How do you summarize a cruise in a brief blog post? It’s hard. So I’m not going to try. Suffice it to say I had a good time. Here are some fishermen I saw during a sunset near Mahahual, Mexico. How poetic.

Also, if someone in New Orleans tells you he can guess where you got your shoes, just keep walking.

Apparently you can make credit card payments at increments of 30 days or less and still miss a window for a late charge on your statement. It has something to do with an overlap of a payment due date and the generation of a new statement that happens between the 15^th and the 20^th for me.

Fortunately, the nice Indian lady over at Citi (and this is a rare experience for me - I have very strong feelings towards Indian customer service…) waived the $39 fee. Anyway, lesson learned and problem avoided.

OK. I hate those ads. Unfortunately, I had to sit through multiple instances of various Vegas ads while watching the BYU-Oregon game (go Cougs!). Not only do these commercials imply that the Vegas-goer spent his time gambling and fornicating and doing all other kinds of things that, by the very nature of the implication, bring shame (why else would you not want people knowing about what you did?), it condones the following actions to hide your guilt:

• Lying (Like the guy getting his brain examined because he “forgot what happened for an entire week”)
• Blackmail (The lawn services guy threatening to tell people about what his client did in Vegas)
• Secret-keeping within a marriage (a common thread through each commercial)

I hope America as a whole hasn’t honestly sunk to such a level as to accept the messages of these commercials as the norm.