a fairground life

Arrived on site at 10am and started to wash the DropZone. The ride took 4 hours to wash. I used a gallon of soap and 4 gallons of TFR. Then onto the Miami and Foden unit. There is no power onsite so the 200 kva generator ran 6 hours to power a small jet-washer. Taking into consideration the price of the fuel, I could have sent for a cleaning crew to wash it for me and possibly been no worse off! I had arranged for the DZ to be tested for the season today. The engineer & electrician were busy, so did not turn up until 8pm. While we were waiting "r" and I tried out the music system since we had put it into a new rack system. No surprises it was not working properly-one channel is down. So it seems I would have been better just leaving it all on the floor instead of racking it. On the bright side the ride passed fine and the new ram seals seem to be ok, but its early yet. Got home for 9:30pm, too tired to go to a friends 40th.