So in these crazy days of COVID, we've been WFB (working from boat) when the occasion and weather would allow. So the past few weeks we've been on and off the boat. A bit of an oddity for those we work with, but for us - its like a taste of live aboard again. Amazingly we have internet via cell phone that lets us be on conference calls all day, do design and engineering work, and generally stay connected. So its Monday and we are both "back at work". Often when we are working, Dave will move the boat from port to port. Driving a boat isn't like driving a car. Dave can work, do conference calls, and drive the boat at the same time. All he needs Melissa for is pulling into a dock, and ideally dropping the anchor. But typically he can pull up the anchor or get off the dock without Melissa's assistance. So Dave decides the tides are right to move the boat from Poulsbo to Silverdale (past Bremerton). So we spend a couple of hours underway and drop anchor around 1pm. Dave's big task for the afternoon is to write up his notes from the FAA test flights from last week. Alas the notes are no where to be found. We search everywhere on the boat. No notes anywhere. All Dave can think is that he left them in the car. Which is back at Elliot Bay. Doh. Dave decides to take the bus from Silverdale to Bremerton. Then take the Bremerton ferry back to Seattle. Uber from the dock in Seattle back to the car. All this means that Melissa has to (gasp!) drive the dingy back from the dock to Apsaras after dropping Dave off to start his adventure. But Melissa has never used the new electric motor before. Yeah, ok, not complicated, but still takes her a bit to get the hang of acceleration/deceleration. Alas when Dave finally gets back to the car at Elliot Bay - no notes. <Bleep. Dave's commentary didn't pass censors.> He calls Melissa. His thinking is that he probably left the notes at our Condo in Kirkland. But now he doesn't have enough time to drive to the condo and then make the last ferry back from Seattle to Bremerton. Melissa offers up that she is content to spend the night alone on Apsaras allowing Dave to go to the condo tonight, stay there, get his notes, water the plants and head back in the morning. She even says she promises to turn off the inverter before bed tonight - thereby saving the batteries overnight when the solar isn't producing. Mind you this is a big offer as she has only been alone on the boat at anchor once before in Panama where our buddy boat was a quick dingy ride away in case anything went sideways. None the less, Melissa is confident she can hack it even if the boat were to drag anchor. She knows what to do. Just hasn't ever actually had to do it. Dave ponders, but decides he wants to come back to Apsaras for the night. He reverses the trip. Weirdly the ferry from Bremerton to Seattle is $2 but the reverse is $10. Dave figures there were 10 people aboard for the ride from Bremerton to Seattle. So $20 in revenue to do 30 knots on the ferry - likely burning 100 gallons of fuel. Your government here to bankrupt you tax payers. Ultimately Dave then Uber's back to the boat. Melissa retrieves him from the dock. We debate what to do. We call the neighbor next door - Patty & Peter. Patty heads to the condo, retrieves the docs (thank goodness!), scans and emails. Alas no emails come through. Melissa texts Patty that its not working. Maybe the attachment is too big to email? They break the PDF into parts and send in 3 emails. And voila! Dave has what he needs to keep working. Ok, we have taken some out of the karma bank - but totally worth it! Some days things are just harder than they should be!