I'm up early for reasons I'm not thankful for, but I am eating the last piece of pumpkin pie and I'm counting my blessings to cheer myself up. I have a terrific family; the kids love school and Rob loves being a commander; my Mom's heart has healed well enough that they're putting off surgery for another six months; I got three book contracts, one for Leaps of Faith, which I've been shopping for three years; I have many wonderful new friends, especially in the writing world; my house is pretty cool (always a concern when living on-base); and I'm in pretty good health. Oh, yes, and my youngest loved the soup I made with the leftover turkey so much he had seconds and wants it for school lunch. That's a first in our house.
I'm also thankful for my husband, who finds me the funnest articles on the web! Remember the power loader Ripley wears in Aliens? Rob and I thought it was such a cool idea, we're using it in our novel, Discovery. Yesterday, he found this article and video clip of a real mechanical suit.
MSN article about mechanical suit
Ripley in her mechanical suit.
Rob's already wishing his maintainers could have them.
BTW--If anyone knows how to center things in blogger, I'd love to learn. (I've tried the ways I know.)
1 comment:
Well, powerloaders (we used to call them "Mecha Forklifts") are a very practical idea. Not necessarily military, but for construction, freight loading, and general heavy lifting.
And the Caterpillar Powerloader in Aliens rang true -- it didn't look Trekkie, didn't look Anime, it looked and moved like a piece of industrial/construction machinery, half-scraped-off Caterpillar logo and all.
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