: 2012 - Looking Back | 2013 - Looking Forward

Looking Back

2012 was a weird year for me. It started off with something I had hoped I never had to do, which was breaking up with someone I was still very much in love with. It's actually one year ago tomorrow. I still wish it hadn't happened, but there's not much I can do about it now. And, as I've said before, it was probably for the best. At least now we're still friends, something we might not have been if we had kept on trying.

A couple of months later I started talking seriously with another girl, and spent the next 6+ months trying to make something happen there. 6+ months of disappointment and bad choices. No matter what I tried, something always came in the way, and a couple of months ago she decided that it wasn't really worth it. Or, as she said, it would be better for me to find someone who had time for me. Which I guess is true. 

I'm still looking.

In February we went down to the Netherlands to celebrate Ronald's birthday and Aldert's marriage anniversary. And in September, a bunch of them came to Norway to visit us in Hemsedal. Fun times, both times. I feel like every time I spend time with them I get a slightly better grasp of the Dutch language, at least I understand it a bit better. I'm still far off from being able to speak it, and I just can't learn it on my own. There has been some talk about me going down there for a while, to stay there for a few weeks and learn the language that way, but it's not really a top priority for anyone at the moment, unfortunately.

In April, I think it was, I had a big "falling out" (the problem was mostly on my part, really) with someone I'd had a very close relationship with for a long time, someone that I think knows me better than most people do, and I had to do something else that I never really wanted to do; Remove someone completely from my life. However, when someone has been such a big part of your life (without actually being a part of my life), it's hard to really forget about them. And I've often caught myself thinking about her. I've recently started talking to her a bit again, but due to our complicated past, I feel like I can't let her back into my life in the same way as before.

I've lost quite a lot of weight this year. Although, considering it's been an entire year, it's not really that much. And I still have a long way to go. But whatever. My weight has for the most part slowly but steadily gone down. And particularly after I got the elliptical trainer. I'm not really sure what my weight was a year ago, 'cause I didn't have a scale back then, but I think it was about 135kg. I'm now down to about 122kg. So about 13kg in a year, that's not too bad. Unfortunately, the last couple of months have been absolutely horrible for my motivation and energy, so I haven't really worked out at all. I probably could've been below 120 by now. Oh well.

After I broke up with my ex I decided I wasn't gonna go back to my old self, I wasn't gonna become a shut-in again like I was before. I don't really remember anymore what my plan actually was, but the point of it was to get out more and spend more time with friends. I'm sorry to say that I haven't really followed up on that. I don't really know why. It just never happened. I guess part of it is because I don't have any way of getting around on my own. And I've never really been the kind of guy that goes anywhere without there being a special occasion anyway... So, yeah. I want to change that, I just don't know how.

On major thing that has changed since this time last year, is my apartment  A year ago it was filled with all kinds of stuff and trash, it was a complete chaos. In a way there's still a bit to do, but compared to back then it's infinitely better. Unfortunately it seems I won't get that help cleaning my apartment properly that I was promised for most of 2012. For some reason it was impossible for social services to dig up someone who could do it for me, which I find really odd. And I don't really know what has happened to the whole deal now. It would've been so nice to get this fixed, to have my apartment cleaned properly by someone who knows what they're doing, but... It seems it's not gonna happen.

And that's all the significant things I can remember about 2012 right now.

Looking Forward

I don't really have any plans for 2013. Well, except for one. I was lucky enough to get enough money to start working on my driver's license, so I'm gonna do that soon. Not sure when, but I'm gonna go down and talk to someone some day soon. I just want to get some other stuff sorted out first, if I can. Other than that, I don't really know what I want to do this year. I can't even think of anything significant that's relevant to me that'll happen this year. So... Yeah. But I guess having one plan is better than none. Everything else is just "business as usual"; Keeping up with the changed lifestyle and getting back to working out. Hopefully lose another 12kg, or more.

Right now, though, I'm not gonna do anything. Yesterday I had my last wisdom tooth pulled, and area around was seriously infected, so it still hurts quite a bit. It was also really stuck in there, so the dentist had to really use his might to get it out, which means it's also really sore. Painkillers work, fortunately, and it's a lot more manageable than before it was pulled, but it still wears me out pretty fast. Eating and drinking is a bit awkward too, as I want to disturb the healing as little as possible. So for now I'm gonna care about nothing, and probably go sleep a bit. 

See ya.

: The past two weeks + Christmas

The past two weeks have been quite interesting, actually.

Last Monday: I finally got my fiber-connection! I was up at midnight because I was watching NASL4 (Starcraft II), and I was a bit distracted by that so I forgot to check exactly at midnight as I had planned (just for fun). But at about 1pm I started hooking stuff up, and, after a bit of messing around with something that didn't quite get set up right because I misunderstood it, it actually worked. Of course, the first thing I did was put it to the test, and started a bunch of downloads while still watching the NASL4 stream. I think my download speed in total was about 3MB/s, and the stream was still going with no interruptions. The stream was only in 480p, because I wasn't subscribed, but still. It's fucking awesome! =D

Saturday: The rest of the week wasn't very eventful, just me enjoying the fast connection, then on Saturday was Yrjan's 30th birthday party. The day was pretty awesome over all. We started off at Peppes, as suggested by Hallgeir. I think there were 15 of us in total there. Hallgeir, Shawna, Rune, Terje and me at one end of the table, and Yrjan's family at the other end, with Yrjan and Tonje in the middle. Hallgeir, Rune and me did our usual thing, of course. While everyone else just ordered something simple from the menu, we did our usual "Über Complicated Order Process (TM)", creating our own monster-pizzas. The guy who took our order was actually laughing at the end because of how ridiculous it was. =P

After Peppes we went directly up to Huset, to where the party was gonna be. There was still quite some time left before the party was actually supposed to start when we got there, but we passed the time by playing with balloons. Yay! The party itself was actually quite fun. As probably everyone who knows me even remotely know, I'm not a party person. I don't drink, and I don't like drunk people. I don't dance, and I don't really "let go". But I still had a lot of fun just being with people, and enjoying the music. That's pretty much all I really did all night. The party was cut a bit short, though, which unfortunately meant that Yrjan's Hardcore-medley wasn't played. Oh well. He made it available to us the next day, so at least we can listen to it anyway.

Part of the reason why it was cut short was because one of us got way too drunk. Not the kind of way too drunk that he started causing trouble, fortunately. But it was still pretty bad. I think the security-guy threw him out, but I'm not sure. Whatever the case, he started walking around aimlessly, and  ended up being picked up by the police who escorted him back to Huset and told us that he was not capable of taking care of himself. So we decided that, even though there was technically still an hour and half left of the party, it was best to take him back home. And as everything had sort of died down, I guess partially because everyone was worried about this guy, Yrjan decided there was no point in keeping the party going.

The ride home was weird. This guy was so out of it he couldn't really sit up, so I sat behind him and held him up most of the way, so he wouldn't lean on Rune who was driving. Then when we got back to Dokka we ended up sitting with him for, I think, about an hour, to make sure he was okay. When I talked to him a couple of days later he couldn't really remember anything that had happened. Weird.

And yes, I have intentionally avoided mentioning his name. 

Sunday: Saturday was also my grandmother's 70th birthday, but she had decided to celebrate it on Sunday. There's really not too much to say about this day, really, but I did spend most of it at their place, with them, my aunt's family and my uncle's family. It was a pretty good day. =)

As you might know, if you've read my previous entry, it didn't end so good. After I got home I had a sort of breakdown, and ended up writing that thing. Part of me wants to go delete it, but... I don't know. I get like that some times, and this time I was able to get it out. In a way. So, yeah. I think I'm gonna keep it there. I just want to say, though, that I don't feel like that all of the time. I feel lonely most of the time, but not that... Extreme.

Monday: When I left the house on Monday, I had planned to only be away for a couple of hours. That didn't really happen. I started off going to an appointment I had with a kind of personal trainer type lady. I had been there once before, but all we did then was talk about my situation, my condition, and my illnesses. This time we went over different exercises, setting up a program for me, one that I can do at home, or just about anywhere. Most of the exercises are ones I've tried before, but with her instructions I discovered that I had done almost all of them wrong in one way or the other. They all felt so much better doing them how she told me. The only exercise I had done right is one that I feel it's difficult to do wrong; Push-ups. She was actually impressed by how good I did them, so hey.

When I was done, I went to my grandparents. Their fiber-connection was getting activated that day, and I had to set everything up for them. I figured that because I had already set up my own only a week earlier, I could do this pretty quickly. But... It wasn't that simple. I set everything up the exact same way I had done here, without doing the same mistakes I did here, and everything appeared to be working... Except it didn't. I went over everything several times, and couldn't find a single fault in how it was set up. So I had to call Telenor's fiber-support. Turns out the problem was on their end. I'm not quite sure what was wrong, but the guy did something and suddenly everything worked. So, yay for that, or something.

Not too long after that was fixed, Thor Idar called me. He lives next door to my grandparents, and he couldn't get his fiber-connection up and running either. So I went over there, looked over what he had done and fixed what he had done wrong (in his defense, they had gotten the fiber-modem a lot earlier than everyone else, because their old one was broken, and he couldn't find the manual for it). And of course, it still didn't work. So he had to call Telenor as well. I'm convinced the error was the same as at my grandparents, but the guy Thor was talking to couldn't figure it out, even though I explained what the guy I talked to had said (something about reactivating the connection). So the call ended without anything being fixed, he just said that they'd "look into it". A while later he got a call back, and just as he picked up I looked over at the modem and all the right lights were lit. So, yay for that too.

I stayed at Thor's place for quite a while after that, until about 10pm I think. We watched some Starcraft2 streams and VoDs, and just talked about random stuff. Which is something that I don't think I've done with him before, come to think of it, not like that. Rune and I have days like that quite often, but I've never really had that close of a connection with Thor. I really don't know why, because he's a really great guy. =)

The rest of this week I haven't done much. I've mostly been sitting here at home. Monday night was a terrible night, for no good reason. I went to bed a couple of hours after I got back from Thor's place, so at about midnight. But about three and half hour later I woke up feeling like I hadn't really slept. And I could sort of remember going in and out of sleep all that time, kind of like when you have fever dreams. It was really weird. I couldn't fall asleep again either, so I got up and stayed up until about 10am, then I finally go a few hours of real sleep. But I was completely knocked out for the rest of the day when I got back up. Since then I haven't done much.

Plans for Christmas: First of all, I have decided that I'm not gonna bother with any weight loss stuff during Christmas. I'm gonna do what I can to stay where I am, and not go crazy on the candy and stuff like that, but I'm just gonna skip working out completely. I don't have the energy for that anyway. When Christmas and new years is over, then I'm gonna try to get back on it.

On Christmas Eve I'm gonna be at my grandparents. I can't remember the last time I was there on Christmas Eve, but it's been quite a few years. When my dad was still alive, we used to alternate between being at his place or moms place. Then after he passed away I've spent every Christmas Eve with mom. This year, however, mom has decided to run away from Christmas. Basically, she decided that Christmas Eve without any small children (everyone has other plans) was a bit too sad, so she and her boyfriend are in Gran Canaria right now. And I don't really blame her. I think I was the only one who would've been with them if they've stayed here, so... Yeah. I wasn't looking too much forward to that either. At least there will be more people at my grandparents place, as my aunt's family will be there too.

Some time after Christmas Eve I will have a LAN. I haven't really set a date for it, because it wasn't really planned. Or... I had planned to throw a LAN, but then Marius and Veronica beat me to it. And I had originally planned to go to their LAN. The problem is, they live 15 minutes, by car, away from everything. And since I don't have a car of my own I can't get up there, or back down, own my own, nor do I have anyone I can trust to help me with it when I want or need it. I have nothing against neither them nor being at their place, but it makes me feel a bit trapped because it's so far away from everything. Hopefully I can change that before next year, but I'll talk about that a bit further down.

So, there will be one LAN down here at my place, and another LAN at their place. Not an optimal solution, but it'll have to do. The ones who are coming here are Rune, Yrjan and Thor Idar. Yrjan and Thor for the same reason as me, I think, as they're both still without a driver's license even though they're both very close, and Rune because... Well, it's not my place to say. Or something. So, yeah. There are room for more people here, so if anyone else wants to come just ask. =)

Next year: Back in September I was told that because of the type of financial support I'm getting, I can get back most, maybe all, of the "income tax" I pay off of it. So I sent a complaint to Skatteetaten back then, and last week I finally got a letter from them. It said that my complaint had gone through, and that I would get money back. It didn't say how much, though, so I'm not making any concrete plans yet. But if I get anywhere near what my dads cousin got, she was the one who told me about it, then I have decided to finally start working on my driver's license, for real. I did have a couple of lessons back in 2006, but I can barely remember any of it. Because I was still suffering rather severely from my sleeping disorder back then, I wasn't able to continue them. Also, my mom was paying for it back then, and her economy wasn't the greatest. 

For the longest time, I flat out didn't want to get a driver's license. The thought of getting behind the wheel of a car and be responsible for what happened scared the life out of me, and actually still do. But the past few years it's become more and more of a pain that I don't have it, and during the past year and a half it's been really frustrating on several occasions. But in my situation there hasn't been any opportunities to get started on it. There's no way to get financial support from the state, unless you're a single mother living in no-mans-land or possibly if you only need a little bot of help to get finished. I don't have any relatives who can afford paying it for me. And I have no means of saving up the money on my own when I am unable to have a normal job. The only way I could get that amount of money is by winning it. And... Yeah. That's not gonna happen.

Anyway. I still don't know how much I'll get, so I'll have to wait and see. And, referring to the statement above about hoping to "change that before next year", even if I do get enough, I don't know how long getting the license will take, particularly considering I have to start from scratch. So I don't know if I'll have a driver's license before next years New Years LAN. But I hope I will.

I do have a second plan with that money, if I get the amount I hope for. Before starting the driver's license I'm gonna get myself a new desktop computer. My laptop is ok, but it overheats like crazy, and my old desktop is a pile of junk. And I know what you're thinking; Wouldn't it be smart to finish the driver's license before wasting the money on other stuff? And you're probably right. But. If I get that amount of money, then I'll surely get about the same amount again when it's time for the next tax return, because I've had the same type of financial support. And now that I know about it, I can hopefully fix it in time, and not have to send a complaint several months later to get it fixed.

So yeah. That's one thing next year hopefully will bring. But I still have to wait and see exactly how much I do get, so... Yeah.


Aaaand... That's the end of this way too long blog post. Now I gotta go sleep. 

: Summer.

So far this summer I have done next to nothing. I've stayed at home for the last month, not wanting to really go anywhere, and not really having anywhere to go either. I've also been waiting for something, but this something keeps getting postponed, and although I know that it's no ones fault, it gives me the feeling of knocking my head against a wall. A very solid wall. On wheels. Or something. It keeps moving back, but it wont let me through.

Anyway.

Earlier today my mother called, and asked if I wanted to come visit them for a while, at Strømmen. She's heading in this direction tomorrow, and thought maybe she could pick me up before she went home. And as far as I know, absolutely nothing at all will happen around here this week, so I figured why the hell not. At the very least, it'll be a change from just sitting here alone, staring at the screen day in and day out (and occasionally working out). In addition to visiting my mother and her boyfriend, and my sister, I'll also be able to visit my brother, and possibly a couple of friends. So, that'll be good.

Speaking of working out, btw; Progress on the elliptical machine has been very fast. The first couple of times I used it, I felt like I was in a torture machine. I guess I just wasn't used to it yet. I couldn't go very fast, and certainly not for long (with exception of the second day, which I guess was some sort of energy-boost fluke?). It has gotten easier and easier, though, and I've certainly gotten more used to the way I have to move on it. The first times I used it, I felt like I was gonna fall over when I got off, no matter if it had been 5 or 15 minutes. Now I can go 25 minutes and still have my balance intact. But, I'm still only on the lowest resistance level, having attempted a couple of sessions on level 2 (and one very poor attempt at level 3). So I still have a long way to go. And as far as weight loss, which this machine is supposed to be very good for... Well, it did go down a bit. Then it went back up. So, who the fuck knows. At least my general physical condition is getting better, that's ultimately what matters. 

On a very different note; It has now been 7+ months since my ex and I broke up. I can't say that I don't miss her, we did spend more than a year together after all. And she was my first girlfriend. I'm not even gonna use the modifier "real" there, because there really was no one before her. But, I have accepted the fact that I won't get her back, and that she has moved on, quite a while ago. So, what has been bothering me more and more the last couple of months isn't so much that I miss being with her, but more that I miss being with someone. I miss all the things that being with someone I love brings. I miss being close to someone... It really is no fun going to bed every night and have nothing to hold but my duvet. I feel like I'm right back to where I was before I met my ex, except that now I know what I'm missing.

That pretty much sums it up, I guess.

I hope something good happens soon.

But for now, I'm going to my mother place, and will probably be staying there for a while. I have no idea how long. I really hope that I'll have something else to do next week, but that's not up to me. If not, I might just throw a LAN again when I get home. It's been more than month since the last one (which was awesome, btw), so it's about time. I might even invite some more people, but that means that all games that require a constant connection to the internet (like Diablo III) will be basically unplayable, due to my amazingly crappy connection. So, anyone want to come? =P

: Easter.

This has been a very lazy easter.

First of all, the weather hasn't been too great, it's been cold and unpleasant, so I haven't felt like going for any walks. The last couple of days have been even worse. The day starts of with snow, then it melts during the day, and it's just cold and wet. The last walk I did was last Saturday, the 31st. It was cold then too, but I decided to go for a walk anyway. The problem is that the lower the temperature is, the more my right leg acts up. It's very uncomfortable to walk on it. I still walked 8km that day, which is a new record, but the first three were so bad I don't want to do it again. I want the weather we had when I first started walking outside of Dokka to come back.

I've also been LANing the entire easter. Rune came to my place on the 30th, and we had a mini-LAN here at my place, playing quite a lot of Titan Quest. It felt almost like back in the day when he basically lived at my place for months at a time. Then on Thursday we went to Marius and Veronica's place for a bigger LAN. Not a lot of games being played that I want to play, but it was still nice. 

On Friday Rune and I went to Gjøvik, to eat at Peppe's, and to meet some friends that at least I don't see very often. Rune, Hallgeir and I usually try to go to Peppe's whenever he's in the area, and try to drag with us as many other people as we can, that want to go to Peppe's. Hallgeir brought his girlfriend, Shauna, so we got to meet her for the first time, and she seems very nice. They both came to the LAN the next day. The others we managed to drag with us this time were Terje and Ane, and Yrjan and Tonje.

My appartment still isn't quite ready for arranging real LAN's of my own again. It's getting there, but there's still a few things that need to be done. One of them being finding someone to drive the couches I've gotten from Veronica from her place to mine, so I'll have places for people to actually sit. So if anyone can help, either you have a big van or a car with "tilhengerfeste", it would be very nice. 

: Away and home.

So, the last couple of days have been fun. I'm currently at my mother's place, in Strømmen, because we're going to the Netherlands, well, later today, as it's way past midnight. I've been here since Monday, in part because I'd rather be here than sit home alone a couple of extra days, and in part because I wanted to visit a couple of people I don't get to see very often.

On Tuesday I visited Michael, a friend of mine that is half English. I knew him back when we lived at Skjetten, and still had some contact with him for a few years after we moved away from there. But then we lost contact because he and his family moved to England. I eventually found him again on Facebook, and then a while later learned he was moving back to Norway. So we met again for the first time in several years this summer.

I've tried to meet up with him whenever I've been in the area since.

Today (or technically yesterday) I've visited my brother and his girlfriend. No too much to say about that, really, other than that I don't really see him very often. He never comes to Dokka anymore, unfortunately. I've told him he should come visit again soon, particularly considering our grandfathers declining health... But, it's up to him. Anyway. We didn't do much today, other than discuss a lot of game stuff, as usual.

I also learned today (again, technically yesterday) that my mother really wants me to move away from Dokka, to a city. She particularly wants me to move to Strømmen/Lillestrøm. While I do understand her reasons, they're not enough to convince me. There are too many things keeping me at Dokka. I don't really see any upsides to moving away from there and sort of "starting over" in a new place...

Also, there's the fact that I'm not very fond of the city environment. The only city I would consider moving to atm would be Gjøvik, where my sister and some of my friends live. But even there the cons outweigh the pros, in my opinion.

Tomorrow (or later today) we leave for the Netherlands, as mentioned. We're coming back on Tuesday. Probably wont post anything new until then.

: Shut-in prevention.

I finally went to a LAN, a private LAN, again this weekend. I haven't been to one of those in about a year and a half. During 2011 I only went to two LANs in total, both public; DokkaLAN in May and HusetLAN in October. So going to a private LAN again was really nice. And with just the right people too. I mean, there were others that I, personally, wished had also been there, but there was no one I felt were out of place, so to speak. Unfortunately, there's not many LAN-games out there for me at the moment, that I feel like playing. There are a few coming out this year, but at the moment there's really none. But I still had a good time.
Thanks for inviting me again, Marius and Veronica. =)

At the moment I'm at Gjøvik, visiting my sister and her family. I hope to be able to visit a couple of friends while I'm here as well. Either way, the whole point of me being here is that I really don't want to go back to being a shut-in, like I was before I met Wenche, and before I got my diagnosis. So yeah, I'm trying to just get out and be around people.

I'm going back to Wenche's place this weekend. For two reasons. First; It's her birthday this Saturday. And I really want to celebrate it with her. It might be a bit weird, particularly with her family there on Saturday, but... We'll figure it out. The second reason is that I still have a lot of stuff there, that I need to get. So I'm gonna do that while I'm there as well.

: 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. =)