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Taking a couple of buses today, later on we will be in Vilnius.
My third time there.I like the city, it’s a very friendly and relaxing place to visit, very green too.
I like all the mixed team sports in the World Games, like Ultimate Frisbee or Korfball. They all thought of some great rules to make the sex of a player mostly a non-issue, while not making it feel restrictive at all.
And then there are the Billiard variants, which in my head should be one of the sports where the physical differences of the players should matter the least – and they all have separate events for male and female…
There are so many forest fires in the Mediterranean at the moment. It is so sad. Western Turkey especially is being devastated by extreme heat and fires. I can imagine it will only get worse in the next years, and we are not equipped to deal with it at all.
Here we also have a bit of warm weather (at last). I woke up very early and went for a run. And I have a few tomatoes every day, but the big ones that I am coveting are still green.
When I was watching the Green Valley, there was an episode about charcoal burning. They said that charcoal burners were often cast away from the society, lived on their own in forests and were poor, because, well, who knows. They also said that because the job was so shunned, there’s nobody with “charcoal burner” as the surname (unlike Fisher, Miller etc). that got me thinking, because Köhler is a German surname, and means that. So maybe they were better off in Germany? Sadly, not. Some Europeans had this idea that some jobs were dishonorable, although very clearly they relied on the people who did these jobs. The past is a different country and so on, but it’s still annoying. Maybe I am too fucking communist.
Italians, and those interested in classical music, would you like to try the [composer or pasta test?](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rZU9k43FeXw) Some were surprisingly difficult!
My paternal lineage comes from a noble family in Sweden via Åland, and descendants of the Swedish family make a genealogy book every decade or so which just lists people, the branch they belong to, who they’re married to, how many kids they have, where they studied, et cetera. And now is that time again, apparently, as my uncle said he was contacted by somebody in Sweden asking for updated info.
I’m of course not going to submit anything, because, lmao, but I also kinda enjoy being part of the exotic little known and little understood Finnish branch. I imagine these blue blooded Swedes gather in some idyllic countryside manor every summer to discuss family matters and every time at some point at night, when perhaps a little too much wine has flown, they start to wonder what this mysterious Finnish branch that nobody knows about really is.
Some of my father’s siblings and their cousins actually went to one of these meetings in Sweden, but I never asked what it was like or what happens in those. I’m just going to assume they were laughed at for having been mixed with peasants.