: My weekend

Thursday: Sensation

On Thursday, Wenche and I went to Gjøvik to attend a Sensation-style party where a friend of mine, Yrjan, was one of the DJ's. We arrived at Gjøvik very early, so we decided to eat at Peppes. Tried to invite a couple of others to join us, but the only one we got in contact with in time was Yrjan, and he had already eaten. He still joined us, but didn't eat anything. =P

I originally thought the party started at 9pm, and I guess it sorta did, but the part we were interested in didn't start until 11pm. Until then we could only be in the bar downstairs, and seeing as neither of us really drink (I don't drink at all and Wenche drinks very little) there was really no point in going there as early as 9pm. So we went there at about 10:40. Which was lucky, 'cause we got in without problems, but just a few minutes later and there was a huge line outside. Another friend of mine, Rune, got there at about 11:05 and spent 20 minutes in line before he gave up. Apparently a lot of people kept sneaking into the queue without the guards/bouncers/whatevers noticing it, so when he left he was actually further back in line than when he got there...Yay? >.<

As for the party itself; We only stayed for Yrjan's set. Wasn't really interested in the other guy's set, and Wenche got sick (she had apparently been walking around all day with a headache without telling me, and the loud music, smoke-machine smoke and blinking lights didn't make it any better), so I got my brother-in-law to pick us up at about 1am. 

I will say this, though; Yrjan's set was fucking awesome! I don't dance or anything, but I was digging it all the way through. I even got up and attempted to headbang at the end when he played a Hardcore-track, but I got dizzy right away, so I had to stop. I guess I was a bit dehydrated, or something.

Unfortunately, the sound system wasn't calibrated correctly, so some of the more bass-heavy tracks towards the end got a bit screwed up. The bass kind of overpowered everything else. Wasn't too bad, though, but hopefully they'll fix that (or rather, not attempt to fix it while drunk) next time.

Here's a link to Yrjan's entire set. I think he recorded it while performing? Either way, it's awesome. I don't know how long he will be keeping it up, though, so download it now! ;)

Friday - Sunday: HusetLAN

Friday started pretty slow. My sisters kids woke us up at around 7:30am, I think, a bit earlier than I would've liked, but I guess that's partially my fault as I forgot to close the bedroom door when I went to bed. Oh well. Wenche was feeling better, but still had a headache. She was taking a bus back to Gran at 9am, so she got up when the kids woke us up. I tried to go back to sleep after she left, but without luck. Oh well. >.>

For some reason the LAN was originally supposed to start at 9pm, which is way too late in my opinion, but I guess they thought they needed time to clean up after the Sensation Party. So I spent the entire day doing basically nothing, until I got a message from Yrjan at about 5:30pm that they had opened the doors early.

I had initially planned to, in one way or the other, make sure that I had both Rune and Yrjan, if not necessarily next to me, then at least close to where I was, as they were the only ones I knew there, and I'm not too good at dealing with people I don't know alone. Unfortunately, that partially failed. When Rune showed up, he did sit down right next to me, but after a while he decided to move to another part of the room as several other people he knew was there. I followed him, though, so I wasn't too far away from him. Yrjan showed up before we moved, but there were no more room for him and his cousins, neither were we originally sat, nor where we moved to, so he was on the other side of the room from us.

As for the actual LAN part of the LAN, I did what I usually do, or what I've become known for doing the last few years at least; I played a few games by myself. I don't think I played with anyone at all while I was there. Still, it was fun. I guess I go to LAN's more because of the people than anything else. And I haven't really seen a lot of any of my friends the last year or so, as I've spent more time in Gran than anywhere else since I met Wenche, so it was really great to spend some time with a couple of them again.

The group of people Rune and me moved to were a really nice bunch of people, too. Not that I thought they wouldn't be, but... Eh. As I said, I'm not good with meeting new people, but I feel it went all right. I wouldn't mind LANing with them again. =)

And I really hope I'll get invited to more LAN's again. I haven't really been invited to any during the last year, and I haven't really thought about it because of Wenche. But I really do miss it, and even though I don't really play too much, it's a lot easier for me to get to LAN's now that I have a laptop that can run games that are newer than a decade old. It's actually better than my desktop computer, so... Yeah. =P

Meeting old friends

I got to meet even more people I know during the weekend, even though it was only for a short while. Johan, Petter and Kenneth suddenly showed up at the Sensation Party. Johan was the first one that came over to where we were, and it's been such a long time since I last saw him that I didn't recognize him at first. My first thought when he came over was "Oh no, another idiot who wants to shake hands", as there was some random dude who came over to us earlier, and I have no idea what he actually wanted but we both ended up shaking his hand, but then I recognized him and was like "Oh, hi!". =P

I also met Terje when I was on my way home to Dokka on Sunday. I had just bought some breakfast (two hotdogs, healthy, yay) and was just standing there waiting for the bus to Dokka to arrive, when he jumped out of another bus. He was on his way to band-practice, but I got to talk to him for a few minutes before his ride showed up. =)

So yeah, it's been a great weekend. =)