Day 17 started out as a normal shore day on the good ship Nautica. We were planning to spend a relaxing day exploring Dubrovnik - that was up until we noticed that the internet was down - no signal from the satellite - tantamount to a disaster. Kenny has to phone Tennessee because something needs to be switched somewhere in the bowels of the ship but you can’t do it without 1:permission from Head Office which 2: requires a phone call to the radio officer who says yes you can use the phone on the Bridge to call Head Office but tells you to get permission from 3: the General Manager to use the satellite phone and then 4: phone the bridge and ask permission to go onto the Bridge and use the phone and then 5: knock on the door and ask permission to enter and 5: then ask to speak to the guy you spoke to in the first place who 6: has gone for lunch and you just talked to him 30 secs ago to arrange to see him on the Bridge and then you start over again and then it is 4:00am in the morning in Tennessee and when you phone them there they are asleep and not too happy to talk to you and tell you to phone back and you are now back to Step #1 and as may have noticed I decided to leave the numbers out because there are so many steps just to be able to pull a switch that it is now 3 hours later and we still have no internet and soon the passengers will be returning to the ship and will get even madder than yesterday when they found out for the first time that it is 95 cents a minute and so hopefully you can escape as soon as possible and have a well deserved drink or two .
It all adds up to life on board
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