I enjoyed your travel report but I think I missed part of it. My first paragraph began “Angeles to San Francisco…” Should there be something before that?
Oops! Yes, indeed. “The fight from London should have been only slight longer than that from Los Angeles to San Francisco.” Thanks for pointing it out, and thanks for reading.
Look, we all make them. There is an 85% chance that I make one too in this (annoying to you, I am sure) diatribe. And I fully admit that my tolerance level to typos is abnormally, unnaturally low. And that is a me-problem. But come on!
You already start with half a sentence missing, then it is typo after typo after typo. There are three in your first paragraph alone. And that is not the one counting in the first part of the sentence that is missing and you so helpfully provided in a comment above!
How do you not notice that your story starts with Angeles? How!?
And it... just goes on. I have never seen anything like it. The Daily Mail (worst of the worst) isn't even that bad. And they make typos in headlines! And leave them there!
I stopped reading after the third paragraph, I'm sorry. Mobiility did me in. (I had a hard time overriding my autocorrect to reproduce your typo, by the way. How did you manage it?) A word that is in a sentence that ends with a comma, if I remember correctly.
Please, for the love of God, let somebody else proofread before you post. If not for me (a rando a-hole who you, ofcourse, are totally allowed to block) then for your other, hopefully many readers who are too polite to say anything about it and have to suffer in silence, or worse, never come back.
I know this all sounds very harsh and blunt, but that is how I communicate when I care. Yes, I care. I am surprised by that as well.
I don't care about correct language or proper grammar, but I do care about you, John, complete stranger. I don't want people showing their phone to somebody else and have a good snicker about your writing, gleefully put a screenshot of it on Xitter or wherever, while not even *knowing* the difference between there, their and they're. You deserve better.
Thank you, Jeroen. I know. I know. And it’s terrifying. I think it’s dementia coming on. I do proofreed my stuff, and simply don’t see the errors. Three days later I may have another look, and at that time am horrified by all the mistakes I very much appreciate your reading my stuff, and pointing out how severe the problem is getting. As noted, scary.
I did an Oslo to Tromsø cruise at the end of January as a solo. Small vessel, 500 max and our cruise was not sold out. No onboard entertainment other than the daily overview of the next day stops. Assigned dinner tables, they put 6 of us solos together, it was a fun group. For the end of January/early February the weather was not bad. Loved experiencing the light of extended twilights, the sun rising only about 3 fingers above the horizon, and the beauty of the fjords. Interesting outings along the way, loved hiking to the high observation area above Alesund and wandering the streets looking at the art nouveau buildings. The highlight was sailing through the Lofoten Islands (spectacular!) and my final night with a spectacular northern lights show. I’d do it again.
Never been on a cruise ship - closest I came was some friends taking me and the Mrs. to Catalina Island on their windjammer when we lived in Long Beach back in the ‘90s. The rest of my “seafaring” has all been rivers and lakes and the like, unless you count the ferries in San Francisco.
I’m just not enough of a people person to enjoy the idea of being cooped up with a bunch of strangers, I guess. Sounds like you had quite the experience, though. Great story.
Close. This was our fifth cruise in the last two years. They have their upside. With room and board and enterainment provided they're actually cheaper than other holidays. And you see more place. There weren't nearly as many mobility scooters on this one as on the Hawaii and Alaska ones, nor nearly as much morbid obesity.
How on earth did she convince you to go? The old-fashioned way? Press gang? Quick bash on the noggin with a cosh, sack over your head, and you wake up to rum, sodomy and the lash?
If I ever lose my mind entirely (mostly there now) and decide to travel anywhere ever again (god help me) I want to travel with you - but especially when you’re in a bad mood.
I enjoyed your travel report but I think I missed part of it. My first paragraph began “Angeles to San Francisco…” Should there be something before that?
Oops! Yes, indeed. “The fight from London should have been only slight longer than that from Los Angeles to San Francisco.” Thanks for pointing it out, and thanks for reading.
Look, we all make them. There is an 85% chance that I make one too in this (annoying to you, I am sure) diatribe. And I fully admit that my tolerance level to typos is abnormally, unnaturally low. And that is a me-problem. But come on!
You already start with half a sentence missing, then it is typo after typo after typo. There are three in your first paragraph alone. And that is not the one counting in the first part of the sentence that is missing and you so helpfully provided in a comment above!
How do you not notice that your story starts with Angeles? How!?
And it... just goes on. I have never seen anything like it. The Daily Mail (worst of the worst) isn't even that bad. And they make typos in headlines! And leave them there!
I stopped reading after the third paragraph, I'm sorry. Mobiility did me in. (I had a hard time overriding my autocorrect to reproduce your typo, by the way. How did you manage it?) A word that is in a sentence that ends with a comma, if I remember correctly.
Please, for the love of God, let somebody else proofread before you post. If not for me (a rando a-hole who you, ofcourse, are totally allowed to block) then for your other, hopefully many readers who are too polite to say anything about it and have to suffer in silence, or worse, never come back.
I know this all sounds very harsh and blunt, but that is how I communicate when I care. Yes, I care. I am surprised by that as well.
I don't care about correct language or proper grammar, but I do care about you, John, complete stranger. I don't want people showing their phone to somebody else and have a good snicker about your writing, gleefully put a screenshot of it on Xitter or wherever, while not even *knowing* the difference between there, their and they're. You deserve better.
Thank you, Jeroen. I know. I know. And it’s terrifying. I think it’s dementia coming on. I do proofreed my stuff, and simply don’t see the errors. Three days later I may have another look, and at that time am horrified by all the mistakes I very much appreciate your reading my stuff, and pointing out how severe the problem is getting. As noted, scary.
I did an Oslo to Tromsø cruise at the end of January as a solo. Small vessel, 500 max and our cruise was not sold out. No onboard entertainment other than the daily overview of the next day stops. Assigned dinner tables, they put 6 of us solos together, it was a fun group. For the end of January/early February the weather was not bad. Loved experiencing the light of extended twilights, the sun rising only about 3 fingers above the horizon, and the beauty of the fjords. Interesting outings along the way, loved hiking to the high observation area above Alesund and wandering the streets looking at the art nouveau buildings. The highlight was sailing through the Lofoten Islands (spectacular!) and my final night with a spectacular northern lights show. I’d do it again.
Never been on a cruise ship - closest I came was some friends taking me and the Mrs. to Catalina Island on their windjammer when we lived in Long Beach back in the ‘90s. The rest of my “seafaring” has all been rivers and lakes and the like, unless you count the ferries in San Francisco.
I’m just not enough of a people person to enjoy the idea of being cooped up with a bunch of strangers, I guess. Sounds like you had quite the experience, though. Great story.
Thanks very much, M. Mrs. Mendelsohn will assure you that there is no less a people person on earth than her husband.
Close. This was our fifth cruise in the last two years. They have their upside. With room and board and enterainment provided they're actually cheaper than other holidays. And you see more place. There weren't nearly as many mobility scooters on this one as on the Hawaii and Alaska ones, nor nearly as much morbid obesity.
How on earth did she convince you to go? The old-fashioned way? Press gang? Quick bash on the noggin with a cosh, sack over your head, and you wake up to rum, sodomy and the lash?
If I ever lose my mind entirely (mostly there now) and decide to travel anywhere ever again (god help me) I want to travel with you - but especially when you’re in a bad mood.
It's a date. Are you implying that there are other moods?