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Sled Clean 1
If it is cake Ristafel wants then it is cake he shall get. All the selections in the catering unit are now some form of cake. There is chocolate cake, lemon cake, even a special curry rice cake was added with Ristafel's food choices in mind. There is cheesecake, black forest cake and even a caffeine overload cake. You can order rum cake, red velvet cake, carrot cake and Rosh Hashanah honey cake too. Lets not forget the crab cakes and the coffee cakes why there is even a fruit cake. There are big cakes, small cakes and even tiny baby cakes. For the fair of mind there are funnel cakes, king cakes and pineapple upside-down cakes. The only cake selection not added was beef cake since Ristafel /is/ all the beef cake he needs and more. Getting the catering unit stocked was no piece of cake though as it had to be cleaned to within an inch of it's life, all the caked dirt erradicated to make room for the real cakes. The mud pie on the windscreen was washed clean leaving the rinse water as dark as can be. The real icing on the cake though is the fact that all the surfaces shine once again with renewed life. A sledtech was consulted about the dents and with a bit of instruction the dents were pounded out with care. The pilots couch was steam cleaned and treated with a special stain resistant spray. The bed made with fresh linens and the sanitary looking ready for use. What really takes the cake though is the jar in the corner with the ingredients to start a friendship cake.
Sled Clean 2
The holiday feel of the conifers was certainly well appreciated by this recruit. He made some boughs minus the holly and hung them from the sled entrance with care. The remaining pine needles and boughs were taken to the gardens where they will most likely be used as compost material. However getting all those pine needles out of the sled was a chore and a half. Each one had to be removed by hand. This of course meant the recruit spent a large amount of time on bended knee crawling into all the corners to extract each and every needle that could be found. Once the major amount of work was complete the recruit set himself to doing a general cleaning of the sled. The floors were scrubbed by hand and the dirty laundry was hand washed in the sanitary and hung out to dry on the door of the sled. Once dry the recruit folded each article of clothing and put it away in it's proper place. Well proper as far as the recruit was concerned. The shipsuits were hung by the closet dowel with care. The undies were all nestled into drawers by the bed. While visions of ball gowns danced in his head. He scrubbed and he cleaned the sanitary bare. Using cleansers of old to make this sled fair he found Comet and Ajax, used Windex and Pinesol now clean away clean away all dirty things.
Sled Clean 3
Poor us! It took the combined efforts of two recruits one sled technician and an agronomy specialist to identify and remove the remains of the plant life living, or was that dying in this sled. It's a good thing the singer who owns this sled wasn't planning on going right back out because quite frankly it practically had to be taken apart piece by piece and put back together again. The rock that was in the sanitary now has a special place of significance at the head of the bed. It seems it forms a nice depression just large enough for a head to rest in. And since the pillows have been reduced to nothing but a few feathers in the mud, this will have to suffice as a replacement. Unfortunately, the note left by the singer was completely unreadable by the time the recruits entered the sled and the catering unit has been stocked full of healthy yummy green vegetables in addition to the other regular food fare offered. It was a chore to get this sled clean enough to pass inspection. And really it only just passed inspection by the skin of its teeth. The most care given was to the cutter brackets and the console as those really /are/ the most important thing to a singer. The cutter brackets were painstakingly picked clean of all dirt and debris with a dental hygiene tool. The hole in the floor has been patched with some kind of compound that at this point is unidentifiable to the recruit who applied it. But it does provide a nice offset to the color scheme of the interior with a bright clashing color of puce green. All in all this entire sled really is site better than what it started out looking like even if it isn't tiptop. There is even a little note by one of the recruits who so graciously cleaned it. The note reads: Complements of Amanda Wiess recruit class 440.
Sled Clean 4
Dusty, dry, desert-parched, grainy and awful, this sled was once a hazard to cleanliness and breathing alike. But as the evening rains come to soak the desert, so do the recruits venture forth to clean the sleds. Doesn't that make it sound like some surreal kind of nature film? Here we are in the wild, in the most common habitat of the Recruitus Ballybranius -- the sled. No recruit is here, but the markings of one's passing are clear and obvious to be seen. Note that the floor is shiny and clean, and no grit or filth remains. See how the walls have been scrubbed free as well -- clear indications that a recruit has passed. Even the sanitary unit possesses a sparkle that could only be the work of one of these elusive creatures. Hark unto the fresh pine scent that seems to mark their passing. Scientists suspect that this scent is a survival device, meant to foil the singers into allowing the much smaller and less physically adept recruit species survive. Even the low bunk has been made with careful precision, leaving us no doubt whatsoever that we have found the marks of one of these beasts. Alas, it has likely moved on, into yet another sled, in its constant quest not to be beaten to death by an irate singer.
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