Night image of the Rodney Bay Marina
Nighttime at the Docks
Picture of Arnd

Arnd

2022-11-25 Heating up the credit card

Early Morning
View of Harbor Club resort from the docks at Rodney Bay, while I'm heating up the credit card
Harbor Club Resort

Today I spent time heating up the credit card. I woke up too early today and started by making some of my home-roasted coffee in my Hario V60. This is a new addition to my coffee-making arsenal.  Suitably caffeinated I tried doing a home-office workday, but the internet was far too slow. I think that they’ve capped bandwidth as the docks aren’t particularly full. They will fill up in 2 weeks or so when the 2022 ARC racers show up.

Shopping

I headed over to the Baywalk Mall and got a SIM-Card for my MiFi device with a generous 100Gb data allotment. This should be sufficient for quite a bit of work from the boat if I’m careful about my internet activity. Another store provided a USB-C cable, which I seem to have either misplaced or forgotten back in Germany.

The Gourmet Massy supermarket was happy to take my credit card in exchange for a few groceries.  The credit card is already heating up. This was just a “warm-up” session before the big provisioning run.

Afternoon

I went shopping at Massy once my credit card had cooled down sufficiently and got more groceries. After stowing everything, I made some cheese crackers for a lunchtime and afternoon snack. The weather wasn’t optimal to clean the decks or put up the Bimini, so I just read a book in the shade.

Dinner

Going to a restaurant for dinner held no appeal to me, so I made a simple meal in the galley. Spicy noodles in spicy sauce – making use of the local peppers. That and a glass wine completed my repast.

I wasn’t in the mood to go ashore again, so I remained aboard and tried to do a bit of work on the generator, but soon gave up. The Friday Night Jump Up hadn’t gotten underway before I was in bed and fast asleep.

until dinner. Which I cooked aboard and didn’t go out again. This allowed the heated up credit card to cool down a bit.