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[Strixaluco]

Are name days a common thing in Finland? Or is it associated with mythic figures?

It's a thing here, and in Sweden too I think. It has lost its connection to anything religious ages ago (as Lutheran church is the major one here, saints were thrown out of the window centuries ago), All common names here are included, or rather all that aren't rare, and the calendar is tweaked at times to reflect changes in the common names.

Except the orthodox minority has their own name day calendar, and that one is still connected to saints I think.

 

[cascadiabound]

It's a thing here, and in Sweden too I think. It has lost its connection to anything religious ages ago (as Lutheran church is the major one here, saints were thrown out of the window centuries ago), All common names here are included, or rather all that aren't rare, and the calendar is tweaked at times to reflect changes in the common names.

Except the orthodox minority has their own name day calendar, and that one is still connected to saints I think.

That's lovely. So most people get a birthday AND a name day.

 

[XShadynzX]

I just found this... and I absolutely love it. I could easily see that as being me in ... 20 years? And I'm not going to embarrass my sister I could see doing that with by calling her out.

Right back atcha Sis!

 

[Strixaluco]

That's lovely. So most people get a birthday AND a name day.

Something like over 95%. Unless your name is not Finnish or Swedish.

But usually name days are not celebrated as much. Though I know when mine are (first and middle names), you can still surprise me by congratulating me on my name day because I never think of them on that day...

 

[Strixaluco]

Seems it takes hurricane-speed winds to take down pylons of the backbone network (the 400kV lines, main electricity network in the country). First time ever it has happened bc of winds.

But customers without electricity were still scattered around. Plenty of them for sure (68k yesterday, 18k left this morning), but mostly due to more ordinary stuff like trees on the smaller lines.

Well, the mulled wine season is definitely here!

 

[Trubbycat]

Seems it takes hurricane-speed winds to take down pylons of the backbone network (the 400kV lines, main electricity network in the country). First time ever it has happened bc of winds.

But customers without electricity were still scattered around. Plenty of them for sure (68k yesterday, 18k left this morning), but mostly due to more ordinary stuff like trees on the smaller lines.

Well, the mulled wine season is definitely here!

I would think that the nordic countries would have their infrastructure hardened against high winds...

 

[Strixaluco]

I would think that the nordic countries would have their infrastructure hardened against high winds...

It was after all the worst ever recorded wind in the history of Finland. We don't have ocean beside us. Baltic Sea is so much smaller. And the worst storms are where it's warm, not cold.

Edit. But yes, the smallest lines are being dug into the ground, it just takes a long tine to get it all done.

 

[Nightbird]

Greetings and Salutations everyone.. Don't forget to change your clocks tonight we "FALL" back and hour at 2am..

 

[Rj_1954]

Greetings and Salutations everyone.. Don't forget to change your clocks tonight we "FALL" back and hour at 2am..

I'll be awake so I can watch the time change...

 

[Trubbycat]

Greetings and Salutations everyone.. Don't forget to change your clocks tonight we "FALL" back and hour at 2am..

Great I'll be extra grouchy all week.

 

[Nightbird]

Great I'll be extra grouchy all week.

But But But you get an extra hours sleep..

 

[Trubbycat]

 

[Trubbycat]

But But But you get an extra hours sleep..

Great on Sunday hell on Monday

 

[Nightbird]

Great on Sunday hell on Monday

Ya it always screws me up too..

 

[Strixaluco]

To the grouchy ones.

We charged already a week ago, and for some reason I managed to do what I've often planned on doing but have never managed before this: keeping my waking up up compared to the sun (which raises up later than me at this time of the year), aka waking up earlier compared to the clock. So no screwing up here. Though it's more difficult to do the same with sleeping tines.

 

[Rj_1954]

Good Afternoon little owl
I hope your Sunday is great so far...

 

[BrendaBear]

To the grouchy ones.

We charged already a week ago, and for some reason I managed to do what I've often planned on doing but have never managed before this: keeping my waking up up compared to the sun (which raises up later than me at this time of the year), aka waking up earlier compared to the clock. So no screwing up here. Though it's more difficult to do the same with sleeping tines.

That is how I love too. I hate the idea of living my life based on a stupid clock. I get up around sun up, and go to bed about 8 hours before I think sun up will happen.

 

[Strixaluco]

That is how I love too. I hate the idea of living my life based on a stupid clock. I get up around sun up, and go to bed about 8 hours before I think sun up will happen.

That doesn't quite work at these levels. The sun gets up at so varying times over the year... Some 6h difference between December and June. And go to Lapland, and it's anything from not getting up at all to not getting down at all.

 

[Rj_1954]

@BrendaBear
A t-shirt you'll like...

 

[BrendaBear]

That doesn't quite work at these levels. The sun gets up at so varying times over the year... Some 6h difference between December and June. And go to Lapland, and it's anything from not getting up at all to not getting down at all.

Wow… is that from being so far north? I have lived like this for years. Clearly we don’t have those kinds of challenges here.

 

[BrendaBear]

@BrendaBear
A t-shirt you'll like...

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Perfect!!!

 

[Trubbycat]

Wow… is that from being so far north? I have lived like this for years. Clearly we don’t have those kinds of challenges here.

We took a cruise to Alaska years ago in July. Don’t know the latitude (it was southern AK) or how it relates to @Strixaluco ‘s, but the sun sat on the horizon at midnight and never went all the way down.

 

[Strixaluco]

Wow… is that from being so far north? I have lived like this for years. Clearly we don’t have those kinds of challenges here.

Yes, it's from living over 61° from the Equator. You're just some 36,2° north. Makes a huge difference, and I think it increases exponentially the closer to the pole you get.

 

[Trubbycat]

Yes, it's from living over 61° from the Equator. You're just some 36,2° north. Makes a huge difference, and I think it increases exponentially the closer to the pole you get.

Just did a quick check and we were at about 59 degrees…

 

[Strixaluco]

We took a cruise to Alaska years ago in July. Don’t know the latitude (it was southern AK) or how it relates to @Strixaluco ‘s, but the sun sat on the horizon at midnight and never went all the way down.

So you were north of Arctic circle, which is 66,5°. Right at the cicrcle there would be just the summer solstice night when it doesn't go down.