Yuck... this #FirstPrice canned #tuna smells horrible... not spoiled, but very unlike the variety I usually get... quite pungent taste too.
Not chunky either, so it basically dissolves into this pasta dish too.
#BeardGrabber seems to enjoy the dish though, so I guess I'll just have to eat through my disappointment...

I put on the #StarTrek #TheOriginalSeries episode #SpocksBrain at dinner. #BeardGrabber and I watched about half of it before he went out to play at a friend's.
Now, as he's eating his evening meal, he wanted to watch the rest of it.
I'll call that a win

I hate snow... It wasn't yet 7 in the morning and I already had some exercise done that is making me rather sweaty now, by shoveling a path through the #snow so I could get to the bins, and get the brown bin roadside.
I had already freed my door and shoveled a path to the road around midnight, but all that work had already been undone overnight by the wind and snow...
Now to get #BeardGrabber up and out the door, and then see if I can find the energy to shovel the rest of that snow...

So sleepy... but #BeardGrabber has school to go to

Some quick #aquarelle #doodling with 6yo #BeardGrabber :)

Watched Star Wars: A New Hope (despecialised edition) with 6yo #BeardGrabber last night
He seems to be showing a real interest in sci-fi

My six year old #BeardGrabber is watching a video about the development of blue #LEDs by #ShujiNakamura. I wonder how much he understands; hopefully his younger brain will pick up and retain more than my tired one.

#BeardGrabber is watching a video about optical illusions, but the YouTuber keeps mispronouncing it as 'obstacle illusions' or 'obsticle illusions'...

Visiting the local #library so #BeardGrabber can play with more #LEGO than I'd have space for at home.
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#BeardGrabber is enjoying #MythBusters with me

A while ago I picked up a more modern book of fairy tales because I really didn't like the old fashioned values and role models the one I had before it described, since "girls should want to be princesses who serve their husbands" and "princesses needs to be married off to rich princes and not have any wishes of their own" aren't ideals I want to teach #BeardGrabber.
Today we read a take on Cinderella (Askepott), and I really liked it, and made me glad I replaced the horrible old-fashioned book with that more modern one!

• no bad step-sisters; just a bit stuck up sisters
• a down to earth Askepott who likes to climb trees, ride horses backwards, and go out barefoot
• Askepott likes to spend time with the cook and staff
• Askepott (ash pot, since she liked to cook potatoes in hot ash) was suggested as a nickname by her sisters, perhaps mockingly, but she liked it and decided to adopt the name herself and make it her own, since she didn't like her birth name, Ella
• she faked being sick to not have to go to the ball
• fairy godmother was going to make her the usual Cinderella/Askepott ballroom outfit, but Askepott declined; said she had plenty of nice dresses but just didn't feel like going
• instead she suggested the fairy godmother would make outfits for the staff and send them on a night out in a pumpkin carriage!
• Askepott welcomes them back with food she made for them
• they end up throwing a party themselves
• prince charming eventually also arrives, and he likes the same mundane things as her, and doesn't want to dance
• The prince hates his name, so Askepott suggests he picks his own name, which he does: Leif Ole
• he is afraid, his father, the king, will make him dance and do boring things, so Askepott gets the fairy godmother to make them a hot air balloon and they run off together.

Thanks to my 5 year old #BeardGrabber wanting to watch a video from #ActionLab, #TodayILearned a bit about the theoretical concept of #WhiteHoles.

#TIL TodayILearnt #parenting #dadsOfMastodon

#BeardGrabber is enjoying his birthday gifts
especially the wooden train set he got from me and @Siiw seems to be a great hit :D
Having his party outside at a sort of camp place, together with a bunch of kids from his kindergarten and some neighbour kids, was a good idea. Plenty of space and playing opportunities for them to get rid of some energy after all the cakes, sausages and drinks, while also not having to worry about the noise levels.
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#BeardGrabber went to a friend's birthday party for the first time, and it went very well.
Good to see him have friends. :D

Time to get ready to visit #HugosTivoli #funfair that's currently visiting #Bodø, with #BeardGrabber. :)

@jens going through my catalogue of #MSX games with 5yo #BeardGrabber, I've been running into similar issues, and especially those 80s and 90s games were mostly arcade–based or –inspired, and walking simulators weren't really a thing yet.
Yesterday I thought I'd found a nice game I remember playing myself quite a bit, #TheSnowman by #Quicksilva, based on #RaymondBriggs' book (https://frgcb.blogspot.com/2015/12/the-snowman-quicksilva-ltd-1983.html), which had only a moderate timer, and enemies would only eat the lump of snow you were holding, and not kill your character.
However, getting on and off stairs was tricky even for me, and I quickly discovered that kiddo struggled with staying on platforms; which apparently does kill you.
So many games that I think would be so much more playable for beginning gamers if they'd have an option to turn off the timer, enable invincibility, or toggle some form of no-clip, yet would still remain entertaining.