Third in a row

I can’t imagine, or maybe I can, what this ship would feel like at capacity. I think I mentioned that it is at about 70%. Mornings are fine, there is enough room in most of the lounges for people to spread out and relax. It starts getting more difficult about mid-day and by sometime in the afternoon there isn’t a place in any of the lounges that counts as a quiet area.

Why do I mention this? Because there just seems to be too many people spending their life on line. It is one thing if they are reading or streaming something while wearing headphones. It is something completely else when you share your family phone call with all in a 10 meter radius.

Sorry – I really don’t care how cute your grandchildren are. My grandsons are  wonderful. But I don’t need to have a FaceTime session with them when sitting somewhere that I am sharing it with people around me. Especially if they are attempting to  – oh let us say – read a real hardcopy book, or carry on a quiet conversation, or work out their next three moves in a chess game.  Public areas are not private, and most of the time, those around you really aren’t interested in your personal business and really don’t want to hear it…

Off soap box!

And, in case you are wondering – I am staying off Zoom this trip pretty much. And Miriam comes back to the cabin to make her calls.

Oh! Yes –  there is this – a new start!

 

About Holly

fiber person - knitter, spinner, weaver who spent 33 years being a military officer to fund the above. And home. And family. Sewing and quilting projects are also in the stash. After living again in Heidelberg after retiring (finally) from the U.S. Army May 2011, we moved to the US ~ Dec 2015. Something about being over 65 and access to health care. It also might have had to do with finding a buyer for our house. Allegedly this will provide me a home base in the same country as our four adult children, all of whom I adore, so that I can drive them totally insane. Considerations of time to knit down the stash…(right, and if you believe that…) and spin and .... There is now actually enough time to do a bit of consulting, editing. Even more amazing - we have only one household again. As long as everyone understands that I still, 40 years into our marriage, don't do kitchens or bathrooms. For that matter, not being a golden retriever, I don't do slippers or newspapers either. I don’t miss either the military or full-time clinical practice. Limiting my public health/travel med/consulting and lecturing to “when I feel like it” has let me happily spend my pension cruising, stash enhancing (oops), arguing with the DH about where we are going to travel next and book buying. Life is good!
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One Response to Third in a row

  1. Christiane Sandrock says:

    don’t just hate these egoistical people that don’t care about anybody else then themself ?? we had that on the Infinity a couple of times .. everybody was pi….. but only my dear husband went over to tell the people to hush 😀 !

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