Following up on my recent post about growing / eating pikkujärvisimpukat: well, I found the mussels. They were nowhere to be found in the lake where the water column is too deep, but there's plenty of them in the lake's outlet stream that has a draft of 20cm tops. I found them while kayaking there, so I picked up a few in the boat and brought them back home.

I brushed them and rinsed them real good 4 or 5 times until nothing was hanging from them, the water ran clear and the whole kitchen stopped smelling of mud. Then I cooked them Belgian-style in white wine with cream, celery, garlic, shallots, butter, parsley, salt and pepper. Then I tasted them...

And... yeah, you can eat them. But you really don't want to. They're white and not very appealing, and the taste ranges from total absence of any flavor to a slight whiff of mud.

Kind of a waste of good ingredients. But hey, I gave it my best shot 🙂

In this street are 4 parking spots. The two marked red are 4h 6-24 parking slots. While the two marked green do not have any such signs. Neither the sign on red marked areas specify the length (i.e 30m or whatever) that could have extended into green areas. So i was under the impression the 2 green boxes are open parking spots. However, I just saw today that one of the car parked in the green box with parking tickets. The tickets says

Virhe 1: Kellonajat: 6 - 24, Sallittu pysäköintiaika 4 h, Saapumisajaksi ilmoitettu 19:00. I wonder what am i missing.

Hi - can anyone recommend apps or tools that give hold / buy / sell recommendations on Finnish listed companies? Thanks in advance!

Does your country use the DSM-V-TR? Wondering because my son in the US, a dual citizen with Finland (my mother is entirely Finnish), was diagnosed with level 1; however, much of the diagnostic criteria used seem to also describe a lot of Finnish men.

My son avoids eye contact and small talk, will sit quietly in a room if with others, eats bland food (and sticks to sthe same few options), and is introverted with the need for a lot of alone time to recharge after social interactions. He may misunderstand instructions or statements that are not literal, and miss nuance, but not always, and he still has a wry sense of humor.

He doesn't have strong "special interests" common to autism or speak like an encyclopedia. He functions better in routine. Bright lights can bother him and he keeps his room darkened, and he dislikes touch such as hugging, but he can handle being in noisy or crowded environments when travelling. He wore a hoodie throughout travel in Italy despite the 100F degree weather, and has less sensitivity to temperature.

He met all of his developmental milestones and is highly intelligent. His "stims" are whistling or snapping his fingers, something easily unnoticed.
He struggles with college academics despite intelligence, but this is due to some impairment in "executive function" - time management, juggling changing schedules, processing auditory over visual instruction, meeting deadlines. He would thrive in a job that is more analytical and without office politics.

All this to say -- is it possible that many unemployed Finnish young men who sit on their computers at home all day could actually have unrecognized autism? Is it possible that my son is simply Finnish?

How do women put up with us???