flyingfinn

Been a while, huh?

2006-07-30T21:36:02Z

Since last time: my dad died of lung cancer, I held his hand when he died. That was in spring 2005. Then we bought a house. I bought a 1979 Jeep Cherokee. And a few other cars, we have eight of them now. We bought another house and sold the first one to my wife's parents. We bought a dog that's going to be huge. We gave a third cat a home. This place is like paradise; just us, trees, peace and quiet.

Sorry to make a long story so short, but I don't feel like typing all night. We're good here. I miss you friends, all the best to you.

Heellpp

2004-10-04T19:51:11Z

Could somebody help me out? There's great stuff on Ebay, but a lot of the sellers will only ship to the US. Could someone act as a middleman, the sellers could send the stuff to you, and you would send it to me in Finland? I'd pay all the expenses, of course, and then some.

When I didn't know, I was curious. Now I know and I'm disappointed.

2004-02-12T22:34:56Z

The Classic IQ Test

Congratulations, Mikko!
Your IQ score is 138

This number is based on a scientific formula that compares how many questions you answered correctly on the Classic IQ Test relative to others.

Your Intellectual Type is Visual Mathematician. This means you are gifted at spotting patterns — both in pictures and in numbers. These talents combined with your overall high intelligence make you good at understanding the big picture, which is why people trust your instincts and turn to you for direction — especially in the workplace.

http://web.tickle.com/tests/uiq/

hmmm?

2003-09-20T16:58:23Z

i have to remind myself to exhale

2003-09-11T21:41:02Z

how can life be this good to me? I found a decent computer (compaq presario 7450 with a 475 Mhz AMD K6-2) in the dumpster (and i wasn't even diving, i was just taking out the trash at work), Pekka gave me his car ('84 Talbot Horizon), my job is now officially a steady one, and i'm getting a sponsored freestyle bmx bike (a Felt Chronic).

they actually make a bike called Chronic, i love it. so fitting.

and the car is so great, it has so much character, i'll post some pictures eventually. I love the krrrrrrrt sound it makes during downshifts and the way people's heads turn when they hear it. and the honk sound is more like a beep, i'll have to post that too if i can find a microphone. the key comes out of the ignition while it's running, it starts with just about anything, some doors only open from the outside, some only from the inside, the roof has a big dent from me taking a ride on it out on town one time....i love it. it's a compact car but it can still easily take a fully assembled mountainbike. it's like a clown car except for the boring metallic gray color.

i haven't been online much, but i still haven't forgotten about you (you know who you are). i'm still here and things are good. i'm really enjoying myself, life and riding. i'll definitely keep in touch, maybe a little infrequently but still...just be patient with me. love you.

that's a lot of highs...but i feel fine

2003-07-09T19:34:47Z

Disorder	Rating
Paranoid:	Low
Schizoid:	Moderate
Schizotypal:	High
Antisocial:	High
Borderline:	Low
Histrionic:	High
Narcissistic:	High
Avoidant:	Moderate
Dependent:	Low
Obsessive-Compulsive:	High
-- Personality Disorder Test - Take It! --

all i wanted was a pepsi, just one pepsi...

if only i could date myself...

2003-06-07T14:45:46Z

-Perfect- You're the perfect girlfriend. Which
means you're rare or that you cheated :P You're
the kind of chick that can hang out with your
boyfriend's friends and be silly. You don't
care about presents or about going to fancy
placed. Hell, just hang out. You're just happy
being around your boyfriend.

What Kind of Girlfriend Are You?
brought to you by Quizilla

i am the fakie king

2003-05-24T20:14:31Z

i don't know if anyone cares but i just rode my mountainbike backwards for about 50 yards until i ran out of space. twice. riding in reverse is known as the fakie, and i just got the hang of it. this is such a great feeling, this is why i ride bikes and practice useless stunts with them, achieving a goal feels so good. and the fakie opens up a whole new bag of tricks, now i can start practicing just about everything backwards: fakie manuals, fakie to stair hop, fakie to nosepick...

i'm sure something else has happened to me too, but this fills my head for now, i can't think of anything else right now. i'm so happy to be back in the bike scene. this is my bottle, now let me drown in it.

i can't stop doing these...

2003-05-17T18:31:05Z

No Hair for You, Thanks

You like to rock out and stand out even further...

You don't care about your "image," and people think you kick ass just because of the awesome person you are inside.

You like to walk on the wild side, and a little flirting can go a long way for you, in fact, it can go EITHER way!

You're unique and exciting and you're more than just pretty hair and sexy ways! ROCK ON!

What's *Your* Inner Hair Color?

More Great Quizzes from Quiz Diva

hahaha!

this is more like it...

2003-05-16T21:34:29Z

</td><td valign="top">You are a geek liaison, which means you go both ways. You can hang out with normal people or you can hang out with geeks which means you often have geeks as friends and/or have a job where you have to mediate between geeks and normal people. This is an important role and one of which you should be proud. In fact, you can make a good deal of money as a translator.

Normal: Tell our geek we need him to work this weekend.

You [to Geek]: We need more than that, Scotty. You'll have to stay until you can squeeze more outta them engines!

Geek [to You]: I'm givin' her all she's got, Captain, but we need more dilithium crystals!

You [to Normal]: He wants to know if he gets overtime.

</tr>

You are 40% geek

Take the Polygeek Quiz at Thudfactor.com

last quiz for a while, honest.

are you kidding me?!!!

2003-05-16T21:24:57Z

you're a bro!

How can I label you?
brought to you by Quizilla

sheee-ut!

oh yeah...

2003-05-11T10:26:41Z

i almost forgot, i'm off the hook on the crime suspicion thing, the cop told me to forget about the whole thing and apologized for having to call me in. so that was good too.

i just got back from the flea market, i got some new old tools really cheap. but the guy wouldn't sell the ones i wanted the most. i mean he wouldn't sell them for any price, he'd promised them to someone else already. oh well...

it gets happier towards the end...

2003-05-10T20:36:22Z

i post so rarely that i don't know where to start. most of it seems so by-gone anyway, almost not worth mentioning anymore.

i had to take a dead rat to the dumpster yesterday at work. apparently other rats had killed it in our shop's warehouse. (we have no idea where they come from.) i'd been walking around in there for a good while (almost stepping on it) until i noticed the bloody, disfigured remains. it caught me so off-guard. i looked, "what's that mess on the floor?" then i realised what the rag-looking pile really was and i flew out of the room so fast i didn't even know it, i just instantly found myself in the next room. i may have teleported for all i know. i looked in the room again, to make sure i saw right, and there it was. i got the creeps and had to pull back again. i did that maybe five times until i could force myself to take a good, close look. it was laying on its side, with its head flipped back like the hood on a jacket, (i thought its head was missing at first), its throat and chest open and guts showing, blood everywhere. it looked like it was still in pain, it was awful. poor thing. it was worse than any road kill i've ever seen. i've had pet rodents and they've all died eventually, but that was nothing like this. I've even had some in a jar in the freezer cause they died in the winter when the ground was frozen so i couldn't bury them, so i kept them frozen until the next summer. i couldn't just throw them in the dumpster, you know? and i've seen dozens of dead humans too, when i worked at the hospital. i took the dead patients from their rooms to the fridge to wait for the six-feet-under people or the coroner. i even watched a few autopsies, no problem. but this poor rat was something so horrible, i just can't explain it. then when i tried to get the shovel under it, the maggots started swarming, making their escape. the body was stuck to the concrete floor, glued by its own blood, and i'm trying to get it unstuck quickly before the bugs are all over the place. then i carried it across the yard and put it in the dumpster.
washed the shovel, left the blood stain on the floor, end of story.

i had to go buy a pack of cigarettes after that and smoke a few. a couple of hours later my dad called and said his van had been stolen. it's been found already, but at that moment, i just wanted to go home and hide under the covers for the rest of the day.

but today wasn't bad at all. i made myself a spare rear wheel for just the price of a rim. somebody had tacoed his wheel and bought a new one, and he left the old wreck with us. i used the old hub and spokes and just put on a new rim. the cost of the labor for handbuilding a wheel is so high that he got his wheel cheaper than if he'd paid us to do what i did, but since i don't have to pay myself for the work, i saved a lot of money and the result is better than a factory-built wheel. straight as an arrow and with even tension in the spokes so it stays that way.

my new frame should be arriving in about two weeks, i'm getting a dmr sidekick and putting parts i have lying around on it. that'll be mountainbike number three. i also have a freestyle bike and a road bike and about half a dozen vintage bikes. i feel sorry for the people who don't have a bike at all...

and just now i got a bag of weed. big, just like old times, and free, just like old times. reminds me of when i used to carry the bag and a bong to school in my eastpak. you know what the boy scouts say, be prepared... just don't get caught with it on the soccer field!
i don't think i'll start carrying it around again though, at least not all of it. and i'd need a smaller bong than the one i had back then. hope you enjoyed it while you had it, daft_venus.

i'm just glad to be connected again. and i'm getting a small tax refund too.

hangedfromkite @ 2003-05-10T01:13:00

2003-05-09T22:15:13Z

Your Ultimate Purity Score Is...
Category	Your Score	Average
Self-Lovin'	25% When I think about you - or anyone - I touch myself	61.9%
Shamelessness	69% It takes a couple of drinks	77.1%
Sex Drive	76.3% The Pope is envious	75.3%
Straightness	8.9% Knows the other body type like a map	40.7%
Gayness	32.1% At least one weekend of ecstacy	80%
Fucking Sick	76.1% Refreshingly normal	88.2%
You are 47.31% pure Average Score: 69.9%
Take The Ultimate Purity Test and see how you match up!

I'm fucking suspected of a crime again

2003-05-01T07:55:10Z

A letter from the police came in the mail yesterday. It said basically this:

Summons to appear for questioning

Concerning: You are suspected of damaging a green Renault Clio on July 21, 2001.

Godfuckingdammit. I'm innocent, I tell you. It'll be ok, there can't be any evidence cause I didn't do it, just a suspicion. And I do well in questioning, it's not the first time, I know what it's like already. Fuckshitfuck. It's been so long I almost thought it wouldn't come anymore.

free meat

2003-04-27T14:02:43Z

yesterday my boss gave all of us at work a three pound piece of beef each. fillet mignon. yum. (it's no horse meat, but it'll do just fine.)

the weather's been going back and forth from t-shirt and sun glasses to gloves and snowflakes and back. not much longer now...

i've got things to do, so fuck this.

my life is like watching soft-core porn

2003-04-25T21:35:47Z

you know?

i'm so proud of me

2003-04-19T13:47:32Z

last night i glued a tubular tire on my road bike's rim and i made practically no mess at all. if anyone knows what the hell i'm talking about, you'll know that's not easy. i'm so glad to have mastered an almost lost art, it's not easy to do it properly but i'm one of the few who know how. go me!

i took an amplifier and speakers to work so i can listen to cd's and minidiscs all day long. i go there to listen to music, it's sooo good. i go in, put on some music, and before i know it, it's time to go home. sure, i turn a lot of screws while i'm doing it, but i barely notice it, time flies so fast with the right albums.

which brings me to the new radiohead album...i got it on tuesday, which is a big deal, since it's not coming out until june. file sharing is better than sliced bread. this isn't the place for album reviews so i'll just say that i listen to it almost all the time now. excellent stuff.

i'm really psyched on riding bikes again, especially trials. i just want to go hop up things and drop off the other side. i had the urge to jump on to the couch with my bike last night, i could just barely resist it. i still have it, i better take it outside soon.

i'm so glad it's finally warm again. it's not hot yet, but warm enough. and the sun comes up around six a.m. and sets around nine p.m. so there's enough daylight to keep me happy.

oh yeah, in addition to having a female president, finland now has a female prime minister as well. go girls!

paint with the brightest colors!

2003-04-13T10:00:52Z

it's so gray outside, not feeling very inspired to do anything. i meant to get high again last night (i had a huge stack of cd's and candy bars) but i had better things to do. maybe next week.

i've had some long talks with my friend pekka this week, about nothing and everything. he's going to germany for a year again and he asked me if i wanted his car. i suppose i do. it opens up so many possibilities.....we went for a bike walk (he walked and i rode) the other night around the old neighborhood. i can't believe it's been ten years since all the really memorable stuff happened.

he started pressuring me to apply to the university, to get into the translation program i once thought about. and i still do think about it. i don't know. i feel like i don't want to.
but this is the same guy that talks me into everything that i don't want to do, but turns out to be good for me. i didn't want to go to high school, i would've become some sort of a grease monkey, but he talked me into it. changed my whole life, and for the better, i'm sure of that. i would've never become an exchange student but he talked me into that as well. and that was such a big deal for me in so many ways. i've made maybe three huge decisions in my life and he talked me into two of them. and he's always been right. as for myself...well, i don't know.

maybe i should trust him on this one too. i trust him with my life. one time we were at a friend's house and people were throwing darts. i was lying on the couch. all of a sudden he yells at me and throws a dart at my body. everyone shits themselves except me, i don't even flinch. when no one was looking (including me), he took the tip off the dart before he threw it at me. so nobody got hurt. the point is, it all happened so fast there was no time to think about it, i trusted him on such a deep level that it overrode natural instincts of self-preservation. my senses told me "danger!" but i knew better.

maybe i won't have time to get used to the idea this year, but i may very well apply next year. i don't know. i have no ambition.

i've seen so many pictures taken through a mirror lately that it made me find the negative to this one i took in 1997 at a really filthy sunoco station.

i think it was in ohio but i'm not sure anymore. everything was so beautiful that day, colors have never been so bright. even the filth was beautiful. nothing like the grayness here today.

i'll maybe hang out with pekka again today, he's moving out of his apartment next week to save money. he's going to live in his family's summer cottage until he goes to bremen in September or October.

I HATE IT WHEN THE LIBRARY (lieberry) CD'S START TO SKIP AND STUTTER AND I HAVE TO GET UP! people have no respect for public property. (coming from a guy who's vandalized just about anything at one time. i'm getting what i deserve.)

hangedfromkite @ 2003-04-05T23:42:00

2003-04-05T21:21:22Z

my boss asked me if i'd like to ride his son's bike this weekend while he's in helsinki. did i ever! it's like the best money can buy with its disc brakes with 8" discs and xtr gears and all that. i have to ride a lot tomorrow. in the slush. i'm going to be soaked when i get back. so cool. what a great boss i have.

i would've gone riding tonight but i was so tired i decided to smoke up instead. good times. listened to tool and ate pastries. the music came in through my mouth and as i chewed it flowed to my ears. i've missed this, it's been years since the last time and before that it had been years too.

if i only had some candy bars left...

snowflakes the size of quarters

2003-04-04T23:26:12Z

bloody 'ell, the snow was all gone and then it went and snowed two inches today. oh well, it's going to melt again in a day anyway, and we needed some rain. plus it was really beautiful for maybe an hour, everything was so white and pure again. not to mention the fact that i got to throw the last snowballs of the winter. the summer will come on its own, i can't rush it, no matter how desperately i need it right now.

june
will come soon
and before that
come what
may

july makes me 24
just a little more
of the same
that i am
today

i'm getting distracted by familiar strangers on im so i think i'm done for now. ...i'm done for.

first time for everything

2003-03-29T15:59:29Z

here it is now, my lj. i'm now officially a livejournalist. thank you, daft_venus, for pointing me here (you know you're my hero) and to yellowlightbulb for the code. all the best to you both and to anyone who reads this.......anyone?

i had such a busy day at work today, and i still had fun all of the time. i think this job is a keeper. i'm going over to the other mikko's soon, i'll install hydraulic brakes on his bike. actually i'm late already...better go now, more later.