pmsumner

I just spent an hour cutting the grass in our garden. It was hell. So hot, so long, so thick. so bumpy! It's not a flat garden, it's like someone had a rockery back there at one time.

Starving, am I.
In the last three days, I've gone through *counts* 6 2l bottles of water and 2 1l bottles of ginger ale. I never drink that much. Ever. And I don't feel any better for it. Unless you consider peeing lots "feeling better"!

*makes munchies*

I've just finished watching the "Crowded Skies" ducumentary on risks of ground collisions at airports. I am shocked. Such a simple thing, basic checks missed, forgotten, ignored or not applied and 200 people lose their lives.

To give a basic overview - there was an accident at Milan airport a coupla years back where a private jet and an SAS jet collided on the runway, the SAS jet travelling at around 100 m.p.h., in dense fog.

The cause? One of many: The ATC didn't seem to know where one of the checkpoints was when the private jet pilot stated his position. Another one? Milan had no ground radar. They couldn't see the planes through the fog. Even though they'd bought a new radar system with collision detection built in, from a Norwegian company in 1994!

I find this type of thing deeply shocking, where negligence and "can't be arsedness" and a lack of basic safety features cause hundreds of people to die.