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The location: a campground in Autenhausen near Coburg. My rig: a tent, a crate of beer, a crate of lemonade, a crate of water, sunscreen, "Off! Deep Woods" repellent (the stuff actually works in Germany, at least it keeps off horseflies.) The guests: about 30 furries from all over Germany. The hosts: eosfoxx and madCat. The mood: perfect. The pool: excellent. The landlord: Siggi. The weather: too hot, one thunderstorm. The sunburn: itching. The BBQ: great. The pizza service: poor. The weekend: perfect.
I spent the last couple of days at Mephit Mini Con at the Freusburg near Siegen. We've been there before with Eurofurence a couple of years ago and the castle is still as good as I remembered it. For MMC, it was a huge leap in quality. Tasty food, competent and friendly youth hostel staff, neat rooms and excellent technical infrastructure. What a difference to the previous location at the Loreley!
Behind the cut there's a round-up of the first week of my vacation...
So, what had happened the last two weeks?
Okay, I'll finally give it a try.
Eurofurence is getting closer and I still have plenty of things to do... Yesterday I bought, um, some stuff for the pawpet show. And, completely unrelated, I found a pair of new shoes, bicycle trousers and a new small pillow for journeys. The old pillow started to smell, so I tried to wash it. It smelled even worse afterwards. So I washed it again. Afterwards, it leaked some strange brown liquid and stank as if it had been placed in a romm filled with cigarette smoke for twenty years. Given the age of the pillow, it actually might have been. So I cut it open, and apart of lots of half-rotten chicken (!) feathers it had about 20% hay in it... No wonder it started to disintegrate. I therefor trashed it and bought a new one.
Well, this weekend we had the final pawpet show rehearsal before Eurofurence. We were quite busy, unfortunately some props and puppets are still missing (but they will be ready for Eurofurence!), and it was countless hours of hard work. On Saturday, we played the three acts in reverse order as some scenes in act three and two are quite tricky to play and we wanted to play them while concentration was still available. It was, um, a bit tenacious and the timing was off quite a number of times. No reason to be bothered, though, as this is usually the turning point at which we start to get a real feeling for the timing. And indeed, the rehearsal on Sunday was much better, almost perfect. Much better concentration, more self-confidence, and nearly perfect timing. I'm now completely confident that it will be a great show this year again. For those attending Eurofurence: don't miss it! No, really. Do not miss it under any circumstances. It will be incredibly funny, tragic, moving, nonsensical and supercalifragilisticexpialidotious! Get addicted!
In case someone reads this who's not familiar with the European furry fandom: one of the highlights of each year's Eurofurence convention is a so-called pawpet show, a puppet show for (almost) grown-ups. I'm honoured to be allowed to contribute to that show as a stagehand and occasionally supporting puppeteer for the fourth year now.