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Pancake Update #2
By DnA | April 21, 2008
The camp stove and an open window.
Well, it was several days before we could get around to it, but we didn’t have any trouble returning our too-large gas bottle. We had bought it from the supply right here on the Bulstrode campus, so folks knew we were honest about not using any of it. They didn’t, however, have any bottles of the correct size. Another dead-end.
But, as the door closes, look! A window opens! The facility manager of Bulstrode offers to lend us his own camping bottle which IS the right size! Hurray! Now we’re cookin’ with gas, as they say.
Ingredients, check. Pan and turner, check. Stove, check. Bic lighter, check. Right size gas bottle, check.
Daniel hooks it up; it fits perfectly. Today is the big day! Yes, today, at long last, is Pancake Day in
Daniel turns on the gas and flicks the Bic. Ka-BLOOEY! A huge ball of flame shoots out from under the stove accompanied by an impressive “boom.” (Daniel and the surrounding room were unhurt; thank the Lord for that!) Now, neither of us knows much about camp stoves, but both of us together decided that we didn’t think that this was how they were supposed to work. The owner of the stove has offered to try it himself (outdoors) to see if he can figure out what is wrong. I guess that will be the next step, or the next installment in the continuing saga of “The Americans Who Decided to Make Pancakes.” Stay tuned.
Operation World: The Key to
Today our team leader, Jason Mandryk achieved new heights in his quest for completion of the great task before us. As he left his room to head for the office, he noticed that the lock on his apartment door didn’t seem to latch correctly. With the door still open, he inserted his key and rotated it a few times. It seemed to move as usual. Then he pulled the door shut. Thinking it a good idea to check the fractious lock once more, he inserted the key and tried to turn it. There was no rotary movement of the lock. The lock to the only door to his apartment high in the Bulstrode front tower—that lock was thoroughly jammed. What should he do? Break in the ancient Heritage Council door? Sleep out on the landing at the top of the narrow spiral stairway? [Cut to commercial—fade back to Bulstrode]
Jason had no real option but one: climb in through one of the windows fifty feet above the entrance and release the lock from the inside. And that’s exactly what he did with the help of a hand-picked team of courageous WECcers. Chris Hume operated the cherry picker to get him up to the window, Lisa Wyckoff took the digital photos, I diverted all persons away from the work zone, and Jason clambered in through the outside window.
Jason’s reaction after returning to the office an hour later?
“That whole project put me an hour behind on
[Read the Albania page from Operation World © 1986. Patrick challenged, “Pray this land open!]
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