Random bullets of weekend

• After a week-long "Zitterpartie," (everybody was a nervous wreck) the men's downhill on the Lauberhorn - the longest downhill run on the FIS schedule - took place on Saturday, global warming notwithstanding.
• Winner Bode Miller actually used the phrase "balls out," as in "I was skiing balls out," in a live interview with Swiss Television.
• I washed R's business shirts from the week and all five of them were blue. How Swiss.
• We finally ordered a new bed and, for the price we paid, I expect never to experience a moment's sleeplessness for the rest of my life.
• This (link auf Deutsch) was the hockey experience of the season. (For those who don't read German - an outdoor ice rink was built inside the new soccer stadium. About 30,000 tickets were sold, and our home team won.)
• R is an early-adapter techy geek-head, so I want it on the record that we owned this nightlight/clock/sleep trainer before it appeared on Shiny Shiny. No, it's not really working.
• We also now own this. Be afraid, be very afraid.
• Small Boy seems to be showing a preference for Swiss over English. I wonder if Swiss is easier - at least in R's dialekt it's very common to lop the endings off of words, so Mann (man) becomes Ma, for example. It's probably easier for a Small Boy to get the words right when they're so indistinct. Either that or he's gender identifying with R, speaking what speaks? Whatever: at least he's finally starting to talk even though his collection of words is truly truly random.
• This book is simply amazing.