Bronze Mermaids Just Go Clang

Shipboard life isn't overly exciting. On the other hand, our bathroom light failed tonight promptly at 11 PM. We've put a call in to the Front Office. So far, we're at 15 minutes of darkness and counting.

This, however, wasn't as bad as the vacuum failure in the vacuum toilets earlier today that stopped them all from working on this level for a while. Fortunately, that seems to be fixed.

The ship has continued to travel slowly, as we're now dealing with a force 7 headwind again and -- as of this afternoon -- one of the diesel generators that supplies power to the engines wasn't working, although the engineer assured the Captain that it would be working by 6 PM. I haven't heard a call of "Man overboard" yet, so I'm guessing that he succeeded. He'd better, or we're never going to make it back to San Diego on schedule, at which time all sorts of annoying things will happen.

Do you get the feeling that Holland America might need to put a bit of money into maintenance?
( What's for dinner? )

The bathroom light is still out.
( Quips inside )

And the bathroom light is still out. It's been half an hour. Time to call the desk again. *sigh*

Bronze Mermaids Just Go Clang

Shipboard life isn't overly exciting. On the other hand, our bathroom light failed tonight promptly at 11 PM. We've put a call in to the Front Office. So far, we're at 15 minutes of darkness and counting.

This, however, wasn't as bad as the vacuum failure in the vacuum toilets earlier today that stopped them all from working on this level for a while. Fortunately, that seems to be fixed.

The ship has continued to travel slowly, as we're now dealing with a force 7 headwind again and -- as of this afternoon -- one of the diesel generators that supplies power to the engines wasn't working, although the engineer assured the Captain that it would be working by 6 PM. I haven't heard a call of "Man overboard" yet, so I'm guessing that he succeeded. He'd better, or we're never going to make it back to San Diego on schedule, at which time all sorts of annoying things will happen.

Do you get the feeling that Holland America might need to put a bit of money into maintenance?
( What's for dinner? )

The bathroom light is still out.
( Quips inside )

And the bathroom light is still out. It's been half an hour. Time to call the desk again. *sigh*