Again another Friday evening has arrived and I had my ritual. I wanted write a little how the culture here in Finland has changed since the 1980s. In the 1980s people, even university students, carried their briefcases. They had all kinds of things in their briefcases. I remember when the stock certificates were on paper and people got these from banks where they traded stocks. Those times have changed and nowadays one can find paper stock certificates at flea markets or similar places because people collect these. Today people have backpacks. I have an excellent backpack I got at one military clothing stores many years ago. Recently I visited the store where the owner said that wars are expensive. My backpack has a copy of one old Russian military medal that was just one euro at one flea market. The backpack is excellent when I ride my bicycle and many people whom I know have backpacks. One can carry food and other things easily in these backpacks. So that’s about all for this evening’s ritual. My mother is doing well and recovering in one hospital, she has already walked longer distances. Here is a pic of my backpack.
Nowadays surgeons can do amazing things. I also know many people who do not any smartphones, but they have old basic phones without any data transmissions and the net, but these phones work still quite nicely. I am carrying always two old phones with me.
Times have changed. Over 30 years ago people carried paper stock certificates and today somebody can use their smartphone to trade stocks etc. while sitting on the park bench. Even today’s AI apps can give advises in financial matters.
Haha. I was homeless just over 30 years ago. I didn’t even have toilet paper when I needed it!
Funny over 20 years ago when I lived in my car in America, mostly in Miami, I just used the restrooms of different places such as Burger King to take care of my hygienic needs such as shaving my beard. I also cut my hair with a clipper in the restroom of one university library. Etc. etc. I remember how I used a coin telephone in Miami Beach to do some things in Finland, on another side of the world, in the middle of the night after I had done some research on the net in the library of the S-FIU. People can do amazing things with limited resources.
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