Miscellanous Wait Listing

So dear Liza does not want to make any predictions to be honest, which leaves you stuck (more than 460 days out) on a list that will hopefully grow shorter.  It is the type of development that only makes the commitment the easier to make when it comes. 

Surely with this much notice they can squeeze the solitary coarse traveller in.  Having seen this option thrown into your frame of reference so far ahead of time, the only way I see it not working out is if you are destined to wait until 2018 to make it happen.  I suppose that would not be the worst outcome either, and motivation to line things up over the next 11 months to confirm the booking upon the schedule's release?  Two years is a much longer wait than one, and while some other tall ship options may be open to you in the interim, I think the stars are too aligned in this direction to allow for any retreat now.

In the spirit of waiting, some drafts cleaned up on the blog, leaving a few quotes worthy of being added "in this space", to quote a witness and his testimony on day 1 of the job that in years to come you will scarcely remember.  Such is the reason for the chronicling.  Leaving puzzles for the memory to work out from the mundane.  First, various words from the master - not Friday of old as per usual, but since I'm hitting the road for home in a few hours, it might as well be: 

"But I must make fair weather yet awhile,
 Till Henry be more weak, and I more strong."
 - Henry VI, pt. II, V, i.

Yet awhile. Patience in waiting for the moment.  Fitting. 

"Weary with toil, I haste me to my bed
 The dear repose for limbs with travel tired;
 But then begins a journey in my head
 To work my mind, when body's work's expir'd."
 - Sonnet 27

Yes, the exercise manifesto has begun anew.  Tired limbs and dreams.  I like it.  Now for a discussion on flies from Aesop and the Bible.  Neither to be admired, but we will be hoping to avoid any for the apothecary's ilk in relation to the proposed cruise.

The fly on the coach-wheel - one who fancies himself of great importance, one who is in reality of none at all. The allusion is to Aesop's fable of a fly sitting on a chariot-wheel saying: "See what dust I make."

The fly in the ointment - the trifling cause that spoils everything; a Biblical phrase: "Dead flies cause the ointment of the apothecary to send forth a stinking savour; so doth a little folly him that is in reputation for wisdom and honour." (Eccles. x, i.)

And lastly, an old classic.  There may be no keg available on 03/17/17, but if you smuggle one or two on board, you just might be in a shocking place to Let the beer see the sky (but not too long!)  "He was good to his dream...  So he'd fly further because it meant... he'd get to fly longer.  And why not?" 

Haha, of course.  C'mon Liza.  It must be done.