The lights have dimmed, and I've just finished picking my favorite pictures, croping them, and getting them ready to upload to the photos site. I'm doing things differently on a cruise than I normaly do. I have the camera resolution cut down, and just deleting anything that I don't think is good. It means spend a lot less time messing with the pictures, so in thoery I can take more of them - which should be a good thing.
Good night!
I'm in my favorite place on the ship. A row of about 12 deck chairs are in an enclosed space near the top of the ship. While seated here the coast slips by and I can work on my laptop, read, or just plain think. It's a great spot, and what cruising all about for me.
Right now I'm downloading all the pictures I took today - only 20 left to go. We had our life boat drill earlier ( I brought a book about software requirements to read during the long periods of waiting), followed by a wonderful dinner. As on the Infinity, dinner is a chance to to get pampered by a pair of waiters, and eat delicious foods, the names of which I've never heard.
We made it to the ship! Since I've not slept in more than 32 hours, It's time to catch a little nap before the lifeboat drill in an hour an a half. I'm waiting for internet conntion kit to arrive - funny rules here will not let you take it to your cabin, an attendant must bring it.
Well, here I sit in the Lisbon International Airport, having survived a sleepless nightime transatlantic flight. No matter how I twisted or turned, the fact remained - I was too tall to fit. A nice bed on a cruise ship will feel so nice, but we still have five more hours to go.
Every vehicle zipping around the airport is so different in design. For the most part they are shorter, and look like they have tiny engines under the hood. A Dodge Ram or a Ford F-150 pickup would look like weight lifter here. And the quantity of special purpose trucks at the airport is astounding. I've never seen busses with liftting bodies to allow hadicap visitors to enter the plane.
Every one drives fast around the planes. I'd say it's at least twice as fast as the fastest someone dares in the US. Plus they never stop at intersections marked "Stop", they just zip into to the traffic, weave through airplanes, and generaly just race around. Needless to say the view out the airport windows is much more entertaining here.
So far this trip, I've managed to remeber every piece of metal in my pockets, and I've made it through security with out a hitch everytime. When I step through the detectors, and nothing squals I feel like I've just won a little victory.
Lisbon was beautiful from the air, all the houses and buildings are painted the same color, and in the rosy dawn the city had a surreal appearence.
A few short hours before we leave, I finaly get
Blapp up and running so I will have my normal updating of braino.org while on the ship. This post, is of course, just a test.
Now I can update braino.org by email - perhaps from my father's spiffy
Treo. This evening I tried a few existing mail-to-blog programs, but
none of them quite worked the way I wanted. Naturally I made just made
my own and learned a lot in the process.
What a great idea, now I can have my beloved mouse guestures from
Opera available in most of mw programs on my whole mac. I'm downloading
CocoaGesture right to give it a try.