It's not that I've had nothing to write about..It's just that I haven't felt like sharing for a while. I can be churlish like that. In any case, we just returned from a 9 day excursion on the Celebrity Mercury. We actually had a good time, though I'm prone to boredom on long cruises. I took my guitar this time and divided afternoons at sea between reading about Lisbeth Salander and practicing scales and Carulli preludes in the cabin. I wasn't quite ready to go up to the Lido deck and sit there with an open hat...Perhaps next trip. We did attend several cooking classes. As we were preparing to leave on Monday morning, we encountered Walter, the ship's Swiss executive chef. I made one humble and respectful request of him. I suggested that he change the name of the cooking class to something besides "A Taste of Mercury." I told him that adding a simple The before the ship's name might make the enterprise a bit more appetizing. I'm not quite sure that he actually got it.
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"Every normal man must be tempted at times to spit on his hands, hoist the Jolly Roger and begin to slit throats" HL Mencken
Why I'm here
Actually, I am Shy and Retiring despite my brief stint as a choruster in The Pirates of Penzance (see above pic), but not afraid to let others know what I'm thinking or feeling-within reason, of course. This blog will record my odyssey from "working- stiff" to retirement and inevitable curmudgeon hood. I hope to describe some of the the twists, turns, and gyrations that I anticipate I will need to go through to allow me to feel that I have remained a productive human being. I also reserve the right to make sardonic comment on the ironies and visiccitudes of life as I experience them.
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