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Humor - Airline Maintenance Logs This is from maintenance logs of Qantas: Never let it be said that ground crews and engineers lack a sense of humor. Here are some actual logged maintenance complaints by QANTAS pilots and the corrective action recorded by mechanics. By the way, Qantas is the only major airline that has never had an accident. P stands for the problem the pilots entered in the log, and S stands for the…

Tuesday and the chemo is starting to kick in – it won’t be long before Irene calls me a chemo – brained twat and with good reason. I am starting to feel very tired and also a bit sick, but it might be because Eric lead me astray last night. I have got to get up early tomorrow – before 8.00am so that I can eat something with my drug cocktail because I have an appointment with the washing machines for an MRI and CT scan…

I went for a curry with Alan and Bill and I am determined not to get any on my shirt – I have chosen navy blue this time just in case. The poppadoms and pickles are the first challenge and I get attacked by a dollop of the red onion. It bounces off my shirt a couple of times (like a bouncing bomb!) and lands on the table cloth leaving a red streak. Alan is beside himself with laughter. I am not amused and he takes great…

Friday night and Picko the transvestite bingo board maker, bingo player is in the club. He explains to me that the photograph on his account is not a mixed grill – it is a picture of his kidney they removed. The kidney has been cut in half and the white bit in the middle is the tumour which was buried so deep that it didn’t appear on any scans. It would have killed him. Fortunately there were some secondary growths which…

Friday 17th and the waiting is over. I spend too much time looking at Seanty posts and have to rush my bath – along with having to write Eleanor a letter telling her why I haven’t got time to make her breakfast. The wind is cold and it is misty – not my sort of day and I am disappointed because the weather people said it was going to warm up. I was in the waiting room for 10.45am. It is a lovely waiting room today. There…