Today, Finland just leaped over the day part completely and went from the evening of the January 17th straight to the evening of the 18th.

I think.

This is what it looked like in downtown Helsinki at noon.

Tough.

I’m puzzled. Confused, even.

See, I’ve got these two friends. On Facebook, that is. On the same day that I connected – on Facebook – with one of them, let’s call him “Austin Powers” (why not?), the other (Dr. Evil) had joined a group called “Send “Austin Powers” to Siberia.”

Do I need to do anything? What’s the code of conduct in a case like this? Should I tell Dr. Evil to back off or leave the group? Unfriend him? Should I care?

What would I do in real life? Yeah. We’d laugh and laugh and laugh. Austin and I.

Back in the 20th century, I worked at a hockey pant factory in Canada for one summer. Or, right next to the factory, because I, being a business graduate, almost, I was sitting in the office. I also happened to be boarding with the boss.

One afternoon, the boss packed his extended family, that being his wife, two kids and myself, into their van, and drove up to the cottage country in northern Ontario to meet up with the company lawyer in a casual setting.

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When I first met Jessica, we emailed each other. But if you’re in love, you reeeally have to email each other. How much? A lot! (Life of Brian is also her favorite movie to the point that she can recite the entire movie, line for line, by heart. No joke.)

Well, we did. When we celebrated our first year together, she gave me two huge binders with every single email we had sent each other in the first six months of dating.

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