Christmas has come and gone, and somehow I'm back at work on Boxing Day.  Oh well, maybe next year I won't need to spend my vacation time in surgery and recovery. :-/

Christy and I went pretty minimalist with each other, capping our spending at around $75us.  I got a new pocket knife to replace my old, lost one, the Zombie Survivial Guide (cuz you can never be too prepared) and two new rockets.

The first one is an extremely tiny rocket called The Swift, which is almost exactly like the old Estes Mosquito.  In other words, it's a tube just big enough to hold a 1/2A-T engine, a nose cone and some fins.  Word on "the street" is that you must paint this one flourescent orange and only fire it on a clear day or you'll never see it again.  It will be a fun "toy" to fire up, and I'm personally hoping to get to launch it more than once. :-)

The mroe serious rocket is the Estes Blue Ninja.  It will be my largest rocket, with a length equal to my Icarus, but a larger body tube.  This one flys on the larger 25mm diameter engines (I generally fly 18mm engines), and can be custom built to take the mighty E engine.  I think I'm going to stick with the C/D engines on this one though.  Like other rockets in its series, this one has a plastic fin/engine mount setup which I've found to work very well in the field.  Sure, it's not as "l33t" (or even as light) as the balsa/cardboard/spring clip rockets (I fly those too!), but it sure does build up in a big hurry, and makes a sturdy and reliable rocket.

I also got a BUNCH of engines (my standard B6-4's and C6-5's, along with some engines for the Swift and Ninja), so I should be good for launching well into the new year, especially considering that we only launch ever few months.

So, "yay for me".