Two nights slept now at Töölö, Helsinki - my dad's home. Christmas Eve passed, it was rather nice. Emil got lots of presents - and even I got some, even though I'm actively trying to escape the vicious circle of everyone having to try to think of things to buy for people who already have everything they need.

After Emil went to sleep and everyone else gathered around to watch the telly or to listen to Anna tell jokes, I connected to the SSH shell on milk and actually managed to fix a dependency problem apt seemed to have. After SSH upgrades I was recommended to reboot the machine, so I did, remotely. There were some exciting moments waiting to succesfully get a SSH connection to the thing again. Nerdy Christmas? Nope, just my strange way of relaxing.

Been playing with Emil a lot, to the point of being rather tired. Every day there has been a quarrel or something, but I guess it's a part of the deal... of spending Christmas with a family, which doesn't seem to care about the true meaning of the entire celebration.

A couple of days ago, in the telly, a congregation was introduced that restrained completely from celebrating Christmas, because Jesus never actually told anyone to celebrate His birthday. Made me think...

December 25, 2003 16:41 in diary

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