October - well into glögi season already.

I hope everyone who could vote in Finland voted today (including all the foreigners who have lived (and registered as living) in Finland for over two years)! I think the early voting system at the post office is quite nice but still there were some peeps who waited till the last second... I got stopped on the street today and asked where the voting center in Töölö was. I honestly don't even remember where it is, it's certainly further away from my flat than the post office so I honestly did not store that kind of information in my brain. Early voting, early everything... except my photo posting! Here is some local late August. Those red berries that make birds drunk in the wintertime were already there. Those red berries certainly didn't come out too well in tiny. They're clearer in hq over in the jux slideshow although the chromatic aberrations are quite present in the bright photo of said berries. Quite a shame, it seems it will only live on in mq.

Jumbly jumble of gibberish. Why is it "gibberish" and not "jibberish"?

Please gather around as I tell you the brilliant ways the connections in my brain work! This morning, as it was still cold and there were still patches of ice on the ground, I went for a run. With a proper amount of peanut butter and cheese the night before for a long run (it seems that I have finally found what my body needed in unsweetened peanut butter because clearly I need to load up on fat the night before but too much cheese is a bad idea, as seen last weekend), I set out in -4C a bit after 8am. Somewhere after a full circle of Seurasaari and on towards Otaniemi, it finally registered that it was too light for that time of day. Then I calculated, today is the Sunday closest to my birthday and that means it's Marseille-Cassis weekend and that means that we switched clocks! Every single thing I use to check the time automatically switches the time in my flat and now it's done without even informing me (unlike in ye olden days of pop ups asking me if I was sure that we had switched over to winter time). I think only my cameras still have the old time and I never bother with that. I don't even own a mechanical wrist watch! I don't own any wrist watches for that matter... I feel like I'm failing Douglas Adams on some level. And, thus, it is clear that I am a slave to modern machines. And now it's dark outside at 4:30pm. Oh, I suppose I should be happy with a 7:30am sunrise except that I'm already at work by then and soon that sunrise will be 9am in any case. We're down to under 9 hours of daylight. Every year I am surprised at how fast it goes. I really am like one of those people on the telly that act all surprised when it snows a shitton in winter in the mountains, "oh, this is crazy, can you believe it, snow in winter, around here!" Back to the running though, -4C which warmed up to around -2C... quite different conditions from the Marseille-Cassis stuff but maybe we can say that my Sunday half-marathon ran around Töölö bay was a bit equivalent to climbing those 10km and going down the other 10 in 15C weather? Certainly, there was no dip in the sea afterwards but you can't have everything. I really should run that race again eventually, I like to think that I am much stronger mentally and can take on much more pain these days than four or five years ago. And for shits and giggles - mini!Gali and some running.