Well, I'm heading off to my parents' place, and my in-laws. And of course, what better way to celebrate than with kilos of powder! This year has surpassed every other in terms of aerial payloads. For less than $8, one can buy rockets with about 1kg of gunpowder. Some people have been launching these every day for the past week or so. They set off car alarms blocks away, and the diameter of the burst is probably about 20 metres? I suck at estimating sizes and weights, so maybe it's 50m. Or perhaps 5 cm. At any rate, it's big.

Last year we set someone's roof on fire in our fire-induced bliss. But to be fair, it was their fault since they never clean their roof, and it had lots of dry, dry, pine needles on it.

I bought a “Christmas Basket” for our security guards here. I'm not sure what gift baskets in other countries have, but here it contained this:

 - 1 litre of rum
 - 1 can of “Vienna” hot dogs
 - 1 bag of large marshmellows
 - 1 box of crackers
 - 1 box of brie cheese
 - 1 can of SPAM

I'm not sure what the continuity is here, but they seem to sell quite well.

Anyways, happy times to all, and if I don't blog for a few weeks, it'll be because my brother wasn't joking when he said he wanted to launch a shell horizontally. That, or I was attacked by a drunk with a can of SPAM.