Epiphany

Last Thursday, January 6, I got up like any other day. Ate my breakfast, packed my lunch and stumbled through the snow to my bus stop.
7:05am Regular Bus time.
7:10am Still no bus. So I guess it must have been early and I missed it. No Biggie.
7:17am Next bus across the road via the other route. My stop is almost at the end of two routes,
so there are regular buses.
7:30am Still no bus. Now I start to wonder whether my watches (wrist, cell and pc) are wrong or something.
7:37am Finally a bus arrives. Only 7 people in total. Weird.
8:00am or close enough. Arrive at an empty bus station.
Walk down the main street. Ahead of me I can see 2 or 3 people. and then it struck me.

Epiphany (from the ancient Greek "ἐπιφάνεια", epiphaneia, “manifestation, striking appearance”) is the sudden realization or comprehension of the (larger) essence or meaning of something.
And for those of you (including me) who didn't know it.
Epiphany (from Koine Greek (ἡ) ἐπιφάνεια, epiphaneia "appearance", "manifestation") is a Christian feast day that celebrates the revelation of God in human form in the person of Jesus Christ. It falls on 6 January. And is not a national holiday back home, but here it is.

I was almost at work. Unfortunately, I don't have the alarm codes, so I might not get in. Might have to spend the next hour and a half for the next bus to get back home and lose the morning for nothing. Fortunately, someone else was already there and I swapped Thursday and Friday and had myself a nice long weekend.

And I finally decided I've had enough of winter. This is my third winter in a row. The second one with snow.
I would like to go out evenings and weekends.
Without trudging through blankets of snow or balancing precariously on the ice.
Without wrapping myself up like the Michelin Man against the cold.
Without it being light only from 9 to 4.
But on a positive note. The times are a changing.
It's already getting lighter earlier in the morning and darker later the afternoon.
I haven't gotten frostbite or anything.
My balance has improved (although after saying this I'm probably going to end up with my face in the snow tomorrow).
The current layers of snow are melting.
I am planning. First stop this year. Copenhagen.

Njoy.