@Rossweisse , that's good news. Those oneries must be working overtime @Robert Armin I hope you've managed to contact your doctor to see what's happening.
My brother is still pretty ill a year after his cancer surgery. Not sure if it is cancer related, linked to the fact the original operation was screwed up or something else. Cancer well and truly sucks!
Prayers for all.
Thanks to Rossweisse and Robert Armin for sharing their encouraging news! It has been in short supply lately. I'm just heading outside to release a few more orneries to make sure.
This has been a good day. I've been eating up the leftovers of all the food I couldn't cope with yesterday, in a way which would have made my mother proud! (She lived through the War and could not abide to see food thrown away.)
The Ship's engineers are currently investigating designs for wheelchairs with caterpillar tracks for this very purpose. You won't mind a large diesel engine just behind your shoulders, will you?
You could at attach swords to the wheels like Boudicca the Iceni Queen did to her chariot when fighting the Romans (or so I'm led to believe - ancient history not being one of my better subjects), I' sure the Ship's engineers would know how it's done.
@Stercus Tauri I’m sure the diesel engine needs be closer to the ground for a really efficient all-terrain wheelchair. I hope you are emblazoning it with orneries.
I somehow doubt if the Felines would be happy with that. Their Ministry To The Sick is, I fancy, of a somewhat more sedentary - or even somnolent - kind...
The RTG approach is an elegant solution, but alone, it lacks the element of fear that a roaring diesel engenders in the opposition. Perhaps a similar effect might be achieved with a bagpipe synthesiser powered by the RTG? As the launch customer, I think we should let Rossweisse choose before the drawings are finalised.
Who was it who said that the best way of hearing bagpipes was whilst the sound was fading into the distance?
But yes - let Rossweisse have a free hand in the design...the Roaring Diesel engine is OK as far as it goes, as long as Rossweisse is supplied with effective ear-muffs.
Sadly, PPE is in short supply, globally, at the moment.
For now, at least, I am content to make do with the electric motor supplied with the chair. My hearing is far too acute for my own good (whilst encased in an MRI machine, at least; I require both earplugs and sound-blocking headphones inside those claustrophobic quarters) or to tolerate a roaring diesel engine or facsimile thereof.
A bagpipe soundtrack - with the speakers mounted in the lower rear quarter and faintly audible to me as I remove myself from the vicinity - would be an acceptable substitute. It still ought to give notice to the FMS and the orneries to MOVE out of the way.
You know I have always kind imagined you carried aloft on the chair by a flock of trained orneries.
Engines seem just a little too passe for you, even jet engines.
A bagpipe soundtrack - with the speakers mounted in the lower rear quarter and faintly audible to me as I remove myself from the vicinity - would be an acceptable substitute. It still ought to give notice to the FMS and the orneries to MOVE out of the way.
I always rather imagined the orneries sounding a bit like bagpipes, at least where they’re in attack mode.
The RTG approach is an elegant solution, but alone, it lacks the element of fear that a roaring diesel engenders in the opposition.
We could combine the best of both worlds and go diesel-electric. The museum where I volunteer has two Deltic engines in store. That would be a *wheelchair*...
You know I have always kind imagined you carried aloft on the chair by a flock of trained orneries.
Engines seem just a little too passe for you, even jet engines.
Nothing less than a flying horse is good enough for the Ship's Valkyrie!
I'm s'pozed to go to the Hospital on Thursday for an additional treatment (Zomera for the cognoscenti)) and thinking it's unnecessary - I'm down to alternate monthly treatments after nearly 2 years and it's ruining my teeth as well as B*ggering me for 2 days afterwards) ... and the last thing I need is corona/covid19 or anything else.
Seems a waste of a nice spring day that could be spent in the open countryside ... contemplating nature for hours on end
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@Robert Armin I hope you've managed to contact your doctor to see what's happening.
My brother is still pretty ill a year after his cancer surgery. Not sure if it is cancer related, linked to the fact the original operation was screwed up or something else. Cancer well and truly sucks!
Prayers for all.
And I'm feeling brighter today. I've even managed to eat yesterday's cheesecake for breakfast.
So happy for Robert and Rossweisse's good news!
Hmmm ... cheesecake for breakfast ...
Or to paraphrase - mmmmm cheesecake.
No surrender, for either one of us!
But yes - let Rossweisse have a free hand in the design...the Roaring Diesel engine is OK as far as it goes, as long as Rossweisse is supplied with effective ear-muffs.
Sadly, PPE is in short supply, globally, at the moment.
(See what I did there?)
A bagpipe soundtrack - with the speakers mounted in the lower rear quarter and faintly audible to me as I remove myself from the vicinity - would be an acceptable substitute. It still ought to give notice to the FMS and the orneries to MOVE out of the way.
Engines seem just a little too passe for you, even jet engines.
We could combine the best of both worlds and go diesel-electric. The museum where I volunteer has two Deltic engines in store. That would be a *wheelchair*...
No, that's a Hamish!
If you have 14min 33 secs spare and what to use it to look at something beautiful - here is your opportunity.
*runs from the room, in case anyone reading this is a bagpipe player
Nothing less than a flying horse is good enough for the Ship's Valkyrie!
(In case it wasn't obvious, yes of course it was a lovely thing to do!)
Seems a waste of a nice spring day that could be spent in the open countryside ... contemplating nature for hours on end
@LatchKeyKid , your loving kindness is beautiful.