YOU BE TIRED, I’M TIRED

December 2, 2017

“You be tied, I’m tired,” was an expression the Bro and I heard Uncle Ed Callis say on numerous camping trips with Boy Scout Troop 95 of Loch Lynn, Maryland.  It meant when he was ready for bed, we were ready for bed.  And there was no argument.  Tonight my beloved bride is in the bed and making sleeping sounds and it is not yet 9:30.  She’s been early to bed, early to rise for a couple of days now.  I guess too much fresh sea air.  So that leaves the blogging up to me tonight.

Let’s see.  We got up, we ate three times, I did my talk, we saw the show.  Good night, all.

Just kidding.

The seas have been alternating between bumpy, calm, and now, again bumpy today.  I went into the theater before my talk to catch the last of a BBC Earth trivia show.  If you can find the BBC Earth programs, they are fantastic, and well worth the watch (and tonight’s program was a special BBC Earth program with music performed by the ship’s orchestra – we’ve seen it before, on the Koningsdam, and it was excellent again tonight).  Sitting in the audience I was enjoying the smooth voyaging of ms Veendam, and thought to myself, “Self, I won’t be bouncing all over the stage for this talk, like I was yesterday.”  Don’t you know as soon as I got on stage and started to set up, the Captain hit some bouncy water.  Oh well.

The seas settled down during supper (rib eye steaks for each of us) and has picked up again tonight.  We are promised more of the same tomorrow, and should be out of it by Monday.

Speaking of tomorrow, my talk (Captain Kidd) has been moved from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., and the other speaker’s talk has been moved from 2 p.m. to 3 p.m.  There is nothing in the ship’s paper to indicate why, but we are guessing that tomorrow night’s entertainer, a British concert pianist, will be rehearsing.

Since she is asleep, I will report for her that Bonnie has finished one of her crocheting projects for the cruise – gifts for the pastoral staff at St. Mark UMC – and is halfway through her second project – a baby blanket for one of the Macedonians who is about to be a mother for the second time.

Well, I have consumed 10 Coffee M&Ms and a glass of ginger ale, so I guess I will wrap this up, check email, post these ramblings and join Bonnie making some ZZZZZZs.

TTFN