Notes from this Week End

A. My Daughter Turned 4 Years Old.

She got some sweet birthday presents, including a cool Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. She is really enjoying this toy, and has confirmed her status as a fangirl, by getting all upset when I tried to put some of her older, larger figurines into the clubhouse. Apparently, the Donald Duck and Goofy figures were "not the right size!" Well, EXCUSE me.

She also scored a Ladybug game, a electronic keyboard, and a stuffed animal.

B. Late night movie on HBO

I saw parts of an action movie about a violent encounter between American Indians and Viking warriors. It was kind of cool, though possibly too cliche in that the natives were the usual hippies with bows and arrows. The hero is a Viking orphan who has grown up among the natives and fights against the evil Viking invaders. Still, not a bad premise.

Until the hero tricks the heavily armored Vikings into walking out onto some ice.

Hero: "They come from a land of ice and snow, but they do not know our Spring."

Yeah, right, Vikings have no idea how dangerous thin ice is, and would never think of sending one guy across at a time or even just walking around it.

Nameless Viking: "He is trying to slow us down! We are not cowards!"

It's a little known fact that just being stupid enough to fall through the ice also gets you into Valhalla. That scene basically ruined the movie for me.

C. Diet Tip

If you don't drink beer you lose more weight than from just the diet. I have lost five kilos already after 3 weeks without any beer.