Ship me somewheres east of Suez

[sovay]

My life remains a double-tracked medical cavalcade, but selkie has just informed me of the latest development in the Suez: "theyre actually doing it! ever given has been there so long that theyre actually going around the cape of good hope like 1700s scurvy patients oh my god."

I can only imagine how nervous the Panama Canal must be feeling right now. I just checked and thank God the dredging of Boston Harbor is proceeding on schedule. If we Storrowed a container ship, we'd never live it down.

P.S. The breeze coming through the window smells like the ocean; there was a gyre of seagulls visible above the roofs in the afternoon. It is coincidental but pleasant, considering all the chanteys I now have stuck in my head.

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[sovay]

And not just the Panama canal! There are all those narrow straits! I sense an evil villain's plot at work.

I wonder how the Northwest Passage is doing.

[edit] I still don't know the answer to that question, but there's Stan Rogers filk now. I'm so happy.

this is very cute.

It is! Thank you.

[nineweaving]

Ship happens.

Love the filk.

Hope the sea breezes bring you health.

Nine

[asakiyume]

There's Stan Rogers filk now

I burst out laughing. That's brilliant.

[sovay]

I burst out laughing. That's brilliant.

"She was stacked to the funnels with treasure and tat
Hope you weren't expecting any of that"

(And speaking of the Northwest Passage.)

[asakiyume]

THAT WAS PRECISELY THE PART I QUOTED ON TWITTER.

And you rule NW Passage! Who said global climate change wasn't good for something! (ouch)