WAAAYTOOO

Exactly what I had one breakfast on our very first cruise. Because I could. ???

Wow....that sounds complicated and painful.  I was hoping you would not have to do so much....but if it will give you the results that you are looking for, it will be worth it....eventually.
Best of luck !

I like the way you think !!

Just got the AZ jab, wish me luck!

My knowledge of Scottish vigilante justice is admittedly limited, but there HAS to be an acceptable loophole here.  What if you purchased it with the EXPRESS intent of giving it away...to a chair hog?

Announcing a restart is a pretty big deal but it also admits all cruises prior to the restart date are cancelled.   Plus if the restart involves a small restart like two ships doing short Florida cruises as they've suggested that also admits all other cruises are cancelled.
That's a pretty big message that they'll want to be fully prepared for.  It's the kind of message that will drive the stock price one way or the other.  They'll announce something that big only once they've got a much bigger plan well thought out and ready for consumption by the public.  Not sure but that message might be better delivered by someone higher up.  
No disrespect meant for Vicki but that impacts other brands as well, so maybe it's something Richard delivers, or RCG corporate, coordinated across the brands.
 

Meanwhile over at Miami HQ they are beginning to regret the planned big announcement.

Holland and Princess just canceled Alaska thru June. 

I'm not sure this is it - our city outsources inspections to a 3rd party company, and they have been able to come out next day so far for previous inspections. However, with a lot of people potentially needing replacement plumbing from burst pipes inspected, I can't say that's not it.
 
The PM called back. He said the tile crew was finishing a job and we are next on the list, so it should be "any day now". He did tell us at the beginning that tile and stone work were the hardest to schedule, so overall I'm not really surprised. Just ready to see some more work getting done.

Too late..... ?
To be fair though, I'm the guy who watched my wife's c-sections intensely and was fascinated by them.  I've also been a butcher since 1985.  ?‍♂️
On a serious note though, it really is amazing what can be done medically nowadays.

Raye, this is exactly why I’m not shying away from it. I put off getting the big foot surgeries on the right side for a decade, having been told that they’d be nightmares and that life afterward would be problematic. Well, they certainly no cake walk, but knowing the outcome and how well I still move for my needs, I’m kicking myself for those extra 10 years of pain. Not making that mistake a second time, especially with a surgeon I feel this comfortable with and who has as much experience as he does.

I like the way you think !!

I just read the announcement has been cancelled. Seriously ??

@Floskistarted it ?

Oh great...heres me diagnosed with a dodgy ticker and told to lose some weight and your just teasing me with pics of delicious cookies ??
????

So I saw the surgeon today, and it was a very productive visit. First off, I explained my long-term goals with this to him:
I want this to be the last such operation needed, with the results lasting to my dying day I want to be able to resume taking a daily walk for a mile or two, along with doing some kind other exercise a few times a week (cardio, light free weights, etc) And I want to be able to go on a lot of vacations between now and said dying day, which will likely require walking around for even longer distances Based on all that, he agreed that just leaving this wound to heal as it is isn't a viable option. It won't be durable enough. So second surgery is back on the table.
But, because of that need for durability, he proposed a second option besides full-thickness skin graft. A procedure called a Reverse Sural Artery Flap. I'm not going to into the details of it here, beyond saying that it's most definitely more complicated than the skin graft but that in exchange it carries a significantly higher chance of success. Like, a skin graft has mid-80s to low-90s confidence in this location, but this alternate procedure bumps it up to 97%+ without requiring some of the really crazy stuff the most complicated plastics procedures can need.
I will just say here, unless you are yourself a surgeon or doctor or someone else used to these kinds of things, do not look up this procedure. I did because I wanted to fully understand it, and there are a lot of images and videos that are just... not pleasant to look at. Especially during lunch hour. ?
One caveat of that other procedure is that it requires a very solid blood supply in the lower leg. He wants me to get an MRA (basically an MRI but with contrast dye to view the blood vessels and how good they are), and based on that we can make a final choice between the two. Just going by my pulse in the two testable spots on the foot, he's pretty confident that the MRA will come back solid. But he still wants it so he knows going in that it's good, rather than starting the procedure and then finding out mid-way that I didn't have as good a set of plumbing as we first thought.
Another caveat is that the procedure itself requires a skin graft onto the donor site, because of the way it's done. So I'll still be dealing with a graft. Oh, and the first week of recovery has to be spent in bed with the leg elevated, followed by a couple of weeks of slowly increasing the time it's descended. How I'll do that without putting pressure on any of the areas that will be painful AF for that whole time I have no idea, although the surgeon did say my leg would be wrapped up pretty ridiculously for that first week; hopefully enough padding to distribute any pressure from pillows and such. And compared to the triple arthrodesis and shin-ankle fusion surgeries I had on the right foot 10 and 7 years ago, this is not even close to "nightmare" level.
The final caveat is that the result is, well, fugly as all get-out (based on the handful of "post-recovery" pics I found, none of which are an exact match for my situation but do give a clear idea of what to expect). But I'm not going for fashion model looks here, I just want a foot that's solid. I've gotta wear knee-high compression socks every day anyway (Bombas to the rescue!!), so 99% of the time it'll be a non-issue. And if I go swimming... well, I'll just have to be ready for some stares and possible comments.
So that's it for now. I have to get that MRA scheduled, and I also have to let the site heal up a bit more. And in any event, I can't do the surgery before April 12, when I'll have had my second Covid vaccination shot and enough time to get over the likely side effects it triggers. But this is progress, and even with the extra delays and all I should be in solid shape for when summer comes around. Which is good, because I'd like to do some kind of getaway with the missus while our younger daughter is in Japan.

HOT DAMN!!!
 
RANGER COOKIES ARE BACK!!!

OR this could be a worse case scenario ...?

I already booked 5 cabins this morning ... worst case i smack another 25% upcharge on my FCC 

By March of 2022??!...if they aren't, we have WAY bigger problems in Canada than cruising.

Right in the same "boat" as you.  Holidays and summers only for us too.  
I'm not missing this one.  With or without my kids.  But I am hopeful that teenagers will be vaccinated by then.

Also doubtful for us Canadians.  We have August which I know won't happen but just don't want to pull the trigger and cancel until we have to.
Then we have Dec 2021...DH is more hopeful than me on this one. I'm mentally preparing myself for us having to cancel.  It's out of NJ so probably not one of the first ships to start up...And then there is the whole border issue...and even more of a bottleneck is the fact that vaccines are not yet available for our younger one, who is turning 12 this year.
I'm even questioning if we'll make March 2022.

So I have absolutely nothing to report. No one came out last week. DH texted the Project Manager yesterday morning with no response. He texted again this morning, and nothing yet. Hope he's ok, but I would think the office would call us if something serious was going on. Tile and stonework are showing as scheduled in the builder's website, but, of course, there are no dates listed. If nothing else, this experience has taught me that I'm really not as patient as I thought I was. 

We had a similar experience with our 1/24/21 FCC, we had booked 6 people into an A2 suite spread across three households.  For life reasons it is unlikely that two of the households will be cruising anytime soon so we consolidated the FCCs, including the bonus credit, all back to one household.  
Losing out on that A2 suite still hurts though, that was probably our only chance of playing in Star Class for the foreseeable future.