Trains

Oh, damn, it's Tuesday again.

For the past week, it seems to me, all I've been doing is travel.

Last Wednesday I woke up at five, sat in a train for a half an hour, in a plane for four hours, in a car for another half, in another train for two more. Then I spent 24-ish hours at home.
Then I sat in a train again for two hours. The next day I sat in the biology exam for a few hours, and then another two in a car. Then I had a whole Saturday of doing absolutely nothing, just for the joy of having absolutely nothing I should have been doing.
Then on Sunday I sat in a train for two hours, a few hours in a meeting, and another five hours in a train. And then, yesterday and today, I've worked for altogether 16 hours and earned myself enough money to eat for half a summer. At least.
And then, tomorrow morning, I will go sit in a train for another three and a half hours. And after that the next time I have to go anywhere is still a month away, so I can finally just not move around all the time for a while.

So....
What interesting to write about can I get out of that... Out of trains.

Fun fact. The width of Finnish rail roads is five feet. Yes. Five feet. Let me tell you a story about that dad literally just told me.

Ok, so the Finnish rail roads are built at the same time with the Russian rail roads, obviously, because back at the time Finland was a part of Russia, and back then they built it to be five feet (which, for future reference, is 1524 mm).
Then came the Russian revolution in 1917, and the Bolsheviks got the power. Bolsheviks, not wanting to be friends with the western Europe, decided that they don't want to have their rail roads a width according to the the feet measuring system, not because feet are a stupid way of measuring, but because it was the English way to measure things, and they wanted to have they're rail road width according to the metric system.
And in the metric system 1524 mm is not practical, because it's, well, not exactly anything. So they decided, that they need to round it down to 1520 mm. And because of this, the people had to go around and take 4 mm out of the width of the raid roads with sledge hammers or something. (I don't know if the part with sledge hammers is actually true, but that's what dad said.)
As you know, around the same with the Russian revolution, Finland got it's independence, so Finland was like "Yeah, what ever guys, we don't really care that much what width our rail roads are", so the Finnish rail roads are still five feet.
And because Russia used to be the only place with that width rail roads, now Finland in the only country in the world with rail roads the width of exactly five feet.
Since having the measurement in feet isn't stupid enough.

Here, have a map of the widths of the rail roads in the world. From Wikipedia, of course.

Now I need to go eat, so we still have the time to catch Maleficent with Iita and Aatu.

~matu