313 Ship 15 29.5.2019

Only watching the sunrise? I tried it, but then, I ran back to get my camera. I know, that will not show what I saw but it will help me to remember it.
At breakfast, I ate the dinner, like yesterday. It is so far the best way to outwit the mess-man and helps to safe the food from dinner without cramming my belly. I just have too much muesli now. In general, it is complicated to get things done in a way I would like to. I always had a basket with bread on my table and asked him to cut only one slice for me (there always were 4-5), because I used it for cleaning my plate. (Those who know me more privately know that I can clean the plate without bread when there are no people to irritate.) He could do it one time, then I again got a full basket and when I (again) told him that one slice is more than enough, he put the basket on the table of the Sri Lankans, but they don’t use it. So, I asked him to give me no bread at all. Today, after breakfast my water bottle on the table (I am sitting alone, so it is mine) was nearly empty, but I couldn’t drink more. Can I leave it for lunch, or would he change it? And when he changes it, will he use it for cooking (there is only water in 1,5l bottles for cooking no bigger containers!) or pour it away because it is too little? I didn’t want to risk it, so I took it with me.
One thing that I realized recently (in my 6^th decade of chewing): I usually chew on one side, preferring that right one. So far, when I got aware of it and there is no particular reason not to use the left side (I “like” to bite in my cheeks and lower lip, so I often have inflammations), I change sides. And only now I learned that I can use both of them at the same time! So, I included this brilliant innovation in my awareness program during eating: chew slow (better results, less harmful), chew on both sides, put down the cutlery to stay focused on the respective mouthful and sit upright. No easy task, I tell you!
Exhausted from this exercise I went back to my cabin and started a digital scavenging work. I have 3 lists with the data of my trip. The first was an excel-sheet counting from the day I left Vienna and including all data that I knew (and had to shift sometimes, when a ship was cancelled, delayed or new in the list, like in Taiwan). On my way, I completed the list, daily or nearly daily – and made some mistakes as I now found out. The second list is in the “explorer”. Here are folders of every day with all photos and videos, again with some mistakes, but at least I can check it with the date of the photos (which is correct most of the time; I also have photos with “factory settings”). And the third list stems from my blog. And here it started, first, I found out that the numbering is inconsistent, the reason was the day of publishing, that a few times was not according to the calendar. But when I looked it through, I saw numbers missing, other numbers doubled and thought, I can correct that with the other two list. And now I found out that I cannot rely on them as well. In general I am not the tidiest person and I always struggle to stay organized, but if someone asks me what bothers me more – food waste or wrong listings – I know which is the political correct answer, I don’t want to compare the deep emotional impact of both…