Pre departure posting

A final posting before departure, which is exactly 24 hrs away – yeehaw! So tomorrow after work we head to the city to pick up daughter # 2 who will take us to the airport and keep the vehicle for us. And a chance for us to see Hank - the feline addition to their family.

There has been a last minute panic in the form of a slight computer glitch where it seems the presentation is trying to dialup to retrieve the embedded link to one (or more) of the graphics I’ve used. Apparently I copied and pasted something without saving to my computer as I usually do – a bad decision made at midnight while putting the presentation together. When I open the presentation if I’m able to disable the dialer it’s ok, if not the program just churns and won’t run. The difficulty is in trying to figure out which one it is, find it, save it to the computer, delete the first one and restart the computer to do away with this problem. This is no longer a reasonable solution to the problem even if I decided to pull an all nighter as the links are not specific so it could take hours to locate the files and there are many. The suggestion to disable the dialup connection was a great one but that option isn’t available on my laptop so I’d have to completely remove it. The presentation runs on the baby daughter’s laptop but it’s a Mac so not an option. The presentation appears to run if I cancel out of the dialup when it loads and our future son-in-law says that with a wireless connection on board ship this won’t be an issue anyway. Lesson learned. Not a good way to be heading off though as it’s nerve wracking until I get through the sessions.

We managed to get airfare today out to see daughter # 1 in September but it was a combination of Air Miles for one and seat sale with the return for the other of the tickets to be picked up hopefully on a seat sale later on. Learned a lot about sharing miles, buying miles and additional fees in the process. Good to know the plans are in place so we can get out to see the Groundhog Museum and our western daughter.

I will certainly be glad to be away from work for two weeks after tomorrow although it feels like I'm abandoning the teammates with the way things have been going. The forecast across the pond appears to be a bit wet and here will be a sunny weekend (of course as we need the rain with the woods closed to open fires already) but at this point it no longer matters.

In between getting the shore captain's truck to and from the garage for servicing, squeezing in a haircut for myself and all the last minute laundry, dishes, plant watering etc. that goes on until midnight the night before vacation doesn’t make it a restful sleep. But then again neither does waiting for boats which are due in first thing tomorrow for the man of the house. Back by July 27th so behave until then.