Friends

I was abducted by Metalheads.

It was stellar display of how the grapevine works: On Thursday I talked on the phone to one of my friends at home, telling him about my lack of heating and that I would come home for the weekend. He talked to some other friends of ours the next day at their pen-and-paper roleplaying session, and one of them said: “Wait, we are going to this concert tomorrow, Kris likes the bands, let’s take her!” and called another friend who dragged me out of my parents house at noon on Saturday, and another who organised a ticket for me.

Friends, gotta love them.

So, I went to the Winterfire Festival yesterday.

Dark Tranquility
Unleashed
Ensiferum
Shinig
Chrome Division
Moonsorrow
Endstille
Menhir
Iuramentum

Good bands! (Exept Shining) Sadly my favorites Dark Tranquility (best Album of the last five years: Fiction) had an abbyssmal sound for the first half of their set... but it got better.

And after that we went to celebrate “Fasching” or “Karneval”. It’s not a big deal in the (very protestant) North where I live now, so I had pretty much forgotten it was this weekend, but... large street party in the city.

I ended up sleeping on the couch of a friend, and only when my mother called and asked where I was and when my train (my 17-year-old VW Transporter broke down on the way South. Again.) back North was leaving I realised that I had to run to the station RIGHT NOW. Luckily the train passed through a town not far from where my parents live, so my mother could hand my bag and ticket through the window...

*grins* I have not had such a chaotic but fun weekend in a long time...

But the rest of the day was spend on trains, running after trains and waiting for trains. What is usually 4hour drive turned into a 9hour odysse. Public transportaion... not working.


( And now a bit of backstory about my lack of heating: )