Ahhh...

That was a big sigh of relief.

I just got back from my parents summer house (they went to their friends birthday party and couldn't go themselves, so I was appointed the chief cat-sitter and plant-waterer) where I duly observed all the ceremonies one needs to observe when visiting summer houses. I heated up the sauna, sat on the porch listening to birds singing - out of the dozen voices all I recognized was the cuckoo - and drank beer, thought about gardening but decided against it, barbecued all my food and generally enjoyed my stress-free existence. I even went as far as to dip myself into the pond as the water's not actually freezing anymore. Cold, yes, but not freezing.

The word "bliss" can now be defined as the feeling when you sit outside, it's midnight but it's almost as light as daytime, you are holding a cold beer in your hand and there's a small cat wanting your undivided attention. If there's anything that could have made my experience more fulfilling, it would have been this, a Rammstein bath towel.

What will they think of next... But hey, if they don't have enough money seeing as the line of products keeps on growing, I see no reason why they should, for example, pay lots of money for hotel rooms as I would be more than happy to accommodate any of them. Any time. No charge. Hell, I could even promise to cook breakfast.

But anyway, I got back to town and noticed that the band KMFDM has not only confirmed that there will be a world tour (named FUBAR, hah) but that they'll also grace this little country with their presence. On 18th November they'll be in Turku (watch out, Turku-dwellers, I might be begging for a place to sleep then), and on 19th they'll be in Helsinki. I'm going to book tickets as soon as the ticket office starts selling them (which might be some time ahead), both to the Laibach gig (pics, more pics , you'll never guess what's behind this link) on 26th August and to the KMFDM gig, so let me know if you want to join in on the fun so I'll know how many tickets to reserve.

These sort of things are exactly the sort of things that wake up my paranoia of things eventually balancing out. Like there was this dude sitting on a cloud going "you're having fun now, but just you wait till next year... bwah hah hah." I would like to believe my schoolmate who was of the opinion that this is only payback from all the dull and/or bad times we've had in the past. Maybe she is right. I certainly hope she is right.

Anyways, for a few days at least I'm going to be a completely stressless creature. There's a birthday coming up in 2 weeks but I'm planning on having the age crisis sometime later. So far the plan is to go to the bar Super to see whether they still sell drinks by the bucketful, and then on Sunday go on a picnic - a plan that has almost never failed, I'm not counting the last 1st of May disaster, even if it traditionally rains on 12th June, every year. Then I'll get someone tall to start up the disco ball (I love the high rooms of old buildings, but even the simple task of changing the light bulb is a bit of a challenge if you're not either 6 feet tall or have the ability to fly) and we have some indoors fun.


Today, a link for you guys. I have probably linked to this site before, but what the hell, you can't have enough of the good stuff. Someone has put a webcam inside a bird box and now the little birdies have gone and made more little birdies. Highly addictive, and cute.

And this I must have told you about many times before. A webcam in a German forest, now showing the life of a wild boar family.