Or college in this case. I'm done for the summer

The good news is I got my Xbox back

The bad news is this. Swine flu has come to my town! I know everyone says don't panic but when something is all over the news like this, you can't help but be a little worried, especially when it's so close to home.

My Xbox got the bloody 3 reds

This is the second time this has happened to me so I'll be getting my third Xbox when it returns. The first one lasted from release until Christmas '07. That one lasted until yesterday. I've just spent ten minutes on the phone with some stupid robot thing before I got the chance to speak to a real person. She was actually really helpful and we got everything sorted in about five minutes but that robot made me want to kill someone.

Now I have to go two weeks without my xbox and I've just bought Test Drive Unlimited nice and cheap

It's my 19th birthday!

I haven't asked for anything so I'm just getting money thrown my way which I'm fine with.

I was supposed to be having a lie in as it's my day off college but, because everyone else still has school and work, they were all kind enough to wake me up one by one before they left to wish me happy birthday evil peoples

EDIT: Today also just so happens to be the birthday of the constantly hyper, smiley obsessed, wonderfully insane Hamda A.K.A Princess Jill so go over to her blog and give her some love.

New bloggy time, mainly because it's really starting to annoy me seeing "Happy New Year!" every time I come to check blogs seeing as it was over two months ago now.

Today was the second attempt at going to Morgan, the first being foiled by a sick tour guide. This time, I was at the college at 5:45am in the cold when our lecturer brought around the minibus.

After four hours driving on an endless motorway, broken up by trips to the services and bouts of loud, off-key group singing of such classics as In The Jungle and I Would Walk 500 Miles, we finally arrived.

Morgan from the outside isn't all that impressive, just looking like five or so brick workshops but inside is a different matter. Each building is dedicated to a certain part of the car's construction, whether it be creating the body panels or the chassis etc. From what I saw, there was only twenty-ish guys working there at the time which makes what they do all the more astounding. To hand build a car, including cutting out and carving the wooden chassis plus cutting and shaping all the metal for the body and panels, in four weeks is no easy feat. An apprenticeship with them lasts five years before you're qualified to start building them yourself.

Each car takes about four weeks to build and every single part of it's construction goes under scrupulous inspections and checks. I saw a guy trimming down a side wing for an Aeromax because it was 0.2 of a milimetre out. All of the guys there really take pride in their work and seem to love doing it. Whenever I asked any of them about exactly what the do there, they went on about how lucky they are to do what they do and how much they enjoy it and wouldn't trade it for the world etc. One of the techs had been there for fifty years and was still as passionate as anyone else about his job.

Once I can get my phone to start behaving and connect to my laptop properly, I post some pics I took. I don't know how they'll turn out though, my phone's pretty old now and the quality isn't very good but I'll post what I can when I can.

*EDIT*

Like I thought, the quality of the pictures is pretty crappy but you can see what they are...more or less.

1) The chassis of an Aeromax

2) An Aeromax (complete with Steve grabbing his crotch)

3)The hydrogen powered concept car

4) A Morgan bed!

5)The first ever Morgan put into production