Good morning!

It's Tuesday morning, and I'm feeling almost completely recovered from my cruise. At least, I'm feeling fine at the moment. I have been dealing with a sore throat, but I don't have any other symptoms. I'm crossing my fingers that it doesn't develop into anything more serious.

Yesterday morning, I exported all of my cruise pictures -- almost 300 of them -- to my PlayStation Portable and sorted through them on the train, paring them down to about 70 of my favorites, which I uploaded to my Flickr account last night. They don't have any descriptions yet; I'll be adding those as I find the time.

I went out to dinner at the Mount Vernon Stable in Baltimore with Russell last night. I managed to be good company, despite my sore throat and my fatigue. I showed him photos on my PSP, which garnered the interest of our server, Jason. We talked about cruises for a bit and I shared some photos with him, too.

Dakota and I had made plans for him to spend the night with me last night, but I warned him off because of my sore throat, so we haven't seen each other since Thanksgiving Day, when we met each other at Union Station for lunch before I traveled back to Baltimore to finish packing for my trip.

I really enjoyed myself on the cruise, even though I managed to get seasick, and I'm eager to go on the post-Thanksgiving cruise next year as well. Dakota has agreed to go with me this time, and the accommodations are only $350 per person in an interior stateroom in the class that I had on this cruise. That doesn't include taxes, gratuities and such, but it is still a reasonable fee for a six-day Caribbean cruise.

Yawn.

I managed to go out and do laundry tonight after returning home from the office. I was planning to go dancing with the Chesapeake Squares tonight, but I was absolutely exhausted by the time I returned from the laundromat.

I finally managed to complete the descriptions for my cruise photos. You can see the collection here. There are some that I'm particularly proud of, like the image of the two sister ships side by side. I'm also fond of the Mexican Train photo, for some reason.

I'm trying to stay awake for another hour or so. Even though I'm very tired, I know that if I fall asleep too soon, I will awaken in the middle of the night after only a few hours and never get back to sleep, meaning that I'll be tired again tomorrow at the office. If I can make it past 9:30 p.m., I'll be happy.

My seduction style

Very interesting.

I finally took that seduction style quiz that everybody was doing like, two weeks ago. My style? The Escape Artist.

"We don't know how you figured it out, but you've managed to keep your lovers close despite your critical view of the world. Maybe you aren't cynical, just a little cautious. Either way, you've managed to keep your head on your shoulders. You do have a little bit of misanthropy going on up in there, but hey, when you build your solar powered cabin in the woods everything will be fine.

"It's very rare to meet someone so clever that isn't into taking advantage of romantic or sensitive people. Your best seduction move: be your honest and insightful self. A straight shooter (even a slightly damaged straight shooter) is a fine catch for anyone."

I didn't expect a lot from this quiz because the questions offered two choices that often didn't work for me at all. I would pick the one I disagreed with the least just to see what the result would be. "Escape Artist" resonates with me, unfortunately. I do try not to take advantage of guys who feel more deeply than I do. And the suggested seduction style is exactly how I conduct myself: as frank and straightforward as possible.

And I'd love a solar powered cabin in the woods, thank you.