10 Days In

I can’t believe I have only been away 10 days, it feels more like a month.  The joining blues seem a dim and distant memory; this is mainly because of the amount of information I have had to ingest over the past week. There has been no room in the sawdust for anything else. 

 

Whilst we have been here it has been really good being able to go up the mall, have a good coffee and talk to Debbie and the little ones on Skype.  However we are finally sailing tomorrow and we will be at sea for five weeks so there will be no more chances of skypeing for a while, at least we get 30 minutes of phone calls a week and emails.

 

It is going to be good to get to sea proper and actual do my proper job for once. For the last few years I have been stuck around the UK coast, or stuck alongside in Scotland which always makes the trips drag.  It is very different out here though and it does seem strange sailing with all the guns mounted and manned, but as always it is best to be prepared.

 

As you can imagine I have been keeping a good eye on the news of late, things seem to be getting interesting in an awful lot of places at the moment.  I really wonder what the next few weeks will bring. I know the commentators have said that there isn’t a domino effect, but I think they are wrong, the dominoes are certainly falling, Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain will Saudi or Jordan be next I wonder? I don’t know if anyone else feels this but I just have this gut feeling that at the moment the world is standing on the brink of something.  I am not sure what that something is, just that we are on the brink. OK call me paranoid or mad, just something doesn’t seem right.

 

Well I have managed to get into a reasonable routine of going down the gym and cycling on the exercise bike. The saddles are really uncomfortable and because they are in the hangar it is quite toasty and humid so the sweat pours off and hopefully so do the pounds. Luckily my predecessor left some scales in the cabin so I have got in the habit of weighing myself and I recon that I have lost 3 pounds since I have been here.  It helps that I take my kindle up and read that while I am exercising as it helps me take my mind of how brain numbingly boring sit on an exercise bike can be. I am re-reading the ‘Hitch Hikers Guide To The Galaxy’ at the moment; I had forgotten how entertaining it was.  And one quote from it sums things up at the moment after the information overload of the past 10 Days:

 

            “I only know as much about myself as my mind can work out under its current conditions. And its current conditions are not good.” (Zaphod Beeblebrox)