“You’re living aboard? How exotic!”

• If not already awake from the nightlong, unrelenting wind whistling through the rigging or the whitecaps bashing against the hull, the shining sun through the hatch directly overhead will ensure that you are- at 5:10 am.  
• Contort out of the v-berth.  Place bare feet on to the cold and damp cabin sole (floor).

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• Hit the head then a have flash of panic – is the tank pumped out? 
• Check charge level of batteries.  12.2 dammit!-need to run the motor today to charge up!  
  

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• Flip on the coffee maker… wait, there is no coffee maker.  Boil water, clean out French press, add new coffee, wait, add water, wait, press, pour.  Get half and half from the ice box.  The ice is getting low have to fetch that later. 
  

• Check for loose stuff on deck from the night before. Secure as necessary. Check that the dinghy didn’t disappear in the night.  Wipe down the cockpit of the dew.
• Have ½ hour of sunrise coffee in cockpit.
• Unbury the clothes containers from the quarter berth.  Rummage for today’s outfit. Pack the shower bag.  Pack a back pack: laptop, phone, keys, wallet, pounds of batteries, connectors, headset, note books.
• Wipe the dew of the dinghy. Pump out any overnight rain. Start motor hopefully. Contort your way into dinghy.    Ride the 200 yards to the dinghy dock.  Perform the ever-ungainly-dinghy- dismount.
• Leave the light shower bag off in a locker, but keep the heavy backpack for the walk. 
• Stop at Joe’s for another coffee and some chat.
• Walk back to marina.  Take shower.  Dry off with t-shirt because the towel is left behind on the boat.  Place shower bag into locker.  Plug in /log in to work on the deck, squint at the screen for an hour or so. 
  

• Walk to library.  Loiter for a few minutes for the doors to open.  Set up the command center; plug in Laptop, IPad, IPhone, headphones, supplemental batteries.

• Covertly take a Teams meeting or two.
• Direct library tourists to the video kiosk .
  

• Miss lunch – not worth the breakdown and re-set-up.
• Step out of the arctic chill of the library to warm up.
• Meet Krisann after work for some chores. Pick up;  groceries, hardware, ice-something 

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• Load up dinghy. Motor back to Krisanngria, unload dinghy.  Recall that the shower bag is left BACK AT THE MARINA. “Help” Krisann with dinner by staying out of the way.  Fail at staying out of the way.  Fix something-nah, that’s what tomorrow is for. Run the motor to charge the batteries.  That counts as fixing.
• Clean dishes with mostly cold water.  Dry and put away.
• Enjoy sundowners in the cockpit as the setting sun colors the clouds behind Pilgrim Tower. IT REALLY IS PRETTY EXOTIC!