Edin
I arrived. The trip out to the middle of nowhere to visit my aunt was good, I enjoyed it. The travel was not really a problem either.
I was lying down in my bunk in a 4 person shared cabin on the boat, thinking about putting down my sudoku and going to sleep; every 5 seconds everything was going mostly weightless for a couple of seconds.
One of the other blokes from the cabin came in and rummaged about with his stuff for a minute or so, I siad hi, then he went to the bathroom. There was a short delay, then some unpleasant gurgly sloshing sounds. “oh here we go” I say to my self. I was pleased to find I’d just solved all the 5s.
There was another sequence of gurgles, then he oaged out and muttered something about seasickness, not using the bathroom for a bit and getting something form somewhere; he wandered out. By now I was having a great deal of trouble with a 7 and a 9 in the top right block, owing at least in part to the distractions.
5 minutes later a bloke in a uniform wanders in and takes a look in the bathroom; wanders out an comes back with an empty bucket. I was as bemused by his antics as the 7s and 4s in the bottom row. There was some clacking and fidgeting for a bit, and another bloke in a uniform joined him. “If we take that bit off, we may be able to get at it from there” one said to the other, followed by “nah, that’ll have to be done by the engineers in the morning”. I found a 3 in the bottom corner.
In the end it was announced that the guy had thrown up in the sink, and managed to block it, I fail to understand how, anyway, we were moved to another cabin with functional sink. The soduku was finished the next day.
Walking around a boat like that is really fun, as the environment drops to nearly zeroG, and then moves sideways, traction is really quite tricky to maintain let alone balance.