h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

Jim fixed it for me and now even the subject line is okay

Just returned home must...go...to...be

*comes in* spruces up the cushions a bit

*wakes up on newly upspruced cushions*

thank you dear

*goes back to sleep*

*tiptoes in with early morning coffee - extra strong, indeed Pirate Strength, leaves it within reach of Captain Pierce. *


Looks out of the port-hole windows and wonders where The Blood is now situated.

Looks at map of world on the wall and sticks a big pin in the Panama Canal, for future reference.

Gets out laptop and continues typing.

*wakes up, notices strong coffee coroding holes in the and drinks it before it goes to waste*

Good morning , how am I?

*peers over top of laptop*

You look fine from over here Cap'n. How do you feel?

Better now that I have the

I wonder where we are. Been a long time since I had words with the navigator. Se set a course that would make us spiral up around the

I should go check the global positioning satelite thingy on the bridge

See you later

Oh
doc, I think I had to many pan galactic gargle blasters.
Do you think I should sleep it off?

Oh, and here is a little something for you.
Hands her a piece of currency with Pierce's picture on it.

thanks for the Shagbark! *puts it in her little bag


Now why have you been drinking too much? Have you been keeping bad company?

Well, I did e-mail our City Attourney
I don't know what possessed me to do such a thing.

mumbles in sleep Intereditorium.

mumble, mumble, Panama Canal, mumble,mumble, Teddy Roosevelt.

I hear they are planning another canal, but maybe that's just a rumour?

I don't know either. I have an aunt who sailed through it once, I shall ask her what it was like then.

I'm also imagining what it must have been like for those early seafarers before the canal existed, and what an amazing thing it would have been to construct it and sail through it the first ever time.

Many poor souls died of malaria and other diseases while digging the first canal

Many other lives were saved by digging it

how terribly sad to think of all those pitiful lives - navigators dug the canal networks in England too, which is where the word 'navvie' originated, now meaning someone who mostly digs holes for their living.

What would ye have done if time had placed you in that era.
would you have been a ships doctor?

Not unless I had been born a man, as women in those times had to stay at home and raise families.

The most likely thing would have been to correspond with exploring botanists and naturalists in the hopes of widening my understanding of the world.

The reason I chose this role aboard The Blood was that I was very taken with the Patrick O'Brien series of seafaring adventures, in which the Ship's doctor, Maturin, plays a very interesting part - describing all the phenomena and natural history that they come across in their voyages as well as the curious medical practices of the time.

shagbark pops out of woodwork and leaves note for the ships doctor-
PARTY IN THE PELICANS NEST TODAY.
(Celebrating the UARS Sattellite that fell without hitting us)