Slept very well — probably about 10 hours, which felt good after the rough previous couple of days — and got up around eight. Went to breakfast in the Lido buffet then went and worked for a couple of hours (released "Gebb" issue 20, announced and promoted it on Facebook and Twitter, and unfollowed 300 people who were not following me back on the latter platform). Had strong Internet connection via satellite and no issues uploading files, etc.
Had lunch in the main dining room with two other couples.
Walked six laps/1.5 miles around the very nice level 6 promenade deck.
Went to watch the new Aquaman movie in the Wajang Theater at 3 p.m. Had to slip past a woman in our row to get to the meager supply of popcorn when some was delivered but, by the time she ostentatiously stood up and glared at me, it had all been pillaged. Decided not to try to get past her again when more was brought in.
Went to thermal suite in fitness center to enjoy the hot tub, steam room, and heated beds. Were chatting quietly while laying on the latter when one of the other two people in the suite, a Germanic man, staggered over to the fountain, pointed to a sign sitting on top of it and informed us that it told us that we "must be silent," and then inadvertently smacked it off its perch onto the floor. I politely informed him that because neither of us had glasses on we had been unable to read the sign but that his knocking it onto the floor had disturbed us. We then deferred to his need for lebensraum and remained strictly silent until he moved on and a significantly more chatty and nearsighted American couple arrived. Hit the dry sauna for about 10 minutes and then the steam room again before taking a shower and heading back to the cabin.
Got cleaned up and then went to dinner, where we sat with an interesting couple from the San Francisco area (his name was Lance). She said her career had been project management for utilities and he said he had studied metallurgy at one point and we had a very enjoyable conversation that included discussion of William Manchester's Arms of Krupp and Herbert and Lou Hoover's translation of De Re Metallica.
Returned to cabin and turned in about 9:50 p.m. and dozed until about half past midnight, then got up, fixed a Diet Coke, and worked until about 3 a.m. before turning in again.
Breakfast: Coffee, orange juice, and "Eggs Sardou" (two poached eggs on a bed of creamed spinach and artichoke hearts and English muffin with Hollandaise sauce).
Lunch: Salad, Buccatini pasta with creamy four-mushroom sauce, iced tea, mille fuille pastry with bananas.
Snack: Small bag of popcorn that I grabbed on my way out the theater.
Dinner: Starter of fried crab and daikon cakes, main course of beautiful and perfectly cooked prime rib with vegetables, bottle Australian shiraz, desert of sticky toffee and date pudding.
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