Been Busy!

I’ve been so busy! I left the ship (LATE). I finally got off on Thursday, got to Luanda around noon. Had just enough time for lunch at theย hotelย and a beer out by the pool with a few of my shipmates. YES! First beer after 2+ months tastes soooo good! ๐Ÿ™‚

Headed to the airport at 1500. Got on the plane at around 1800. Had about a 10 hour flight to Dubai, a 4 hour layover there, and a 16 hour flight to Houston. Instead of my previous flight with KLM through Amsterdam which was much shorter AND I paid for an upgrade to business so I would have been able to sleep, I was stuck flying coach in a packed full plane for 2 days. Talk about tired!!

I got home about 9 PM Friday night. Fell asleep immediately.

This crew change was SO screwed up! Because I got home so late on Friday, I couldn’t make any of the phone calls I needed to. Like try to set up appointments for Monday, etc. I was WAY too tired to wake up Saturday morning to go sailing that afternoon, so those plans were ruined.

All I managed to do was to catch up on sleep a little bit and get through the humongous piles of mail!

I had a bunch of errands to run today, phone calls to make and get ready for my vacation tomorrow. I sure hope it goes better than the last few days have been going.

I tried to get a rental car today to take to the airport so I wouldn’t spend so much money on parking. Even with the huge rip-off charges for ‘drop fees’ (when I bring the same car back and forth every month), it’s still cheaper to rent a car to and from the airport than to park my car there for 3-4 weeks. So, I tried to get a car this morning.

They called me back around noon (when I was supposed to get the car) to tell me they didn’t have any cars yet. They expected them by closing. I had so much to do and couldn’t wait around til closing, so I figured I’d go ahead and use my truck (even tho it needs some work right now). Couldn’t get it started. ๐Ÿ™

I had to rummage around for the battery charger, clean up the battery and let it charge for a couple of hours. I finally got it started and was able to run some errands.

Good thing too, since they never did come up with a car they could give me today. Maybe tomorrow they said. Lot of good that’ll do when my flight leaves at 0800!

I should be somewhere in Nicaragua by this time tomorrow. ๐Ÿ™‚

0 thoughts on “Been Busy!

  1. Seventy-five years ago Popular Science magazine was promising us teleportation by now. You need to call them out on that. For the truck, you might consider running by the parts store and picking up a quick disconnect battery cable terminal. Easy install and then you can disconnect the battery when it’s to be parked for a long time. That way the little current robbers, the clock and computer and such, can’t drain the battery.

    • Thanks for that suggestion, I’ve been meaning to do that and keep putting it off. I was forced to drive my truck to the airport since the rental car co. really messed me up. I just hope it starts when I get back. I do have AAA, so there’s that in case it won’t.

    • Non-stop! And it continues…
      I did make it out of the house (barely on time) to make my trip to Nicaragua. Now I can busy myself having fun instead of tedium. ๐Ÿ™‚

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