Hi ho, MMMLogerinos!

I have a public service announcement kindly provided by my pal Darcy Carson, though it is unknown who did the actual research and cogitating on this vital subject:

Water and Wine Education

WATER...... It has been scientifically proven that if we drink 1 liter
of water each day, at the end of the year we would have absorbed more
than 1 kilo of Escherichia coli bacteria found in feces, in other
words, we are consuming 1 kilo of poop!

However, we do not run that risk when drinking wine (or rum, whiskey,
vodka, beer or other liquors) because alcohol has to go through a
distillation process of boiling, filtering and fermenting.

WATER = Poop

WINE = HEALTH

Free yourself of Poop, drink WINE!!!

It is better to drink wine and talk crap than to drink water and be
full of crap.

There is no need to thank me for this valuable information, I am doing
it as a public service.

Ciao, ciao, MMMMMMMMMMmelinda, sticking to wine

Hi ho, MMMLogerinos!

Long time, no mmmlog. While I was cruising to Alaska I apparently missed the wowza season finale on Veronica Mars. My author pal, Joyce Lamb, also a VM freak, just filled me in on the episode. I gotta find it! I also come back to discover that Chris was voted off Idol--yes, I watch that, too. That's disappointing as I thought Chris very cool and a great singer. I like Kat, too, but I'm an Elliott fan, so there you go. And Survivor--who cares, though I always enjoy watching a fighter pilot work. Terry was brill, I thought. The others--oh pleazzzzzzzzzzze.

Now to catch you up on MMMMMm's sea cruise. I think I heard about the Alaska Mystery Cruise on Coast2Coast.am in an ad from Seattle Museum of the Mysteries about their upcoming seven day cruise to Alaska where they would hold their annual UFO Paranormal Conference. Sounded like just my kind of thing and a great time, so I signed the DH and me up for the fun. And it was!!! The Museum folks are great--Peter, Charlotte, Chantelle, Sean and Bill the Weird Science guy.

Bill brought his own microwave oven to set things aglow within as weird science demos. Holy moly, Bill did indeed put metal in the microwave and created pulsing plasma. I kept moving my chair back and keeping an eye on the sprinklers as the smallish room flashed with odd color lights from the oven as well as hung with smoke. He also showed how light flashes and orbs can be created on film and digital cameras--very informative. I now believe that said orbs are NOT spirits, but dust particles and other microscopic flotsam. I'm not saying that spirits aren't having their pictures taken, just that I can understand that minute particles of dust and water vapor may take more advantage of photo ops. All of Bill's demonstrations were fabulous. He took an eight inch copper tube, dropped a super magnet into one end (holding the tube vertical) and the magnet took maybe three or four seconds to drop out the end other end. Then if you ran the magnet along the tube's exterior it felt like pushing it through syrup. I bought a couple of the magnets and Bill warned me about getting severely pinched by them. He put one on the top of my hand and the other in my palm and they STUCK! He advised either keeping the magnets entirely separate or locked together--if I was strong enough to get them apart. And I am, just. I've got them home and the DH decided to see if they could "find" nails in the walls. So, I got a magnet hanging mid-wall on an unseen nail and the other on the opposite wall in my office. Very cool!

I'm so glad to have had the conference to attend and the interesting people to interact with as cruising can be a bit boring, IMO. It seems that HollandAmerica emphasizes shopping, the casino and bingo profit centers, oh yeah, and their pricey spa. They even charge for some workout and yoga sessions. But being all about profit is a Dutch tradition--my paternal grandmother was Dutch, so I can speak to that.

Okay, so you stroll through the Westerdam's three shops which includes the "art" auction and that's it for the shopping ops. The casino isn't my thing--I lived in Vegas for many years and didn't avail myself there, so no loss or interest. And the spa--I like that self indulgence, I really do, but I'm not one to wander in and have a twenty year old (or any age) stranger lay hands on any part of me. And I just threw the age thing in because all of the spa workers seemed teenagers, blade thin and with flawless skin, and they were European. There were only two culinary demos and a couple of PhotoShop Elements classes and that was it for stuff to do--no kitchen or bridge tours. Actually, we could see the starboard side of the bridge from our balcony on the Navigation Deck, which was on the same level. The best place on the ship, besides our cabin which was lovely, was the Crow's Nest in the bow on Deck 10. We spent much time there and our bar bill shows just how much. We even closed the place down one night--music and dancing, don't ya know. Wheeeeee.

I'll be going on and on about this cruise for days. We had a wonderful time and I'm so about sharing that here.

Ciao, ciao, Mmmmmmmmmmmmelinda, home from the sea

Hi ho MMMLogerinos!

The Kansas Heckler just rattled my chain. Yes, it has been a few since my last post but here I are--briefly. Getting ready for the cruise and trying to get a couple of proposals out of here is chewing up all my time. Now, you might be questioning--what's to get ready for a cruise? It's about clothes, don't you know. And shoes, my eternal bane. Very few shoes fit my long boney feet and most feel just awful on.

I think I've got the clothes thing taken care of, thanks to shopping with the DH, my closet and a bit of borrowing from Darcy's closet of designer duds still sporting the tags. But the shoes . . . Ugh. I have to go out tonight and see about some good walking shoes, a pair of jeans and a couple of other little things. I'm thinking it's going to be coolish, raining even, in Alaska. It is only May, after all. Now that I think about it, we could use some new luggage, too.

Off I go to work on the proposal and shop for shoes--ugh, and luggage--yay!

Ciao, ciao, mmmmmmmmmmmmelinda