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Tonight while the wife was watching some TV I suddenly heard a loud popping noise. It turns out a halogen light bulb had exploded…

So now the glass was everywhere and I could start cleaning up the mess. And after 45 minutes of manually collecting the largest shards, followed be vacuuming, and finally washing the floor, table, and sofa I think the living room is relatively free from small pieces of glass.

Not my idea of an evening well spent. Next time I think I will look for LED light bulbs instead.

Guild #3 (of 3) Ferreyra Cvr (p. 30 – SRP: $3.50)     Dark Horse
Buffy The Vampire Slayer #35 Twilight Pt 4 (of 4) Jeanty Cvr (p. 44 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
DC Universe Legacies #1 (of 10) (p. 73 – SRP: $3.99)     DC Universe: Special Event
Human Target #4 (of 6) (p. 89 – SRP: $2.99)     DC Universe
Demo Vol 2 #4 (of 6) (MR) (p. 121 – SRP: $2.99)     Vertigo
X-Factor #205 (p. 69 – SRP: $2.99)     Marvel Comics
Angel #33 (p. 270 – SRP: $3.99)     Idw Publishing
Tick New Series #4 (p. 279 – SRP: $4.95)     New England Comics


I had to order DC Universe Legacies. I am not usually a DC Comics kinda guy but this is a dream team if I ever saw one: written by Len Wein with art by Joe Kubert, Andy Kubert, and J.G. Jones.

Just to join the crowd this blog is now WPTouch enabled. It makes a big difference in speed and readability on my Android phone.

A better picture of the snow that feel off the roof, and a picture of some snow that didn’t quite make it all the way down.

… or at least no more snow on half the roof.

This evening I was emptying the dish washer and I heard a strange sound coming from the ceiling. It sounded like something was running around the attic, and I thought we were going to have to deal with some animal making a lot of noise every night. Then after 30 seconds it got really loud – as in thunder storm loud. You could literally feel the house shake.

I went out to have a look and this is what I saw.

That is basically all the snow on one side of the roof that slid down and landed in the yard.

Ballerina Fairy Tooth Pillow by mmmcrafts. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-No Derivative Works 2.0 Generic.

The daughter lost her first tooth today. She told very vividly about how she was twisting it in school today when it suddenly popped out. She is very proud of her achievement and can’t wait for the next tooth to come out – she already has one that is a bit loose.

Oh, and I need a new camera. I tried taking a macro picture of the tooth and apparently the camera just cannot focus anymore when in macro mode.

With the daughter away at the in-laws for the weekend we decided to take the son to the tropical zoo in Randers.

Apparently they currently have a theme about the various kinds of food the animals eat – and it was even possible to try out some of that food… The son ate a food pellet for the parrots (the look on his face told me that it wasn’t quite what he expected) and I ate a mealworm. It had been roasted in some salt and tasted just fine – a bit like popcorn (it did take some convincing to actually make myself eat it. Our entire culture has taught me that a mealworm isn’t food.)

Guild #2 (of 3) Donaldson Cvr (p. 34 – SRP: $3.50)     Dark Horse
Buffy The Vampire Slayer #34 Twilight Pt 3 (of 5) Jeanty Cvr (MR) (p. 43 – SRP: $2.99)     Dark Horse
Human Target #3 (of 6) (p. 84 – SRP: $2.99)     DC Universe
Astro City The Dark Age Book Four #4 (of 4) (p. 105 – SRP: $4.99)     Wildstorm
Demo Vol 2 #3 (of 6) (MR) (p. 113 – SRP: $2.99)     Vertigo
X-Factor #204 (p. 73 – SRP: $2.99)     Marvel Comics
Angel #32 (p. 265 – SRP: $3.99)     Idw Publishing

Went to the movies with a couple of guys from work to see Sherlock Holmes. A thoroughly entertaining movie. Not a lot to say about it really. Great performances by all the actors, London looked fantastic, and it had the right ratio between “typical Guy Ritchie” movie and “traditional Sherlock Holmes” movie.

Definitely worth watching.

quite the en-lightning evening by duane.schoon. Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 2.0 Generic.

Status update on the car and the heating.

Even after having the car hooked up to the charger for several hours I was still unable to start the car. Luckily the in-laws were willing to drive down with a new car battery, so now the car starts just fine.

The wife mentioned on Facebook that our heating had died, and one of the other residents in the neighborhood read it, and called us up saying he knew a quick hack to get the heat flowing again. 10 minutes later the pump was hooked directly into the power and a few knobs were adjusted to give a meaningful temperature. So I guess I have to admit that Facebook can be used for something…