Winding Down

It was somewhat comforting to see in the news that even with high level of funding and access to the most cutting edge technology on the planet NASA is not above using simpler more basic options when it comes to experimentation. Basically when trying to see where the water from a drainage hole in the Greenland ice went instead of coming up with high tech underwater probes that would follow the flow of water whilst sending back a steam of data they decided to go with plan B. They used rubber ducks. Yes you read that right; they used a shoal of rubber ducks. However none of these ducks has since reappeared so if you happen to be going past a river or walking past a beach and you see a rubber duck it might be worth a look as you could be helping NASA!

I also saw an advert today for a historian who runs ghost tours and could take up to 30 people overnight to look for ghosts which in his words was a great activity for team building or for a Christmas party….
Ummmm…..What?
Now maybe it’s just me but I wonder how many people when organising a Christmas party would think, I know lets take 29 other people and go on this ghost tour as nothing says Christmas like searching for ghosts. Unless of course your scrooge but then you don’t have to go searching for ghosts. They come to you.

It was ever so nice driving into work this morning as the roads were oh so very quiet as all the kids have broken up from School, so it was a straight run from home all the way into work. Which was a nice change from the usual battle to get through the traffic to work.

It was also quiet in the office, quite a few people have already started their Christmas holiday and more people will start to knock off for Christmas as the week wears on so it will probably be very quiet there by the time we get to Christmas eve.

I was able to pick Grumpy up successfully from the airport last night even if the Car park was an absolute rip off. His plane actually got in early, but then looking at the arrivals board it seemed like more flights were getting in at least ten minutes early. I’m guessing there must have been some really good tailwinds somewhere over Europe.

Grumpy is also due to go and pick up Owen from the Kennels at some point today. Which I’m sure will be fun as he’s likely to be in a mood of half extremely annoyed at us for sticking him in a kennel and half delighted to see us as he’s probably starting to worry we’re not coming back.

Now Grumpy’s back I’m going to have to get used to sharing the telly again. I got a Christmas TV guide from the shop this morning so hopefully there will be lots of cool things on we both want to watch. Apparently one company released a TV guide over a month ago but as most of the schedules weren’t finalised it was just filled with lots of programmes as TBC. So quite why they bothered to release it then I have no idea but I’m sure it makes sense to some massively overpaid marketing buff sitting in a office somewhere.

Later folks