#Moin!

[literalliterature]

babygirl i can waste time i don't even have

[moinstar]

Thank you for the headlock, my lord.

[greenbagjosh]

21 June 1997 - my first cheap foreign train journey

Saturday 21 June 1997

Hi everyone, The weekend of 21st June 1997 would be the first weekend that I would attempt to leave Munich at least for a day, sometimes going into neighboring countries.  As I was still in my first month working, I had to pick the cheapest option, with the cheapest transit fare.  In 1997, the best deal would have been the Schönes Wochenende Ticket which cost 35 D-Mark, and was valid for Saturday from 12 AM to Sunday 11:59 PM, within the Federal Republic of Germany with some exceptions including Salzburg Hbf and Basel Badischer Bahnhof just to name a couple.  I thought to take a train journey to Salzburg at some point.

Some time in the late afternoon, I bought the Schönes Wochenende Ticket.  I took a StadtExpress train kind of late that evening to Landshut, probably 70 km away from München Hbf, in the general northeast direction.  I walked around the Landshut rail station, but had found that the last train back to Munich, for which the Schönes Wochenende Ticket would be valid, had left and the next one would not return until the morning about 5:30 AM.  The only other alternative was to go to Regensburg on a Regional Express train.

About 11 PM I was in Regensburg Hbf.  There was a wine festival going on, and the entire downtown was open practically all night (though about 5 AM things started to shut down).  Also it started raining, so I could not stand anywhere for an extended amount of time.

I tried to find the way to the university in Regensburg.  I almost became lost.  All I know about the university is that the main campus is located on the opposite side of downtown from the rail station.  I managed to return to Hbf about 5 AM.  By then it turned Sunday 22nd June 1997.

At Regensburg Hbf, the snack bar opened about 6 AM.  There were two rowdy youths that I happened to bump into, and we had a conversation in both English and German.  They had been partying since the previous evening.  The snack bar owner refused to turn up the music saying the snack bar was not a discotheque.  We were waiting for the first Regional Express train to Munich.  We had boarded the train and at every stop as far as I remember, one of the guys I met, put his head out the door and shouted "Johannes Gerster, aufstehen!" or "Moin!".  It made an otherwise boring train ride to München Hbf entertaining.  We had separated ways at München Hbf, and I had started to feel really tired.  I had to go back home to my apartment for a nap.

About 11 AM I woke up and put together my bottles of soda mix and coffee with bits of chocolate.  I had my radio with me.  I found a Stadtsparkasse München ATM that could make withdrawals in Austrian Schilling, so I withdrew about 800 ATS which was about 110,00 D-Mark.  Then I was ready to take the train from München Ost to Salzburg Hbf via Rosenheim, Traunstein and Freilassing, by Regional Express.  The weather was not particularly friendly, it rained the majority of the time.  

The train from München Ost went as fast as a Regional Express in the rain can be expected to go.  It stopped in Rosenheim, Bad Endorf, Traunstein, Chiemsee and Freilassing before crossing into Austria.  At the time, Austria was set to become a member of the Schengen Area, and its border controls would remain until December 1997.  When I arrived at Salzburg Hbf, there was a passport check.  One thing I found surprising, when I was in Salzburg, was that some places could accept the D-Mark as payment, at a 7 to 1 ratio, 30 Pfennig being worth around 2 Schilling more or less.  

I bought a day pass for Salzburg.  Day passes in Salzburg are good for 24 hours after stamping.  I took the Lokalbahn from the underground station at Salzburg Hbf to Hagenau.  I noticed that the trains were high floor and required steps from the low platform, and at some stops, you would need to push a button to signal the train to stop.  This was very important on stops that were single-tracked.  Maybe not so much at Maria Plain.  

I returned to Salzburg Hbf and took one of the trolleybusses to the Altstadt past the Mozart Jugendhaus and across the Salzach.  I wandered through the Kornmarktgasse and found the Mozart birth house.  I did not know about the year-round Christmas store until years later.  

After going through the Altstadt, I took a bus line 6 to a district called Parsch.  The ride took about 20 minutes and went uphill.  The bus terminated at a loop.  There was a public phone that I wanted to hear the outbound calling sound, so I put in a few Schilling and dialled a few numbers that I knew would not be answered on a Sunday.  I called the USA and also a number in Germany and recorded the outbound calling sounds.  In the meantime before the next bus line 6 went back to the Altstadt, I had the radio on, and I recorded the songs "Dub be good to me" by Beats International and "I still go on" by Unique II, which sounded similar to "So strung out" by C Block.  

I went back to the Altstadt and walked to the Siegmundstor at Herbert von Karajan Platz.  There was an elevator to the top of the tower, but the weather did not look very good, enough to justify the cost of using the elevator which may have been 30 Schilling.

About 8 PM I decided it was time to go back to Munich.  I went through the passport control to board the train, and had to wait until about 8:30 PM.  On the radio I was listening to a spoken play, in Austrian German.  I could understand some of the dialect spoken.

The train entered München Ostbahnhof about 10 PM.  The U Bahn was still running.  I took the U5 to Innsbrucker Ring, the U2 to Silberhornstraße and the local bus line to St. Quirin Platz.  I was home by 10:45 PM and went to work the next day.

A year later I would return to Salzburg and stay for one night at the Eduard Heinrich Haus before going to Berchtesgaden.  But that is a story for another time.

My next story from 1997 will likely be about my first paycheck and buying a big radio - do you remember those?  Hope you will join me then.

[badnewswhatsleft]

BEAUTIFUL MAN IN MY LAPTOP SCREEN

[kellterntempest]

I think it would be so funny if Robotnik and Stone both unknowingly planted trackers on eachother so they always knew where the other was.

[grandtreeangel]

Oh the bearrrrrrddd....

(Des Moines, 04/03/2024)

[auxiliarydetective]

Inspired by recent events:

How does this keep happening?

[ofallingstar]

The Monk (2011)

[skreekies]

when bitches complain about Skinamarink having “no story or character development”

[literalliterature]

oppenheimer was not even mentioned in many online circles until it received free advertising from the barbenheimer memes, taking advantage of what the barbies worked hard to build, which, if you think about it, is just like in the barbie movie when th

[moinstar]

Highschool AU

As the school's newspaper club photographer, it's natural to take photos of important people. Will Moin MC be able to act normal in front of their crush, student council president Diavolo?

[bibastibootz]

Ted Lasso reference, my beloved 🥰

[rabidbatboy]

(this term was inspired by kenochoric and is meant to function similarly, but is related to ways in which I personally experience gender)

MONACHORIC: an umbrella term/label based on the emotion ‘monachopsis’, which is the ‘subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place’. it is something that affects one’s gender identity overall, and while it isn’t inherently a gender itself it can be used as such. there are multiple qualities of monachoric and a monachine individual may identify with all, one or some

- a disconnect and apathy towards humanity, not feeling like one fits in with other people (this may, but does not have to be, due to autism or a personality disorder)

- dogs, dog metaphors or relating to canine behaviour

- teenage behaviour, being awkward, being a loser, misfit or an outcast

- angry, messy and indignant emotions

- concepts of making dumb mistakes, bruises on knees and knuckles, old videogames, CDs and DVDs, being a burnout, making found footage films, rebellion, posters and baggy clothes

NOTABLE TERMS

monachine/MOIN: masculine/feminine equivalent / monachoric in nature

MOINgender: any gender under monachoric

monachism: masculinity/femininity equivalent

a loser: man/woman equivalent

transmona: individual transitioning to a monachoric identity alongside/instead of fem, masc, neu, xenine etc

TAGGING: @radiomogai @io-archival @obscurian

[johannesviii]

Studying in the Wanderers' Library

Stained glass inspired by @al-w0onder 's art

[soeurdelune]

petit pack de 6 colorings légers ♡ (pour photoshop) (aperçu)

en cliquant ici par là hop, vous pourrez télécharger un psd regroupant 6 colorings légers et adaptés à tous les faceclaims, avec le moins de risque de whitewashing possible* – ils fonctionnent très bien pour des avatars/autres moins texturés, en restant proches des couleurs initiales tout en uniformisant l'ensemble.

pas la peine de me créditer si vous utilisez ces colos tant que vous les employez avec soin et respect à mon égard (je vous serais donc gréée de ne pas les redistribuer ou vous faire passer pour les créateurices de ces psd)

⚠️ *attention, une colo n'est pas une potion magique, si vous la placez sur une image déjà whitewashée/éclaircie et ou très désaturée/saturée (les extrêmes, en fin de compte), il sera nécessaire de procéder à quelques ajustements des couleurs et de la luminosité pour un rendu optimal (ces calques sont indiqués sur le psd).

en espérant qu'ils vous plaisent ♡

[kellterntempest]

Babe are u ok? you've had This Year by the Mountain Goats playing on repeat