Explosions and Such Like

Well, our trip back from America was exciting! We were three quarters of the way over the Atlantic when the port engine burst into flames! Fortunately for us, we had a brilliant pilot and there was a aircraft carrier directly under us, and we crashed into the water and they pulled us out (those life jackets ARE hard to take off...) and then, to get the rest of the way, we went jetskiing...
you can't see it, but all our bags are tied on in the plume behind the aircraft. After that daring (and very fun (well, mom didn't like it)) adventure, we had very little layover time in Germany, but the next airplane also had issues, and we wound up splashing into the red sea, and were attacked by pirates! But, living in the ends of the earth, they fell off the edge:
I am not quite sure how we got out of that one, but mom is really quite good with her camera. Then there was a forty day hike over the mountains of the west side of the Arabian peninsula with nothing to eat but airplane food. (I hope this paints a dire enough picture for you...) before we made it back safe if not quite mentally sound.

U want the really story? Well, that one is much more boring. We got on an airplane flew to Germany, had a 6 or 7 hour layover, flew to Cairo, and then here to Yemen. No pirates, no jetskiing, no edge of the earth, but it is good to sleep in my own bed and use my own amp with my guitar.

The Twenty First

At least it might be. What month is it anyway? Moving on, I became a chimney sweep today! Sounds exciting, right? Well, folks, hate to break it to you, but its pretty dull. Basically, there is a mess in the chimney, so you knock it out by beating a heavy chain around on the inside of the chimney for 10 minutes or so to knock all the soot and gunk out, but, you guessed it, the mess is not gone, it just moved. Now it is in the fireplace and you have to clean that out, and you have to fool with the thing halfway up the chimney that controls airflow and all that, not a lot of fun. Then, you have to get the broom out and sweep it all out of the fireplace, and it can't touch anything, cause it will get black gunk over it, but supposedly it is now good luck to either shake my hand or to have me blow you a kiss, but the latter haven't been acquirable, even on the black market, for the past several years or so...

At any rate, I think that Andrew and I managed to deduce not so mathematically and logically that the fifth dimension is the multiverse, but that leaves very little for the sixth... And the multiverse is so two dimensional, but to understand it, you have to know just enough quantum mechanics to confuse you, and we know less, so we don't get it either.

Hey, if you guys want cool backgrounds for your computers, go to google images, and type in fractal flames and see what you get.