Nina gave me the birthday surprise of a lifetime in the form of an ipad. I am still struggling trying to use it. Everything needs an app, an app almost always costs money and they’re far from perfect. Making a touch screen app doesn’t automatically mean it is user friendly or logical to use! Most developers seem to think othervise and have thus even left guides and manuals out.


The best gift I got was the chance to see my friends and family. The whole saturday seemed pretty awful at first but finally we got a chance to roll on some dry asphalt. Divers had been recently cleaning the shores around Oulu’s market place and we found a whole skip full of bicycle carcasses. Had I had the time I would have picked up a couple of frames to exercise my TIG welding on.