What the hell is this?
iltapaska.com is a personal blog about things I apparently needed to write down.
Training
Getting older. Building websites. Losing fat. Music. Family life. Finland. Occasionally trying to understand why I’ve voluntarily spent several decades lifting increasingly heavy pieces of metal only to eventually decide that being able to see my cheekbones is more important.
Most of the regular stuff is written in Finnish.
Some things come out better in English.
There is no strategy behind this.
Which is probably the strategy.
I write about things while they’re happening, so there’s a reasonable chance that something I confidently believe today will turn out to be complete bullshit six months from now.
That’s fine.
This isn’t Wikipedia.
It’s iltapaska.
And then Who am I? can be wonderfully understated. No LinkedIn bio. Please. (-: and no emojies, dear lord no way in HELL!
Who am I?
I’m Roope.
Web developer, husband, father of two boys, guitarist and lifelong gym rat currently engaged in a completely reasonable 290-day argument with my body fat.
I build websites for a living and then occasionally build websites at home because apparently I haven’t learned anything.
I’ve spent enough years training to know quite a lot about lifting weights and enough years training to know that I still regularly have absolutely no idea what I’m doing.
I like guitars, old-fashioned websites, good food, heavy things, dark humour and projects that somehow become much larger than originally intended.
This blog is one of those projects.
Heavy fuel not needed here.
Tracker
I also built a macro tracker, tracker.iltapaska.com. No ads, no newsletter, no marketing spam. Just a quiet place to log what you eat. It’s the same thing I use for the 290-day project.
Contact
If you want to say something, correct something or point out that I’m wrong about bench pressing, write to roope@iltapaska.com. No newsletter, no contact form, no comments section. Email still works.