Back to the old routine

Well, that's it: the summertime truce has ended and I am now back into the routine of hospital visits. Yesterday was a consultation with a radiologist. Today is a bone-scan, Monday is an upper-body scan, and so on. I'll be consuming a goodly proportion of the local electricity generating capacity, and absorbing some pretty interesting chemicals and isotopes. Treatment will be decided in January.

But before that kicks in, we'll be out on the lifeboat this morning, with a reduced crew, testing all the battery circuits we have been labouring over. We finished them last night, in a cramped, sweaty space next to the steering gear which reminded me of working in a mine. Only one spectacular short circuit to boast of, occasioning an impressive arc of sparks, with no damage done to either the boat or people. Good job, too, because those batteries pack 340 ampères of punch, enough to kill you several times over, and start the turbodiesel engines afterwards.