2026-03-08 08:00:00
It's been a while since I've done one of these! But I think it's time again. After listening through all albums from two 70s bands from the UK and the US last year, I felt like some change was in order, so I picked a German band from the late 80s/early 90s.
Gamma Ray is a power metal band from Hamburg. The band was founded by Kai Hansen who founded the more famous Helloween a few years earlier, recorded three fantastic albums with them and then left and started Gamma Ray. I love the first three Helloween albums, but everything they released after Kai Hansen left is just kind of "meh" in my opinion, while Gamma Ray turned into one of my all time favourite bands. I have a suspicion who made the old Helloween albums great...
Power metal, if you don't know, means ultra fast guitar playing and drumming combined with melodic and high-pitched, almost operatic vocals on top. Basically it's the vocals from bands like Uriah Heep, Sweet or Queen combined with the speed of 80s thrash metal. Which is the perfect combination for me, because I like speed, but I also like melodies. Let's see what they have to offer!
★★★★☆
Now that is one hell of a debut! Kai Hansen wrote almost all the songs on here (with the exception of Free Time which was written by singer Ralf Scheepers) and he really poured everything he had into this album. The songs are upbeat, fast, sometimes silly (Money), beautiful (The Silence) and with the title track Heading for Tomorrow surprisingly complex.
A confession, I'm not the biggest fan of Ralf Scheepers vocals on the early Gamma Ray albums (I like him much more in his current band Primal Fear), so I never paid too much attention to the albums with him and I preferred to listen to the songs in their live or rerecorded versions (more on that later). But that's purely a personal thing, objectively there is absolutely nothing to complain about regarding his vocals, he sings with power and energy and has a range that easily puts him in the same league as someone like Rob Halford (more on that later, too).
The only weak song on the album is Free Time which has some truly terrible lyrics. Look:
The weekend comes, I'm gonna see my baby
...
Now her motions turn me on
And I'm gonna sing my song
Ok sure.
The rest of the album however - amazing.
Favourite Song
Space Eater. It's a headbanger, and the middle 8 with the really high vocals is insane.
★★★☆☆
Not quite as strong as the first one, but still pretty good. This time around more band members are taking on songwriting duties, which makes the album more varied but also a bit less consistent than the last. My favourite songs are still the ones written by Kai Hansen, Changes, Rich and Famous, One with the World, Dream Healer.
Overall it's still a pretty good album, but it seems to be slightly overlooked live; I've seen the band live a number of times (in the 2000s) and I don't remember them ever playing something off of that album, at least not on the tours where I saw them. But then again, maybe I'm not remembering everything so well, it's been a long time.
This is also the first album that Dirk Schlächter appears on. He plays guitar here, but later switched to bass and still plays bass in Gamma Ray to this day, making him the longest standing band member after Kai Hansen.
Favourite Song
One with the World. I really like the vocal melody in the chorus.
★★☆☆☆
This album again, not as good as the previous one. This is probably the Gamma Ray album I'm least familiar with, and it's because many of the songs just don't land for me. There's still a few really good songs on here, especially the first few. Tribute to the Past, No Return and Last before the Storm are all bangers, and the song Gamma Ray which gave the band its name (and is a cover by the German band Birth Control) is a really fun one, but overall I don't enjoy this album too much.
During those first couple of years of Gamma Ray's existence there have been quite a number of lineup changes, but now a big one is about to happen because singer Ralf Scheepers left the band after this album. The band was based in Hamburg in the north of Germany, but Scheepers lived in the south and wasn't willing to move to Hamburg, so he was only intermittently present for rehersals and writing sessions which led to a growing frustration within the band. During this time he also auditioned as a singer for Judas Priest who were looking for a replacement for Rob Halford, a job which ultimately went to Tim "Ripper" Owens instead. I actually think Scheepers would have been a better fit, but it wasn't meant to be. He went on to found the band Primal Fear which is still going strong, so things worked out in the end for him.
Long story short, Scheepers and Gamma Ray parted ways amicably and Gamma Ray continued with a "new" vocalist.
Favourite Song
★★★★★
Now, the bands I'm covering in this series are my favourite bands of all time, so a lot of their albums are my favourites as well. But for every band there is one album that is my absolute favourite, and for Gamma Ray it's this one, Land of the Free.
I got it as a collection of mp3s some 25 years or so ago from a guy in my hometown who was a huge metalhead. I'd never heard of this band or this style of music before at this point, but after I heard it, I was hooked. I listened to it countless times over the years, I keep coming back to it regularly and even today, more than a quarter of a decade after I first heard it, it still gives me goosebumps. It's this good.
After Ralf Scheepers departed, Kai Hansen decided to just take on vocal duties himself, and holy hell has he developed as a vocalist! He sang on the first Helloween album Walls of Jericho and then they brought on Michael Kiske as a singer because Kai Hansen wasn't comfortable singing and playing guitar at the same time.
He obviously is here. His vocals are fantastic, clean and powerful with a bit of rasp here and there and high notes that are are absolutely on par with those of Ralf Scheepers. Just listen to the first song Rebellion in Dreamland and you'll know what I mean, as he goes through his full range here.
The songwriting is also top notch here, they pulled out all the stops. There's long epic songs like Rebellion in Dreamland, ultra-fast bangers like Man on a Mission or Salvation's Calling, big stadium sing-along songs like Land of the Free and even a ballad called Farewell. There's also guest vocals by Michael Kiske, Hansens former Helloween bandmate, and Hansi Kürsch, Blind Guardian frontman. This album for me is the essence of German Power Metal. Nothing else comes close.
Well, except for the following albums, because this is the first in a series of albums where each is just as good as the last. But let's not get ahead of ourselves just yet.
There is one sad note on the album, and that's the song Afterlife. It always felt different to me; while the rest of the album has a positive and upbeat and fun vibe to it, this one has a darkness and sadness to it that I never quite understood - until I read that it was written for Kai Hansens former Helloween bandmate Ingo Schwichtenberg who committed suicide while the band was working on this album.
Favourite song
Rebellion in Dreamland. It's big and epic, it starts out slow and then builds to a big finale. If you're not familiar with Gamma Ray, I actually recommend starting with this song; if that's not your jam then the rest probably won't be, either.
★★★★★
This is the first of several albums that are loosely SciFi-themed. Maybe Kai or someone else from the band was really into SciFi during this time, who knows. Either way, it's a fantastic album. I already said it, Land of the Free is the first in a series of albums that are all in my list of all time favourites. During this time, mid 90s to early 2000s they were at their creative peak and their output was just phenomenal.
What's always drawn me to this type of music is the combination of heavy and ultra fast guitar playing and drumming and then really great vocal melodies with a lot of harmonies and big epic choirs on top. This combination just works for me, and this album has tons and tons of it. The first track Beyond the Black Hole is a perfect example; fast and heavy and still incredibly melodic. And then it just keeps going like this all the way through with Men, Martians and Machines, The Winged Horse, Watcher in the Sky until the epic Rising Star/Shine On at the end. It's a great album start to finish.
The CD that I have also contains two cover versions as bonus tracks, Return to Fantasy by Uriah Heep and Victim of Changes by Judas Priest. Both are great, and Kai does a fantastic Rob Halford on Victims.
Up to this point every album had a different lineup, but now things are settling down and the "classic" Gamma Ray lineup crystallises with Kai Hansen on guitars and vocals, Dirk Schlächter on bass, Henjo Richter on guitars and Dan Zimmermann on drums.
My brother once remarked that when you see Gamma Ray live, Henjo Richter just stands there smiling but he plays the most insane riffs and solos as if they were nothing. And it's true. His fingers just fly over the fretboard. When I sit down with my guitar and try to play some Gamma Ray, there are songs that I have to slow down to 70% to even stand a chance, while he looks like he could play everything at 120% and still have a chat with you at the same time.
Favourite song
So many to choose from! But I'm going to go with Watcher in the Sky. I always loved the chorus melody and the middle section that is sung by Piet Sielck from Iron Savior. The song was also recorded for Iron Savior's first album on which Kai Hansen played too.
★★★★★
Another SciFi-themed album, and another banger. I've seen reviews that lament that this album is just more of the same - which is true, but I like this stuff very much, so I don't mind more of it at all. More of the same only becomes a problem when the quality begins to drop or you can feel that people's hearts aren't in it anymore, but that's far from being the case here.
The opener Anywhere in the Galaxy sets the scene perfectly with fast riffing, double bass drumming throughout and Kai's signature high pitched vocals on top. There's an unexpected cover in the middle of the album, It's a Sin by the Pet Shop Boys. You'd think that's an odd fit, but it works perfectly. They stay true to the original but still managed to give it their own unique sound, and who would have thought that It's a Sin would work as a metal song!
The album also contains Heavy Metal Universe, which was the live sing-along track for many years. I don't think bands do that much anymore, but back then pretty much every band I saw did a call-and-response bit with the audience during their live shows. It went like this:
Kai: "It's a..."
Audience: "HEAVY METAL UNIVERSE!!!"
Kai (shaking his head): "Heavy metal small town or what? Come on! LOUDER!!! IT'S A..."
Audience (loses their shit): "HEAVY METAL UNIVERSE!!!!"
Song continues
Ah, great fun. There's a live recording of this on Youtube, if you want to check it out.
Before we move on, we have to talk about the drums. The drumming on these albums is amazing. Dan Zimmermann studied Jazz drumming before he decided to become a metal drummer, and it shows. His timing is excellent, he plays like a machine, and he manages to perfectly support the riffs or the melodies with just the right fill at the right time. Most of the time he plays pretty straight through, with lots of double bass drumming, but he has an impeccable sense for when the drums have to take a back seat and when they can step into the light for a little bit. And he often puts in small variations that make listening to his drumming a joy. I'm a big fan of his style, and if there was an album with nothing but his drumming on it, I'd absolutely buy it. He is the perfect fit for Gamma Ray, they couldn't have found a better drummer.
I noticed something interesting on Wings of Destiny... you might need headphones to hear it, but if you listen to the intro at the 38 second mark in that Youtube clip, you can hear a cut in the recording where the guitar riff changes. So they spliced together two different takes but didn't do a great job at it and you can clearly hear the cut there. But that intro, holy fuck!
Favourite song
Again an almost impossible choice, I'm going to cheat and go with a tie between Gardens of the Sinner and Heavy Metal Universe.
★★★★★
This is not strictly a new album but rather a best of, but with a bit of a twist: They re-recorded the songs from the first three albums with their current lineup. The songs from the Kai Hansen-fronted albums remained the same but were remastered for this release.
Now I said in my Blue Öyster Cult post that I don't like it when bands re-record their old material, and I stand by this because there's often absolutely no point to it (looking at you, Manowar). But this here for me is the exception to the rule.
The new versions of the old songs are fantastic. Looking back at the first ten years of Gamma Ray I think the band has matured quite a bit, both in terms of songwriting and musicianship. They have found a lineup that is stable and works incredibly well together, and so these new version to me feel much more powerful, well-rounded and fully developed than the old recordings. I also prefer Kais vocals over Ralfs, and that's a pretty big part of it as well.
So yeah, I have to soften my stance on re-recordings of old songs - sometimes there is a point to them. I also have to acknowledge though that a big reason why I prefer these versions over the originals could be that I heard them first. I heard this album before I went back and revisited the old ones, and so this is how I first experienced these songs and I'm sure that plays a huge part in which version I prefer. Maybe I would feel different if I had followed them from the start, who knows. It's all subjective.
Anyway, that's all I wanted to say here. Go check out this album and make up your own mind! No favourites this time as it's a best-of and so pretty much every song is my favourite :)
★★★★★
This is the last of the Fantastic Four Albums, as they exist in my mind. And I'm starting to repeat myself here, but it's another great album, every song on it is amazing and I never get tired of listening to it. Yes, it's again more of the same, but they're still delivering really solid and high quality material and I'm cool with that.
One thing I noticed though looking back at the list of songs on the album, there isn't a song that really stands out as particularly amazing to me. The songs are all great, but there isn't one that I look particularly forward to hearing. I just enjoy the album as a whole.
Favourite song The Heart of the Unicorn. Great high vocals and driving double bass throughout.
★★★☆☆
With this album unfortunately the broke their streak of releasing perfect albums. I can't quite put my finger on why, but this album isn't as good as the previous ones. The songwriting isn't as strong, and where the other albums always had a lightness and a positive feel to them, this one feels much darker and angrier than everything that came before. Not surprisingly maybe as it came out in the mid 2000s and there was quite a lot of terrible stuff going on in the world at the time, but it makes the album less enjoyable to listen to for me.
They start out with two really fast songs, My Temple and Fight which are faster and thrashier than anything they recorded before, and I actually quite like those songs because of their speed and heavyness. Blood Religion is fantastic, but it's actually the only song on the album that really "feels" Gamma Ray to me. The rest is - different.
A few more observations:
I don't like how this album sounds. It has this typical overcompressed sound of the loudness war that was going on at the time where music releases were compressed more and more to achieve an unnaturally high loudness (a measure for how loud something is perceived - our ears generally equate "louder = better") which came at the cost of dynamic range and overall sound quality.
And I think they quantized the drums, which means they digitally moved the drum hits to land precisely at the right point in time. The result is that everything sounds perfect, but unnatural because humans don't play perfectly. Dan Zimmermann is a really tight drummer, but on this album he sounds like a drum computer with absolute precision and zero feeling. At least some of the time. The ultra-fast double bass parts of the first two songs My Temple and Fight sound like machine gun fire, and that's definitely not natural. The last song Revelation also has a lot of double bass drums, but these sound more natural, so I guess they didn't quantize everything, but I'm willing to bet they did at least some timing correction to the drums.
Overall - not a terrible album, but not one of my favourites and not one that grew on me over time either, sadly.
Favourite song
Blood Religion. Without a doubt the best song on the album. It's dark, atmospheric and a ton of fun live.
★★★★☆
My initial thought after listening to this album was "it's better than I remember". It's always more than a little suspect when a band releases an album called Title Of Our Best Album From 20 Years Ago PART II, and this one is predictably nowhere near as good as Land of the Free from 1995, but it's a step up from Majestic.
The drums still sound triggered and quantized, but not as extreme as on some of the songs from Majestic, and overall the sound is less compressed and a bit more natural again. Kai's voice also sounds freer and opener here, on Majestic he sounded pretty strained at times.
One thing I have to mention though is that they really seemed to be running out of ideas when they wrote the songs for this album. There are so many parts all throughout the album that will make you go "wait, I know this". Of course as a musician you have your heroes that have influenced you and you quote them or copy bits and pieces from them, sometimes deliberately, sometimes without even realising. But here they straight up lifted entire sections from other songs.
Two examples: Listen to this part form Real World, then listen to this part from Judas Priest. And listen to this bit from Opportunity, then listen to this from Iron Maiden here. It's the same thing. And I don't know about you, but I find it kind of distracting when all of a sudden half an Iron Maiden song shows up out of nowhere. Especially when it happens multiple times on the same album. It takes me out of the experience.
Anyway, aside from this the album is overall nice to listen to, but without any songs that really stand out. It just kind of flows through without any particular highs or lows. Not my favourite, but not their worst one either.
Favourite song
Insurrection. It follows the "long and epic song with multiple parts" formula that Kai has been using since his Helloween days, but it delivers and the fast guitar solo bit in the middle is great.
★★☆☆☆
This one's really not good. It's not BAD bad, it's just kind of meh. It doesn't sound all that good, and the songs for the most part seem forgettable and uninspired. The copying continues, with To the Metal being almost a clone of Judas Priest's Metal Gods. They acknowledge this with the line "We came to hail the Metal Gods", so you could call it a hommage, but still. If you're going to write something this similar, you might as well just record a cover of the original. All you need to know is nice and features Michael Kiske on vocals again (though, to quote my brother, "who cares if Kiske sings the high chorus when the rest of the album is crap!").
So yes, not a big fan of the album. They still played really great live shows at that time though, I think I saw them live on the tour for this album and they ruled.
Favourite Song
★★★☆☆
This is their last album, and I'm kind of indifferent towards it, which is a shame, but here we are. Dan Zimmermann left the band and was replaced by former Metalium Drummer Michael Ehré, who is a great drummer, but he plays a bit more straightforward than Dan, and that's noticeable. Dan's fills are missing here. Overall though the album is better than the last one.
Song-wise, well, they're okay. The album starts out with the long epic Avalon which is surprising because they usually put the long song at the end. It's a pretty good song, especially the middle eight. Hellbent for Metal and Empire of the Undead are fast thrashers which is great, and the remainder of the songs don't leave much of an impression with me. Seven is weird because it uses almost the same verse riff as Empire of the Undead, and I keep wondering - did they not notice that they wrote the same thing twice? For the same album?
Kai's voice sounds pretty strained and scratchy at times. He's never been one to take particularly good care of his voice (every time I saw them live, for the encore he came on stage with a beer in one hand and a cigarette in the other) and that's starting to show.
Overall, the album is okay, but apart form Avalon it doesn't leave a lasting impression with me.
Favourite Song
Avalon. Especially the bridge that starts with "Thirteen Knights to reappear...".
And that is it. I wish there were more albums, but they haven't recorded anything new since 2014.
While they were touring the Empire of the Undead album Kai blew out his voice pretty badly and they brought in a second singer, Frank Beck, to help him out. I saw them live on that tour and Kai sounded pretty bad, he only got through the show with the help of Frank and Fabio Lione, the singer from Rhapsody who were the opener that night.
Frank Beck has been playing with them live ever since, and they're doing this "double lead singer" thing, which I'm not a fan of. I don't think Frank's voice is well suited for the old Gamma Ray songs, and his and Kai's voices also don't harmonise very well together. Judging from the comments under many of the live videos on Youtube, I'm not the only one with this opinion.
A couple of years ago Kai rejoined his old band Helloween along with Michael Kiske, and now Helloween has three lead singers and three guitar players which I think is a bit ridiculous, but it seems to work for them. Kai seems happy there and that's great, but it also means that Gamma Ray has gotten sidelined more and more because his priority now is clearly Helloween.
Gamma Ray have been playing the usual summer festivals most years in the past decade and they recorded a 30 year anniversary show in 2020, which unfortunately due to the pandemic took place without an audience. But they sounded great and they brought back Ralf Scheepers for a few of the old songs which was great to see. He was easily the best singer on stage at that show. He kept his voice and body in shape and he's an absolute powerhouse.
The band is still doing the occasional small tour and the festival appearances in the summer, but it seems that with Kai Hansen rejoining Helloween, Gamma Ray has been permanently demoted to be his side project. It's a shame, but that's how it is.
The old albums and live recordings live on, and I have many great memories of seeing them live. When they were good, they were amazing, and their shows are among the best I've ever seen. I remember one time where they played one of the long songs, might have been Armageddon, and before the solo the band stopped and walked off stage, and only Kai came back out, wearing a bright yellow guitar with Spongebob Squarepants painted all over it, grinning like a madman. He let it rip for a couple of minutes, then went back to his normal red V-style guitar and the band finished the song. Great times!
2026-03-06 08:00:00
It took a surprisingly long time, almost three years, but now it happened - the email address I have published here found it's way into the hands of spammers and now I get half a dozen spam mails every day. I guess it was bound to happen eventually and it was always just a matter of time, but it still makes me sad. I was always excited to see a new mail in this mailbox because it meant that an actual person got in touch, but now this feeling has been replaced by a feeling of annoyance because almost all messages now are spam. Oh well. Btw, do you know when the first spam message was sent? I didn't until I looked it up just now. The answer might surprise you, it was earlier than I would have thought. 1978. But given that email as we know it today was invented in 1971, it's actually more surprising that it took so long.
Anyway, I'm keeping the address up. I just need to filter a bit better. But the joy of receiving a nice email from an actual person still beats the annoyance from receiving spam by a mile.
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2026-03-03 08:00:00
It's been forever since I changed something on this site, but I finally sat down and implemented something I already had in the past and wanted to bring back for a long time: A links page.
It's still very much a work in progress. For now it contains a blogroll (more blogs to be added soon), a list of my favourite YouTube channels and a page with all the links from all my linkdumps combined, so you can finally delete TikTok from your phone because you can now doomscroll until your eyes bleed right here! Isn't that amazing?
You can find the links page here, or via the menu at the top. Oh btw, the menu should now also collapse to a hamburger menu on a small screen. If there are any problems with this, please let me know. There are problems. Deactivated for now.
And one more thing is new at the very bottom - a share to Mastodon link as per the instructions here. I think this is really cool, and I'm curious to see if it gets any use.
2026-03-02 08:00:00
A few days ago I replaced the battery in an old iPod classic I bought a while ago, because the original battery only lasted for about an hour or so before it gave up. So I decided it was time to give the iPod some TLC and treat it to a new battery.
These iPods are a nightmare to take apart because the housing is all metal and they're being held together with metal clips. I wish I had taken a few pictures of the repair so I could show you how involved that was. Here's a video from someone else. The guy makes it look easy, but trust me, it isn't. I succeeded, but I had to clean some blood off the iPod and put a band aid on my finger after I was done. I risked my life performing this upgrade!!!
Anyway, then as per the instructions that came with the battery I charged the iPod all the way to 100% and then ran it down to 0% by setting it to play a long playlist on repeat and just leaving it. And it played continuously for over 24 hours before it gave up, despite the tiny battery with a capacity of only 650mAh. I was so impressed by how efficient this device is that I enthusiastically posted about it on Mastodon, mentioning that this is much better battery life than modern smartphones get, even though they have way bigger batteries.
But... is this true?
A response in the thread by mavica sowed some doubt in me, because smartphones also have a number of radio transmitters (bluetooth, wifi, mobile) which consume a lot of energy, not to mention the large screen compared to the tiny one of an iPod.
But if we levelled the playing field and turned off all the features of a smartphone that the iPod doesn't have by putting it in airplane mode and leaving the screen off, and then played music on it from local storage, in other words if we used the smartphone exactly like an iPod, how would they compare then?
So I decided to run a test. I put the iPod with it's new battery up against the newest smartphone I own, a Samsung Galaxy S20 FE with a shattered screen. I ordered some highly sophisticated measuring equipment from a specialised company and got to work, disassembling both devices so I could tap into their power circuitry and...
Nah, just kidding. I set them both to play music forever on repeat and waited until they died.
But that came with it's own challenge. Think about it for a second, if you let a device play music until the battery runs out, how will you know when exactly it turns off? You can't sit there all day long listening to music while staring at the clock. You need to record this somehow. So here's my highly advanced setup:
I just put the speaker of the smartphone or the headphones of the iPod near the integrated microphone of an old laptop (which is at the top next to the webcam on this EeePC), started an audio recorder, stuck the whole thing in a decently soundproof closet to preserve my sanity, and let it play. This way I could come back after the music stopped playing, check the audio recording for when that happened and knew that that's when the device turned off. Stupid, but it worked.
So which one lasts longer? Here are the results:
The iPod played continuously for 23:02 hours. That's pretty impressive for a device with such a small battery. It died a bit sooner than the first time, but I suspect that's due to the headphones being connected and the volume turned all the way up, while on the first run I let it play without headphones connected.
And the smartphone? It played music for an incredible 49:03 hours. It just obliterated the iPod, holy crap! I didn't expect this at all. I expected them to roughly be on par, but two full days of continuous music playback is wild.
Ok, now we know the smartphone outlasts the iPod literally by a factor of two. But which one is more efficient? Let's do some quick back-of-the-envelope calculations.
The iPod has a 650mAh battery. The battery is new, so we can assume it has full capacity. With a runtime of 23 hours, that's an average current draw of 650mAh / 23h = 28.3mA and a power consumption (assuming a nominal battery voltage of 3.7V) of 28.3mA * 3.7V = 105mW.
The Samsung has a 4500mAh battery, but it is a few years old and batteries degrade over time, so let's say it still has around 90% of it's original capacity remaining, which would be 4050mAh. I don't know if this is correct or not, but I think it's a reasonable assumption. Doing the same calculations, it draws an average current of 4050mAh / 49h = 83mA, which corresponds to a power consumption of 83mA* 3.7V = 307mW.
So the iPod really is about three times more efficient than the smartphone in terms of power consumption. Which makes sense, because the smartphone has a much more capable SOC on board and it runs a full Android OS. But because the phone's battery is so much bigger, it still outlasts the iPod by a factor of two. So, if you're planning to go to a remote island without electricity and you still want to listen to music for as long as possible, now you know which device to bring with you.
Just don't forget to turn on airplane mode.
2026-02-27 08:00:00
We're exactly one month away from linkdump no. 100. If this were a social media channel I would now have to start drumming up hype for that...
"Hey everyone, welcome back! Today's linkdump is a special one as we gear up for Number 100! Can you believe it? A huge milestone is just a few short weeks away! I don't want to give away too much yet, but trust me, you won't want to miss what's coming next, so definitely make sure you're subscribed! I have some exciting changes and surprises lined up that will take this format to the next level. So, stay tuned because we're just getting started!"
Yeah... let's just say I'm glad I don't have to write or talk in this voice on here. Also, there are no changes coming because I'm lazy I think the format's fine the way it is. But it is crazy to see that number 100 on the horizon...
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2026-02-20 08:00:00
I don't know about you, but I'm at the point which I seem to reach every year around the middle of February, where I'm just done with winter. It was grey and dark and snowing all day yesterday, and today it's freezing cold and I'm just ready for spring now. Six months from now in late August I will of course say the exact same thing about summer, but for now I'm done with the cold and I hope it will get warmer soon. It seems winter and summer are always just a tad too long for me, while spring and autumn seem to rush by way too quickly. I think I need a summer home in Scandinavia and then one for the winter in Italy.
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