Hello again! My travel fro 2013 is finally over, and you should start seeing more frequent updates now. Our next ships aren’t until 2015 so I get a break and get to stay home for a while. This is a shot of the sunset just before we left Papenburg - you can see lines of
camper vans waiting to follow the ship down the Ems to the North Sea.

Here is Part 8 of Body Heart and Soul.

At long last an update! Sorry about that folks - I had to take a break to go to Papenburg and execute a project to install the network components in our new cruise ship Norwegian Getaway currently under construction there. Some people do wonder why I usually stop updating when I am overseas and the reason is that our days are very long out there. It’s a six hour plus time difference from Miami, so how it works is we get up at 2am Miami time and work all day - but when our day is winding down at 5 or 6 pm, it’s just 11 or 12 noon back home and the work doesn’t stop until six Miami time - which is midnight in Germany.

So between that, and the fact that my team does tend to eat as a group when we are there I don’t get time in the evenings to write as I do when I’m home. We are about halfway through the process for Getaway - I fly back there on November 3rd and will be there until after the sea trials end but after that - well, after that actually I am going to New Zealand for a week. LOL. But that’s vacation.

Anyway, enjoy part 7 of Body Heart and Soul.

Well folk summer is technically over (I say technically because here in the swamp it’s still 92 degrees and 99 percent humidity. We won’t get cooler weather until November probably. But regardless the days are getting shorter and it’s starting to be darker when I head home from the office at 7. I am about to fly over to Germany for a few days for some meetings about this project - http://www.meyerwerft.de/de/meyerwerft_de/werft/das_unternehmen/webcam/webcam.jsp on Monday I will be tramping around the decks of Norwegian Getaway making sure she’s ready for her network install scheduled late September. I will be flying home on Wednesday, so I will be spending my birthday in the tender care of Lufthansa. Maybe I will get a cupcake in Frankfurt for the ride home LOL.

Here is part 6 of Body Heart and Soul. It’s a bit delayed, since I needed to take some time out to go on vacation, plus edit the final part of Moving Target and also, the first part of Partners for publication.

Body Heart and Soul Part 6

And here’s a picture of a little guy who visited the backyard this morning.

Well, it’s already august and almost time for me to head back out to Germany to begin the process of delivering the next new Norwegian ship, Getaway. It’s hard to believe that 2013 is already on the downhill slide - the year has gone by so fast. I will be taking a few days vacation this coming week and cruising around on the Sky in the Bahamas - hoping the weather will be good and the week a quiet one.

Body, Heart and Soul - Part 5

The picture below is a nice rainbow over the Miami International Airport

Well here we are at the end of July - almost August. It’s rainy season here and there has been a lot of that, but no significant storms yet. I was sorry to miss Lucy in Chicago this weekend - I had planned to go, but had to cancel due to work commitments. Maybe next time!

Body Heart and Soul - Part 4