A co-worker posted a screenshot to the company chat of the forecast for San Francisco to where he will be going this week. According to the screenshot it will be colder in SF than here in Finland. He was pretty happy about that. ?

I’ve been listening to music a lot more lately. Great music combined with the free time I have had during my vacation (I know, ?!) has made me miss playing music myself. Maybe I need to dedicate some of rare free time to re-learn the basics again so that I can play some simple things. That would make me happy, I don’t need to learn any new complex skills for now.

Yet another weird thing in food production. Usually locally produced foods are not that expensive. Maybe they use some funky production method that is expensive.

Are watermelons import products also there? I would think there would be an area in Japan where watermelons would grow just fine, but it could be that the land is used for something else. Ours come from Spain (or at least the one we got was from there).

Tanning? Is it something you can eat? ?

I don’t tan either. When the first rays of sun hit me, any exposed skin gets burned instantly. The past 2 weeks have been a nightmare, it has been hot and the sky has been clear. No wonder we have spent a lot of time inside. It’s cooler here than outside even without an AC.

Well, being from the white North has its downsides too, doesn’t it? ?

The one we bought cost 1.39 €/kg (~181 ¥/kg). Naturally, the price varies depending on the season and the importer/producer.

I have noticed the same. I prefer dark colors1, though. With the 3rd-party bands there is a lot more variety, one can even get a rainbow-coloured Milanese band.


  1. Black. Or very dark gray. ?

What a morning. First I took the girls to the parking lot from where they would leave to a 3-day scout camp by busses. They had to be there by 0715, which meant that I was behind the steering wheel before 7. Then I drove back home, packed the boys in the car, and we drove my wife to work. From there we continued to a swimming ”hall”1. On our way home we stopped by a grocery store to buy water melon and baking paper. All that before 1130.


  1. The actual swimming hall is closed is summer, but they have outdoors pools and a water slide that are open.

We have pretty similar taste, I must admit. If I would buy an Apple Watch, I would use the Milanese band. I am rocking a Milanese band on my Fitbit Charge 2 at the moment.

Of course, there are various 3rd-party Milanese watch bands, they should bring the price down quite a lot. I have been eyeing them on Amazon, just to know how much I need to pay dor them.