Day 11 No news is no news

We have to make our own news?
Position: N12º31/W119º44 - 24 hr distance covered 127 nm
Whenever I fill out one of those surveys that ask you how you get your news, I always fill out all the boxes - newspaper, TV, radio, Internet. Here we have none of those. The nearest people are over 100 miles away and our only contact is the morning ham radio net and any e-mails sent to Mark. We have not even had our daily contact with No Regrets in several days because our radio connection is not good enough. In some ways, this feels cut off from the rest of the world and in others, it becomes its own world of watching the waves and the sky change throughout the day. I am on watch as I write this and every 20 minutes I scan the horizon for lights of another ship. In the intervening time, I read or write or simply watch the stars rotate around the sky. We are pointed just to the left of Orion with the Southern Cross now clearly visible to out left and the North Star slightly behind us to the right.
Meanwhile, Southern Star continues to push forward at about 6 knots in her rock and roll sort of way. With each surge through the water she pushes aside a foam trail flecked with the sparkling lights of photo plankton (at least I think that is what causes the phosphorescent glow in the water).
This morning I wondered how it will feel to sleep in a bed that is not rocking so violently that if it did not have sides, I surely would have been thrown onto the floor before the night was over. We have only been sailing for 10 days and I have become comfortable enough with the motion of the boat to sleep very soundly.
Since the sun shines every day and the wind and waves come from the Northeast, each day can be much like the one before so we have to make out own news.
Today was washing day. We cleaned the inside of the boat and washed a few clothes. Showers were done on deck so that we cleaned ourselves and the deck at the same time. I will definitely get a picture of that the next time. It it pretty hilarious. (No there is no nudity for those who wondered)