Op deze vijfentwintigste sneeuwdag heb ik weer eens heerlijk hardgelopen in de sneeuw. Er bestaat niets lekkerders dan hardlopen over paden, dijken, weilanden en langs de rivier. Paden waar nog weinig mensen geweest zijn. Op sommige "paden" was ik zelfs de eerste die zijn voetstappen in de nog maagdelijke sneeuw mocht zetten. Heerlijk om een route zodanig te kiezen dat ik van de 12 kilometer, maar 10 meter geen sneeuw onder mijn voeten had. Werken, maar een zaligheid voor de enkels. En met een zonnetje aan een blauwe hemel is het goed toeven. Op naar nog 25 dagen!

Volkswagen is getting better and better in commercials where there is actually no car involved. That is what I call great marketing. Take for example these two commercials:

That is really a Fun Theory !

Nice double bridge I built with my son, showing off part of his Lego inventory. Kapla is very educating for a 4 year old.

This is the Tamiflu the Dutch government gives to people with symptoms of H1N1 or as the government calls it "new influenza A". In the Netherlands it looks like we are getting milder with countermeasures because the very mild course of the pandemic. We don't test for the virus, you only have to call your doctor if you are heavily sick, or if you are in a risk-group. Risk-groups are people with respiratory deceases, elderly people, pregnant women and a couple more. With symptoms of H1N1 and my mild asthma I am in a risk-group and thus entitled to getting the government subsidized Tamiflu. The "normal" influenza only affects the upper respiratory tract whereas this H1N1 also affects the lower respiratory tract. The latter gives the risk of respiratory infection if not properly treated. And of course this risk is a bit higher in people with respiratory deceases. The good thing of having H1N1 is that I don't need the experimental upcoming vaccination. I have made my own antidote. The bad thing is that although I have all the symptoms I am not sure that I have it because we don't test it.

The yellow shirt is the second one I received after a @xs4all retweet. This is where the virtual and the real world come together. ;-)

Walking in den Bosch this afternoon I saw these two police-bikes standing in front of a shop. I just couldn't resist taking the picture.

Today was the second edition of a long, to be standing, tradition. A neighborhood BBQ for a big part of our street. Maybe street BBQ is a better term? Where we had beautiful weather last year, this year we were in doubt. We did the preparation, building the tents and everything, in very heavy rain. The wind even teared a hole in the green tent in the picture. We had to secure the bouncer to keep it from blowing away.

After these preparations I did a 10k run to pick up the sun. From the moment I got back we enjoyed a nice sunny weather. All the kids where playing on the street which was closed for traffic and the adults couldn't resist the bouncer. After a nice meal with a lot of meat we put the kids to bed and gathered together round a fire for some after-drinking. Some even tried to play the guitar.

Around midnight we cleared everything, put the tents back in the boxes and moved to our beds. Plans are already made for next year.

I am not a huge fan of Office, but I really like this "movie"-trailer...