At Sea
December 2, 2022
We had breakfast with Bill and Jim. They invited to have dinner with them and another couple tonight. We have this habit of always sitting at the same table. Behind miss muffins. Not much changes. Always complaining.
Another sea day, another day at the gym.
We had a new player join us today and after trivia we chatted with him and Clare about being homeless. Dan has been homeless for a few years and claims South Dakota as his home state. No income tax and easy to get a drivers license without a physical home. A post office box is all that is needed. Dan and his wife sold everything they own a few years back and now live anywhere they choose. Clare has done this for 7 years but it ended when he needed knee replacement. He bought a house in Nevada and calls that home. He has lived in Alaska, Thailand, Hawaii, and other places. Dan and Clare admit that the lifestyle is not for everyone but they were able to make it work. They went from rented homes, cruise ships, hotel rooms. Dan said that South Dakota is the easiest state in the union to do something like this from. It is very popular with people who live in RVs.
Team trivia is nothing but laughs as it is so difficult. I think I was the only one in the packed crow’s nest that answered the “number of notes in a chromatic scale” question. I’m guessing there were no other musicians in the room.
Dinner was fun and Dick and Betty joined us. They were both originally from Pennsylvania but now live in Florida with just about everyone else on this cruise. When we tell people we are from Michigan, they always say “still?”. We chatted about all kinds of stuff but left politics out. We all agreed that the HAL excursions need improvement. Too much wasted time. Too many unfit people. I shared my idea of having separate busses with ice cream and cookies and those without as a way to have more fit people grouped together. It would be simple. One line says “This way to ice cream and cookies” the other would have no identifier. I have a feeling that if the ice cream and cookie bus never left the port but just supplied ice cream and cookies to passengers, it would be a hit. Of course there would be complaining about the type of cookies. Both busses would have happier people. Maybe I’ll contact tour administration.
The piano bar pianist was on stage tonight. We didn’t care for her singing at the piano bar so we skipped it.…