December 2007

Dec 24, 2007

well....almost time to leave the ship and come home. And really, I don't mind saying "good''. merry Christmas by the way....and happy holidays or whatever you want to hear.

So Mickey Dolenz from the monkees is on the ship...and his guitar got lost.....so I lent him mine. There are pictures in the photo section. pretty cool guy....hung out with him having drinks until the wee hours of the morning.

not much else...it's the holiday season...and I'm so sick of christmas music it's not even funny.....it's pumped everywhere 24/7.

just updating the site, and making it look different.......hopefully more later...but if not....i am coming back to toronto for a short bit soon.....then off to nova scotia....to live.....for a while anyway.

Dec 4, 2007

In Aruba...just got back on the ship....started to rain so I headed on back. Crazy thing...looked out and saw a tornado off in the distance on the water. Not an overly huge one, but pretty big. I didn't have my camera.....crap. I need a little point and shoot to carry around when these things happen.

Other than that....they put up a huge Christmas tree in the promenade lobby. I'll have to get a picture of that.

It's my day off...and it's boring. oh..i did put some new pictures up on the flickr site.

Dec 02, 2007

Hey there….

Long time no type.

Well, last week was awesome. There is this huge satellite in san juan, the one you see in contact, and some other movies…it’s the one they are actually trying to talk to aliens with or something…..well, Josh says, hey..my friend, Steve is come to town with his wife, and we’re going to go to take pictures of it while she’s at a conference…..apparently he rented a car. That sounded pretty cool, so I said I was in….so the night before we were going to, we go into code red, which means, a certain number of people on the ship got sick, so we would have to get up on the Sunday, and clean our lounge….with this…bac…bacarack..burt bacarack stuff…..takes no time, but we have to do it at 10:30…so we couldn’t get up and get to the satellite in time….but there’s a park a little ways away that has live monkeys that jump on your car, and hey…that’d be cool. Ok, sure I’m in.

So Sunday comes around, I pack up my computer and lenses and camera, and we head out to the hotel to meet Steve. On route Josh calls Steve to say we’re on the way….get to the hotel, up to the 7th floor, knock on room 703, and Josh jumps out of the way…hmm..ok, he wants to play a joke and it’s me at the door…cool. Door opens up, and I’m looking face to face with Lynn.

I rarely get surprised…..I usually suspect something. But I was fully unprepared for this in every sense of the word.

I look at Lynn, who had a huge smile, I looked at Josh, who had a huge smile, I looked back at Lynn, then said to Josh…”So, wait…..we’re not going to see any monkeys???”
After that we went back to the ship..got Lynn signed on, and had a great week. Like, a great week.

I was on vacation friends….we had a nice room, went out to sightsee….shop, relax in the sun….we even got to see “that yoda guy” aka Nick Maley. Who is the dude who helped make yoda, among many, many other things. Shoot, this guy made the freaky head in the Wild Boys video….worked on superman 1 and 2 and Krull.
And he’s totally cool….talked to us about his paintings, got to see, ….and buy some cool star wars stuff, told me a couple of stories and took a picture with us. (he shook my hand, and had a pretty good hold on Lynn….hey, hey helped make yoda..I’m cool with him grabbing my girl a little.”

Never got to see any monkeys