Nothing special today. Sort of wrapped up the 11th Floor Origami Dojo’s contribution to the craft sale. The sale will be Wednesday. But, it’s good to have things set and ready early.
My contribution to the craft sale.
I might make a couple more of the huge balls. And, maybe a few more of the “normal” size ones.
My partner in origami made 40 pairs of absolutely exquisite crane earrings. And someone asked us to sell her wonderful origami cards. We made about $750 last year. Hope we do as well this year. We’ll see.
Three weeks from tomorrow, I’ll be on the Capital Limited heading to Chicago and the Empire Builder to Seattle. Then on to Kona on Halloween. I am too old for this. But, I am not stopping.
Yesterday at this time I felt like I would have to get better to die. I had half a cheese sandwich and was asleep by 8 pm. By 5 am this morning, I felt like I might live. Here it is 5 pm and I am still alive. And, feeling better. Enough about me.
Gratitude
Nothing like a couple of “sick days” to make you appreciate good health. Never mind that good health isn’t as good as it once was.
Today’s “accomplishment” was assembling balls from the Sonobe units I folded on the ship. The craft sale is a week from today. So, it is time to figure out what I have to sell, how to price what I have to sell, and how to get people to buy what I have to sell.
I have the worst cold that anyone ever had. (Maybe that is a little melodramatic.) But, when I took a NOT expired covid test this morning I was happy that “It’s just a cold”.
Well if it had been covid I would be popping Paxloid. And getting better. Not getting sneezier by the hour.
Gratitude
Grateful that this cold waited until I got back to the Asylum before attacking me.
Enough bitching. Went to yoga via Zoom. Polished off 9 days of emails. Did my quarterly accounting.
This started yesterday at about 10 am. It can leave anytime now.
Today’s only accomplishment was to tweak up the one report that I still produce for the hospital. This evening I plan on “doing something with” all the emails I ignored for 10 days.
The orchids never noticed I was away.
My orchids are blooming over time this year. Don’t know why. I didn’t change anything.
Okay. Now what? Where’s the unlimited avocado toast for breakfast? Where are the Cosmos?
Another look at the Charleston dolphins.
Where are the dolphins?
Slipsliding back into reality. Walk today was in the rain around The Asylum. Laundry was processed. Some of the Sonobe balls were assembled.
I moved into The Asylum on September 24, 2015. A friend wondered how many days I had been away from The Asylum over the last nine years. Well, actually, I know 1,031.
I must have been gone for a long time. They are selling plastic Xmas trees already!
We got off the ship at 8:15 and were back at The Asylum by 9:30. I unpacked and put most of my clothes back in the closet/drawers. I checked the snail mail and found nothing of importance. And, it’s a fine sunny day.
Gratitude
Grateful to not be trying to update the blog using the phone. Real keyboards are good.
My 3rd cruise of 2024 was not what I planned but it was fun.
Sonobe Units. 144. Folded on Deck 5 Vision of the Seas.
Next week I am going to finish up this year’s origami project. This year’s project is very modest. I am not sure anyone will buy the damn balls. They are fun. But, that’s about all they are.
Glad to be out of the sardine can. Windows are good.
My morning drill. Check the weather. Go for a walk. Get coffee. And have breakfast with Christie. Truth be told after my walk I’m usually hot and Christie brings me my coffee.Today’s exercise for the crew is no drill. They prepare the ship to evacuate and ill passenger by helicopter. Unfortunately, before the helicopter arrives the passenger dies.
This has been some trip hasn’t it! I’m sure that it will not go down in the captain’s log book as one of his all-time favorite trips.
But soon, the crew gets everything back to normal.
I didn’t do very much today. Got packed up. It’s been a little rough but nothing noticeable. Certainly nothing like Arctic Ocean. Or even the ferry up in Alaska. I slept well last night. But my watch didn’t think I was asleep. That happens on the train so I suppose it was a bumpy.
Currently enjoying a final sit on the deck.
Tonight it will be drinks, dinner, espresso. And early tomorrow morning the travel goddess willing, We will escape this ship before any further adventures. However, there does seem to be a tornado warning in our area. I can really skip a tornado when I’m in the middle of the ocean. Thank you very much.
Oops, I best wrap this up. I think I’m going to be power washed if I stay here.
A very lazy sea day begins in a normal manner. Sky coffee walk breakfast.Today’s project for the crew, appears to be: how to get a life raft into the swimming pool.
As you can see it’s sort of a dull day. And that’s just fine. We’ve had more than enough adventures on this trip to Canada.
A snail appeared. The way I’ve been behaving today, a slug would have been more appropriate.That’s about it from off the coast of Florida.
Formal night tonight on the ship. I can’t even wear a clean shirt. But neither can Christie. We’re eating Japanese tonight.
Oh. No real issues from the hurricane. 8 foot seas. Maybe a little more breeze.
Get up, get outside, get a mile walk in, get coffee and breakfast with ChristieSix cruise ships. All lined up here today.We are the top right hand. One. A pilot boat just went by. My guess is we’ll have to wait in line in order to get out of the harbor.I didn’t get off the boat. Sorry, my sense of adventure has waned with advancing age. I did however supervise all the activities on my side of the ship.One of the crew activities today has been exercising the port side lifeboats. It didn’t necessarily go well.This winch thing got jammed and they couldn’t get the lifeboat back onto the ship. I guess as a passenger, the important thing is that they could get the lifeboat into the ocean. Eventually they got a bigger hammer and the lifeboat came back on board.I supervised stunningly expensive yachts.And modest Island supply boats.
Plus numerous party and sight seeing boats. I for one never understood getting off a perfectly good big boat to get on a little boat.
A sad/interesting thing was watching palm trees being dug up and put on a barge. Just guessing they are in route to Florida where they’ll bring $3000 to $4,000 a piece. Maybe more.
Eeek. I have a mouse in my sardine can.
Two sea days the home Saturday. And that’s about it for today from deck 5.
Drinks, Dinner, Espresso. Soon.
Sun and coffee. Skip the walk around the deck today.
We are parked. Excuse me docked next to a huge Royal Caribbean vessel. I think it’s called the allure of the seas. Can carry over 6,000 passengers. That’s three times what our boat carries.
They have stolen our view on the port side.After breakfast I slather myself in Christie ‘s. Sunscreen and head off to the Royal Caribbean water Park AKA Coco Cay.It’s rather plastic. And hot.Will I ever stop trying to take bird pictures with a telephone?Racing towards fort Lauderdale at 12:30 this morning
After 9:00 last night there was a call for type o blood donors. That’s never a good sign. Shortly thereafter they said we were heading towards fort Lauderdale for a medical emergency.
Off the coast of fort Lauderdale we meet with a coast guard rescue vessel. It was interesting but didn’t make for a good night’s sleep. But I’m sure that the person who needed the type o blood was having a much worse night
I kind of hope the rest of the trip is sort of normal. Maybe even boring.
Normal start of the day. Find the Sun. Do a mile around the deck. Drink coffee. Meet Christie for breakfast.Boat is stopped in Freeport Grand Bahamas today. Absolutely no reason at all to get off the boat. So, I found a comfy chair in the shade and did some origami. Also watched the boats go by.The big entertainment this morning, right next to the origami folding chair, was man overboard drill. They tossed his dummy overboard.
Interestingly, the dummy was dressed as a crewman not as a guest. Guess that makes sense.
In good time, the dummy was rescued. But I’m not sure the dummy survived.
First thing you know it’s lunch time. And it’s nap time. And now it’s book reading time. And it has gotten cloudy but it’s nice and cool. I think it might have rained but how would I know because I was napping in the sardine can.
Oops, it’s definitely raining right now. One of those lovely tropical rains. The heavens just open up. I’m completely drench everything in sight.
Tomorrow, we’re going to CoCo Cay. That would be Royal Caribbeans private water park. I have no interest in that either. But it seems horrible. I’m fairly certain I’ll get off just to look at it. Although I’m sure the kids like it. Kids being anybody under the age of 75 you understand.
Still having fun. Mostly reading and relaxing. And right now I’m enjoying this topical rainstorm all safe and dry on the deck.
