SR V: To boldly go where no room has gone before

JJLehto wrote: Keppa4v wrote: JJLehto wrote: It's all good. I have my unnatural obsession with Finland. I am not of Finnish heritage, have any link with it in anyway, but I just love the place. Nothing wrong with that indeed  It's a lovely sunny morning here in Helsinki, too bad I have to work today. What made the whole thing even funnier is my one professor is strongly associated with Finland. He's not of Finnish descent but he was stationed there for 30 years working for the CIA and spent another 20 doing missionary work/just living there. So yea 50 years of his life, and he would tell stories of his time there and the people, so obviously I just loved it. Also, he is fluent in Finnish, which I know is one of the toughest languages. He once said he recited the Kalevala in perfect finnish to a family and the mother broke into tears. I'd love to go some day.

Keppa4v wrote: JJLehto wrote: It's all good. I have my unnatural obsession with Finland. I am not of Finnish heritage, have any link with it in anyway, but I just love the place. Nothing wrong with that indeed  It's a lovely sunny morning here in Helsinki, too bad I have to work today.

What made the whole thing even funnier is my one professor is strongly associated with Finland. He's not of Finnish descent but he was stationed there for 30 years working for the CIA and spent another 20 doing missionary work/just living there. So yea 50 years of his life, and he would tell stories of his time there and the people, so obviously I just loved it.

Also, he is fluent in Finnish, which I know is one of the toughest languages. He once said he recited the Kalevala in perfect finnish to a family and the mother broke into tears.

I'd love to go some day.

James wrote: Maybe it's because it's boring and you want it to finish?

Must sleep sometime and I figure I've heard it once and left it on a loop setting or something, so I'm giving up on that one. Still, better than Tubular Bells. Tomorrow is another day to waste while thinking about how to write about subjects which I'm only interested in using as a metaphor. Think this River based poem is going in the hexametric skip.

James wrote: It's an issue when you mostly listen to music at night after everyone has gone to bed.  Plus I like to register my tunes on last.fm too. There's not even a faint sound from the right side... grrr.  I've wiggled the wires too.  Nothing. I may have to get some Sennheiser sometime this week.

True. I'm Amaroking out and I swear this song is actually counting time in reverse or something. Every time I look at the timer it appears earlier on than before. Still, it's a good album.

It's an issue when you mostly listen to music at night after everyone has gone to bed.  Plus I like to register my tunes on last.fm too.

There's not even a faint sound from the right side... grrr.  I've wiggled the wires too.  Nothing.

I may have to get some Sennheiser sometime this week.

ARRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGH!

My headphones are broken.

I can only listen to music in the left ear.  Most annoying!  I don't have any spare either.

Padraic wrote: Soft Mountain is outstanding, but why wouldn't it be?

Definitely try Organon's Klusterbuckstuckle.  It's also superb.

It's all good. I have my unnatural obsession with Finland.
I am not of Finnish heritage, have any link with it in anyway, but I just love the place.

Ricochet wrote: Leningrad wrote: Romanian > most other nationalities   carry on You have more faith than me in Romanians then. Of course, if it's because we were under communist regim, I don't wanna hear about. Go visit Chișinău (if they'll let you pass the border).