There are huge number of different LEGO set themes these days. A lot more than the original three introduces back in 1978 (city/town, castle and space). Most of those themes use (mostly) standard LEGO bricks, but there are few that have their own distinctive pieces.

The most well known such themes are Dublo- and Technic sets. Former featuring big, double sized bricks and later using pins instead of studs for primary connectors between bricks.

It's funny how in this day of modern technology we still need to adjust most of the clocks manually. Not to mention how archaic it is to use daylight saving times to begin with. But as long as we don't get rid of it, it needs to be done twice a year.

Computers, phones and smart watches at least are smart enough to do the adjustment automatically. Of course the analogue clocks can't do it and I still like to keep them around the house. The "smart" home appliances are a different story. They claim to be smart, but can't handle even this little thing.

My mortgage's interest rate is tied to 12 month euribor. Back when we bought the place the interest's were on negative side, although the banks had already prepared for such situations and capped the bottom rates at 0 %.

Few years ago when things started to happen the interest's skyrocketed. Last year was the worst. Ar the beginning it was good as my interest was fixed for 12 months on the lower rate while the interests kept raising. But last year, the fixing time happened to be at the height of those rates. So past year I have been "enjoying" the highest rates for a long time.

It has been nearly 4 years since I launched Writestreak, my "new" writing platform. Before that I had already been writing on my previous platform for years. In the matter of fact exactly as long as I have now been writing on Writestreak.

It still feels like a new place to write. The first half of my streak still feels much longer. It feels like it was very long ago when I originally started writing, but it feels it wasn't that long ago when I switched to this new platform (although I still keep cross posting to the old platform as well).

Even though the weather has remained unusually warm for this time of the year the annual signs for winter are still on the horizon. On the coming weekend the daylight saving time is once again ending meaning there will be a bit more light in the mornings, but the evening darkness will also come an hour earlier.

Another sign of closing winter is the speed limits which will be changing to the winter limits starting next week. The limits will be lowered by 20km/h for the highest limits (120km/h and 100km/h) on most roads to address the coming icy conditions.

I just finished watching the latest Star Wars show the Acolyte. It somehow reminded me about the time I was a kid and hadn't seen any of the original Star Wars movies.

I remember back then seeing all those posters for the movies and thinking that the movies would be somehow more related to yeti's, the snowmen. Must have been all those images of Chewbacca that gave me that impression along the Jedi sounding similar to yeti (at least with Finnish pronunciation). It was a bit of a disappointment when I finally saw the movies and realized my mistake.

When I got back into LEGO I sorted my old bricks by type to make it easier to find the pieces and put the sets back together. There are many sets I'm not that interested in, so there are still a lot of bricks in that inventory.

Using pronouns to signify ones gender identity has become rather common lately. It's an important think to emphasize the chosen identity of a person and it can also strengthen the feeling of individuals self. Especially for those who don't comply with the "norm". After all, our gender is quite big part of who we are.

Using pronouns as a self reflection is powerful thing. It can shape our self image, just those few little words. But what I think could be even more important is paying focus on the adjectives we use to describe yourself as well.

One of the big inspirations for my new album was a clock designed by John C Taylor. When he visited his old college campus at Corpus Cristi in Cambridge he realized how little was changed over 40 years since his times studying there. This inspired him to create a clock that was nothing alike seen before.

The clock is a masterpiece both in art and clockmaking. It took 5 years to create it and used some unique technologies to craft. It even led to several new patents needed for it's marvelous engineering.

Ever walked to another room and rhen wondered why you were going there? This isn't that uncommon for people to experience. It even has it's own scientific name: event boundary. The cause isn't exactly known, but there are many theories based on how our brains work.

Our memory is context based. It's easier to recall certain information when you are in a similar situation as when you originally received that information. Stepping into a different space can "reset" your memory due to the context switching.

We thing the speed of light is fast. But it really isn't when put into a meaningful context. For all mundane purposes it's other instantaneous or just doesn't matter at all.

By absolute comparison the speed of light is much, much faster than for example the speed of sound. But for us the speed of sound is actually really fast. Fast in a sense we can still easily comprehend. Fast in a sense that we can actually for example travel at that speed, and beyond. Even though only a small number of people have actually done so.

For years I've had pretty constant sleeping rhythm. Even suring weekends and vacations I tend to wake up relatively early even if my bed time can vary. I just don't seem to be able to sleep past certain time except in really special conditions.

But recently I have noticed the rhythm have been shifting for a bit later. Where earlier I was up by 6 o'clock the latest now it has drifted towards seven when I tend to wake up. And I don't think I usually stay up that much longer than before.

There are two kind of assumptions people make when discussing about things with others: either they assume the person doesn't know about the thing they are talking about or they think they already knew about it.

There are many things at work I would like to push forward. There are many things people ask from me or suggest that we could do to improve things. If only there was enough time to so all that... and still have time to do the customer work.

The resources are finite, but there is always things to improve. It's just not possible to do everything. Some things improve productivity, or quality which both make us more profitable and appealing to the customers. Other things make the employees happy. That's also important as the competition for good workers is fierce in this industry.

NASA's Europa Clipper was launched today. It's destination is Jupiter where it will focus studying it's moon Europa to get a better idea of it's conditions and possibility of extraterrestrial life.

The project was first proposed back in 1997 while the Galileo probe confirmed there is vast oceans of liquid water under the moons icy surface. This fact sparked the interest of further studies to explore the possibility of there being suitable conditions for microbial life. But it wasn't until 2013 when the mission was finally approved.

Every year the Christmas feels to be starting earlier and earlier. It's not even past mid October and the Christmas products have been in stores already for weeks.

It's not like there wouldn't be any other celebrations for stores ro sell seasonal stuff around this rime od the year. Even Halloween, which is much closer hasn't gotten much shelf space at the stores yet. And it never will because the prime aisles are filled with Christmas chocolates, Christmas, drinks, Christmas decorations and other Christmas products.

My album has been put now since yesterday. Youtube was the first service to publish it and there are already some listens on it. The top track has already been listened over 500 times! That's was more than I expected, especially in the first 24 hours. It might be just the algorithm helping me force feeding it to some unfortunate listeners.

It's also now on Spotify. Noticed it there sometime in the afternoon. So now I can finally listen it myself without resorting to any workarounds to get it playing in my systems beyond my phone/laptop and headphones.

Yesterday I was finally able to do the last edits to my creation, to my new album. It was a long road getting there. I worked on this project for over three months, but in the end I'm quite satisfied with the results. This is something a year ago I wouldn't have even dared to dream of - me, a completely non-musical person releasing an album!

I have started to feel I've lost the spark of writing these daily posts. There doesn't seem to be any purpose beyond just keeping the streak alive with them. It's not that I couldn't still write daily. I've done it without a miss for a long while already even though I haven't cared about the streak that much. It just happens, the power of habits.

Last week I finished my album. All songs done and ready for release. But not quite yet. I was hoping to do the final editing, mastering and clearing lyrics over the weekend to be ready for the release. Unfortunately I didn't manage to finish all that until today. Now all that is left is the publication.