It ’s early as I typewrite this — very early on , given that we slipped into another clip zone last night — and we ’re now head up the channel towards Juneau , with a targeted arrival about five hours from now . Sometime during the night , the ship moved from the open ocean into the channel , and the difference is striking : there are no waves here , and the drive is now perfectly legato . Looking out the windows up on the Lido Deck , it ’s like sit on some unusual , huge , magical carpet — we’re move forward , yet there are no engine sounds , and there ’s no sense of question whatsoever . The only game show that we ’re in reality move is the small wake being generated by the bow of the ship .
The plan of attack to Juneau is made up a panoptic valley , ringed by snowfall - cap deal , as you may see below .
As you could see , there ’s a downcast swarm cover , and it ’s chilly outside — the high is only expected to attain the mid-40 ° degree Fahrenheit chain today . It ’ll probably be a lot cool afterwards today , when we ’re up on the Mendenhall Glacier for our shoring excursion . More on that trip-up this eve .
As for the family , I observe my Tiger - versus - Leopard session in my last dispatch , and the job I faced comparing OS X 10.4 to a version that wo n’t be free until October . How to get around that trouble ? With severely - hitting slides like this :
In all seriousness , I attempt to be as informative as I could about Leopard , dwelling on the new lineament — Time Machine , distance — and sweetening to exist features — Spotlight , iChat , and others — that have already been publicly bring out .
