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Oh. Canada.
I’m typing this from the Smart Mouth Cafe in Vancouver, wondering how there’s a cafe THIS cute, THIS close to the ship (in Gastown, a few blocks away), WITH free internet, and it’s not even crowded! Score. Today is embark day, when all the guests (and some of the crew) leave the ship, and their replacements come on. From […]
Sidetracked
Hey, this is going to be a quick post because the new cast just finished their last first performance tonight, and alcohol and munchies are being served in the theater at this moment. Other reasons for being hugely unproductive lately include the parents onboard, the Alaskan ports to be explored with the parents, some extra rehearsals […]
Another All-Nighter
I’m SO happy with how this one turned out! I’ve just finished another scanning/photoshopping marathon in the staff bar. Once I get started on something cartoon-related, I enjoy going forward until it’s done (as is illustrated by the clock on my screen that says “4:25am.” I hear the beach tomorrow is right near the ship. […]
Coloring Attempt #2
What’s fun to do in the staff bar? Sit in the introvert-corner with a beer, and play with the laptop! I was here until 6am last night. I started off working on my last post, and embarrassingly enough–it looks simple–I couldn’t get the text and photos where I wanted them. By the time I finished trying […]
Picture Time
Here are some of my Panama Canal pictures. We went through the first locks at 7am and reached the Pacific Ocean at 5pm, so you can imagine how many near-identical photos of cranes, trucks and tropical trees are on my camera right now. There was a special vibe that day, with the guest areas […]
Frikkin Tourists, and an A-HA moment
This is what we were looking at, if you’re curious: I also got a quick shot of the girls in the comic, using a trick shown me by a well-traveled ship-musician. She had her camera on a neckstrap, and walked around holding it about chest-level. Then she could surreptitiously take touristy shots while seemingly focused […]
Copious Time to Myself
This is the first cartoon I’ve colored on the computer. I’m not sure whether to be proud of this, or mildly embarrassed by the results. I was figuring out Paint.net, the generic Photoshop on my computer, as I went along; plus I don’t have a mouse, so I got a whole lot of this stuff […]
A Big Old FOMO
The staff bar was hopping earlier tonight. The production cast finishes their contract next week, so the replacement singers and dancers are already rehearsing onboard. Altogether, the staff bar contained two casts, half a dozen lounge musicians, some laptops in the introvert-corner, and tables full of waiters and Filipinos. The crowd is trickling out now, […]
Lessons [re]learned in Colombia
So, it’s 5:30pm. We have to be on the ship in less than 2 hours, but at least I’m outdoors now. In my imagination, Cartagena, Columbia would look like a scene from “Candide,” but the view out the porthole this morning looked more like New Jersey. Both mental images left me disinclined to venture out, […]