Lining Up the Next Shot
Oct. 13th, 2009 01:49 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
aggienaut In an act of particularly fortuitous timing, the contract came in today to make it official -- on the 29th of November (two weeks after returning from this trip I'm about to embark upon*) I am boarding the tallship Lady Washington in Vancouver, Washington. Among other things, the ship was the only real sailing ship used in the movies Pirates of the Caribbean (the rest were models or sets). I will be sailing about on the LW for several weeks! :D
The ship will be sailing down the Colombia and then up to coast to it's home port in Aberdeen.
Nov 30th - Vancouver, WA to Kalama, WA
Dec 02nd - Kalama, WA to Cathlamet, WA
Dec 04th - Cathlamet, WA to Astoria, OR
Dec 09th - Astoria, OR to Ilwaco, WA
Dec 14th - Ilwaco, WA to Westport, WA
Dec 17th - Westport, WA to Aberdeen, WA
(is there a way to make google maps map out nautical routes?)
Thereafter the ship goes in for repairs and I'll probably transfer to the Hawaiian Chieftain (another tallship), which will be then sailing down the California coast.
* I'm planning on using the two weeks between adventures to full time look for what I'm going to do next after the sailing. Figure I'll try another round of trying to land that Serious Job.
Not Entirely Unrelated Picture
A closer crop of this picture
In Idol Related News
So there's an LJ Idol themed fan site that is OFF LJ. I hate to kick a horse that doesn't even know it's dead yet, but I think I completely agree with all the points made by ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif){kind=small}
wiseosiris, the much more relevant LJ Idol commentary LJ that has popped up.
Two highlights:
(1) "How many people have been desperately craving a place other than the LJ Idol community itself (or even one's own LiveJournal, presumably) to embrace and extoll all of the aforementioned points? How many contestants and former winners of the game can possibly be so dissatisfied with the current construct of the LiveJournal community that they would rather congregate in the fora of an online parallel universe?"
(2) "Okay, I must admit that I don't use anywhere near as many emoticons as I could or should to express myself and how excited I [wiseosiris] am to have about triple as many readers as the FAN SITE."
Furthermore, I went and checked and the fan site had about 74 visitors, up from 27 at the time Wiseosiris (or as I like to call him/her, O'SRS) posted earlier in the day, by which point the fan site had already been up for several days (since the 9th). That means that being commented on by O'SRS more than doubled its hits!! (and octopled the daily rate). Average per day before O'SRS: 5.4; Single day since: 49.
And now I may be sending them even more, so don't say I never helped you, off-site-lji-fan-site (OSLJIFS) (:
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42 HOURS TILL DEPARTURE!
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Date: 2009-10-13 09:09 pm (UTC)If anyone was going to have a problem with it, it would be me. I don't.
Anyone else who does, in my opinion, is just stirring the pot for the sake of stirring.
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Date: 2009-10-13 09:17 pm (UTC)If someone managed to have a problem with it, it would be doing extremely well for itself I'd say.
I'm just saying it's doomed to complete and utter irrelevance.
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Date: 2009-10-13 09:35 pm (UTC)But I just think it's silly for anyone to look at something like that and be going "ZOMG!!!! Look at how irrelevant it is!!!"
If it's irrelevant and no one will ever use it for anything - is there anything to be gained by pointing it out? If no one will use it - how is that going to impact *anyone*?
I thought it was a neat and possibly useful idea to make sure information from the past like that could be accessible as Idol itself continues to move forward. If people want to use it and contribute stuff that they think would be handy to have around - great. If not, then they don't!
I thought "O" was a bit on the snarky side but had some useful information to give current contestants. A lot of the advice "he" was giving was useful IMO.
This particular entry though, I thought was a bit of a stretch.
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Date: 2009-10-14 01:50 am (UTC)I can't wait to read your posts.
*adds you on twitter as well*
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Date: 2009-10-14 02:21 am (UTC)Remind me when I'm up there (:
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Date: 2009-10-14 02:24 am (UTC)I kind of wish I could twitter during the trip. Maybe I'll make periodic twizzles when I come through the hotel lobby if there's a computer (:
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Date: 2009-10-14 04:23 am (UTC)Have fun!!
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Date: 2009-10-14 08:00 am (UTC)Yeah there's a swiss sea certification?? :D
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Date: 2009-10-14 08:25 am (UTC)Even funnier I suppose is that my new home club still holds the cup, even if they are a bunch of litigious pricks.
I found the Swiss sea permit test to be harder than the US, but the RYM was the most rigorous.
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Date: 2009-10-14 07:08 pm (UTC)Yeah the Lady Washington has been featured in a hell of a lot of movies and things I think. I'm not sure what this treasure planet is though?
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Date: 2009-10-15 05:58 pm (UTC)The Wiki link:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treasure_Planet
and the poster with the ship
you must be gone...yes?
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