In the 80’s, HBO would fill up the time between movies by running short films. One I remember well was All Summer in a Day. It’s the story of a class of schoolchildren on Venus. It rains all day every day there. One day the Sun comes out for an afternoon. The flowers bloom, the …
WordPress (the software that runs this blog) was recently upgraded to fix some security issues. I loathe updating WordPress because it’s such a manual process. Copy this here, check that, download this, blah blah blah. It doesn’t help that the instructions are mostly written for people who only have FTP access to their web hosting …
This is from an internal Oracle tool at work. Break the user’s back button and then blame them for using it with a big red Error message. Nice.
It was another early start. We had to be ready to be off the boat by 8 am and they started blaring over the intercom earlier than that to make sure everyone was up. After a few last bites in the cafe, they called our color and we headed off the ship. The port was …
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Our digital camera is quite old. It has only a 1.3 megapixel sensor, takes FOUR AAs, and uses SmartMedia. You often have to blow on the card to get it to work. Compared to current cameras, it’s huge and heavy. It’s one of those pieces of technology we know we need to upgrade, but we …
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Grand Cayman was a scheduled “Jeff and Anne” adventure day. That means that we rent a car and try to see as much of the island as possible. Strangely, after Aruba, none of my family wanted to join us. 🙂 The big issue in Grand Cayman was going to be driving on the left side …
I really like the balance of days doing nothing at sea and crazy adventures when at port. After two days of crazy adventures, I appreciated sleeping in and doing nothing. I found a slot machine that wasn’t completely surrounded with smoke and said goodbye to $20. Big gambler, I am. Spending another day at sea …
Day 8 was another early start. We assembed in a lounge until our group was cleared to leave. The destination was the Crazy Monkey Canopy Tour. I’m not sure how Anne convinced me to sign up for this weeks ago, but it sounded fun at the time. Since then I just felt nervous about the …
The day started early – 5:30 am. That was when the ship approached the locks of the canal. When Anne got on the deck, it was still dark. As the sun rose, we passed through the canal. It was neat to see and amazing that this thing was ever built. It also gave me a …
1. The canal is not just a “path” of water bewteen the two oceans. There are a series of 6 locks in two parallel tracks that raise and lower ships between the Caribbean Sea and Pacific Ocean. 2. The locks had to be built because of the terrain. The highest point is 85 feet above …