Caffeinated Dreams

Since December, it has snowed — began melting — snowed again (so you have a nice layer of snow>ice>snow, etc), and today a blizzard came in… pretty violently. The snow was blowing not only diagonally, but upwards sometimes too.

So I decide to head up to IO-Interactive around 3:30pm today to drop a package off for Lance and head up to an American Import store (mountain dew! pop tarts! Oreos! Oh how I miss home!) and possibly take some pics of the city. Here is a list of events:

• Wait for bus to get to IO in blizzard
• Get off bus and walk rest of way to IO in blizzard
• Walk to bus stop from IO to get to city square, blizzard is calming down
• Bus takes 20 minutes to arrive, now the sky is shooting ice instead of snow.
• Get off bus at city square, take some pics, walk down the “Walking Street” to an American Import store.
• Get halfway to store, begins raining hard.
• Get to store, CLOSED ON MONDAYS. Still raining.
• Walk to Nørreport Station to catch bus to go home.
• Busses are packed and slow, so waiting takes 10+ minutes and I wait through 4 busses because they are all packed. Finally get one
• Walk rest of way home from bus stop, in ice (only about 5 min from that stop though)

So, I got snowed on, iced on, rained on, then iced on again, all while walking around for about 3 hours total. Bus times only took about 5 - 10 minutes in trip besides from home to IOI.

Insane.

Most pics came out blurry, I guess my camera got re-adjusted in my pocket, I’ll have to do it again, but will post pics later of what came out decent.

A friend of Lances’ moved here from Isreal, and brought with him a gift of Y Chilli Liqueur.

Now, I’ve had chili peppers and various spicy foods and drinks along with them, but this… this was on a whole ‘nother level. The scent was sweet, and very pleasent. So I assumed, having had experience with chili peppers (stand-alone, too) before, that I would be able to handle this.

How wrong I was. I grabbed for the closest drink near me, which was sitting in the freezer: Some somewhat cheap vodka. I drank that to soothe the pain.

It was about 10 minutes ago as of this writing… I still feel the spiceyness on my lips. *sips some coke*

The first real snow of the year, and the city of Copenhagen has salted the sidewalks and roads about 5 times in the past 2 days, it failed. They tried plowing this afternoon, it failed.

Right now, at 8pm, they went by with the salt trucks again. It’s just making it worse. It was a chore walking back from the grocery in 2 feet of piles of snow from the plows along the streets and mushy black crap in the crosswalks.

I haven’t been in snow in 2 years, so I’m really enjoying the weather. :)

BTW there are sidewalks that stick out in the road (where the bikes are), you just can’t see them.

I have a horrible and sudden flu. Tack on the monthly pains along with this and you have what I’m feeling like right now.

I’m bored out of my mind and sitting in bed isn’t helping. It’s just getting worse. So I’m on the laptop doing internet stuff and trying to unbore myself, one way was making this useless post.

I hope you all have a nice night.