This seems to be the 3rd summer in row that I don't start my fishing season in Kiiminkijoki but I have to wait until my summer break when I get to go to Utsjoki. This is my last week at work and on Tuesday next week I'll start my fishing season in Utsjoki...either in Utsjoki river or in Vetsijoki river. I've heard that there's quite a lot of salmon at least on Teno river. Aslakki says the salmon is climbing up to trees already :) (see http://www.tenojoki.fi/tenopaasivut/aslak/)
I've made only moderate equipment purchases for this season. I got me a fly fishing jacket and a Guideline's shooting head from Perhokolmio. The line I got is Power Taper DDC Connect Intermediate for one hand rods. It'll be interesting to see how it works...I'll try to report it here. The jacket is the long version of the Vision FlyWater jacket. Should be ok but if not I'll definitely report it here.
Monday, June 30, 2008
House deal done
A quick update on the house matter. We did get into agreement with the seller on the house I mentioned in my previous post so I'll be moving from the northern side of the city of Oulu to the the southern side. I'm so excited about moving to a new house...we've already started packing stuff and today we need to go select the tiles for kitchen.
Tuesday, June 24, 2008
Buying a new house
I've been lazy on blogging for quite some time already. Somehow Facebook takes quite a lot of my "online life energy" and it's hard to find time and energy to do blogging. Twittering I've almost totally given up on because of Facebook.
I've been up to so many things since the last time I wrote something here but the biggest thing is that we've sold our house and are looking for a new one now. We're already in kind of hurry as we should move out from our current house by the end of July. I've made an offer on a new house (literally new...it's supposed to be ready by 3rd week of July) yesterday and now waiting for the response from the seller...should know something by tomorrow.
It certainly isn't the best possible time to be upgrading a house right now as the interests are high and still going further up. Also it is expected that the house/apartment prices are going to go down in Finland. But we made the decision to sell our current house a bit before all the signs of the economy turned to red. But as a wise man once said, let's hope for the best and fear for the worst :)
I've been up to so many things since the last time I wrote something here but the biggest thing is that we've sold our house and are looking for a new one now. We're already in kind of hurry as we should move out from our current house by the end of July. I've made an offer on a new house (literally new...it's supposed to be ready by 3rd week of July) yesterday and now waiting for the response from the seller...should know something by tomorrow.
It certainly isn't the best possible time to be upgrading a house right now as the interests are high and still going further up. Also it is expected that the house/apartment prices are going to go down in Finland. But we made the decision to sell our current house a bit before all the signs of the economy turned to red. But as a wise man once said, let's hope for the best and fear for the worst :)
Wednesday, April 16, 2008
New fishing story in the works
Today I decided that it's time for me to write a new fishing story. It'll take at least a few days until it's done and I'm ready to publish it here. Again I'm going to write it in Finnish like I did with the previous story called Uni because it's too difficult for me to write stories in English. This story is going to be about ice-fishing. It'll include description of beautiful snowy landscape of the fells of Utsjoki and - of course - fishing action.
I can't wait for the story to materialize through my fingers on the keyboard :)
I can't wait for the story to materialize through my fingers on the keyboard :)
Monday, April 14, 2008
Bad luck with weather
I was @ Ruka, Kuusamo again last week with my family. On Saturday the weather was great, -4 C, sun shining and no wind, and the slopes were in a very good shape. It totally looked like my luck with weathers had changed. But then on Sunday the weather was terrible, wind blowing so that the bubble ski lifts had to be closed and it was totally impossible to glide the east side slopes as the wind was freezing your face and throwing ice on it. So we were forced to stay on the west side slopes which was good in the sense that now the whole family is experienced on skiing/snow boarding on black slopes :)
As a summary of the snowboarding this season I have to say that I learned to do it better than before as I have never done that as much as this winter. My son learned to ski very well, he's doing great carving turns even on the steep slopes. My daughter also learned really snowboard. When the season started she was still sliding sideways and only doing the easiest blue slopes. Now she can easily do the red slopes and somehow handle even black ones. My wife got also better with carvers.
As total I was on snowboard on 9 days, 8 in Ruka and 1 in Iso-Syöte. Of these days the weather was nice only on one, last Saturday. In addition the weather was decent on one or two days but 6 days out of 9 it was lousy. I experienced raining, heavy snowing, horrible winds, very cold temperature and all sorts of mixes of these. I hope the luck with weather is better next winter.
As a summary of the snowboarding this season I have to say that I learned to do it better than before as I have never done that as much as this winter. My son learned to ski very well, he's doing great carving turns even on the steep slopes. My daughter also learned really snowboard. When the season started she was still sliding sideways and only doing the easiest blue slopes. Now she can easily do the red slopes and somehow handle even black ones. My wife got also better with carvers.
As total I was on snowboard on 9 days, 8 in Ruka and 1 in Iso-Syöte. Of these days the weather was nice only on one, last Saturday. In addition the weather was decent on one or two days but 6 days out of 9 it was lousy. I experienced raining, heavy snowing, horrible winds, very cold temperature and all sorts of mixes of these. I hope the luck with weather is better next winter.
Tuesday, April 1, 2008
First day in a new job
The first day in a new job is now pretty much behind. The morning was pretty busy with meetings until 1 pm. After that I've been trying to learn stuff by reading...there's so much to read!!!
I must say that I'm looking forward on how the new job will turn out and how the whole service business that Nokia is now on will evolve for Nokia. It is very interesting to be part of building new business for a giant company like Nokia. This is not the first time for me though as previously I was part of the team that introduced Nokia Internet Tablets. That was a wonderful learning experience and I had the greatest job of managing partnering for internet applications.
Before that I was part of a team that brought SIP technology to Nokia S60 handsets. Again there my responsibility was partnering related as I managed the S60 SDK SIP plug-in introduction to developers (well, Forum Nokia guys took care of the last mile but anyway) and managed an early access developer program for ISVs.
Now it's time to go home and let the learning of the first day in the new job to sink in...
I must say that I'm looking forward on how the new job will turn out and how the whole service business that Nokia is now on will evolve for Nokia. It is very interesting to be part of building new business for a giant company like Nokia. This is not the first time for me though as previously I was part of the team that introduced Nokia Internet Tablets. That was a wonderful learning experience and I had the greatest job of managing partnering for internet applications.
Before that I was part of a team that brought SIP technology to Nokia S60 handsets. Again there my responsibility was partnering related as I managed the S60 SDK SIP plug-in introduction to developers (well, Forum Nokia guys took care of the last mile but anyway) and managed an early access developer program for ISVs.
Now it's time to go home and let the learning of the first day in the new job to sink in...
Monday, March 31, 2008
750 km of fun
Last weekend finally I was snowmobiling in the area of Rovaniemi-Levi-Soankylä with some fellow sled heads from work. Altogether we drove 750 km during 3 days. The trails were in perfect condition. Actually the straight and flat parts of the trail could have been in worse shape to make driving more interesting.
The trip was partly ruined by an incident that involved dealing with police. We drove past couple of stop signs without stopping. We did slow down to slover than walking pace but didn't stop. Police was behind us and we didn't know. That cost me 430 €. Damn expensive. Well I know better next time, lesson learned.
The trip was partly ruined by an incident that involved dealing with police. We drove past couple of stop signs without stopping. We did slow down to slover than walking pace but didn't stop. Police was behind us and we didn't know. That cost me 430 €. Damn expensive. Well I know better next time, lesson learned.
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