November 7, 2023

A short blog tonight, very short.  Blogging Bonnie is in bed.  She was nodding while playing Scrabble on her Kindle, and asked me to tuck her in (we are not night owls – it is only 9:30 here, 7:30 on the Atlantic coast).

We are having some higher waves than at any point in the cruise, by my guestimation they are running 5-6 meters or 15-18 feet.  Even at that it is not too rough up here in 10502.  We are high and forward so it is not as smooth as being at midships and down lower.  But being rocked to sleep is good.

The only event of note today concerns the shower and hot water or lack thereof.  I showered first and the water started out very hot, gradually cooled and ended up luke warm or cooler.  When Bonnie got in it was luke warm and got colder.  There was much weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth.  She decided to get the better of it and shower tonight.  And lo and behold she had a hot water shower.  It will be interesting to see what awaits me in the morning.  Oh, and we’ve had two people look at it, do some mumbo-jumbo and pronounce it fixed.  Nope.

Good audience today for “Democracy and the Pirate Republic, but the theater was, as Col. Sherman T. Potter used to say on M*A*S*H, as cold as a witch’s thorax.  Two people commented on it to me, the second asking if I could do anything about it.  Well, Dr. McCoy in the original episode, “Devil in the Dark” said that he thought he could cure a rainy day.  I told him that I was hired to give the talks, and the control of thermostats was not in my resume.  But I told him I’d tell someone and see if the message could get passed on.  I did, and we’ll see tomorrow.  

“How cold was it?” you ask.  

It was so cold that mom returned to our stateroom and got her sweater.  And there were people in the theater with blanks and at least one person in a parka (and I am not making that up).  I know they keep it cold for when the house is full for a show, but with 300-350 people, warm it up a bit.

And that’s that for tonight.  Look for another blog tomorrow.

TTFN