going bak and forth - June 15th, 2016

Wednesday, June 15, 2016

Mission Type : Solosan DSTO

Location : IDS#4 KNT, lapangan kuntum, CIFOR. (6^o33’24.72’’ S, 106^o45’06.26’’ E)

Trash Recovered : 8,95 kg + 14,9 kg = 23,85 kg (high impurity)

Personal Report:

                

I clearly had messed up my sleep schedule by now. I woke up only one hour before the planned mission launch time and ended up starting it an hour late. Because of the unpreparedness, I didn’t get to record the mission the way I wanted to the other day using wooden tripods that I was supposed to assemble in the morning. Anyway, this is a personal not a technical report so I’ll get into depth of the technical later but the thing is I felt kinda sadly exhausted to bike to and from the IDS. I broke the ARP02 that I just modified earlier prior to the launch, and totally wrecked the ARP03^c that was the only one of its kind in the arsenal. Patience is really being tested today, but I also took a mental note that if this is the worst that could happen, that would be good, right? Well, yes because the fact is the likelihood for such an event to re-occur is pretty high and by far has been quite a common event. So, I thought that I should try and reinvent some gadgets and put in a little more tweeks in my crafts.

Another part of the personal report to be noted is that I trembled like an old lady. Was it because of my hunger? Malnutrition? Or what? I felt like I didn’t have full control of my body. Probably because my sleep schedule is messed up so… what? I don’t know the connection but something is clearly not right with my body. I can clearly identify my knee and calf pain from the previous day’s epic trash bag relay. I really should be enhancing my stances and train my butt like doing squats like 100 a day. It might also be a good idea to start ARP throwing again to train my sanitizer reflexes.

Technical Report:

Boring as it’s supposed to be, I broke the one and only ARP02 and broke the ARP03^C and that felt heart breaking and at the same time just pissing me off. The ARP02 was broken at a connection joint of the guard rail stick. The axel stick was fine as it always has been, but sadly the carving of the name “Nurmalita” was on the guard rail stick. Well, I could carve that out o’ anything though. The 02’s damage happened when I did a spaghetti roll on a pile of trash that was way too strongly planted to the ground in a quite berserk mood. I didn’t hold it firmly and it then, snapped. At that time, I only had that in my inventory so that meant I had to ride home and grab an ARP03^C. Oh, I mean the ARP03^C, because that was the last thing I had that still kinda worked.

So I rode back home and switched gear. If that broke, I wouldn’t have any more ARPs to go around with. And it did. It broke at all four tusks and horns. I don’t know but I probably should have remembered exactly which ARP should I use hard and use gently. I misused this one and totally torn it apart. Well, not total though, because the lever and the main body is still firmly intact so the mechanism is still technically running. It’s just as if a cat lost its claws but still having its strong limbs intact. The repairing is simple, its nothing like broken bones, it’s just like losing a fingernail. But the fact it happened early on the field was pretty much a disappointing fail.

Despite having spared about 2 hours before maghrib, I have already managed to obtain two trash bags. The impurity is of course high, since the kuntum IDS’s are the potential mines of baby poop were that ever to be a sellable mineral, a.k.a. “diaper-land”. I later searched up some stats on google and found out a statement telling that baby diapers represent 30% of non-biodegradable waste. Damn it, no wonder its everywhere. Since it is dubbed “un-biodegradable” it shouldn’t be listed as impure, right? Well… In sanitizer standards, we wanna keep it real too. That thing in the diaper’s gel, is poop, and that’s organic. But for sanitizers to take note, it should not be frowned upon to collect diapers without removing the orgs, because we simply can’t, and the fact of it being there causes more problems that having the poop all aboard the garbage truck on its way to the landfill. So, impurities by diaper can and should be forgiven, but don’t be lazy to separate what you can while you can.