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As those who follow my Twitter probably know, there was a large fire close to where my parents live in Marseille that all started because the military thought it would be a good idea to practice shooting firearms in the middle of nowhere when there hasn't been hardly any rain for months. Here are some pictures that my dad sent me, quite thankfully my parents are safe and sound and the fire did not really damage any houses but some were, as the French say, "licked" by the flames. The pictures were taken either from the front balcony or the garden.

( some more photos, the night shots are really spectacular )

My parents' garden is currently filled with tomatoes and other great things. It's also possible to find some funky fruit.

Current Mood: good

TdF in Marseille and now close to Saint-Girons

So... TdF today in the mountains. The problem is that they close off pretty much all the access roads at around 10am and we have to drive to Saint-Girons from Toulouse. We'll see how that goes. Worst case we'll just be there for the final, best case we'll be able to walk a bit away from there final kilometer. I wanted to go to one of the "col" but there is no easy way of doing it unless we left this morning at 5am, which we did not.

In any case, there is sun and we have enough stuff to make a picnic, life should be good. Also, still totally digging Arashiro and still think that Little Thomas L. is missing.

Current Mood: apathetic

Poll time because I'll be travelling a bit from now on...

As you have noticed, I've been posting a bit of pictures these past few entries and what I usually do is take a bunch of pictures, upload them about five weeks after having taken them and then upload one by one because I'm lazy like that. So... I thought that maybe I'll give the 365 days project one more time. So it's poll time!!!!

[Poll #1405773]

Current Mood: amused

Glorious Revolution of the Twenty-Fifth of May to you all who have read Night Watch and know what it's all about and of course Happy Towel Day to all you hoopy froods! I took a picture of some lilac a while back but now I can't find it, so you're stuck with my mum's miniature garden thing.

And in other news, my hair is amazing these days. Water-only washing is so worth it, you have some bad-ish weeks at the start but man, these days, it's so soft and lovely it's beyond me why I have never tried it before.

Also, in my mind Tim Henman is not retired yet. Because the courts are clearly missing the awesomeness of Tim Henman.

Current Mood: mellow

I forgot to take off my contact lenses last night, that means this morning my eyes were almost clamped shut and now the surrounding area is all puffy. To get the full "leave me alone, bad day" look, I added an old baby pink jumper and old jeans as well as glasses to the look. I would have also gone for old trainers but I would have really felt out of place then so I went for the high heeled boots. God, now that I look at it, I really need to get rid of this jumper, or at least only wear it when I'm painting walls or something.

Current Mood: morose

I'm using this picture, maybe I've used it before but it really fits today's topic.

I had a dream last night and I would say it was more of a lucid dream because I wasn't really asleep, I was aware of what was going on around the house. In any case, yesterday was not the best day for me, I was tired and very grouchy and it made me realise that actually I was much happier on raw food, maybe I should go back to that.

So my dream: I was at one of those japanese/chinese shops where you can get all the cool food, it had two levels, I was on the bottom level (underground) talking to the owner, telling him how cool everything was. A man came up to the owner and started telling him how his shop sucks because an item was not there. I started defending the owner saying that it's not true and the shop rocked and that if they did not have the exact brand of rice the guy wanted, why not take another brand. The guy got upset with me and told me to shut up which I did not do. He then started telling me that he will get his revenge on me, which I laughed off. The owner got really scared for me though and told me to stay on the top level and that he'll ask his staff to make sure that I was ok. So I stayed on the top level talking with the cashier about this and that, always looking out the windows just to make sure that nothing bad would come. Then I heard a shot being fired and we all laid on the ground. I looked up and saw that the person who fired was in the shop and was actually one of the security people from the shop. He then came up to me as I lay on the ground and he just shot me in two or three places. I remember being quite surprised that it did not hurt and there was no gushing blood. And that's it.

I don't really know what it means and if it means anything. I usually don't remember my dreams at all, so this is quite new. So, anyone got any ideas?

In other news, the Helsinki library system failed me for the first time over the week-end. I saw that they had a book on L'viv, two copies of it actually and I proceeded to request one copy to be delivered to the library closest to Otamieni. Today I checked on the status of the book because it should have been on hold at the library already, waiting for me. Well, to my biggest surprise, both copies of the book have gone missing. This is quite upsetting as I can't find the same book on amazon or play.com. Oh well, I guess I'll have to make do with the info online and in the two books on Ukraine I already checked out.

Current Mood: pensive

So... coming back to the whole DreamWidth thing.

rahaeli pointed out to me their DW Business plan FAQs (here) and reading through them, I had a very interesting reflection. At first I did not want to pay those $25 per year for DW even though I have no problems paying them for LJ, mainly because I told myself that DW will probably never survive and it will be money wasted. Then I read the business plan and it seems viable. And yet, even after making sure the calculations were reasonnable and everything, I still did not feel like forking over those $25.

Then I finally realised why. It's the simplest thing in the world, it's the fact that I am petty and childish. Yes, I enjoy having an ad-free LJ, I enjoy it immensly. I also take pleasure in having extra features such as extra icons and storage space and my own theme. To be honest, I still have some icon slots free, I have my own server space so technically I don't need the storage space and I haven't changed my theme in about a year... so in the end, those options aren't all useful to me. But you know what I enjoy? Knowing that some people have to see ads in order to use LJ. Yes, it's not a conscious thing, whenever I look at my LJ I don't think "oh, brilliant! Some bastards get ads and I don't, yay!". Yet, when I think about it, it's a glorious thing to know that people who don't want to pay for a good service will pay in some other manner, and let's be honest, is there anything more annoying than online ads?

This train of thought made me question all of my decisions to pay for some things. It's kind of strange.

Current Mood: amused

Now I have a Dreamwidth account thanks to the lovely

petiii. Will I be moving there? I'm not quite sure yet.

I highly admire what they're trying to do and their pledge saying that there will never be ads, that's all very brilliant... for the moment. To be honest, I'm happy with LiveJournal. I've learned in the past couple of months that when you're part of something that is huge and way above you, you just make the best of your little corner and don't give a shit about what's going on at the top. Sure, CS has many problems up in the higher spheres but I'm just trying to make the best of our little Helsinki group. Sure, LJ has more than enough problems at the top but I really don't care. I pay not to have ads and I believe that LJ has been reliable enough and has brought me way more than enough happiness for my $25 per year. The people who visit my journal don't see ads and most of them will never venture outside either their friends-list or my journal page and therefore will not see the ads on LJ.

I quite like how DreamWidth added the possibility to import my LJ entries here, very nice. I did not import my LJ friends here because I find that just silly. If you want to add me here, you're very welcome to do so :)

So end of story: I'm stay with LJ and DW both, there's cross-posting and all that jazz. I can't promise that DW will get all my LJ entries because I'll certainly forget and I host my pictures on LJ's scrapbook, it's convenient for me to post from there. I know I have where-is-gali.net and I could host all my pictures there but I only keep the high resolution ones there.

The end of the end of story: For the moment, my $25 will go to LJ because they offer me more for that money than DW. I know that DW needs all the money they can get to keep the site alive but first they must prove to me that their business plan is viable, if I find the full details in the FAQ, maybe then I'll consider getting a paid account there too.

Current Mood: chipper

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Where is Gali(nette)?

aka The day we caught the train

Entries tagged with pix:marseille:2009

Bah oui...

Some things are worth going home for

Parce que...

Hey, spotify has some Boyzone! And I'm back to being 12 again!

Listening to Jack Johnson on my iPod at work.

Today I fail at life.

Very much wtf.

I'm thinking about this and we're not even in philosophy class!

Now I'm at the party too