MAR 12: Sea Day #5

 

Circled in red was the 1300 position of SIRENA.

We had a cloudless, sunny, calm passage throughout the day, cruising along at 18 knots on a general course of 110° degrees. The air temperature was in the mid-70s. The ship's speed almost directly in a steady breeze made it cool and windy on the upper decks.

This morning, I volunteered to fill out a lengthy online medical questionnaire for Pam so that she could make an appointment. The visit will be a yawn, making the form a nuisance. Just as I finished it, maybe due to an ID-10-T error, the completed pages returned to blanks. 

Me having hair comes under the category of artistic license.

After a therapeutic venting of some frustration, I put this annoyance in perspective.

Two years ago, I was...

• on an Oceania ship, 
• one day out of Miami,
• on the second half of a cruise, 

...and in the ship's sickbay, diagnosed with COVID, which condemned me to be

quarantined in my stateroom for six days. 

No reason for alarm! This picture was taken two
years ago - not this day, week, month, or year!

Today, I was...

• on an Oceania ship,
• one day out of Miami,
• on the second half of a cruise.

...and healthy. While not precisely putting a smile on my lips and a song in my heart, it did right-size the task of redoing the form...successfully.

For the record, I will disavow any suggestion that everything after "This morning" several paragraphs up was primarily to create sea-day content for today's blog post.

We had a leisurely dinner at a table for two, with similar tables on either side, which turned into everyone talking to everyone. Afterward, we went to the show in the theater before calling it a night.