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Frank Gehry died yesterday.. the most famous architect called Frank since Lloyd Wright.
What do you know about his buildings? Do you like them? The Guggenheim in Bilbao and the Louis Vuitton foundation in Paris are probably his most famous buildings in Europe.
Happy Saint Nicholas Day, to whoever is celebrating.
Hope you cleaned your shoes last night 😉
I accidentally bought unhomogenized milk. Now my coffee has [butter on it](https://imgur.com/a/2IVBsxy) (this is just the warm milk, butter was less recognizable after adding coffee). Ugh I had to drink this all my childhood. Thank god for homogenized milk. Then again I think some people put straight up butter in their coffee. Anyhow.
It’s my baby brother’s birthday today. Too bad I can’t be there, but it seems like he had an exam anyway. Do you guys still do big family birthday celebrations? We haven’t been doing those since we were kids. I think nobody even knows my dad’s real birthday.
Today is Finnish independence day. Celebrations are always very muted, it’s a pretty calm day. [Here’s](https://imgur.com/pZskOJX) the Finlandia Hymn on my organ to celebrate the day.
A couple of months ago I was at a flea market and I saw a peculiar looking red box that peaked my interest. It looked like the size of something that would hold cassettes, and I was on the lookout for them, so I went to see. Turns out it was the old testament. As an audio book from 1985 on cassettes. Part four out of six. For 3€. I had to buy it.
Yesterday I randomly remembered I had it, completely slipped my mind. It has been in the trunk of my car all this time. I don’t know why it’s such a funny object to own to me. There’s something so funny about driving around listening to the bible on cassette, lmao.
Another grey and foggy day. I have no account of how much it has rained here lately. Seemingly continuing well into the winter since the temperatures have stayed above freezing. We get a day or few of snow then it just rains away. The hope of a white Christmas is pretty thin by now. This has become the new normal here sadly.
It’s been raining a lot since autumn, with some shorter periods of pauses and sunshine luckily. We even had some weeks of pure frost this autumn without any snow, where you can just walk on the moors like they were carpets.
The Shaking of Hands has just begun. The Independence Day celebrations involve the presidential couple hosting a party at the presidential castle. All invited visitors are personally greeted by the presidential pair, and their amount means the greetings easily take something like 1.5 hours.
The whole thing is televised, with commentators including journalists who “know everybody” and a fashion expert commenting on the guest’s apparel.
[This image](https://images.cdn.yle.fi/image/upload/ar_1.7777777777777777,c_fill,g_faces,h_431,w_767/dpr_2.0/q_auto:eco/f_auto/fl_lossy/13-3-5971091) is from years ago with one of our previous presidents and her husband, but is the typical view you’ll see in the TV stream.