DAMAGE REPORT

Here's the Year of the Bull so far....

Dark Night - too long, and with some unbelievable stuff....like the police honor guard that must train together a lot not noticing a man replacing their female member?

Iron Man - better, though I seriously doubt US weapons companies would be willing to risk their Pentagon contracts to sell a few missiles to terrorists.

Zohan - Pretty funny. I bet picking a release date was hard.

Some movie about a Fraternity of Assassins. You get to see Angelina Jolie's ass and bullet pop through Morgan Freeman's forehead in slow motion. It was a good movie too

Madagascar II - Fun for both kids and adults. Fiona's first movie experience and sat through it pretty well.

A&A online - all nighter pulled (5:00 a.m.) Japan took down Russia despite Berlin falling. Did not mention this heroicism to wife because Hemingway told us not to toot your own horn...and I didn't want to be skinned alive.

Homemade Chilli - not bad. Tastes like Hormel but with steak not ground beef.

Beer consumed - as part of the "global austerity till we all hurt" program, I bought the cheapest beer at Carrefour - Essential Beer. Also useful is that you can explain to the wife that this beer is "essential" and cannot be left un-drunk.

Books - Next by Michael Chrichton and first book of the Dresden files. Chrichton makes an elementary yet minor error about patents in the post script which made me feel pretty damn smug, except he's dead*. He will never know that I caught his error.

Also visited Taichung Science museum to see the Woolly Mammoth. Pretty cool.

* Its interesting that in the book a character dies suddenly of cancer, but its really a hail mary gene therapy that kills him....and the author himself "died unexpectedly in Los Angeles Tuesday, November 4, 2008 after a courageous and private battle against cancer." Hmmmmmm. Great author, who will be missed.