January 22, 2006 - I had a regular dose of busy-ness today, comprised of practicing, playing music, and working the art auction. I managed to fit in some laundry in the morning. It is a good thing that I got an early start to it, because the drying took over 2 and a half hours! I've been running into problems with the dryers on the ship not drying clothes for a long time. Things wound down at the end of the night with a 'jam session' going on in the officers mess, led by Alan, one of the ship guest entertainers. He claims to only know how to play Beatles songs. At the point that I walked in on the jam session he was quite drunk and wanted me to sing along with everything. It's too bad that I don't know lyrics to any songs well enough to sing them. Too bad, indeed.