{"id":1708,"date":"2012-10-27T06:42:30","date_gmt":"2012-10-27T14:42:30","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.wordpress.com\/?p=1708"},"modified":"2012-10-27T06:42:30","modified_gmt":"2012-10-27T14:42:30","slug":"fleeting-hours-and-silent-nights-at-sea-10272012","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bloodinyoursaltwater.com\/?p=1708","title":{"rendered":"Fleeting Hours and Silent Nights \u2013 At Sea \u2013 [10\/27\/2012]"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>Many people will hate me for admitting that I occasionally get bored. I feel guilty admitting it. I mean, I\u2019m a world traveler, I often feel like I shouldn\u2019t be allowed<\/i> to get bored. But no matter how wonderful and exotic a place is, once you\u2019ve been to it four or five times in a year you find yourself getting a bit\u2026meh.<\/p>\n

Believe it or not, the job is<\/i> still a job \ud83d\ude09 I\u2019m well past the stage of my shipboard career where I fall into the party lifestyle. I don\u2019t go to the officer\u2019s bar anymore (though after my first contract I rarely did), I much prefer to keep to my own company. I get up in the morning, I go to work, I come home, veg out in front of the television, generally avoid shipboard politics (the lack of drama on this contract has been blissful) and crawl into bed. The next morning I do the same thing again. The big difference of course, is that I do it on a ship, so I get the option of wandering about in some pretty amazing places to alleviate my boredom.<\/p>\n

The biggest work-related development this week is that my office computer up and died yesterday afternoon while I was off on Sentosa Island. This left me and my coworker somewhat bereft, as it\u2019s very difficult to do the job without<\/i> a computer. The entire system has had to be switched to manual. Nothing can be returned, and we can\u2019t even mark the quizzes because everything was stored on the machine.\u00a0 As of this morning we have at least got a working computer again, but it has not yet been loaded with our library software. This means we can mark the quizzes, but little else (and try explaining to a guest that your computer isn\u2019t working when you\u2019re actively typing on it).<\/p>\n

The cruise is moving at a surprisingly swift clip, it\u2019s hard to believe it\u2019s almost Halloween. A few days from now the ship will be crawling with cats, magicians, jesters and fools. As if it isn\u2019t always \u2013 well, maybe not the cats \ud83d\ude09<\/p>\n

As we depart Singapore we\u2019re passing through one of the busiest stretches of water I\u2019ve ever seen . Mostly tankers and freighters, plying their way along various invisible highways. I don\u2019t know how the various captains keep straight where they are and aren\u2019t allowed to sail. Right now we\u2019re keeping pace with a huge container ship off our port side, I can see it out the window, flanking us as we make our way out of the harbor. No crew to wave to though, just a lot of boxes.<\/p>\n

One proper sea day after this (today is a half day, we spent the morning in Singapore), before we land in Indonesia.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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