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A Great story, Hank, can make a good dinner. The best end with the guests all crying and hugging one another.

You have a giant headstart on we who seldom cook, rbtan, but we do enjoy what we eat. By headstart, I mean you make it known you're a chef and then say that what you are eating is great; "Here, try this,!" you say, and they naturally assume you know the difference between great and decent. So everyone at your table samples your plate. I point to my dish of crab apples dipped in something gooey, and suggest a try; my offer falls on deaf ears. I'm no chef and I am best to eat my Crab Apples silently and ignore the rolling eyes. I have never eaten Crab Apples . . . and won't. Jack Morris

I'm guilty of asking people near me to try something. Escargots come to mind. Why do I do this? I mean, try to temp anyone to try something on my dish? What prompts this need of mine to be a food missionary? Seem crazy to me now having read Cruise Raider's remarks. I shall no longer want people to taste something on my plate that they appear to be avoiding. Jack Morris

I certainly agree with your dinner first and then theater schedule, Judy. I'm sorry to read of your disappoinment with some of the theater programs. For me, going to the theater afer a fine dinner, in a great restaurant and with service beyond belief, is the civilized way to go. Then, to have a low-grade theater performance . . . how deeply disappointing. I sail Ruby on 2 December 2022 headed for Galveston via the Canal. The below Internet photo shows Port Huatulco, Mexico, and the vessel is the Emerald, sister to Ruby. Kinda makes you 'wanting to go again,' right Judy? Jack

I'm on Ruby on 2 December for 16 days to Galveston. How would you rate the theater shows on your cruise. Professional? Entertaining? A worthwhile devotion of time? What? Do you see the show first and then go to dinner? - - or just the opposite? Jack

Great Scott! 96. The poor bugger's outlived 5 morticians, all of whom kept a table open for him. I'm 94 and I know a few things regarding getting old. Being old, as he was at 96, sex was still alive in him when he was carried aboard. Inactive, surely, unable, for sure, but frolicing girls in see-thru lace was what was implanted in that man's mind; don't deny him what his fantasies scream night and day (mostly at night with the glass of Merlot). It is all he's got. I'm being pushed aboard on 2 December 2022 from SF and determined to see Galveston again. Don't ask me why. I never really liked the place. For me, Galveston is just as bad as spending a 2-week honeymoon in Bakersfield, Ca. Like my 96-year old elder who made it up the gangplank, I'll be the guy everyone will point to while recalling the white-haired guy with cane and earplugs who wanted to tell everyone what he had done during the Korean War. Yup! I'm your guy and please join me over wine some evening, I have some war stories to tell.

On my pending cruise on Ruby, (come on Ruby!) slated for December 2 out of SF, I shall attend whatever the cruise line provides regarding Veterans. I will be 94 - spry as one can be with cane and hearing buttons - and eager to exaggerate my Korean War experiences to some new listeners. Kids at home have heard my recounting 3 and 4 times. They just walk away. What I need is a new war so I can spew with fresh stuff. I got a war wound, too, you'll want to see. It's below the beltline so we will have to go somewhere we have privacy. You military nurses might like to see, too, what staples, jelly, and rolls of tape can do. I uploaded my latest snap. See below! I was kinda cute in my AF corporal's uniform in 1950. If you beg a tad, I might show it in a future post. Call me Jack.

I have cruised a number of times and I remember that on my Grand Princess cruise between SF, Hawaii, and SF a veteran's coffee and snacks hour was hosted in one of Grand's lounges. Can someone respond advising if Ruby Princess will do this during its SF, Panama, Galveston cruise set for 2 December 2022? As it happened on Hawaii cruise, the crowd of vets was large with only two vets claiming the Korean War (I was one of them).