2026 March
23rd March 2026I've seen a couple of neocities sites doing this kind of short peeks into what has happened the past month, and I wanted to make at least one of mine too :-)
A summary:
- There was snow, now there is none
- Visited Gran Canaria
- Some sketches
- Monthly music overview
- My sudoku :-(
Early March was still full of snow even though it had started to melt away a bit already. Then it snowed some more, but now that the month is almost over the snow is also mostly gone, save for a few bigger piles. It's nice to not have to uncover my car every time I want to go anywhere. Also good timing for these fuel prices... Now I can switch to my bike.
Travel
The Gran Canaria visit was grand. I haven't been overseas for at least a decade so it was all new and exciting again. The switch from a chilly home to a warm and sunny beach was a pleasant and a long awaited change, and we got incredibly lucky with the timing. Apparently there had been a storm the previous week and the day after we left it got stormy again. Our visit was just sun, barely even any clouds. Windy though. I wonder if that was just the "spring".
One of us caught a bad stomach bug early into the trip though, so one day was mostly spent on recovering from that. The rest of the trip was spent on wondering which meal would poison the next one, which was a bit annoying.
The TV in the hotel room had one Finnish channel available and happened to watch it while a show called Sekunnit was playing. Seemed interesting, might watch it later. It was a fictional miniseries about a train crash and investigating the aftermath of it.
Sketches
I've got a few sketches to share, as I don't feel like putting them in the gallery.
I kind of want to make something short for my Tumblr to explain why I disappeared to abruptly. Maybe a minicomic...
Music favs and new discoveries
Green Carnation released a song from their upcoming album, "I Am Time". It's been on repeat a lot since. Idk, something about a concept being personified without expecting it to act like a person gets me.
"in your mind Iām tomorrow
for your sake, I should be today"
I also discovered this band Black Crown Initiate recently and these two songs have been looping in my head even without the music playing. I kind of want to learn the guitar solo for Selves We Cannot Forgive, it sounds very tasty.
"living as the selves we can not forgive
leaving for the selves we can not forgive"
Hanging Garden released an entire album! Ended up liking it a lot, especially this Arise, Black Sun. I didn't know the female vocalist could do such growls ššāØ
