Becoming a Crystallographer

This is the blog of a future crystallographer, not that crystallography is the main area of discussion. I'll maybe mention it once in a while, while writing about my life and other things.

Monday, February 26, 2007

Better, faster and full

Climbing yesterday was great. Which is great since it was most likely my last time for a while. My boss got up her "champagne wall" which she has been working on for ages. And so on Thursday, my last night, we will be having some champagne. Quite great really. I did way good too since I got up like one wall I didn't get up last time and then like a few hard one's I had gotten up and to top it all off I was trying this wall for the first time and it was like grey/red and since it was 5-/5 as a combination, 6 something as grey and 5+ as red I was thinking I'd do it as a combination since we'd been climbing for quite a while and I was sort of tired. Well then I started out with the reds since in the beginnig the colors were sort of separated. Then I get some ways up and I'm like "I've only been using the reds so let's see how long I can keep doing that". And well I just kept doing it all the way up. It was really great since I'd seen like loads of people trying to climb the wall earlier and I'd not tried it since I thought it was too hard for me but it ended up that it wasn't. How great is that? I've really improved. It's nice to be better at something "than the general public".

On Saturday we went to eat at my favorite restaurant that I think all the people who have visited me after I found it know about. It's like authentic German with like local foods but it's no way like touristy since there's usually just German people there. Well I had my favorite food there and it was great. I even had a salad to start and some Apfelstrudel with ice cream to finnish it off. Boy, was I full. Full but happy. The food was great. Then we went to get drinks at the drink bar across the street from the restaurant. I was so full I could not drink my fruity drink at all fast. I didn't even eat the pineapple slices. I wanted to but I was too full.

Well I cleaned my appartment for most of yesterday. Then I don't have to do so much cleaning just before leaving.

Oh yeah. I bought myself a new digital camera on Saturday. It was of course way expensive but I was/am just so sick of my old camera. It is sooooo slow. But like compared to the old one (4 years old quite exactly) the new one is just great. I can take pictures way fast and don't have to wait like a minute till it is ready again and the pictures are way better. And well it has cool little features that of course I won't use that much but it was fun playing with it, changing brown to green and having pictures with only green and the rest black and white. (You can of course use colors other than green but you know me...) So it's a Canon Ixus 800IS. I won't be telling you how much I payed for it but just having checked out the finnish prices I did get it cheaper than there. And I would like to point out that it was actually a lot cheaper than the camera I bought 4 years ago. That's technology for you.

Anyone want to buy my old camera? Fujifilm A303. In great shape. Works good with no problems except that it's slow. You get two memory cards that will fit altogether like 150 pictures in the best quality of the camera. It's battery operated with like 3.2 megapixels.

Two more work days. :D

3 Comments:

  • At 26/2/07 18:09, Blogger anniina said…

    Congrats on the successful wall climbing. I climbed a wall once. It takes everything out of you, or at least your arm muscles. Boy was I tired after.

    You might ask Jussi if he wants to buy the camera. We have been thinking of getting another one so that both of us will have a camera if we are in different places. Like now. We thought of getting a new one but at the moment it might not happen with all our money going to the road trip this summer.

    Well anyway, have a lovely trip back home. It must feel odd going back.

     
  • At 27/2/07 15:36, Blogger elina said…

    Here's my comment now. :) Yes, I remember that restaurant. And the food. It was great and there certainly was enough of it.
    I hope you have a lovely last couple of days there.
    See you on Friday!!!! :D

     
  • At 27/2/07 16:31, Blogger A-V said…

    reaaally busy at work, been reading your blog of coz, but haven't been commenting. sry about that sis :)

    congratz on your success and physical prowess ;)

     

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