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After a day of eating okay Athena went back to not being particularly interested in pellets. I'm planning to call the vet tomorrow and ask for advice.
Meanwhile in time change news: this has nothing to do with the time change. It happened to occur just after that, though. I was opening the cabinet to get mini-marshmallows out for our new after-dinner tradition of having a cup of hot chocolate. Some stuff avalanched out of the cabinet, though, slamming the door against the checked-against-WWV-signals wall clock. Which then dropped off its wall peg and crashed. It's fallen before, but back on the old floor, when we had the plastic trash bin underneath it and the old laminate tile beneath. This was its first crash its full height onto the wall and onto the ceramic tile.
The clock itself seems fine. The battery flew out but once restored it started to tick again. What's catastrophic is the glass plate covering the clock's face shattered. Into a lot of tiny pieces; three sweepings-up of the floor and I was still seeing glints of light. That's going to be annoying walking on in our traditional socked feet for a while yet. But more is the question of how we're going to replace the glass.
My plan is to go to the jewelry store down in Frandor, the place that also has a guy that does clock repairs. This isn't the same category of clock repair since the mechanism seems fine. But I figure they're the best lead to someone who knows what dimensions of glass to fit in there and where to find one. I can guess how to install it, since the wooden rim of the clock seems attached by screws to the back, but I admit if they want to take the thing for a week and install it themselves I won't fight them.
Back at Kings Island: how's the Orion ride looking?
Props along the Orion queue. Someone had the job of picking a bunch of rocks from the garden supply store to become ``tested samples'' not to be discarded and there's something wonderful about that.
Orion's lift hill, seen from the queue. I am not sure whether there's a train near the top there or if we're just seeing hte protective barrier.
Orion's launch station. Note the logo on top, using 72 --- the year of the park's opening --- as a theme and also going for a graphic style that wouldn't be out of place in 1972. Also below you can see the TV screen with a visual representation of all eight rows of people safely restrained in. You can actually see people following directions there!
And stumbling back off the ride; there's WindSeeker seeking winds by night, there.
I thought this view of the Diamondback roller coaster by night, hidden behind trees, was nicely arranged.
On to The Beast, and a night ride, as you have to have! And, since it was summer, getting to wait in the queue while the fireworks go on. But there weren't just fireworks this time around and what else they had I intend to show you tomorrow.
Trivia: W H Shortt's ``free-pendulum clock'', really a pair of clocks with one providing power for a pendulum in a partial vacuum to keep moving, allowing for unprecedented accuracy in pendulum clocks, were installed at the Greenwich Observatory in 1924. By 1939 they had been superseded by the much more accurate quartz clocks. Source: Time's Pendulum: The Quest to Capture Time --- from Sundials to Atomic Clocks, Jo Ellen Barnett. Shortt got the pendulum clock accurate to under ten seconds in the year (about 31.5 million seconds).
Currently Reading: The Secret of Apollo: Systems Management in American and European Space Programs, Stephen B Johnson.
