April 25, 2023

Springing forward is a bother when it is done one time in the spring of the year.  Springing forward every day for 6 days is a pain in the bed – lack of time spent therein.  We have so far sprung forward 3 hours and this morning dragging the old carcass out of the sack was a chore – and I am typically an early riser, but this was 3 hours earlier than usual.  I considered reaching for the house phone, and asking Ana, the cruise director, to push my 10 a.m. starting time back to 11,  but we got up anyway.

Breakfast was toast, oatmeal, and coffee for me, a cup of fruit, an English muffin, bacon and a cup of hot chocolate for my cruise buddy.  I was sitting so I could see our direction of travel – to the east (Juliet was the sun) – and the sunrise was spectacular.  At the farthest part of the horizon the sky was shades of red.  As the light spread out it became purples and pinks, and then blues, and then all was light.  I took a picture, but the real thing looked so much better.  God was painting the morning sky in spectacular fashion.

I did my John Harrison talk this morning and forgot to tell my technician to hook up sound for this one.  I was talking about longitude being influenced by the sands of time and clicked to a slide which showed sand pouring through an hour glass accompanied by the theme from “Days of Our Lives.”  Like sands through the hourglass, so are the days of our lives.  But there was no sound.  My mistake.  I looked up to the control booth, saw my tech, and asked him if he could come down and hook it up.  He was there Johnny On The Spot (actually his name is Mio and he is from Serbia – and for all of you readers of DK Pittsburgh Sports, he knows DK, who is also from Serbia).

It has been chilly here at sea today with the temperature reaching only 66 degrees (AccuBon did not tell me that; I told her – I read it on one of the ship’s electronic displays).  If you’ve sailed on Royal Caribbean you’ve seen the lifeguards dressed in long sleeve shirts and long pants.  Today they were wearing overcoats.  I hoped they wouldn’t have to jump in and safe someone wearing all those duds, but the pool is only 4 feet 9 inches at its deepest part, so they would have been okay (soggy, but okay).

Well, tomorrow I am doing “Red: The Color of Desire,” and this will be the first time I’ve given this talk, so it’s off to rehearse.

Oh, we our towel creature today is a duck:

Stay safe.  Hug everyone in your house (if no one is home, go outside and hug someone who looks like they need it).

TTFN