This is just a quick post from my blackberry before I head to the airport. This is my year to spend the end of the year on the boat so it is most likely going to be a whitecap Christmas for me. I'll try and post a bit more when I get to Houston from Continental's VIP lounge (gold elite status is something I could definitely grow accustomed to) from ( Read more... )

Yes I made it home, but the return trip had it's share of adventures ( Read more... )

Where did the time go? I had meant to post an update on the travels and such, but never got around to making the time. Even now, in the midst of a very slow time with the project on the boat, I have not been very motivated to getting around to things that I had meant to do. The reason things are slow is because we are not acquiring data at a very ( Read more... )

Just a very quick note to let my readers know that I have not fallen off the earth. When I get some time to breath, I hope to update my latest trials and tribulations pertaining to my continued international travels.

When I got home over the weekend from my chief meetings in Oslo, I discovered that I could no longer use the company provided ( Read more... )

Well I have arrived in Oslo for this week's Chiefs meetings. Getting here was fairly typical. The flight from Tulsa to Houston was not bad and Houston to Newark was tolerable. However, the flight from Newark to Oslo left a bit to be desired. The very full plane boarded more or less on time. I was somewhat unkind to a Norwegian father though. His ( Read more... )

I may be a bit late in updating my journal since I have been home for awhile, but I suppose I could blame it on jet lag and just being all kinds of tired from one of my most bizarre trips of my life ( Read more... )

Well it just keeps getting better and better!  This afternoon I called my boss because I need to go by the office tomorrow and discuss some crewing issues with him and we have a teleconference in the afternoon.  I missed him, so I paid a dollar a minute to talk to his voice mail and have him call me back on my mobile (also at a dollar a minute).  ( Read more... )

As I mentioned in my last post, the boat was going to go alongside "officially" on Friday. We did actually make it quayside in Rio Friday evening, but I was not allowed to leave the boat until 1:15 Saturday morning. Because of the nonrefundable marine fares the company had already purchased for my courses this week and next, rather than flying ( Read more... )

The American Labor Day holiday on Monday lived up to its name more than its intent for me. I had a rather intense day of labors putting together my handover notes because of all the different things that we had to fix that were cocked up from before we got onboard. Then I also had to wade through all of the issues we had with the upgrade of the ( Read more... )

Well it's official, I have a kitchen pass to spend some extra time in Europe between my two courses. I talked it over with my wife and though she will be jealous of the time, she is not going to begrudge me the opportunity to have something resembling down time between courses. So this morning I emailed the travel coordinator for my course and such ( Read more... )