Today has been a terrible day for the
writer of a diary (me), there I was helping dad with some adjustments on his
latest steam powered machine. He is working on an unpredictable machine; the
idea is that in a world full of what appears to be predictable events, his
machine would improve the possibility of the unpredictable. We have to be
cautious about what we say according to mum because dads invention sounds a bit
like that idea invented by the chap who wrote The Hitch Hikers Guide to the
Galaxy. However there are two fundamental differences between dads steam
powered machine and the one in the book, firstly dad’s machine is in his garage
and secondly is no longer works (well it is sort of lost) after the accident
this morning where dad and I were looking at it and I prodded it a bit with a
stick. This would not normally cause any problems except that in what appeared
to be an unpredictable outcome to being popped by a stick I was catapulted
through time to tonight.
O yes that sounds exciting
but one minute I was standing prodding a machine in the morning then the next
thing I am at the end of the day and its time for bed, this is a disaster
because I can not write about a day in my diary I have totally missed. And to
make matters even more worse than that, yes that may not sound good use of
English but when they get worse than worse it is terrible so what is worse than
terrible is leaping in time past all my meals arriving at a glass of milk to
take to bed. . . . . . .DAMN.
Dad is gutted because as I
leap forward in time his machine in what dad says is something that must happen
in order for the universe to maintain balance leap backwards into the past. Dad
did say that he remembered it turning up a couple of weeks ago and did wonder
where it came from because he did not remember making it. At the time he
thought it must be one of his steam powered machines because it had a stick
poked in the side with my name on it. I think that must mean I have just lost
my favourite stick to prod things with DAMN (again).
So its time to go to bed .
. . . . . .DAMN
You reminded me just now that I helped build steam device once. It used high pressure steam and a pressure reliief valve as a temperature controller.
ReplyDeleteSteam is a much underrated source of power used in many different ways. Just look at Nuclear Power Stations all they do is create loads of steam to turn turbines. So the most important part of the whole process that moves everything is steam. What we need to save the planet is more steam technology to improve the use of the steam as well as the technology to create it, every home or community should have its own steam generation system . . . .
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DeleteThat is the sort of thing that will happen on a unpredictable machine.
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