There sometimes comes situations when you need to know the weekday of some particular date. If it's close enough to the current date, or some other date you know the weekday it's quite simple to count the weekday. But when you don't have any reference point it becomes a trickier.

The doomsday algorithm solves that problem. It's a simple mathematical formula you can use to calculate the weekday of any date. In addition to knowing the formula you also need to memorize few set of rules to assign certain numbers based on the century the date is on and a number for each month.

Apart from all those beeping noises and warnings the new car does have some other ways to make up the lack of engine sounds. The mandatory VESS is there, now it can't be turned off anymore. I wish they could have done the same with the speed limit notification as they did with the VESS before it became mandatory.

When I first got my hands on on our previous car I thought it had everything. Well, there were two things missing that I knew of, but it felt like there wasn't anything else one can hope from a car. After two test drives, driving the new car back home and a couple of hours of driving around just for the joy the old car seems so outdated. The new car has everything, even those two features I was missing on the old one. And then some more!

When there was more people living around the house the bathroom was littered with different bottles of shampoo, conditioner, soap and many other things I didn't even know what they were for. It wasn't just by need. There were also bottles which were deepend not to be good enough and just somehow lingered there.

According to some random internet statistics 90% of the people experience earworms.e.g. getting a song, or usually part of a song, stuck on repeat playing in your head. Sometimes it can also be just a word, a thought or memory. But why does this happen?

I went to see another Ioniq 6 today from another dealer. I have been discussing about this car and the deal for a while already over the emails with the dealer, but wanted to see the car in person before making the deal as it was from the beginning a better deal even though the cars are almost identical.

The home feels empty, silent. My youngest one, who had been staying with me/us since autumn moved back to their own home yesterday. There is just me living here now. And a cat. I was left with one.

It's weird. I have never lived alone in my life. We moved together with my wife, then girlfriend straight from our parents houses. While she was studying she did live away during the weeks, so that could be considered living alone. At least part time. But I didn't realize the implications back then. We were still living together, she was just away a lot. It was different.

I'm not the type of person who always picks the same brand just because it's the same brand. I know some people do, sometimes even to the point that they are making actual bad choices just because they pick their favourite brand even if there would be better choices available.

Many brands do earn their fans. They put a lot of effort to not let their hardcore fans down. And it does make things easier, no need to compare dozens of options when your favourite brand has only a few, or even one available.

We went to test drive the new Ioniq 6 at the local dealership today. It's the car I habe been waiting for ever since the first details of the Prophesy concept it is based on were published. It took a long time to get into production, mostly due to the redesign they had to do as the initial model didn't have much of any resemblance to the concept. Of course the concepts are always done with no limitations while the production cars need to abide a plethora of regulations. Despite the changes I still love the final design.

Today I posted a big announcement about one of this years action plans in our company's general Slack channel. Afterwards I got a few private messages asking how much of that post was written by AI. We do have a policy that every piece of AI written ot assisted texts should be clearly marked as such and I do also follow that rule.

Since I started my latest collection hobby I have picked up a new habit: skimming through the listings on a local second hand marketplace. At least it's something else than doomscrolling what's wrong with the world today.

The good thing of having a long wantlist is that there might more often be something from my list for sale. The bad thing is that there is almost always something to buy. If I just wanted to buy any of the items in my list I know other places where I could get them right away. But the thrill is in the marketplace there might be really good deals occasionally.

Finally back home! The four day trip was quite exhausting. All the driving, sleeping in different bed and meeting all the people left me quite tired. But it was also nice getting away from home for a while and meeting all the people.

It would have been easy to just stay at home. No travelling, comfort of own bed, own space and not having to meet other people. I don't know if the last one if any good. I have become quite antisocial and not really looking forward to any social situations. So it's good to force myself to get into more interaction every now and then.

We drove the last leg to the borth of our trip today when we visited my parents at our "cottage". Getting norther the weather was getting even colder, it was almost -30 degrees at our destination.

Even if the trip wasn't that long and we were avle to start off with full battery I wanted to save some energy and minimize charging times along the way. This is a day trip that at warmer weather could easily be done with full battery without any additional stops with our current car.

It's not just the extremely cold weather that I have caught this fever to get a new car. We have already been discussing it earlier. Now that we are living separately having just one car that needs to be charged quite often is a bit challenging when it can be charged only at one home.

A second car would have been an obvious option. Would make it easier when the car doesn't have to be passed to whoever needs it. But both of us needing the car at the same time is still rather rare occasion, so the other car would be mostly sitting useless at the parking lot.

As we weren't able to visit our home town last week we decided to have another try this weekend. I'm already at work, but I can always do remote work, so I can do it as well from a little further away.

The only problem is that it's really cold outside. In some part of the country it's record low temperatures! With electric car it's a challenge. Not because those wouldn't work in such low temperatures, but because you need to use so much energy just to heat up the car. There is no excess heat from the engine.

There is a mnemonics in Finnish how to identify a moon phase by drawing a line on the left side of the moon. You can tell the moon phase depending whether it forms a letter "p" or "k". The problem is there are two words in finnish that start with both letters and are opposite of each other and I never which ones are correct.

My vacation and holidays are over. Even though it was just over a week I don't feel like it was gone too fast. It was just enough to get some rest, me-time and hang around with the family.

It's a new year, yet another one. At this age the years seem to come and go. Hard to keep up. Past few years have been very much like so globally. The pandemic seemed to change the perception of time for many. Last year was the first one returning pretty much back to the "normal".

Yet, it's the post pandemic times. A lot has changed. At the same time nothing really changed. The new normal is just the old normal. Things are falling back to the old tracks rather fast. In a way I was hoping for a bigger change. A change to the better.

Ever since I switched from writing in the morning to writing just before going to bed I've had those few occasions when I've had to break that pattern. Usually when I know I will be up past midnight. It's hard ro remember to write in those occasions in time. In addition those occasions usually also mean I'm going to be intoxicated so it makes even easier to remember and the quality of my text might also suffer a bit.

When I restarted my LEGO hobby I just went through the part list and collected the parts I had per set, marking the missing parts to a list. The problem with this approach was that it soon become difficult to remember where those missing parts were ment to go. Especially for the sets I was too eager to build to wait for the missing pieces to be found, or delivered.