The weekend

The weekend was lazy, as you could guess from the absence of log entries. Had some drinks Friday night with Anu and Kristiina, was a bit hungover Saturday morning but not much.

On Saturday went to have some sushi with Sini and a small bunch of cognitive science people. There is a new sushi place in Kämp, called Zen Sushi and pretty good. Well, I am not sure how new it really is but I'd never heard of it before. Was nice to see Sini, hadn't seen her for a while. Krista was there too, and I hadn't seen her in a million years. She is growing eyes, or at least it seems like every tíme I see her she's got bigger eyes than the last time. Don't know how she manages that. Timo and Catherine have a cute kid, which is amazing considering how rarely I find kids cute.

Went home, watched C'era una volta il West. It was very good in spite of the fact that it had Charles Bronson. Kind of sad though, in a "goodbye, Old West"-way.

On Sunday suddenly remembered that it was Independence Day, and decided to celebrate it, especially since Anu invited me over. Independence Day celebration calls for a cheesecake, but the only proper cheesecakes available in Finland are made by the cowardly enemy, meaning the British. (No, I have nothing against British as such but eating their cheesecakes on the US Independence Day feels somewhat unpatriotic, since they are the people we are celebrating being independent from.) Anyway, I bought the unpatriotic cheesecake, something grillable and weird thingies meant for setting a grill on fire and went to Anu's place.

The grill was fresh out of the box and in about 80 pieces, and Anu was staring at the pieces with great disapproval. There was also an instruction which, according to Anu, was written by an alien pretending to be a Chinese. The alien had not done a good job. Somehow we managed to put the damn thing together. It requred quite a bit of muscular effort since the metal parts did not fit each other quite well, but we did it. Had a very nice evening after the grill was assembled. At some point Viljo came by for a while.

Independence is a good thing. If we hadn't separated from Britain our buses would be even less on schedule than they are now, and our Chinese food would be really bad, too. Besides, they'd make us drive on the wrong side of the road.