ON FIRE, The Birthday Girl

Last night I did a video about the Firesak, a fire resistant bag that is designed to house your EUC.  Over the last few years there have been a number of lithium battery fires with electric unicycles.  Some of them have had devastating consequences, including total dwelling destruction.  When lithium batteries catch fire it is incredibly dangerous.  They burn at extremely hot temperatures as well as emitting a ton of toxic fumes.  In a lithium battery pack it becomes a chain reaction where one bad cell can wind up exploding every other cell in the pack.

The Firesak is an attempt to mitigate that potential damage.  It has four layers of fireproofing material in a “bag” construction.  You put your wheel inside on a stand when not using it and then zip it closed.  If something bad happens the hope is the bag takes the brunt of the fire, not it’s surroundings.  With the way I have my wheels stored currently I can’t really use the Firesak conveniently.  However I do have some ideas of storing my wheels in the garage now that only one vehicles is in there.  I just need to get some stuff cleared out first.

Today is Elsa’s 7th birthday, sort of.  Her exact birth date is unknown since she was 8 months old when she was adopted but this is close enough.  She has been my constant point of light in this time that has had a lot of darkness.  Coming home to her excited face while she bounces around is impossible to frown through.  My relationship with her is the closest thing I will likely experience to having a child of my own.  If I didn’t have her in my life right now I can’t imagine how I would be coping otherwise.  I talk/sing to her more than any human being in my day to day existence.   I’ll figure out some way to celebrate her birthday tonight although she will be quite content to just lay on the sofa with her head on my lap.