Sean
05/30/2012, 694 miles to go

My crew no longer listens to me. They're being mean to me too. I've, therefore, devised a devious plan to take back control of the ship. I've hidden the Rice Krispy treats. I know it sounds cruel, but it's the only way...

We're making good time today. Ron tortured us with the original Pink Panther last night. It took us 3 hours to get through the film and we were all out cold towards the end. The movie wars will begin tonight. It's my night and I'll be pulling out one of my Buster Keaton's classics tonight. Or better yet, Dances With Wolves - The director's cut.

We're making good time today. All is well.

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Ron
05/30/2012, 800 miles to go

Not sure why I got "blog duty" today. Sean keeps asserting his pho-thority over his crew. He is learning to be the master of omission! Remember that hostess cupcake thing? It went more like

Sean: Hey we have THREE hostess cupcakes, lets have that for desert Me: Wow, sounds great, although I thought you said the cupcakes are yours and you aren't sharing Sean: Yeah but I need to thank you all over and over again because I know you guys are really in charge Scott: That's nice of you Sean. Go get the cupcakes now. (a few minutes passes) Sean: Oh, bummer, there are only TWO cupcakes. Me: That's ok I didn't really want a cupcake anyway. Chocolate sounds better. Sean: That's nice of you. Scott: You know, chocolate sounds better anyway. Sean, why don't you eat both of them? Sean: Awesome! I never get to eat these at home!

How this turned into "I ate both cupcakes in front of the crew" I don't really get. But you know Sean.

Now that the cupcakes are gone, it's all about the rice crispy treats. That went something like this:

Sean: Wow, those rice crispy treats were AWESOME, they were covered with chocolate on one side, great! Scott: Only one of my rice crispy treats had chocolate Me: Mine too Scott: Sean, I think there are two different kinds, you'll have to have no chocolate on both of yours today to make up for that Sean: OK

That's Sean asserting his pho-thority.

Anyway, we are using the motor sometimes, and the wind sometimes. The wind seems to calm as we watch our movie. Tonight we're watching the Pink Panther.

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Scott
05/29/2012, 915 miles off California

Sean and Ron decided it's my turn to write another blog entry. Partly because they have been writing most of them, but also because they can't think of anything to write either.

The last few days have been pretty mellow. We've been sailing with the wind behind us for the past 9 hours or so, which has been generally nice. Hopefully this pattern continues and blows us right into the bay. It's not super comfortable, as the swell is coming at us both from astern and abeam. The beam swells give us a nice big roll every minute or so - people, food, and dishes flying across the cabin each time (just kidding on the dishes, Kathy).

Sean, as usual, has been really mean to his crew. Kathy told him that I get to choose movies three nights in a row for the whole engine thing, but Sean refuses to let either Ron or I pick any movies anymore. He claims he's asserting his captain's prerogative. I think tonite will be the 5th night in a row that we "get" to watch the Buster Keaton silent film classic "The General". Just kidding, it's really only the 3rd night in a row.

It's gotten much colder the last few days, in a continuing progression of increasing clothing since leaving Hawaii - going from shorts and t-shirts to sweats and windbreakers. We don't have much further north to go, so hoping we won't be getting out the foulies. At least now that we have broken free from the grip of the Pacific High we are no longer having nightly squalls. It's been mostly overcast, with the sun making an appearance from time to time. In the past couple of hours the temperature has really plummeted and everyone is discussing whether we are at longjohn latitude.

The miracle water tank of plenty, which has been registered on the gauges as EMPTY for the past four days finally did run dry. We switched to another tank which I suspect will will run dry in about a day in order to keep the cosmic balance.

During last night's movie we saw miles left to go on the GPS drop from "1000" to "999". Sean said something witty, like "yay...". We've turned the corner and are finally on the backside of the trip...

Well, it's time for the daily floggings administered by our illustrious skipper. So far morale is not improving, so I guess they will continue for now. Ron and I were plotting mutiny, but Sean hid all the markers so we couldn't give him a black spot.

That's all from S/V Adventure for today!

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