Had a productive Easter

As some of you may know, we spent the Easter home this year. Looking back, it was a good decision. We would have got much better service in Polvijärvi, but making your own food is also a pleasurable pastime.

Finland has two extra bank holidays, the Good Friday and Easter Monday are both off. The weekend is four days, a decent break from the routines.

The Easter was also very productive. Sanna is busy setting up their patent shop and I’ve been consulting her regarding the IT systems. We got a lot done on that front, too.

Altogether, I made the following accomplishments (with my family, of course):

• Bought a gas grill and all required paraphernalia.
• Designed a site layout for an upcoming site.
• Cleaned up a mess in the storage room, as my Pepsi can collection leaked — over my dear Amiga keyboard among other things.
• Drilled holes to the bottom of the aforementioned cans (around 40) and emptied them to the sink. This process took more than two days. It was such a fun to shake the cans to squirt the Pepsi out as fast as possible. Unfortunately the pressure was not strong enough to empty the whole can and the rest of the stuff dribbled out really slowly.
• Met friends from the UK.
• Bought a full set of patio furniture (two tables and eight chairs), and managed to bring them home all at once. Fitting them inside Peugeot 407SW took twenty minutes, as the space usage was optimised over the time.
• Recovered Nomadig.com from the hacking attempt. See the previous post.
• Made and ate lamb dish, a hamburger. This was the first time for me to grill a lamb steak. Didn’t use the gas grill, as the weather is still too cold.
• Implemented a bunch of missing functionality to the forecoming Web 2.0 service. Things were moving towards closure very well.
• Finished three books. Started fourth.
• Imported a bunch of stuff to IT systems for Espatent.
• Implemented an off-site web site editing environment for a client.

All in all, very nice four days.