This site has been down for some time, actually for months. We changed from a small web service provider in Finland to Google (yeah, I know, I know, but there you are!!) and now we are back in business again. Which is great!
Summer has passed and we are well into autumn, waiting eagerly for the skiing season to begin. And a big decision has been taken. We will move back to Finland in June, abandon Gex and the Geneva region and start a new life travelling to all those places we still have to see and experience, with Kullo as home base. However, this does not mean abandoning work altogether, only abandoning the 9-5 crowd. Which, I must admit, feels like a totally wonderful idea. Particularly as working life has never been a very regular 9-5, nor have we ever, neither one of us, managed to stick to the stipulated 40 or 37,5 working hours per week. But as Filip puts it, one can always look at it from the bright side. This is the priviliged group who can do any amount of overtime without ever having to pay extra taxes for it.
There are still some projects left to be explored, this time not related to media but to design. Time will show what becomes of all that. The main point is that from now on we can decide where we work and how much we work, and I guess we can also decide what to call work and what to call doing things just because its nice? And we like it? Fine line, possibly? We recently spent a week (Filip actually did two) in Nice studying French. For me it was a vacation week, and when I told people at work what I was going to do during my vacation they thought I was totally crazy. But we both thoroughly enjoyed it. We spent the mornings studying French together with Genevieve, we had either lunch or dinner with her, and we went on a few excursions in the vicinity together. In French all the time, obviously. And then the rest of the time we could do what we liked, which meant mainly exploring the most well known small museums in the area. Picasso in Antibes, Chagall in Nice and so on. And of course the restaurants. And other sights. All in all a well spent holiday, with exactly the right balance between learning new things and relaxing.
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