Daily Loaf

Quick note

Life has been throwing little pebbles my way for the last couple of days, preventing me from posting anything. Last week I got some sort of funky stomach flu or food poisoning, which kept me in bed for the better part of Wednesday, Thursday and Friday. On Saturday I did make it to the gay sauna (not the seedy hamam-kind, please) at Jani's, even though there was much crayfish standing between me and 80 degrees of sweet relief. Didn't make it to Mixei though, still had bad mojo left over from previous days. On the gossipy side, things are boiling down Tampere way, with G-A-Y parties bound to repeat the success of their June edition, the aforementioned gay bar lost to terrible, terrible music, and the traditional Leimarit having been transformed into obscure events that no longer seem to serve most of the community; certainly not the people I know from Tampere. Check out the conversation at TreSeta or at Ranneliike (Finnish only, sorry).

And I still can't get over the fact that student apartments in Tampere have saunas these days! In Helsinki you're lucky to get a tiny room in some distant ghetto 10 miles from your school.

Sunday is spent honing the gaymobile, washing, vacuuming and waxing, and driving it to the maintenance guy. Although our June road-trip isn't to blame (there were signs a few years back already), some tube that has something to do with power-steering finally gave up, and since the replacement (which had to be ordered from the States) had finally arrived, it was time to hand that beautiful machine over to someone who knows their way around under the hood.

Monday I come to work only to find out my monitor has been scavenged to replace one that had blown up at the plasma cutter. Now I'm happily typing away at my new 17-inch Flatron, so I'm not complaining - although it's been much too long a hiatus. I haven't read the news in a few days, but I'm sure I'll have formed some opinions by tomorrow. Try and stop me!