Rolling...

[aggienaut]

   Well it's 01:30 am Tuesday night / Wednesday morning. LJ Idol topic this week is Rolling Stop and it's due tomorrow afternoon. We have revielle at 0700 though and will certainly be busy through the deadline, so it's now of never.

   Haven't found wi-fi in this port (Friday Harbour, San Juan Island), so I'm left to use the ship's computer. And to do this I have to wait until there's not a ruckus going on here in the aft cabin where the computer lives. Finally now I'm alone in here, alone with two boxes of beer bottles (a mostly full box of "Henry Weinhard's Private Reserve" (a lager) and mostly empty box of "Alaskan Amber" ("an alt style beer." I know what Amber is but "alt" is a mystery to me. There are also several glasses that formerly held whiskey (and some that still do, the shame!) still sitting on the table -- the remnants of a good night.

   Watched the movie "Inglourious Basterds" with some shipmates until around 12:30, was then in here talking with Pony until drunken sounds outside on the dock alerted us to the totally drunk return of several shipmates who had just returned from the bar. Went out and talked to their ridiculously blitzed asses for a bit and now I'm here. And I still have an LJI entry to write! I have an idea but it requires research .. which I don't exactly have time to do. So... unless I come up with a brilliant idea in the next few minutes it's going to be late night not entirely sober unresearched shenanigans!
   Either way though, I still think it's better to get voted out in any conditions then fail to post.

   Anyway, onward to writing about the fall of the Byzantine Empire from memory!


Unrelated Picture of the Other Boat of the Day



ETA: Finished. Revielle in four hours. d:

Comments

[elvenforever.livejournal.com]

Your ship pictures are so beautiful. THIS would have made a more interesting LJ Idol entry, quite frankly -- I find history kinda boring. :)

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Yeah it definitely occurred to me I could have. At the time the topic was announced on the boat we were talking a lot about the "rolling go" in the mornign so it immediately occurred to me, but I didn't want to make alllll my entries about ship stuff. (:

[elvenforever.livejournal.com]

But how many of us know somebody on a classic sailing ship? It's just like nobody knows anybody who works with bees either. You, my friend, are an interesting character! :)

[emo-snal.livejournal.com]

Just after it was too late to change it, Wednesday morning, deadline still eight hours away but me working the whole time till then, I got an idea for a whole entry on nautical terminology. I even started a phone post of it but then decided I didn't like how it was coming out and aborted (: I might post what I had anyway, it ends with "aw this is crap" or something :D

[elvenforever.livejournal.com]

I'd love to see it whether you do it for LJ Idol or not. :)