 6 hours per week at university at certain time. The rest is up to me. I watch lecture videos at home, read book, make exercises and so on. The situation is pleasant, yet dangerous, because you need to have quite high self-discipline to control things. But I'm sure I will handle it.

One of my two English courses is called "Self Access Grammar" which can be done at home or in self-learning centrum. The second one is "Lecture Listening" where we listen to different kind of medium (TV, radio, speeches and so on) and write down notes. We also talk a bit there, which is good for me. Tiny speeches of our own will take place too but that's not a problem.

I gave up in sport competition. I have had 2 points (90 minutes) per day pace for nine months now but it had gotten extremely annoying when you have to do night walks alone without any other reason except those two damn points. But I hope I don't stop all sport, just that stupid sport-for-points. Today I will be swimming.

And finally about Paprika. It's getting very near to publishing due to our good mood latelly. But to set your expectations down I must tell you that Paprika is just the first step of one, even bigger, project. So it might not be as grand as you thought. 88%

70/300 or 39.5/180

It's party time, just got 4 credits more! And from this day I'll use an international credit system where our 180 is converted to 300 as needed credits for graduation. In the new system that 4 is 7.5 credits. Thus I have 39.5/180 or 70/300 credits depending on the system I use. I've never got this many at once before. Hooray. To bad the grade isn't the best one: 1+ out of 3. I might improve it in the future. The course was Programming Basics (Java).

My university studies will start in two weeks and in this term I'm trying to double my credits. That needs a lot of more effort than before. Also the hospital work (I think I've told about that earlier) is taking more and more time every week. Yet you shouldn't forget the sport competition which is still going strong (I'm second right after px). The next two weeks will be used in another work though. I'm handling the statistics service in the youngs athletics competition. Also got a few new site requests. So pretty active autumn is coming.

But today I'm going to use my time for Paprika.