Don't piss off the Normal People

So this week has been interesting. We have had a parcial ship charter of Alternitive lifestyle folks, aka Gays. Now I have no problem with this group, but a lot of the "normal" passanger did. Come on people get real. Although I do agree if you have little kids onboard, this isn't the best environemnt for them to learn about the birds and the bees, or should I say the birds and the birds, or the bees and the bees.

FIRE!!!!

Well last night, or early this morning depending on how you look at it, we had a fire on board. Yes the really do happen. At 2:30 am I was awoken with the PA announcement of BRAVO, BRAVO, BRAVO, DECK 0, FIRE ZONE 3, LAUNDRY! First thoughts are am I dreaming, then looking at my watch I think wait, crew drill was supposed to be at 1:15 pm why is it so late, and did I really sleep past noon. Then I turned on the light and got a better look at my watch, OH Crap it's two thirty in the morning, this isn't a drill. After many announcements the fire was out and it was back to sleep. I live very close to where I would have to have evacuated my room. Luckily I wasn't in the bar when it happened or I wouldn't have been allowed back till around four in the morning. The fire is under investigation at this time.

Never a dull movement on the Jewel.

Dry Dock Part II

Well first of let me say I'm sorry to everyone that has been waiting a long time for me to write this. I had many intention of writing this in my cabin a little bit at a time, but alas I have just been too tired. Cast change is now over, so that is good. I had been feeling a bit under the weather the past few days, but things are looking up now. So as I have a few moments, I will just share a bit of what I did during dry dock.

The main thing that I had to do during dry dock was to clean all of the lights in the theatre and get them all working again. The main problem was that my Mac 550 would not power on. Turns out that they had the originally power cards in them that Martin had discontinued because they didn't work very well. So once I received the big box of new parts, everything worked again.

Besides cleaning and fixing all of the lights in the theatre, we had to do the same for all the other area's around the ship. I think the most disgusting had to be the lights from the crew disco. I am so glad I don't smoke cigarettes, and yes I am going to publicly say this, Dad please stop smoking cigarettes. I have pictutes of the lights and trust me your lungs don't look any better.

Although I now have a lot of problems with the lights in the centrum, heat problems. The lights that are working are bright.

Again I do apologize, I had so hoped for this blog to be much longer, but if I put if off any longer, you might not have gotten this much.

Uncle David

Well I know you were all expecting Dry Dock part II, but this is not going to be it. I am howerver working on it at the moment, so stay tuned.

I awoke this morning to go to the doctor for some back pain I have been having, don't worry everything is fine.

Then it was off to check me email and start back in working on a color scroller problem I am having. First thing I noticed when I got to the booth was that my black zone scrollers (those are the ones the light the front of the stage in front of the Main curtain) were not in white as they should be. I tried to control them and nothing. So I went to check the rack where all of the power supplies are, and sure enough no power, the fuse had blown. I replaced the fuse and they are all good. Now if only my other scroller problem was so easy.

Now for the good news. I got an email from my sister this morning. She is now six weeks pregnent. I am so proud for them.

Keep a look out for dry dock part II, coming soon.