Well, we returned Friday evening from our Disney vacation. It was terrific. Disney does these things so well - everything went smoothly except for one tiny blip which wasn't their fault ( Read more... )

So, the 100th anniversary of Titanic is fast approaching (in case any of you weren't aware). It's Sunday - actually, if you're going by time zones, Saturday where I am. Titanic sank at 2:20 am in the morning of April 15th, 1912. Yes, I know this time off the top of my head ( Read more... )

I just booked our Disney Cruise!

We're doing kind of a whole package - flying to Orlando, spending Catherine's 4th birthday at the Magic Kingdom (a day is probably enough when you can't ride the Big People rides, anyway), and getting the ship (Disney Magic - I wanted Disney Dream, but she's more than we wanted to pay) to the Bahamas the next day. ( Read more... )

We leave TOMORROW. Whee! I'm so excited I have butterflies.

On the minus side, Catherine gave me her cold. JUST what I need - a cold on a nine-hour flight. I'm Zicaming, but it'll still be with me tomorrow.

Just in time for me to go on my trip, Joe's bonus came through today. I was GOING to rent a laptop - even went so far as to call Rent-A-Center and went through the entire identity-theft-enabling application process (and immediately thereafter signing up for LifeLock) when Joe called and said to go ahead and buy the el-cheapo laptop we'd seen last ( Read more... )

OH. MY. GOD ( Read more... )

This made me laugh.

Pirates fire on US cruise ship in hijack attempt

This was the line that got me:

"But the bandits, riding in two skiffs and firing rifle shots at the gleaming ship, were outrun in minutes when the captain of M/S Nautica gunned the engine and sped away in the Gulf of Aden, a spokesman for the company said Tuesday ( Read more... )

( More than you ever wanted to know about Lusitania )

Those of you who either aren't on the UnaBoard or have only been there fairly recently may not know about my love for the luxury steamships of the early-mid 20th century. I like current ones, too (I think Cunard's Queen Victoria is the loveliest thing on the ocean in many years, and I think that line's Queen Mary 2 is awkward and hideous), but the ( Read more... )