After spending what felt like a whole day at the office I wasn't really looking forward to today as yet another such day at the office. But then I realized I don't have to spend "the whole day" at the office.

First of all, as a morning owl I could start my work day early at home. Get some things done before heading to the office. Depending on my calendar if there are no morning meetings I could then head to the office and have a few hours of work there before lunch and another few afterwards. Same thing in the afternoon. Leave early and complete the day at home.

It's the time of the year when days are getting shorter. While there is still light it becomes apparent when having a full day at the office. It wasn't still exactly dark when I left and there was still light left when I got back home, but not much. Soon it will be dark all the time outside of work.

If you would have asked me which one is harder for A.I. to solve in creative space between images and music I would have been wrong. While the image generators have been out for longer already they don't really meet the quality that the music generators can output.

Might be just me, but for the music I can get satisfactory results from the A.I. but for images there is always something wrong and they don't really meer my expectations.

It's Saturday, the traditional sauna day even for those who don't go to sauna that often. I had a long day, got home late and still hd a long call with my son back to the States. So I'm a bit too tired to go to sauna today.

In addition, when I checked the current electricity prices seems it would be relatively expensive experience at this time as well.

So rather than staying up another hour or so, and ro save some money, I decided to postpone it until tomorrow morning. It also seems that the electricity price will be much lower tomorrow so there is also that.

With 8,2 billion people alive today on Earth we collectively experience the equal amount of time since the birth of the universe in just a bit over thee years. That's a lot of time over our lifetimes.

Part of that rime is spent sleeping, but the rest is ours to do something meaningful. Even of we just would spend one twentieth of it that's still the age of the universe in total.

But how much we actually do that? We spend time in meaningless things. The time stolen from us. We have all the time in the universe to do great things.

My "musician" hobby has taken another step forward as I finished my latest project today. For a while I have been working on a full album which has required a lot more work than just doing singles. It also led me to yet another rabbit hole doing investigation for the background of the songs. And if that wouldn't have been enough I have also been wiring a backstory to give even more depth to the whole story of the album.

In software development most of the work is thinking. I'm used to the concept that I don't need to seemingly be always doing something actively to it being counted at work. You just can't do that kind of work efficiently.

One downside of living alone is that I'm now responsible for all the household expenses. They were already the biggest expense when we were living together, but now they are in total over half of my monthly income.

Artificial intelligence can be classified in three levels: artificial narrow intelligence (ANI), artificial general intelligence (AGI) and artificial super intelligence (ASI). While the models of the current A I. graze can be debated to be real artificial intelligences the GPT style language models can be classified in similar manner. They might not be real intelligences, but they can mimic the human knowledge in convincing extend.

Usually in tabletop role-playing games the game continues between sessions as a campaign and players assume the role of their character over and over again. This allows epic story arcs and deep character development. Usually the players get quite involved and attached to their characters.

I play a lot of boardgames, and there is a lot of rules involved. Usually when getting a new game I like to read the rules first thing after unboxing the game itself regardless whether I'm getting a chance to play it anytime soon. Even when playing somebody elses games I like to read the rules.

My son left to his work assignment today. He has been living with me for the past few months, right after the youngest one moved away while they were living with me temporary as well. Now I'm expected to be alone for at least the next three months.

It's weird to think about it. I've really never lived alone for more than a short periods of time occasionally. I don't really know how's it going to be. On the other hand it's nice finally having all the me-time I could need. But at the same time I don't know how I will manage it.

After spending two days away from regular work planning our next years strategy there was a lot of tasks waiting for me when returning back to ordinary daily work. A lot of questions from people, actions to be taken and things I already had to postpone before our retreat.

These things tend to pile up and can easily overwhelm you. So as I luckily had some "free" time between all the meetings I tried to get as many as possible of those small tasks off my table.

Currently my LEGO collection / inventory entails 365 sets. Considering that most of those are from random bulk of LEGO sets a few individuals have been buying the fact that I only have around 10 sets which I own more than one copy is quite astonishing. Puts it in a perspective how many different LEGO sets are out there.

Reaching consensus in a group of 8 people with vastly different backgrounds and focus areas is quite a challenge. Even though from the outside we as a management team should appear to agree on things and lead the company to the same direction doesn't mean we actually need to agree on everything.

Yesterday, when I was looking for a next book to read I found the third and final part of the trilogy I remember reading years ago. I remember having to wait for the second book for a long time and after that this third one. I actually gave up waiting for it. Too many times that has turned out to be indefinitely.

Some authors do write consistently when it comes to the series of books. You can (almost) always trust them to deliver the next book on schedule. Sure, sometimes these authors don't have end in sight and they just keep writing new books to the series.

I used to have long list of books to read. I even used to have tall piles of books to read at certain times. But I found those "to read" lists just ended being ever growing lost of tasks to complete, no matter how fast I was reading.

I miss the times when to determine what to read next ment a visit to the library and strolling around between the bookcases, picking up whatever books caught my attention.

Spending time at the cottage is quite relaxed (usually). No hurry to anywhere (except to eat, it seems). Time to stop and relax, eat well and enjoy sauna.

Too bad the weather hasn't been in our favour this time. There is some heavy wind and occasional rain showers riddling our stay. At least it's warm (too warm) inside the cottage and sauna will also be hot.

We are heading ro our cottage for the weekend with my son. While sitting in the car as a passenger it occured to me that this might be the first time I'm in the passenger seat going there since I got my driver's license almost 30 years ago.

Countless times I've driven there with a car full of passengers who have already starting ro enjoy the weekend on the way. I've never had that luxury - until now. Need to take an advantage of the situation when it finally is offered for me.

There are very few books I have left unfinished, but there are books when I have seriously contemplated to just stop reading them. Usually it just runs into trying ro churn pages as fast as possible to get through it and look for something else ro read next. Few times getting past the first few hundred pages of boring text has paid of and the book has actually ended in my top list.