Happy New Year

When taking Zorro out this morning everything looked just beautiful, white and new. Who knows, it may just become an excellent year. Looking back at 09 it was quite a good year. We got to go to Holland, Cyprus and travel the Finnish coastline with our boat. We became god parents to Lucas and then we also got the excellent news of a new family member on his/her way. Professionally things were maybe a bit less great but then...who gives a toss...it's just work, nothing more :)

Intentions for 2010?? To finally grow up!

And so it happened again...

After the Jokela drama, the Kauhajoki drama and the Myyrmanni bomb we now have also the Sello shootings. It is quite unbelievable that buying a handgun, like say a Glock is in fact easier (not to mention legal) than smoking a spliff in your own home. In one word: crazy.

Christmas!

With over 40cm of snow we finally had a white one again! Christmas eve brought us all presents, good food and good times as usual at the Weckstr?ms. Yesterday at home occupied with building Lego spaceships and today dinner and games at Kela's mother. Good there's another day left before the final work days of the year!

Jokela

Only 20 kilometers away some completely deranged lunatic and utter sonofabitch decided to do a massacre at a high school today. At least 8 people lost their only life and many more their loved ones. And many, including me, thought Finland was a safe place to raise your children...

There is no safe way of permitting guns in any society.

First Snow!

With the first snow of the year falling on us yesterday we had the pleasure of waky waky in a white world, super. Dani re-did his hairdo yesterday by cutting away a big piece of it. Good timing BTW, he's scheduled for a school picture later this month. Lovely....

Puuhamaa

Good fun yesterday with Robin and Dani at Puuhamaa, a fun park about a hundred kilometers north of here. The holiday is passing fast, Friday already.... with Monday looming around the corner. Time I start doing some stuff around the house, there always these repairs that need to get done but never get done....this is the time.

A Bigger Bang

Yesterday the Rolling Stones showed exactly how a rock band should do a fantastic concert. Nothing showed these guys are already in their mid sixties, instead they made Helsinki rock on its foundations. Many thanks to Hendrik who arranged us the "show staff" passes that allowed us to go where normally you would get thrown out and that provided us with a little peek at how things go backstage.