Ah,Karen - At last, someone who understands what proper temperatures are for comfortable living. Human beings were not created to live above 70F, right??!!

We have managed (with my forbidding Pat to even come within a foot of the A/C control) to keep our cabin at about 72-74F, which is sweltering for me but quite tolerable for him. Thank God that in a couple of days we'll be in San Diego, forecast to be at 68 or 69F - ah, heaven??

Funny episode today at lunch:

As usual, we enjoyed a leisurely lunch in Compass Rose. We were seated at the table nearest to the Maitre D's podium, with its very tempting computer. At one point of the lunch, Christian (the Maitre D' of Prime 7 and one of the several at CR at lunch) stopped to ask how everything was going. I quipped that, since the computer was so close to us, I was thinking of randomly scrambling all of the Prime 7 reservations. Christian gave a nervous chuckle, stated that they had strong password controls to prevent any such thing, and then immediately logged on to the system to be sure that I hadn't done such a dastardly deed!! I was not quite sure that the look he gave me as he walked away was one of humorous affection or pure venom (those two looks can be remarkably similar - think of "Fatal Attraction" or "Dumbo").

In any event, we've not yet been cast out of any restaurant on the ship, despite our apparent disregard of certain rules of humorlessness.

The cruise remains marvelous, Cheers, Fred