Its Christmas Eve tomorrow, so here’s a game to get you into the mood…

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P.S. This is my 50th post!!

Check it out! My house is now on Google Earth in pretty good detail from about 2000 ft, you can actually make out my house!. Wombourne is also done up to the east side of the disused railway. If you can’t find it, your looking at about 52*32′ N 2*09′ W.

If you haven’t experienced the wonders of Google Earth yet, head on over to earth.google.com and click on “get google earth” on the top right.

Weird as it sounds, I am now half way through my degree! We finished for Christmas today (well actually, the end of term is officially tomorrow but I can’t be bothered to go in at 9:00 for one lecture) so I’ve got a month off starting back for more delightful lectures on Monday 9th January 2006. 2006! Scary isn’t it that we’re almost into the sixth year of the century, but anyway i digress. I received an email this afternoon from the man in charge of the lab courses with the lab timetable for next semester… guess what… I have labs on the first day of term! How rubbish. I also only have one Monday off, whereas last time I had four. The rest of my timetable is pretty much the same, just changed with the new modules.

Im going to have a lazy day tomorrow to celebrate, possibly going out on the night or maybe Saturday, then on Monday it’s back to work. Maybe a bit of Christmas shopping. I have a literature review, business essay, numerous lab repors and some other stuff that escapes me at the moment to do for the first few weeks back. I’ll try to get it all done this side of Christmas so I can relax for a week or two before I start back.

Every year the CAA (Civil Aviation Authority) decide to pop over to Santas to do a check ride and make sure all is in order before he sets off on his round the world delivery tour. They give him the once over and make sure hes in good health and all his reindeers are firing on all cylinders too.

Fortuantely because of Santas age he doesn’t have to pay for his medical anymore and the CAA do it free of charge.

The CAA examiner does a walkround of Santas sled and checks all things are in oreder. He checks the skids have not rusted, the leather harnesses have not torn and his instruments are responding. He also checks Ruldoph’s nose is bright red and all the reindeer have checked into their posistions and are ready for the departure.

Santa gets in followed by the examiner to go on a quick check flight before the main flight on Christmas Eve. Just as Santa checks everything has been stowed properly and has turned on the cargo hold heat as to make sure all those puppies dont freeze to death once at altitude, Santa notices something very strange;

The examiner has brought along a shotgun with him. Somewhat confused and concerned about this, especially as it wasn’t noted on the manifest, Santa quietly confronts the examiner on what he was intending to do with the offending item.

The examiner replies to Santa and tells him “I shouldn’t really tell you this in advance, but you’re going to experience an engine failure on take off”.