laptop "challenges"

While I ti annoying to use the laptop for me, I have been working off of it as long as my patience will endure because on the ship that will be my main connection. The start up time has been f o r e v e r. So I finally called the Costco Concierge (thank you Costco) and one of the problems was that McAfee and Norton (which  is our preferred anti virus) were having a unwinnable fight to the death, on the hard drive. So that got taken care of and made some improvements. Now there's an odd message that says that this laptop isn't configured for Norton. That doesn't make sense and sounds like an operating system issue. So we are doing a complete scan with Norton (since McAfee is long gone) and then go through the trouble shooting.

But the Costco concierge was terrific, unhurried, patient and with sparse directions.

web cam

Just checked. It works: http://www.princess.com/bridgecams/?shipCode=pa&utm_source=Eloqua&utm_medium=email&utm_campaign=PCE_3A&utm_content=e3

travel clinic

Good news today: Travel clinic called back. Can renew our typhoid immunization by picking up the pills and taking one every other day for a week. I have such awful reactions to typhoid shots that I thought I’d died and gone to heaven when they came out in oral form.

We will pick up malaria pills but may or may not use them.

Sunscreen and insect repellent as Zika it seems is everywhere (including in US btw!).

And an unexpected suggestion: we always carry “temple socks”. When you visit temples in SE Asia, you must take off your shoes. So we carry socks to wear on the tour. The travel nurse (there’s a special name for this field of nursing: emporiatrics  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Travel_medicine) told us to put our shoes in large plastic bags so the bugs can’t crawl into them while we are touring. This was a new trick for us! We continue to learn.

I’m including a photo in this entry as I want to try it out in posting to see how it turns out on the blog.

Later phone call that said I must have the shot instead because of some of my meds. So got the shot. Not a big deal! Yeah! Yeah!

link to itinerary

http://www.princess.com/find/cruiseDetails.do?voyageCode=K703A