Hello everyone!
I'm one of those people who loved LEGO as a kid, but like so many others, at some point entered the darkness and mostly forgot about the beloved bricks. Now, around last Christmas while sitting on the dinner table I got a message from a friend, telling that there's a Millennium Falcon set for sale in local retail store at absurdly low price, and I immediately ran upstairs to place an order on it. Sadly though, it happened to be a fluke in their pricing system, and they canceled my order (and my friend's order too). This left me extremely frustrated and disappointed though, as I realized I've missed the bricks a lot, so I decided to do something about it. So couple of weeks later I went up the store, and bought myself the 42055 Bucket Wheel Excavator, the first new set for myself in 25 years. Took me several evenings to build it, and I knew this was it, I was exiting the darkness. Afterwards I went online to search for mods, improvements and other info on the set, and found my way here. Now I'm considering MOCs, and contemplating on my next set investment and spending a lot of time generally reading about all things related to legos. At the moment I'm mostly interested in Technic, as it seems to offer the most interesting options for MOCs, though I might go for the Mindstorms in the future.
Other than that, I'm 35 years old and live in Finland. I love handcrafting of all kinds (wood, metal, yarn, whatever) and spent years as a goldsmith, but right now I'm studying pharmacy. Some of my jewelry work can be seen at my website in http://www.jousimo.fi/ (only in finnish, sorry).
Anyway, I'm glad to be here, see you in the forums!
