Carib Bean Coffee Roasters - Closed on Mondays
Carib Bean Coffee Roasters - Closed on Mondays
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2022-05-23 Home Office Begins

Today reality replaces the dream-world of Caribbean beaches and boats. It is time to return to the virtual home-office and activate MS-Teams, WebEx, remote desktop and other apps. First I have to separate the wheat from the chaff in the hundreds of collected work e-mails and get going again. I see that there is a lot backlog work for me to catch up today and tomorrow, plus I’ve got another dreaded 02:00 conference call coming up as well. But that is a relatively small price to pay for the luxury of working aboard in tropical warmth and trade winds rather than at home in somewhat less idyllic surroundings.

Carib Bean Coffee Roasters - Closed on Mondays
Carib Bean Coffee Roasters – Closed on Mondays

After local lunchtime I realized that I’d drunk almost all of my coffee and urgently needed to resupply. So I dinghied across the harbour to the Catamaran Docks and tied up my dinghy. Then I walked up the hill to coffee roaster, only to arrive there and see this dreaded sign. Today is Monday.

FitBit chart of coffee walk
FitBit chart of coffee walk

At least I got a good walk/workout according to my Fitbit, which would help offset any calories consumed during dinner.  I dinghied across the harbour and walked to the grocery store and found, tucked in the back of the shelf, a half-bag of unground beans. There’s no date on them, but they will certainly be tastier than the pre-ground stuff.

I did some more more home-office work aboard Zanshin before heading ashore to see what was open for dinner, as most of the restaurants and other places ashore close on Mondays. In the end I chose Club Sushi and ended up eating some yakisoba.