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How long is it actually before your Carnival cruise...?

VentureMan_2000

By VentureMan_2000,
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dan40

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Well, at first I perceived that days remaining to be one of those trick questions.

 

When I first contemplated this question I had 28 days to go, but upon thinking further, maybe came up with only 27days. Or maybe 29 days.

 

Each answer only raised more questions. Do you count the current day? How about the day you wake up to go on your vacation? Do you count part of that day if you have not left to the airport yet? Do you add this partial day to the remainder of the current day to come up with whole days?

 

So I thought about it off and on for another 18 days, at which time I decisively decided that there was now only 10 days left before my Cruise trip. But I still thought it was only fair to say that the correct answer was 9, and loosely speaking there were really 11 more days.

 

Counting the current day I got 10. Counting the day you wake up to leave on vacation puts me at 11, unless, of course, I didn't count the current day in which I still come up with 10 days remaining.

 

Now, if I don't count the current day I only have 9 days left before I leave for My Cruise. But I still have to take into consideration that the day you leave for your Cruise counts as well as the hours remaining in the current day, which really left me with 10 days before I leave for my Cruise.

 

Exhausted, I decided to take what sounded like a very easy question, but in reality, a very difficult question to answer, and mull it over some more.

 

I woke up today thinking that I only had 3 days remaining but it really felt like I had about 14 days left. How could that be?

 

I now think that an algorithm needs to be built that takes into account days remaining relative to emotional state of mind, measurable electric energy in the air, and possibly how much coffee you have consumed. Throw into the mix the fluctuation in airline prices, the fact that your vacation will cost more than the person next to you on the plane yet they will be staying a week longer, and whether you perceive that AC will be an important must have item or not. This is an algorithm of relativity.

 

Days remaining = the difference of today’s Julian date and the departure Julian date summed by the relative base 10 values, not to exceed 10 or but greater than zero, of emotional state of mind, measurable electric energy in the air, amount of coffee consumed, airline price fluctuations, vacation price-point bragging rights, and AC needs -- all divided by perceived days remaining.

 

Graphing this shows that, relatively speaking, when you are 60 days away, your approach to your departure days shows a downward trend in the graph as you get closer and closer to that date. But something interesting starts to happen once you are about 7 days away. The graph of the days remaining starts to move back up. Each approaching day the upward slope becomes steeper and steeper. If you were to plot out to the very second the plane departed, it would look as though the days remaining had approached infinity -- that it appeared that your trip to My Cruise would never come... that if you had to wait one second longer, you would explode into a ball of atomic reaction. Only when the wheels of the plane starts moving does the graph plunge down in nearly a straight line and lands firmly on the number of days remaining... zero.

 

VMan,

 

You need a new hobby. One involving large quantities of alcohol and whirring sharp blades. It will be less painful than your present endeavors.:D

 

Dan

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ahoys

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If you have a margarita every day at 4:00 to toast your future sailing, you can count the number of margaritas you have to make yourself before you can order one from the Lido bar at sailaway!

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MICHSUNLOVER

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VMan,

 

You need a new hobby. One involving large quantities of alcohol and whirring sharp blades. It will be less painful than your present endeavors.:D

 

Dan

 

I have a sneaky suspicion that large quantities of alcohol may already be involved ;)

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DreamTeam

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count the number of wake-ups so if I stay awake for the next few months I have 1 wake-up to go. or do i........

 

LMAO

 

Dont do that you may fall asleep on your cruise and not wake up til it's finished LOL :p

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CFitzRN

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Ventureman, you're reminding me of my 10 year old - he asks me every day (at least once) how long before our cruise, and I have to cut off a couple of days for our travel and day before embarkation, because at least we'll be doing stuff in order to get to the cruise, and let's not count the days when we'll be doing fun stuff, because those days will be fun so they won't really seem like waiting days, and how many days are in March? And April, and May and June? Why do March and May have to have so dang many days mom? Should we count the weekends? Maybe not because they're a lot easier to wait through because we're not at school and... and... and...

 

:eek: :eek: :eek: :eek:

 

ARE WE THERE YET????

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