GREAT-GRANDMOTHER WOULD BE PROUD NOW

”I thought we could bake Karelian pasties.” ”Wow! yeah!” //
”My great-grandmother was an evacuee from Karelia. I’ve heard she made the best Karelian pasties.” ”My great-grandmother was also from Karelia!” //
”I wonder if they could have known each other?” ”I don’t know.” //
Some math and geography later… ”From Sortavala.” ”From Viipuri.” //
”So probably they didn’t know each other.” ”That would have been quite the coincidence, though.” //
”But they might be proud of us now!” ”I’m sure they would be!” //
”That’s our great-grandchildren!” ”Go girls!”

LOOKING AT 2024… AND 2025

”Well, the year’s coming to its end.” //
”The year 2024 was a pretty good year for me, but no more about that now. As some of you have already heard, the comic blog service this blog is on will be terminated and archived in March 2025.” //
”So you can still read this blog but you cannot leave comments. And I can’t update anything.” //
”I am, however, planning to continue with Gaiverruksia somewhere else. Where, I haven’t decided.” //
”This blog will not go to Instagram or anything like that, for the following reasons:
1. The algorithm is not a fan of this kind of content and I’m not going to play by its rules.
2. I want to keep the blog looking the way I like.
3. I want people to be able to read and comment on my comics without signing in or anything.” //
”So. The future of Gaiverruksia is still in the air but there will be a future. I’ll tell you and post a link when that time comes.” //
”While we wait for that I wish you all a very good 2025! And greetings from a cabin in the woods where I spend the New Year’s again!”

JUST CHILLIN’

Tapaninpäivänä en tee mitään vaan pötköttelen Orbit-saukon, velociraptor Jeanin ja torakkapoikieni Brucen, Tonyn ja Clintin kanssa. Ja juon teetä, tietenkin.
It’s Boxing Day so I don’t go boxing but chill with Orbit the otter, Jean the velociraptor and the roach boys Bruce, Tony, and Clint. And drink tea, obviously.

THE RULE OF ROCK

”Brother Hurg, it is time to go hunt mammoths.” ”Who’s turn is it to be the bait?” //
”Let us decide by playing the rock game.” ”Good idea.” //
1…2…3…now! //
”Rock.” ”I’ve got rock as well. Let’s try again.” //
1…2…3…now! ”Rock.” ”Rock.” //
1…2…3…now! ”Rock.” ”Rock.” //
1…2…3…now! ”Rock.” ”Argh, a tie again!” //
”Brother Hurg, it seems our society still needs to achieve certain technological achievements before we can develop our democratic decision making.” ”What are you talkin’ about, man?”

NO SNOW INSIDE!

AN ONION TRICK

”Snif!” ”?” //
”Everything okay? Why are you crying?” //
”It’s nothing, just the onions.” //
”You should keep water in your mouth when you’re cutting onions. It prevents your eyes from burning.” //
”A peculiar idea, but I can give it a try next time I’m cooking.” ”You do that!” //
A couple of days later… ”Oh yeah, the water-in-mouth thing!” //
”Glug glug!” //
”Okay, this feels dumb. And I don’t know why but… this is working!”

CONNECTIONS

”I found a list of the worst jargon words. They were terrible. My favorite one was ’vertical upright connection’.” //
”Like… it’s kinda a tautology in itself. ’Vertical’ means upright!” //
”And do you know what a ’vertical upright connection’ means? An ELEVATOR.” //
”Would the opposite of that be something like a ’horizontal level connection’?” ”You mean, like… a ROAD?” //
”Or one of those moving walkways they have on airports?” ”Yeah, that.” //
”And then there’s of course a ’diagonal’… uhm…” ”Slanted?” ”Yes, a ’diagonal slanted connection’.” //
”And what would that be?” ”STAIRS.” ”A master level in useless jargon achieved.”