december 21st really is a little too late to be sending christmas cards, but thats exactley what i did. plus they wont be collected from the local post box until tomorrow evening, so it will be min january before delivery is made. plus i still have a few packages/cards to put together. all this shows that i have no christmas spirit. its on its way though, snowed here all last night and still is now.

without much christmas spirit, it was hard to do a christmas email image for my friends. last years (on the left) was a triumph, this years was a labour intensive exercise, hours in front of old pictures i took, adding this and that in photoshop. in the end i gave up and used an image from early october.

anyway, click on either of the images for higher res versions, but the links might break in a few weeks when i take the hi-res ones down. whatever!

an early christmas present, a dvd player with a mind of its own. last night, it decided to just switch itself on and even though the television was switched off, we could still hear it though the dvds speakers. it was a man talking. we found out then that it was a show on sub tv, so then a few minutes in to it there was an ad break, so i looked what else was on. i stumbled onto a documentary movie on yle2. it was a documentary about a few people in new york who live their lives around movies. going to see a few every single day. it was called “cinemania“, if you have a chance to see it, do.

its cold outside, snow falling and melting and then making my shoes all wet. but reading this makes me smile

i had a camera for a week. i was a little bit busy, but still, dozens of boring dark out of focus pictures.

the parliment house in helsinki

first official christmas sighting:

today at 0745: wham “last christmas” was just played on the radio