Beast slept thru the meeting. I went though. It was good. Came back to the room & found him awake - the laundry had been delivered & woke him. He realized that part of his problem might have been that he never took his meds in the a.m. So he did that.

We showered & came to the Library/PC area (one above the other on 7 & 8) so Beast could access his [work] email. He'd been having connection issues all day. I read & did x-words until it was time to go to dinner. All of Rony's tables were full so we were seated alone (2 top) somewhere else. We did see Rony & I apologized for ditching him.

Dinner was good: I had a Caesar salad + sole & potatoes. Beast had fried cheddar & chicken (a LOT of chicken!) & the waiter brought us the shrimp-noodle Asian dish to share. Not sure why. He did the same for another table near us. It was all good. I had the butterscotch pecan tart for dessert; Beast had about have his cappuccino layer cake which was yummy. Mine was ok--basically pecan pie.

Then we walked around the pool deck for a few minutes. Back to our room & into comfy clothes. I sat on the balcony for about an hour--it was much cooler and lovely listening to the water splash around as we sped along to Barbados. Beast found the video of the 70s night festivities [a couple of nights earlier] on the TV and that was truly strange to watch. Thank God we missed the real thing.

And then Beast went for a stroll around Deck 12 and I climbed in bed. AND crashed. My texts to him were pretty hilarious.

"I'm rapidly fading"
"OX rashing"
"Eri crashing. ... b"
"Hope you're ok."
zzzzz

 He says he was back in the room by 12:30. I was O-U-T & didn't hear a thing.

Neither of us had a totally restful night--I read for a couple of hours (2-3:30?) and woke up for good @ about 8:30. Woke Beast up & off we went for breakfast. He did admit he'd had at least one drink this week, but not last night. But he hasn't had enough to make him blotto, which is good.

Anyway, same old breakfast--filling & tasty. Back to the room. Beast had stepped out on the balcony before we'd gone to eat and said, "Nope - I can already feel the way I felt yesterday coming [on]." So. I may head to the port shopping area & some point but Beast is staying here.

We're back in the Library today. Beast's got his work laptop charging & I've just caught up again here.

The Library isn't much, but they do leave a Daily Trivia sheet out every day. I'm considering repurposing that idea somehow for work. It's a single sheet with trivia & puzzles* on one side & answers on the back. Will ponder a bit and talk to Beth & Nick when I'm more caught up @ work.

So now more ... Rose.

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*sudoku & word search