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I have an interview follow up call in 40 minutes !

So I may have just re-entered the country illegally as no one checked our documents.

10:07, headed south in our Uber. $75, ordered it while we were about 5 minutes walk from the rideshare pickup, arrived less than one minute before he did.

This direction is never as exciting.

That’s it. They’re politely inviting us to move along.

We’ve had situations where we need to drive home from a port and want to get on the road asap. Of course there are also tight flight schedules and worries about customs delays. I feel with a 2pm flight we’re more than fine chilling. That’s five hours from now. I don’t see the terminal taking over an hour and typically much less. We will take a taxi or Uber to SeaTac and being midday after the local morning rush hour and the initial cruise passenger rush I think we’ll have more than sufficient time. Already checked in for the flight and bag drop should be easy enough. We’ll end up sitting and waiting either way and I like Two70 better than any airport.

Hanging out in Two70 though our tag number is supposed to be in the much less attractive and comfortable Royal Theatre. We are going to be standing in a long line at the terminal and I am in no rush. They are ahead of schedule ship emptying wise and it’s down to a trickle in here.

I couldn’t post breakfast because I had to join a work Zoom meeting! 😂 It was good and served quickly so they must be set up Windjammer style in the galley for this service. We had, of course, bagel with smoked salmon, chocolate pancakes, parfait, side of bacon (generous, probably six thin slices) and side of hash browns (one small piece, about 2-3 bites, with enough ketchup for three times the amount.

Welcome to beautiful Seattle!

@MeganGC1983is at the airport and we’re still onboard. It’s 6:42 in Seattle so we have more than an hour until we have to get out of the room. I would like to hit breakfast in the MDR.

I’m really not sure what to do with these treasures. I will say, Beatles Name That Tune was very challenging. The first ten or so were big hits everyone knows; even a lot of non-Beatles fans wouldn’t have been able to escape knowing them. But then it got rough. And you only got 4-5 seconds of some non-hits you’d only know if you own the whole catalog and actually listen to it periodically. I have the box set on my phone and have heard most everything on all the Beatles records multiple times. I’m on the Beatles subreddit where we debate best and worst and most underrated and so forth. And I needed that nutjob level of fandom to get my perfect score, and even so I was only about 60-70% certain about five of the 20 songs. I knew them all but the shortness of the clips led to a little doubt. Of course I won’t share my answer sheet but just listen to all 12 albums and all the singles, both A and B sides, and you might win as well! o

Hmm. This is looking like the end of the route.

Splash pool.

Once I got on British Columbia 5G the time reset itself and caught up. I wonder if it will wonk again when I get back on Voom.

This Sydney Australia thing has my fitness app all messed up. It added yesterday and today together apparently assuming I started the day there and then moved around the earth, essentially getting almost a 48 hour day, international dateline wise. I’m struggling a little with the math but I lost Wednesday entirely because what was my actual yesterday looked like earlier today down under? Right? 🤔

Solarium art.

Ok so I didn’t go into port this evening but I did play Beatles name the song and I got a perfect score! Joe was asking the “teams” to count their scores but I was no team, baby! Just one rabid lifelong obsessive Beatlemaniac.

While I had good signal here in port in Victoria, I posted a celebration of life message in the blue social media site on behalf of the cat rescue. She was a sweet hospice cat beloved by everyone who knew her, and her passing while I was away was no surprise. The feeling that I would rather have been with her than where I was, is really the biggest reason I plan to reduce my travel. I used to hate my life and couldn’t wait to get away. In spite of the stress and challenges, I love my current life and miss it when I leave it.

I’m up on the aft deck behind Windjammer on 14, not in my room on the virtual screen. Tonight I will watch for pier runners!

Awww someone waived at me from their infinite veranda.

Better pic