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Fragility of Life in Trichotomy
Loss I got a text from the ENT pianist on Monday morning to tell me that a long-time member of our amateur musician group, a soprano who works in higher education, had passed away. It was a s...
Risk Management in Trichotomy
A Next Generation The amateur musician group had another concert two weekends ago. I thought the turn out wouldn’t be good, since it was raining and it was in the smaller (and cheaper) performa...
History is Cyclical in Trichotomy
And we begin again We visited the ENT pianist a month ago. He just moved to a mansion - and it was a proper mansion, with a two-story two-bedroom guest house, a heated pool with jacuzzi and a p...
As the Season Turns in Trichotomy
One Year In It’s been a year since we moved into our house, but it doesn’t feel that long. And the change in environment isn’t as dramatic as when I moved from Manhattan to Plainview. Still, ...
Back To Civilization in Trichotomy
So Much Space After 2 weeks living in a cruise ship cabin, returning to a house was a big adjustment. There is just so much space! Getting a jacket now involves waking across the room rather th...
Day 14: New York (Wednesday July 30th) in Alaska Travel Log
The cold got worse, I ran a fever, lost my appetite, and spent most of the day sleeping. Later I tested positive for covid. La Prof was sure I caught it from LPCR’s husband (who had a running no...
Day 13: Seattle (Tuesday July 29th) in Alaska Travel Log
I didn’t sleep well last night as a cold was developing - I was feeling a sore throat coming on. I probably shouldn’t have pushed to walk to the breakwater yesterday. Also the people in the next...
Day 12: Victoria, BC (Monday Jul 28th) in Alaska Travel Log
This was a stop made because of the Jones Act, which requires an internationally-flagged ship to stop at at least one non-US port. Otherwise, the ship must abide by US labour laws. So this is n...
Day 11: At sea (Sunday Jul 27th) in Alaska Travel Log
We make our way back to Seattle today, and it was a sea day. We moved back to PST, which was just fine on a sea day. We just have less time being awake. I figured out that the women’s Euro final...
Day 10: Klawock (Saturday Jul 26) in Alaska Travel Log
Today we anchored at an even smaller Alaskan port. We woke up with the ship already anchored but outside was just fog. As we ate breakfast, though, the fog started to burn off, and revealed a lo...
Day 9: Wrangell (Friday Jul 25) in Alaska Travel Log
Our ship docked in the small town of Wrangel today, population 2000. I had wanted to go to the Anan Bear observatory, but the excursion was all booked up, so instead we went on a guided tour in ...
Day 8: Sitka (Thursday Jul 24th) in Alaska Travel Log
We anchored in Crescent Bay in Sitka today, so did not have to take the city bus to get downtown - but we did have to take a tender to town, which took about 20 minutes, on top of however long i...
Day 7: Juneau (Wednesday Jul 23rd) in Alaska Travel Log
We tendered at Juneau today. I’d been there the last time, but I remember it being cloudy and rainy, a long line to get off the ship, and the dock was full of souvenir stores and jewelry stores ...
Day 6: Haines (Tuesday Jul 22nd) in Alaska Travel Log
We woke up today already docked at Haines Alaska. Our side of the ship got the view of the town, which was a quaint little town, with giant snow-capped mountains in the backdrop. The other side ...
Day 5: Hubbard Glacier (Monday Jul 21st) in Alaska Travel Log
Our ship spent the morning scenic cruising to view the Hubbard Glacier. We woke up to dense fog outside our balcony as we sailed into Yakutat bay, so we weren’t optimistic. We woke up at 6:30am,...
Day 4: Icy Strait Point (Sunday Jul 20) in Alaska Travel Log
Today we docked at Icy Strait Point. It’s a town developed solely for the cruise industry. The program director likened it to “Disneyland of Alaska”, but I think it’s more like Mandrogy in terms...
Day 3: Ketchikan (Saturday Jul 19) in Alaska Travel Log
We docked today at Ketchikan. I’d been there before in 2000. But this time the ship docked outside of town at Ward Cove, and our excursion took us to Lake Harriet Hunt, in the other direction, s...
Day 2: At Sea (Friday Jul 18) in Alaska Travel Log
Today was a sea day and it was very laid back. I went to breakfast with LPCR and we were surprised by how empty the place was. La Prof joined us later, then she and I headed to the theatre for t...
Day 1: Seattle (Thursday Jul 17th) in Alaska Travel Log
Today was transit day. We went to bed at 9:30 last night, and I managed to sleep for 6 hours. I went to the 24 hour food court to get breakfast before heading to the terminal. There were a handf...
Day 0: New York (Wednesday Jul 16th) in Alaska Travel Log
Technically we fly out tomorrow, but Oceania scheduled our flight for 7am, and we don’t know what the traffic situation at JFK is going to be due to the construction there, so we elected to stay...
What is Old is New Again in Trichotomy
Another season in the bag Our music group had the last concert of the season 2 weeks ago. It went well - it wasn’t packed, but attendance was decent, and a lot more people who came donated this...
Custody in Trichotomy
Health Scare After coming back from Binghamton, the rabbit had a vaccine booster shot. After that he started eating cardboard and wicker we had put in his area for enrichment. And he started li...
Escape Hatches in Trichotomy
Three Egresses Our meal subscription service sends us our meals weekly in standard-sized cardboard boxes. We always recycle those. But one day I figured if you line several of them up, end-to-e...
My Duties in Trichotomy
My Civic Duty I’m writing this in a courtroom waiting in a jury pool. The courtroom is across the street from our house, so it was very convenient for me to get to. And unlike in the city, they...
Burden of Leadership in Trichotomy
RTFM I still have people writing to me about not being able to schedule performance in the automated scheduling tool, but with a demo video, it was easy to deal with. I just need to find the ti...
