Day 68 More Chores

Surfing, doctor, Internet and Photos
Kurt arose early so he could get on his way to surfing. Andy decided to hitchhike to the hospital near the ferry dock so he could get the prescription medication for his late blooming staph wounds.
I took to time to catch up with Internet banking, compose a few e-mails and begin to try to understand why I cannot post my blog even when the Internet signal seems fine. After a lot of research, I finally decided I did not understand how the system works nor could I figure it out without help. My choices are to start over with a new site or somehow get help with the current Apple website. When I was in the U.S. and in Mexico, it was so easy I got lulled into thinking I had found the answer to blogging. I knew it might be difficult when we were at sea but I figured that once we got to a reasonable connection, I would be able to resume where I left off. I should not completely blame the system since I think I was partly the cause. When I started the blog I found it so easy to include photos that I sprinkled each day's installment with views of the day's activities. The pictures came from the Adobe program I used for editing and I did not adjust them to a new size - thinking that the blog software would do that automatically. Although I still do not know for sure, I speculate that iWeb may have been trying to upload the full resolution pictures - a feat not possible with the slow connections I had available.
This gave me the idea that I may have a third option and that is to transform all of the pictures to PC screen resolution since that would be a small file and it also is what blog readers will see. I therefore set out to determine how to put all the pictures into blog viewable form.
Andy came back fairly early as he had found a clinic much closer to the anchorage and there was no wait to see a doctor as there would have been at the hospital. Kurt arrive a bit later so we ate dinner, played some cards and went to bed early again.
From the beginning of this trip, we have spent some time almost every day playing some form of group game. Although dice, dominos and backgammon are occasional pastimes, card dominate. We started with dutch rummy, a game that Mark's grandmother taught him but after I introduced "Oh Hell" it is the game played more commonly than anything else. It accommodates from 3 to 8 people, is easy to learn, requires some skill and can be played for a short time or a long time. I think we may be working our way up to bridge if everyone gets the hang of Oh Hell.