And they’re back.
Dumb gremlins.
Actually I know what’s causing it this time. Every week we have the possibility of having to do a substantial course change because of the tidal windows involved with being able to go under the confederate bridge as scheduled, if various factors make this transit unsafe we have to go around the long way – via the outside edge of the island – and head directly into Charlottetown that way. Thing is, this almost always happens, and when it does? It knocks out the internet for a whole day. During our only sea day. This is definitely not a good thing. In fact, this a very good way to acquire a drawn-and-quartered librarian.
Thankfully, I’m at least a relatively healthy librarian, or at least doing a good job of faking it due to a whole lot of sleep and the miracle decongestant that Amras was kind enough to provide me with (which, ironically, I recommended to him – “you want to be able to breathe, get Drixtoral, you want to take care of every other symptom and sleep like a rock? Get Neocitran”). Last night I was caught in the worst fever/cold general misery ever…at least this morning I woke up feeling mostly human. That said, I don’t remember most of yesterday so I find myself hoping I didn’t say/do anything particularly ridiculous!
Anyway, it appears that I have become human just in time to be eaten by the gremlins of said course change. I really wish I could just fix the satellite so that it wasn’t blocked by our mast, I really really do, but I just can’t climb that high! And my magic wand is in the shop! Do you know how long it takes to get the parts for those things? I’ve been on the wait list for something like ten years!
Heh..
In other news, I’m in the midst of reading The Fault in Our Stars, which – while I liked it very much – I did not find as gutwrenchingly sad as everyone implied that it was going to be. I found it instead to be a beautifully sweet story that reminded me how important it was to live every day to your last breath because you don’t know when your last breath might be.