SO FAR SO GOOD

March 14, 2020

The blog will be short and sweet tonight.  I have two talks tomorrow, one of them I am doing for the first time in front of a cruise audience, so much rehearsing ahead.

The good news – so far so good – concerns our travel on American Airlines Flight 1260 from San Francisco.  It is still on the books.  The airline sent a link to check for cancelled or changed flights and ours to Dallas and Augusta are just like I booked them in January.  And because I booked them so early, if we need to change them, there is no change fees.  So continue your prayers, please.  It may be selfish, asking God to ask as our agent with the airlines, but he said to cast all of our cares on him, so we are casting.

I did my second astronomy talk this afternoon in the Phantom Theater to a large and responsive crowd.  Before I began with the business at hand, I told them I have two bonus talks coming the day after Cabo San Lucas.  I have picked “Pirates, Buccaneers, and Swashbucklers” as the first one (one of the first talks I wrote, and a fun, light-hearted talk with lots of humor – bad jokes included – and barely recognizable today from the version from 2008). 

I told them I was playing with two others – favorites of Bonnie’s – and asked them which they’d prefer to hear, and voting did not obligate attendance.  One is “Museum Mosaic” about three museums in the Caribbean and the history preserved by the artists.  It got three votes.  The other is “Alexander Selkirk: The Real Robinson Crusoe.”  It got the rest of the house.

And we walked out of our second show in the Phantom Theater for the second night in a row.  This one was “Hasbro, The Game Show.”  Evidently it was on TV some years ago and contestants were picked from our audience by their loud screams and stupid dances.  Being up in the balcony, we did not scream or twerk (and aren’t you glad).

Well, that’s it for now.  My voice is the only one until tomorrow.

TTFN