Dear Diary
05 Oct 2019Ted Buckland
OMG. I really should have thought it through a bit more. And i was a bit unlucky as well.On the first day of my way from Sag A* back to Sinatra Blabla my fridge broke.
On the first day i was really happy with my tuna pizza.
On the second day i told myself 'oh, surprise, what a yummy tuna pizza'.
On the third day i yelled 'damn it, tuna pizza, again ?'
Don't get me wrong, usually i like tuna pizza. In normal amounts, like almost everyone does.
On the forth day i looked at the box only to find out, it was all tuna pizza in there. Apparently i did not care enough to mix it up a bit. And i did not check the caterer at explorer's anchorage ... clearly my own fault. So i chose to do a little diet, and since no one came to interdict me using a hatchbreaker limpet, i had to finally land on a planet close to rohini and dump them all.
So if you land there and think you found unknown alien artifacts with a round and somewhat flat shape : no, they are just pizzas. Maybe they might gain intelligence or develop speech, i won't know ... and i am probably not going to land there again, ever. I really hope they stay dormant and do not get hostile over time ... I really should have set up a biohazard beacon at least, but i forgot, sorry.
My diet went well, and the boat seemed to go faster as well ... odd coincidence i hope. So finally i touched down on pad 18 right at the start of happy hour at PingPong's.
Bozo, the dog i left at his korean diner came barking, and smelling. He did not jump me though like he used to but curled his nose ... maybe because the shower in the boat broke as well. PingPong started to yell at me because all of his plastic plants started to lose their leafs, and denied any service until i took a shower first.
So i had to leave in a hurry because i was hungry. The guys at universal waste paper were really fast this time - might be a coincidence there.
After being hosed down by the mechanics at my boat first, and once i got out of the pool they managed to fit into an empty cargo compartment later, I tried very hard to find an air freshener for my cockpit in preparation of the next trip, or one of those wondertrees you pin to the rear view mirror. But it was all in vain. The ARX shop does have some weird plants though, but it was not exactly what i was looking for.
After having the ground crew clean my cockpit - and slipping them an extra fifty to sandblast the drawers and the floor - i went to PingPong's for dinner. '52, bit hot?' he asked, and i just nodded. Home again.
In the meantime the mechanics at the station did a cool job fixing my dented and worn ASP.
It looks like fresh off the shelf again. I really thought i explicitly told them not to redo the gay stickers though. Yeah, that did not work.
While having a roasted duck i started to make plans for the next trip, now that most of the terrible bugs in stations seem to have been killed.