It still moves

Well, know we know why the Tower of Pisa falls over: it's made of spaghetti. Well, that sounds really confusing, so allow me to explain. The last two days of work have been further induction, covering such necessary and also riveting topics as training, the employee handbook, health and safety, and IT policies. To try to liven it up, they had one of those silly yet sometimes entertaining "team-building" exercises, in this case, to built as tall a tower as possible from spaghetti and marshmallows, within a limited "budget". Our team had the tallest tower:



Unfortunately, by the end of the competition it was looking more like this, so we didn't win.


And for those who might want to know, yes I did feel the earthquake, just as a slight vibration which woke me up, after which I couldn't get back to sleep.