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八月 24th, 2011Hand cycle boot camp Part I
八月 23rd, 2011I got persuaded to travel to the “near abroad” last week for a hand cycle boot camp
Oberstdorf im Allgäu (Bavaria).
I have been to many countries already and was able to communicate with the respective inhabitants in English or French quite well.
Apart from the language barrier, the weather has disturbed my whole training schedule.
My since months proven and tested training schedule with several rides in the rain per day was ruined totally by one week of everlasting sunshine. In London (Paralympics 2012) it rains the whole year, as everybody knows, so you have to be prepared.
My equipment had to be converted rapidly from high speed rain jacket to strongly braking cooling cap and vest.
Due to the beautiful sunsets every day the coaches got so melancholic that there was nothing to do with them any more. They were occupied with writing post cards and painting by numbers.
The signage of the race track must have been the result of
Fools at work.
signs in both directions meaning: all trails
Meanwhile I had completely lost my way, so that I ended up on the
Nebelhorn
middle sign meaning: panorama trail – wheelchair and stroller accessible
and finally on the
Way of St James
(in German: Jakobsweg)
OK, this was driven back quickly .
Back in Frankfurt at last.
Last night I was finally able to exercise reasonably again with 16°C and 20 litres of rain/m²!
Translator BL
Back from the hand cycle boot camp in Bavaria!
八月 21st, 2011
London ist near!
Special Edition!!
八月 17th, 2011<
Collective suicide of the disabled parking place labels!
The silver-coloured car on the first picture has a parking permit, the driver of the black car is suffering from the widely spread chronic “Offroad Dementia”.
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Please park all on disabled parking places, then I can discontinue my blood pressure pills!
八月 8th, 2011I probably get on your nerves with my handicap parking stories in the long run, but I can’t hold back this “fairy tale”, once again on the parking lot of the supermarket with the big L, from you.
The front two of four opposing disabled parking places were occupied by DPB’s*. I parked my car with appropriate distance, so that I could open the door completely, on the next parking place. So far, so good.
When I came out of the supermarket with my wife, my blood pressure raised rapidly. While I was doing the groceries someone squeezed his matchbox car next to mine.
The front car was gone in the meantime, however this didn’t help me on any further. It was a
Déjà vu
(see older blogpost).
My wife stowed the groceries into the trunk while I drove quite rapidly into the supermarket again and announced the number plate of the vehicle in barker style.
When I arrived at the cash desk after my lap of honour I saw two guys in their early twenties standing next to my new favourite car, who were “instructed” by my wife.
They seemed understanding, but when I approached them I couldn’t suppress to ask them loudly about the “whistling” of my recently passed away “pig“ (translator’s note: German idiomatic expression for “Blow me down!”: “I think my pig whistles!”)
For the driver the situation was apparently unpleasant and he apologized several times, which slowly made me feel uneasy. He said he hadn’t seen that he was parking on a disabled parking place. I criticized the bad labeling already a couple of weeks ago, and it was promised to me to change it (see older blogpost).
I believed him.
For me the small dispute was long settled when he opened his trunk, took out one chocolate and one vanilla pudding with cream and absolutely wanted to give those to me as apology.
Of course I denied it, I was embarrassed and I felt already sorry for complaining.
The two guys drove away, and what was put on my rear window shelf,
2 cream puddings.
One minute later an around 45 year old guy parked his black “mobile home” (SUV) directly in front of me on the opposing disabled parking place. I asked him if he knew that this was a disabled parking place. He confirmed this and said that he was disabled. Then he grumbled and drove away again when I asked him about the parking permit.
Does anybody have an idea which handicap he could have had?
Write a comment.
*Disabled Parking Blockers
Addendum 13,08.11: “Pudding booty” tasted good! 
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Addendum Technical Aids Tips and Tricks XIV
八月 5th, 2011Addendum to
Swedish laptop knee table Bräda (new name BYLLAN)
I have introduced this laptop table as rather cheap, useful wheelchair tray.
The writer and musician Robert Schneider volunteered courageously as Bräda tester.
He is known for his extravagant-hessian writing style (www.laufenverlernt.de.vu).
I mentioned one of his books in an older blogpost.
He took the knee tray Bräda through extra tough quality tests.
Despite of the little bit too soft surface board I was positively surprised.
Here during a transport test with additional tray, at speed of exactly 11 km/h with
3 liters hop blossom ice tea and 6 x 0,5 liter pints
Due to safety reasons, this test is mainly executed with dummies.
A typo has slipped in, it was at 0,11 km/h.
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Technical Aids Tips and Tricks XLII
八月 3rd, 2011I have extensively described my enthusiasm about a cooling vest (see older blogpost).
Yesterday evening I have tested a
cooling baseball cap from the company Cooline
www.e-cooline.de
Actually unbelievable, but you are sitting with a black cap in the sun at 28°C in the shade with your head being cooled.
“Only” water is put on this cap, like on the vest, about 0,3 liter. The fleece on the inside of the cap absorbs the water, and the cap virtually sweats and cools.
Ingenious!!!
Unfortunately my match was cancelled, I forgot my tennis shoes.
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Crazy Flash Part VIII
八月 1st, 2011Apparently it has gotten around that I am not one of the tallest any more with my 1,38 m in the wheelchair.
This
notice on the door of my flat
of an outside company is a real hit…
So somebody actually thought ahead, or it was a hobbit
Please note as well the perceived 12 kg
key chains
With the whole weight in my neck I am always hoping that my titanium vertebra is not breaking…
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Eigude Shame IX
七月 28th, 2011Does this international hotel chain want to address especially wheelchair users?
Promo vehicle
Original text of the e-mail to the company on the driver’s door:
Dear Sirs,
I would like to draw your attention to the fact that this kind of “promotion” (see photos) is not well received by us wheelchair users, especially because your vehicle is blocking two disabled parking places at once.
When your vehicle arrived I was in my wheelchair getting into my car on the next parking place!
Click on tag handicap parking to read other “nice” stories.
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Technical Aids Tips und Tricks XLI
七月 26th, 2011After a few months in the hospital you get on rather friendly terms with nurses and physicians.
Of course a little piece of humour belongs to it as well.
If one as quadriplegic (spinal injury in the cervical area) like me can’t use arms and hands in an efficient way any more, spaghetti are not the favourite type of pasta.
One day the nurse came with the lunch, it was spaghetti, put it on my bedside table and was waiting for my comment if he could cut the pasta for me.
He was waiting for the comment in vain. I tried to eat these long objects by myself, have to see it sportingly, luckily I was not hungry…
It was a perfect show!!!
At some time a physician came into the room and watched this scenario with the pasta and me slightly grinning, but didn’t propose to cut the pasta neither, and I wasn’t keen on asking her.
I said to her that next time when the food is spaghetti again I would be motorised. I would only need two tie wraps to fix a fork. But had the suspicion that my milk frother would be a little bit too fast. We both had some fun. She didn’t seriously believe the thing about motorisation.
I only thought: You don’t know me!!!
Have a look yourself, one week later the
9,5 Volt Spaghetti Tetra Fork
About risks and generated injuries please contact your physician, nurse or nearest do-it-yourself-store staff.
Addendum: Construction manual for spaghetti tetra bit by popular request.
Saw a standard fork off and forge it flat. Really flat.
Saw approx. 5 cm off an M6 Allen key and weld it lengthwise to the fork stump. Not to the tine, I know it can happen!!!
Polish the welding seam with a one hand angle grinder. If possible keep a little bit of the welding.
Balance the bit at low speed on a drill press with a rubber mallet like a car tyre. Placing additional weight is not absolutely necessary.
Buy a cordless electric screwdriver with very low rotation speed, otherwise the special fork can be used to whip cream.
Boil spaghetti, and it’s done.
Safety instruction: Don’t start screwdriver with fork brought into the mouth, otherwise only the dentist will be happy.
Have fun with dotting your flat red!
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Chock Part IIX
七月 25th, 2011Crazy Flash Part VII
七月 23rd, 2011Have a look yourself, even I don’t have words…
Unfortunately you have to endure the commercial first, and the comment is only in German!!!
Note: Next time going to the Swedes, always take a saw for viewing window.
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Recently in front of the supermarket with the big “L”
七月 21st, 2011Legal traffic regulations are applied on this parking lot!!!
There are 4 designated disabled parking places at the entrance. 2 opposing on each side.
After the groceries, I was parking without bad conscience on one of these parking places, I was rather astonished.
Somebody managed to park with a “Smart” on the opposing 2 disabled parking places in such way that both places were blocked. This was a real effort, remarkable.
Unfortunately I was too slow, the creative parker just came out of the supermarket when I was still digging for my camera. Unfortunately I was already sitting in my car, what a shame, or luck for the lady!!!
My wife asked the lady why she was parking on disabled parking places?
These parking places would be for people who cannot “walk” and not for people who cannot “park”!!
She replied where this was “standing” that this would be a disabled parking place???
I just shouted from the car: You are “standing” on it!
She was standing with her feet on the
Wheelchair symbol!!!
I have to admit, the symbol is really a bit “scraped off”.
I have informed the company L. concerning this matter. They answered by phone and convincingly assured me to renew the symbol as soon as possible and improve the signage so that nobody would park again “by oversight” on a disabled parking place.
The company L. had already 2 years ago removed a curb and raised the walkway after I pointed that out to them.
Very customer oriented, a very commendable company in this regard.
By the way, visually impaired are entitled to park on disabled parking places, but they are usually not the driver.
Link: Old, but unbeatable!!!
Pedestrians are parking on a disabled parking place!!!
They get involuntary help in leaving the car by Theo West (RTL, German TV).
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Eigude Shame XVIII
七月 20th, 2011Today some innovative ideas of my city Frankfurt/Main!!!
Gully cover
in road construction usually are built kindly with “slots” in travel direction. In this case so that the wheeler can drive into the slots with his front tyres and doesn’t roll away when he is waiting for the lift. Unfortunately it was forgotten to illuminate the “waiting gully”, but this will certainly be realized in the next few days.
We wheelers are happy about every piece of cobble stone. It is better for us than some medication. The jolting supports the digestion at its best.
Thus especially commendable is this
“New Disabled Parking Place”
It was designed according to the latest findings from the handicap area. Please note the joints between the stones which probably were not closed on purpose so that the wheelchair doesn’t roll away when getting out of the car. After getting out you keep “standing” safely next to the car. The different heights of the stones facilitate the car-floor-transfer, because the wheelchair is standing ergonomically on 3 wheels. Especially commendable is that the curbs are on grade neither to the street nor to the pavement, so that curb jumping can be practiced.
The width of the joints exactly match the size of the wheelchair tyres, somebody really took great efforts.
Thank you road traffic department Frankfurt, I am proud of you!!!
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(Deutsch) Nachtrag zum Artikel vom 29.06.2011 über eine Kühlweste!
七月 19th, 2011对不起，此内容只适用于Deutsch。
