This weekend I was attending Furcamp 2, which is a small meeting of furries (mainly) from the Franconian and Hessian regions near Coburg organized by eosfoxx and manares.
Well, our American colleagues call their yearly department excursion "lagoon day" (because they go BBQ at a lake,) so my boss decided we'll call our excursion the same. However, we did not go to a lake. Instead, we went to Markt Feucht and visited the Hermann Oberth Raumfahrt Museum which is a small but very interesting museum dedicated to the work of Hermann Oberth, a pioneer of space technology. Very geeky exhibits, cool stuff in fact...
I guess it is becoming something like a tradition: Every year, when the Bardentreffen in Nürnberg takes place I invite a couple of friends to come over and visit this amazing free open-air festival with me. This year, doco, Kayjay, lynard_ stayed at my apartment for some nights, with Ailurus, Malcom, sibserag, thecrow_ and Edelweiß joining us at the festival.
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.
 | You scored as Simba. You are Simba! You've suffered immense hardships, but you can see the larger picture, realizing that there is light at the end of the tunnel as long as you continue on. Family and best friends are sacred to you and you would leap to defend them at any time, at whatever cost. You also have a tendency to be sentimental, sometimes allowing your emotions to supercede your better judgement. And yet, at other times, you're not enough in tune with your emotions. You need to find an equal balance between faith and logic. You're still great, though, overall!
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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!
Well, not many news, but nevertheless news...