Earthquakes, Plane Tickets, and Voltaic Spears

With the media flooded with images and information about Japan and its 9 Richter scale earthquake, this weekend has been particularly interesting on the news perspective, especially with regards to the possible nuclear hazard that may still happen.

Apparently people have been sending in letters and texts to the news and letting their feelings be known. Some of them think we should shut down our nuclear plants, but what I want to know is why? I mean, I understand that they're scared and stuff, but the only reason Japan is having these problems in the first place is because they had a MASSIVE earthquake followed by a Tsunami that wiped out their power to the plant.

Japan, placed on a very active set of tectonic plate boundaries, has many many earthquakes in a year. We're talking incredibly frequently. The only reason this one is even on our news is because of its phenomenal size. It's the sixth largest in known history: that's freaking huge.

Meanwhile, Libya has thrown a tantrum that it's no longer in the eyes of the world, that has warranted it a "time out" from the big daddy UN. Last night the UN signed an agreement condoning anything but invasion to keep Libya under wraps including a no fly zone. The foreign office guy has threatened to resign because of the way the evacuation of British citizens was handled - far too much dilly dallying.

My workload for uni is increasing as time reaches an end. I'm on top of it though, which is more than I can say for some of my friends. The Easter break is also fast approaching and that means an imminent trip over from my dear Mark.

Speaking of Mark, I bought my plane ticket for the summer last night too (though I had no choice really since the prices are rocketing). Hayley's family still needs to sort themselves out with regards to Malta, and the sooner they do the sooner they'll be able to book those plane tickets. Travelling separately really was our only option, but I don't mind, I've done it enough times now.

In Guild Wars news I finally got a Voltaic Spear (see picture) which looks bad-ass. I'm really pleased with it and have to attribute thanks to Hayley who donated two ectos to the price of it.

Recently we've also been on Mumble with Amanda and Dave when forming groups for dungeons. We've got regular things going too, keeping Guild Wars interesting.

Life's good.