Yodeller

This Monday, after more than 5 years, 160 sessions, we finally had our final battle of our epic DND campaign! At the same time it's a triumphant moment but also sad as we need to say farewell to our beloved characters.

We still do have two sessions planned to recap our journey and tie up loose ends. We'll also discuss a little bit about what happens to our character, and the world after our adventure is over and the evil was defeated.

Even after that it's not a compete farewell to our characters. Our next campaign is already planned and will be set some 200 years after the events on this one. Some of our characters might still be around. If not in person at least on spirit. The epic stories will definitely carry on as legends that our new party might come across during their adventures.

The story might be over but the legends live on.

The biggest second hand online marketplace in Finland did a big update to their service recently. In addition to overhauling their whole user interface they also added a few new features.

One of the biggest changes was the ability to take offers for the items you are selling. As a buyer you can make an offer and the seller has 24 hours to wither accept or reject the offer. It's a bit like an auction but not really. As a buyer you can't see what others have offered so there is no way telling whether your offer will be valid or not.

Without a set price or seeing what others have offered makes it difficult to make an offer. It doesn't really encourage me to offer anything. If I offer too low I most likely miss the opportunity when someone else offers more. I don't have the possibility to make a counter offer. If I really would like to win the bidding I would need to make a relatively high offer, potentially paying overprice.

The system doesn't favour the seller either. If you would want to get the best price you would need to be quite active looking for offers and accepting the right one at the right time. As the offers expire after one day you might lose a good offer in hopes of getting even better one.

Today after I had finished my dinner I felt a vit tired. I decided to lay down on the couch and close my eyes for a moment.

After what felt like 15 - maybe 30 minutes max I opened my eyes. I felt a bit disoriented, thought I must have fallen a sleep for a moment - until I checked the clock: quarter past nine! I had slept for almost three hours.

I do occasionally take these afternoon naps, but even if I do fall asleep it's usually for half an hour max. Just enough to feel refreshed enough for the evening but not too much to not being able to get to sleep early enough for my regular schedule.

After I got up, still feeling a bit sleepy I also almost triggered my morning routine while feeding the cats. Only realized this when I had already water boiling on the kettle for my "morning" coffee.

I don't know why I was so tired today. I did sleep well last night and there wasn't anything heavy and tiring I would have done during the day.

We had our annual board meeting of our housing cooperative yesterday where we decided to start planning the renovation of our water piping. After the meeting I started doing some research on the subject, specially about the material of the pipes.

While there are a couple of options to reuse the existing pipes with different techniques I think the better option is to get completely new pipes. For that there is also a couple of options, mainly whether having them made of copper or plastic.

The former one is the traditional, copper has been used for ages in water pipes and their good and bad sides are quite well known. Plastic on the other hand is relatively new material to be used on water piping (it has been more widespread for "only" a few decades).

Searching for bad things for either option led to quite a rabbit hole. There were a lot of "information" against both of them - how copper is poisonous in itself for humans and how much chemicals can dissolve into water from plastic. It was quite hard to find neutral comparison between them, only those that exaggerated the potential threats of either one of those.

In the end I managed to find a few neutral articles made by public actors like health officials which pretty much said that: yes , there might be some health effects with both, but they are mostly negligible and that both are considered safe options for everyday use.

We've had a couple of "springs" already this year only to be set back to the winter again. The first one was unexpected and came early. I'm sure nobody thought of that as the final one at the time.

The second time looked a bit more promising. It was late enough that it could have very well bean real, uet early spring. As with the first one this one too felt a little too good to be true. It was more than probable that we would still get a set back before the real spring would arrive.

Even if this is rather common patter every year there is one group of people that take any first signs of a spring way too optimistic: car owners. I know few people who already changed summer tires during the first "spring" and many changed them suring the second one. Yet here we are again, back to the winter wonderland. Even if the snow isn't really sticking around for long this time it can still be quite slippery especially during the night and morning times.

Even if those who did change the tires (and didn't change them back to winter ones) tey to drive as carefully as possible they are causing trouble at the traffic driving slowly and causing traffic jams.