Dramatic Weather

The seas were much calmer most of today, but we are heading back into some interesting weather. We are about 2/3 of the way to Japan, and have been skirting the heaviest seas all day, but things look a little different at the moment. Here are some pictures taken from the faculty lounge, where I have been working for a bit and enjoying some quiet. The ship can be an on-all-the-time kind of place, with voyagers in every available nook and cranny meeting, hanging out, and studying. The only problem with the faculty lounge is that it is at the top, forward-most part of the ship, so you feel the most motion up here. 

The navy blue seas to the starboard (?) are dramatically different than the gray seas to port,  and the storm straight ahead reaching down into the water is quite something to behold.

It was a good day in the library today, with a couple of lingering technology issues finally resolved. With a combined effort of the head IT officer, our colleague Kelly back in VA, and myself, we were able to get our locational computer (aka the You Are Here computer) back up and running for the first time since leaving Hawaii. Thank goodness Kelly had the foresight to keep an extra GPS unit under the desk in the library, since the problem turned out to be the communication between the new unit and the computer. Our library desk computer is also back up and running at normal speed after a brief stay in the technology infirmary.