Saint Greg's Venezia Transatlantic May 29, 2023

[Saint Greg]

Weather was perfect. I said I thought those people who went out in coats and hoodies would regret it later. I still believe that’s the case.

[Saint Greg]

This is when I ran into the bar situation. I was finally going to get a spot at amari but it was closed. Frizzante was mostly full but the people all went down to Carnivale to get drinks then carried them to frizzante.

 

Tennis

 

[Saint Greg]

I got my first thirsty frog of the cruise in the atrium

 

 

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Sail away

 

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Peggy’s cove I think

 

 

[Saint Greg]

Tonight’s entertainment is Michael Kent. He’s doing two shows. No comedy tonight. He started off the show putting a bunch of colored life preservers on the screen. He gets everyone to end up on the same life preserver. I went back to the later show and figured out how he did it.

 

 

The best one is this one he did on the penn & teller “fool us” show. He starts out with two tubes, a bottle, and a cup, and he ends up with 10 bottles. 
 

 

 

[Saint Greg]

I requested a table with 15 mins left in the show so I could have a table when the show was over. That worked good.

 

Tennis

 

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I took a balcony spot for the second magic show. Here’s how he gets everyone on the same life preserver. You pick one. Then he says move to the nearest black one. There are only two black life preservers and they’re both in the same area. So then when he has you move to the nearest red and then yellow, everyone ends up on the same yellow.

 

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[Saint Greg]

There’s a rubix cube trick where shows an audience member how to solve it behind their back. I tried to see if I could see anything nefarious but I couldn’t. I can only guess it’s a trick cube.

 

 

[Saint Greg]

Here’s the bottle trick 

 

 

 

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Antman & Wasp

 

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Nothing like waiting until the last minute.

 

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[Saint Greg]

A few minutes later there’s a fog horn. And it’s been non-stop ever since.

 

 

[Saint Greg]

Venezia052923Day15.pdf

[Bound4Bermuda]

9 hours ago, blarko said:

What’s the answer to this? It’s making my brain crazy 😜 

I think it’s one. But the usage of “owns” twice in the first sentence is making my brain go into a loop like when two mirrors face each other and you just see yourself infinite times. How does she own half of what she owns—plus more? I’ll just stick with one. 🤷‍♀️

[crewsweeper]

11 minutes ago, Bound4Bermuda said:

I think it’s one. But the usage of “owns” twice in the first sentence is making my brain go into a loop like when two mirrors face each other and you just see yourself infinite times. How does she own half of what she owns—plus more? I’ll just stick with one. 🤷‍♀️

Ran this through AI.  Answer is 1.  You're correct sir.

 

Mary owns 1/2x +1/2 =x  Solve for x.  Subtract 1/2x from both sides = 1/2=1/2x.  Multiply both sides by 2 = 1.🙃

[Bound4Bermuda]

3 minutes ago, crewsweeper said:

Ran this through AI.  Answer is 1.  You're correct sir.

 

Mary owns 1/2x +1/2 =x  Solve for x.  Subtract 1/2x from both sides = 1/2=1/2x.  Multiply both sides by 2 = 1.🙃

Thanks! I was starting to think the “owns” business was going to be some social commentary that women couldn’t own anything at the time so it was really her father’s cat until the time of Mary’s marriage wherein it would become her husband’s cat! Lol

[Saint Greg]

Good morning! Today is the last day of the cruise.

 

Like I was saying on the first day I was born in Italy. In the military there was a small chance I could get a temporary duty assignment to my birthplace. They only came up about once every four years. I did everything I could to put myself in position for it. I volunteered for the bad places people didn’t want to go, etc.

 

Then one day a few years later it came up. And they gave it to me. I had the orders. I had the plane ticket. Two weeks before I was supposed to leave I sent an email to my sponsor who I hadn’t heard from in awhile. He replied and said “don’t come. Your position has been canceled.”
 

Some of the not so good people used it as an opportunity to help themselves. Another one of those bad jobs came down and this time for thanksgiving, Christmas, new years. They didn’t want to get stuck going. 
 

They knew I was counting on the Italy money to pay my truck off. This wouldn’t be nearly as much but it would get me closer. I ended up going and I paid my truck off. While I was over there I got to meet a former president with whom I share a birthday. That’s petty cool.

 

But I’ll always wonder what would’ve happened had i not sent that email and I just showed up in Italy.

 

[luvcruzing]

Very interesting.

 

[Saint Greg]

1 minute ago, luvcruzing said:

Very interesting.

 

Yep. That’s where Cajuns come from.

https://www.instagram.com/p/CtWkSC8yBBX/?igshid=MzRlODBiNWFlZA==

 

 

[Saint Greg]

We’re taking the coffee like out into the walkway today.