Forgot to add that while in Switzerland I went on the 'Chocolate Train' which goes to Gruyères as well as a chocolate factory. While walking to the chateau in Gruyères I noticed the H.R. Giger museum and, having a rail pass that also gives free entry to Swiss museums, I decided to go in. I hadn't realised that the stuff in 'Alien' is some of his mildest work!

Current Mood: surprised

( Two entries in one day? Wow! )

Interesting flight home.

Clear all the way across France then cloudy as we got to the Channel.

Gap over Dover, gap over Isle of Sheppy.

When the clouds finally cleared I went into 'Spot the town' mode.

Eventually, at about 5.45, I saw an old airfield I recognised. the thought prcess went as follows :-

'If that is X, then that city must be Y and the village just down there is where ciciaye lives!'

Don't think the plane caused a disturbance as we were still well above 20,000 ft. :-)

Current Mood: amused

Sat in business lounge at Zürich airport on way home from holiday, trying to use a qwertz keyboard. :-)

Current Location: Zürich airport
Current Mood: tired

See mood icon.

( Guess what? LJ wont let you do a mood icon only post! )

Current Mood: ecstatic

Forgot how few of my friends on here are football fans, so an explantion of the last entry follows. :-D

Earlier in the year Burnley were in the semi-final of the Carling Cup against Tottenham.

At the end of full time it was a draw but Burnley had scored more of their goals away from home. Normally this woould have given them the win according to the 'Away Goals' rule. However, the Carling Cup is unlike any other cup competition and the rule is applied after extra time not before it! So Tottenham actually had 30 minutes longer to score an away goal than Burnley did! As Totttenham scored twice in extra time they won, but the number of Tottenham fans who turned up on the BBC football message board saying Burnley were robbed was amazing. :-)

This time Burnley made sure. They won 1-0 at home and 2-0 at Reading giving a 3-0 aggregate score. Oh and as Reading started really well but tailed off late in the season before losing to Burnley, the Reading manager has quit!!

Current Mood: happy

Yay!


That is all!

Current Mood: ecstatic

Went to the jets thing as a day-trip.

Saw aeroplanes, including the Vulcan.

Took photos. ( Forgot to take one of Vulcan and one for use as avatar on Vulcan forum. :-( )

Took videos. Camera battery just lasted.

Come home and going 'Zonk!'.

Current Mood: exhausted

Should be interesting on Sunday as I'm going to Bruntingthorpe near Leicester ( 7 miles or so south of there ).

There will be Cold War Jets including a Lightning and Buccaneer doing fast taxy runs ( with re-heat if possible on the Lightning ) and the hanger will be open for people to look around Vulcan XH558 as it undergoes servicing for this years display season.

Current Mood: excited

Short notice as I've only just seen confirmation that the Club can have a stand.

On Sunday ( 26th April ) the Vulcan to the Sky Club will have a display stand at the Manchester Airport Aviation Park. The stand will be in or near the new Concorde hanger.

The Vulcan to the Sky Club is the supporters club for XH558 the world's only flying Vulcan which has just been saved from grounding due to lack of corporate sponsorship. The money was raised in a pledge campaign that raised £1million in a month. ( Pledges were used rather than outright donations in case things didn't work out. )

Please come along and learn more about XH558 and how we support it.

Current Mood: hopeful

Hmm. What does it mean if you are beaten 128 - 90 by your 93 year old gran on Wii Sports Ten-pin Bowling?

Current Mood: surprised

Hmm, stealth exercises. Well that's what the stuff on the Wii Fit feels like. You don't realise you've been exercising until the stiffness sets in.

BTW, miss_next has pointed me at a startup social networking site. You get shares in the firm if you join and if other people join using your refferal ID you get more shares.

Goto www.me2everyone.com/274050

Current Mood: tired

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/england/west_midlands/7900575.stm

Current Mood: sad

The Hamster off Top Gear was also presenting the programme immediately following TG tonight.

He was talking about the technology in the Airbus A380 and where it came from.

He got to play with the 'bird-gun'.

He also did an experiment with 100 bicycle pumps filled with water.

Having filled them with water and inverted them he was then surprised that they started to leak water!

Maybe someone should have pointed out that bicycle pumps don't have an O-ring type seal but instead have a sort of flap valve round the plunger to allow air in on the out stroke. This wont make a good seal until there is more pressure on it than just a small column of water.

They showed a closeup of the pump plungers out of the tube so why didn't they notice?

Current Mood: amused

I can has new phone!

A Sony Xperia X1i to be exact.

Windows Mobile 6.1 Pro, Opera Mobile and other things on it. Oh and it does GPS, shame TomTom don't do PDA software now. Grrr!

The SIM is in so I'm back on the air, but it will probably take a fortnight to get it fully set up! :-)

Current Mood: happy

I wasn't going to post this but, seeing the support call that the very competent sessifet25 had to handle, I just had to share what happens when the roles are reversed and you have a sensible customer and a dumb-ass support person. ( Don't worry, I know all of you on my friends list who do support are competent. :-) )

Ordered an upgrade of video editing software from Pinnacle. On checking the site to see the state of my order I noticed an offer on the front page that gave you about £100 of extras free if you bought the upgrade ( no mention of on the main e-store page ).

I thought I'd enquire if I could get the offer, expecting to be told that my order had gone in just before it started or something.

Instead I get a response saying 'We have no offers on at present'.

Eh?

So I replied wityh full details of the link on the front page and what is added to your shopping cart when you click it.

Got a reply tonight giving the shipping date of my upgrade!

At which point you feel like replying :-
'No, you dumbass person. I don't need the status of my order as I have the flaming DVD by my side!'

Oh and one other thing. If you order the upgrade get the download option with backup DVD, because if you order the boxed version you can't download the software!

PS Well done to ITV. It takes real skill to cut away to adverts 2 mins from the end of extra time so you miss the only goal of the match!

Current Mood: annoyed