At 5 o'clock they take me to the gallows pole (Iron Maiden - Hallowed Be Thy Name)

All it was, as often, in the Friday morning shift to wait it to run its course and hop into the weekend.

Bits thunder in the air. Woke up to the thunder actually, a welcome change to the weather. Anyways, I poured myself a cup of coffee, made a pineapple smoothie and begun listening to music.

Prison of death where time stands still (Possessed - Pentagram)

A hot summer day.

Morning shift at work. Nothing overly interesting.

Once back home, I took a short nap and my ex and her mother came by. I left to play football and they stayed with the cats for a while.

Between Ceasar and nothing there are plenty of ways to be (Samael - Slavocracy)

Slept quite restlessly the whole night. Woke up a few times the middle of the night, read few pages of the Dan Brown book, tried sleeping again. I had a football match and a few beers under my belt, maybe the reason lies therein.

An evening shift at work, not much time to fuck about here.

The war is never over (Motörhead - The Thousand Names Of God)

Our library had a football match against another library and the result was 0 - 0. It was an alright, fair game. Not too much space with 7 + goalie on a small field, but at least relatively easy defending the goal. Had a few beers with the opponents in the nearby bar after the match. Nice summer evening.

I wear this crown of shit upon a liar’s chair (Nine Inch Nails - Hurt)

Woke up early. A day off from work. Washed some clothes, cleaned up the place a little.

Coffee and music for the morning.

Haven't really checked my blood pressure too religiously lately, but plugged in today. It was high, by all accounts, maybe it was high because of the two cups of coffee I had swallowed only a few minutes ago. It however would probably be wise start paying attention to it once again.

Took it leisurely the whole day. Tried watching Cosmopolis the movie, but it was difficult, the novel it's based on is fucken amazing, probably the best book I have ever read. Started reading the new novel by Dan Brown (Inferno) even if I'm still in the middle of reading Let The Devil Sleep by John Verdorn. The latter is perfectly readable, but really liked to see where Dan Brown goes this time. The first pages were fascinating. 

Went playing football in the evening.

I send you plagues unnumbered (Amorphis - Shaman)

Sunday. Work.

Drank almost the entire bottle of wine (Appassimento) while watching the Champions League Final yesterday evening. Too little to have a hangover though.

One of the most quiet workdays I have ever witnessed.

Such pious displays breathe life into the corpse of God (Vallenfyre - Cathedrals Of Dread)

Off at work this Saturday.

It was the Champions League Final evening. Bayern Munchen beat Dortmund 2 - 1, thanks to Arjan Robben. 

Countless nights of ferocious anger (Satyricon - Now, Diabolical)

An evening shift.

Before going to work watched the two last episodes from the season two of Game Of Thrones.

There was nothing interesting at work. We had a movie night at our auditorium and showed Green Lantern, one spectator turned up, but he left halfway of the movie.

Got the new Dan Brown book Inferno and started reading it before going to bed, even if I'm halfway of some twenty other novels currently.

In the midst of the woods, strange figures walk in lines (Reverend Bizarre - The Devil Rides Out)

A day-off from work.

A hangover of some magnitude. I reckon, I drank two bottles of wine yesterday.

I managed to go to the city however and I bought myself a pair of football shoes. Funny thing, the football shoes, they either fit you or they don't, and you don't know that trying them on in the store. Not until you are on the field you know are they fit, if not, they are useless.

Today I learned that Christopher Lee volunteered to fight for the Finnish forces during the Winter War in 1939. He and other British volunteers were kept away from actual fighting, but he was issued winter gear and was posted on guard duty a safe distance from the front lines.

Oh Lucifer please take my hand (Graveyard - Hisingen Blues)

Not much of anything at work.

A quick nap at home. Some salmon for dinner. A few episodes of the second season of Game Of Thrones.

Rainy weather.

Chose a previously unknown wine for the day. Argentinan Pinot Noir Reserva del Fin del Mundo 2010, a little more expensive red than I would ordinarily choose. Quite alright. Drank the whole bottle.

Today I learned that when Neil Armstrong came back from the moon, he had to go through U.S. customs.

Everybody knows that the good guys lost (Leonard Cohen - Everybody Knows)

We had a football practise of our library's team. Total of six people participated even if it was the final practise before the game. And I'm sure there's something like four times more players when the game is due. Make way to the attention whores.

Otherwise nothing very interesting happened. Yesterday we did though have a burglar in the library premises and I watched the surveillance tapes. Got some decent recordings of the perp.

Laugh at your dreams while your bridges are burning (Darkthrone - Leave No Cross Unturned)

A morning shift. Read that Sweden is the Ice Hockey World Champion. Congratulations.

Got my share of flea market sales today, 70 euros and change, not incredibly bad for one week and only one item (t-shirt) is missing, got lost, is stolen.

Football practise. Cloudy weather with 18 degrees celsius. 

Hellish terrors risen in the mountains unknown (Entombed - Through The Collonades)

Drank three bottles of wine last night. Watched World Cup ice hockey where Sweden hammered Finland 3-0 and Switzerland beat USA 3-0.

At midday went with my ex-girlfriend to a flea market to collect our belongings. We had a table there for a week and at rough estimate I got - after fees and provisions - something like 70 euros (my ex a little less). It's not lot, it's fucken less than we estimated. Too bad that we got the table when the warm days finally started and it's been shiny ever since, and that affects the popularity of flea markets surprisingly much. But anyways, I managed to sell some stuff. A few CDs, nothing special, not something I'd buy and that's why I'm selling them, I suppose. A few books, clothes, DVDs and games. 

A thousand angers have kept me alive (Danzig - Evil Thing)

Bits hangover. Last night, I tasted a few different wines (Pinor Noir exclusively) and eventually drank myself senseless. All that while watching the first season of Game Of Thrones. I also played Walking Dead, a PS3 game. I guess that's all.

Saturday morning with music, paying bills, homework.

Went running midday and ran my usual route four times. Really hot and sweaty, but wasn't too bad.

Love is the wild-eyed antidote to cold imperatives (Napalm Death - Dictate)

A whole lot of nothing at work. A very hot, humid day, bits thunder.

The freaks are rising up through the floor (Oasis - Bag It Up)

Before going to an evening shift, took a bike and rode to a flea market. I carried a few more items for sale and checked how we have sold after three days. Not much, it's been really quiet on that front.

Nothing interesting at work. A rather well known figure in European Parliament Mitro Repo paid us a visit and lectured at the library's auditorium, but there weren't that many listeners. I got a pen from one of his followers.

Finland played against Slovakia in the World Cup, won and are on the top 4.

I preach the ways of Satan (Venom - Santachrist)

A morning shift at work. There was hardly nothing happening at all.

My ex-girlfriend and I, we have taken a flea market table and I heard that after two days we have sold stuff worth quite nothing. Hopefully things will catch up.

Cleaned the apartment properly, watched some Game Of Thrones while having a supper.

Dunk you under deep salt water (PJ Harvey - Long Snake Moan)

An evening shift. I woke up rather early, so after breakfast, I did a little tidying up around the house. I made my bed, put my shirts and jeans in order, so that's a start.

I'm done with the road I'm walking (Gluecifer - Easy Living)

A morning shift at work.

After the work and a sixty minutes' sleep, I went playing football. And it was the first time this year and the first time since my injury last year. So all this considered, it went well. I was a bit rusty and I wasn't satisfied with my shoes, but I didn't injure myself or the others. The group I'm playing with every Monday and Thursday consists of mainly foreigners and immigrants, plus few of us natives to stir up the pack, and they are good people. The core of our group has stayed together at least 15 years, each year it changes a little, some retire and we get new folks, but it still feels the same. It's funny, I don't see any of those people at my spare time unless we occasionally bump into each other, and to see them after a long winter every spring, it's kinda bizarre. There are at least 100 people I know from the football field, but otherwise I have nothing to do with them, socially. The magic of football.

After the practise, watched Skyfall.

The trophies of your past are nothing but your scars (The Rotted - Surrounded By Skulls)

Sunday and a couple of hours after the breakfast (sandwiches & coffee), I went running and it was a very easy workout, I ran my usual route 6 times. So, I jogged every day the past seven days, altogether 37,7 kilometres of this quite hilly route. Obviously, a new record.

It's getting quieter on that front from now on. I'm going back to work and for instance when I'm on an evening shift, it's quite difficult if not impossible going running. And after the workday you are already a bit tired, so I don't run with that much ease, if at all. And besides, the football season starts from tomorrow onwards, I prefer playing football and if everything fits into place I have three practices each week. If I'm on an evening shift, I don't play, but otherwise I'm on the field.

Hopefully I don't break my leg as I did last year.

He is the son of the enticer, the all seeing subterranean keiser (Ghost - Jigolo Har Megiddo)

I ran only two times my usual route. I had decided that beforehand. My muscles felt really tense and I had a hangover. I drank quite heavily the night before. But it was alright, a quick leisurely roll.

Watched some World Cup ice hockey where Finland hammered Austria 7 - 2. 

You were dressed just a little obscene (The Dandy Warhols - Green)

There was a -25% discount at the pet store for the food my cats dig the most, so I took a bike and bought a few bags of that stuff. I also purchased some dried fish and a couple of toys. The cats looked me with pity in their eyes when I handed them their new toys. We all know I'm constantly giving them presents.

Went running. Fifth time in a row this week. I have never done this before. Anyways, I did my usual route five times (app. 6,5 kilometres) and it felt great to have a good sweat running down my face. 

Where the dew drops cry and the cats meow (Spinal Tap - Stonehedge)

It's some kind of Jesus day (don't bother to check out the details) and the shops are closed.

Didn't do much the whole day. Shuttled between books, fridge, computer and television.

Went running. Did my usual route four times and it was very easy.

Read rather famous Finnish musician Kauko Röyhkä's new musings from his Facebook page where he picks up a topic that too often people listen to single songs from iPad instead of entire albums and compares it to reading excerpts of a book instead of cover to cover. I can see his point. I do both, but these days I prefer listening to songs randomly from my computer, my walkman or you tube whatever. Sure, when I buy an album, I listen to it, song by song, concentrate on the music, on the lyrics, the whole deal. But I'm in the phase of downloading my physical album collection to computer and really fucken enjoy listen to the entire collection in disorder, if a cool tune comes up, I'll pump up the volume, read the lyrics and maybe then listen to the other songs of the album as well. And on the other hand, if a song of not that good calibre comes up, I'll skip it immediately and most likely delete it as well.

I like the book referance too. I'm a weird book reader. Love 'em to death, but honest to god, I'm always reading something like thirty books at the same time. I have books in my bed room, in the living room, in the toilet, in the kitchen, I sometimes bring a book in the sauna, I read what's in close vicinity and start reading where I left off. Reading too many novels at the same time is a bit too confusing, but not impossible. I sometimes buy a book, read a few chapters, like it alright, put it in the bookshelf, forget it there for few years and start reading it again.

And now that I think of it, it's the same with movies and television series too. With Netflix, it's easy, I'm wholly comfortable keeping unfinished movies there. I continue watching them when I feel like it.

I’d like to take your ego and crush it into a little ball (The Dictators - I Am Right!)

According to the warmth and sunshine, the first Summer day.

Went running. Third time on a row this week. Did my usual route 4 times. The four times, four laps, it's becoming my routine now, it's not overly hard or time-consuming, I like that.

Sadness lives after we die (Paradise Lost - Pity The Sadness)

One of my ex's and our mutual cats celebrated her 3rd birthday today, so I went to give her some treats. She's cute as a button.

I was supposed to go playing football but the minute I was supposed to walk out the door I found out that the practise was cancelled. It was supposed to be our work place's first football practise this year, so it was no wonder, people weren't interested. We have a match twice a year against another library and then and only then our people are interested. They are more into the after-parties and thence they are mocking the great sport of football.

Went running to cool off. Did my usual route four times.

Today I learned that Ernest Hemingway took a urinal from his favourite bar and moved it into his Key West home, arguing that he had "pissed away" so much of his money into the urinal that he owned it.

I’m an angel bored like hell (The Cardigans - You’re The Storm)

I was damn tired the better part of the day.

Went running and ran my usual route four times. Some shopping after that.

Today I learned that the term "genocide" was coined to describe the mass killing of the Armenians in modern day Turkey in 1915. An estimated 1-2 million were killed, wiping out much of the Armenian people's heritage and history. 

Secrecy fosters passion (My Dying Bride - The Sexuality Of Bereavement)

My thyroid gland has been hurting for couple of days straight now. Popped some painkillers to no avail. Hopefully it's nothing serious. Probably the poison disguised as the blood pressure and cholesterol medicine is the reason.

It really is quite amazing. Once I thought of paying attention to my health and paying the doctor a visit, all the fucking problems began. I probably should forget it all and do what I think is cool which is using all the fucking booze, cigarettes, illegal drugs and unhealthy food that I can muster. Doctors and medicine, a corporate scam.

Quite a typical Sunday. Some bicycle repairing and a trip to a flea market. Bought Play Misty For Me, the directional debut of Clint Eastwood.

Watched Argo and it was alright.

I felt quite depleted in the evening. Maybe a little depressed. And that's a very good fucking reason to drink some wine. Which I did. Some Montes and Dominio de Punctum, I love the title of the last one and it really is quite excellent too.

And I listened to some music. All kinds of music, preferred the heavy shit.

Today I learned that hippopotamus kill more humans on average each year than all African animals combined.

Now it's time to burn in hell (Morbid Angel - Evil Spells)

Slightly hangover.

A typical hangover day. Television (World Cup ice hockey), movies (tried to watch Tideland, but couldn't), sitcoms (30 Rock, Extras), games (Saints Row).

I don't remember what else. I did do some shopping and I went to the library. 

Today I learned that of the top 8 largest rivers, by volume of water, the Amazon River is bigger than all the others combined.

The sky is turning red (Slayer - Raining Blood)

R.I.P. Jeff Hanneman (1964 - 2013).

A sad day. He was the motherfucking coolest guitar player, he wrote amazing songs, he wrote the best fucking Slayer tunes and I always said without him Slayer is not Slayer and it's hold true so far. My favourite musician, easily.

Went running later in the day and did my usual route four times. My stomach hurt a little.

Later in the evening went to my friend's home and we drank a few classes of white wine and watched some ice hockey.

Today I learned that turtles can breathe through their butts.

And I can hear the angels singing (Loud Pipes - Morphine Trip)

The first actual spring holiday and I went out shopping. I bought Dominio de Punctum Tempranillo (Spain) and Montes Limited Selection Pinot Noir (Chile) red wines exclusively.

Went running later in the day. It wasn't fun, I had a constant feel of shitting out the chili meatballs I had eaten a few hours earlier, one by one. I ran my usual route four times and I was glad to survive home.

At home I vacuumed the apartment.

Today I learned that in Germany it is not illegal to attemp a prison escape.

Ooh how I despise you (Cathedral - Autumn Twilight)

A proper breakfast. Didn't feel much hangover despite drinking quite a lot last night. Real Madrid vs. Dortmund Champions League game was, simply put, amazing. Real Madrid won 2-0, but Dormund is seen in the finals.

Took the cats outside (=staircase of my apartment) and they loved it. They went to sleep and I started listening to the new Cathedral album The Last Spire, their swansong -album if I'm not mistaken. Sounds bits wicked.

Today I learned that the word "Mother In Law" can be rearranged to spell "Woman Hitler".