It's not every day...

....that I get this view from my office window!



It seems they're redoing some of the roads around here, and have brought in the Big Guns - heavy roller, tar-spreading machine and truckload of gravel.

A while back I read of a construction business in Germany that's started hiring out their machinery on the weekends for men to come and play with. The idea is that boys never really outgrow their toys - their toys just get way bigger. And with all their trucks, lifters, graders and stuff sitting idle on the weekends, they opened up the plot the machines are stored on, attached an entry fee - and now let grown men and their sons in to move gravel from one pile to another, drop and pick up things, or simply drive massive machinery around in circles. And they're making more cash on the weekends than they do during the week! :)

I'm pretty sure the stuff parked outside my window would provide the average man with a few hours of blissful enjoyment, could they but get their hands on it.

::update::
My desk is rumbling. Not vibrating, rumbling! I guess it's the next-best thing to a hand massage???