free cruise around Europe...

... all you have to do is play the piano every night to entertain the guests!

My friend Alan, whom you can see here looking not unlike a used car salesman:

got a sweet job playing piano on a cruise ship. I wasn't that jealous, until I saw his list of destinations! Since his blog seems to be defunct, I'm posting it here:

Sat. 21st Stockholm, Sweden -- 1:00pm
Sun. 22nd Riga, Latvia 8:00am 5:00pm
Mon. 23rd Saaremaa, Estonia 8:00am 3:00pm
Tue. 24th Gdansk (Gdynia), Poland 8:00am 3:00pm
Wed. 25th Berlin (Warnemunde), Germany 8:00am overnight
Thu. 26th Berlin (Warnemunde), Germany -- 5:00pm
Fri. 27th Copenhagen, Denmark 7:00am 6:00pm
Sat. 28th Cruise Kattegat & Skagerrak Strait
Sun. 29th Flam, Norway 8:00am 2:00pm
Gudvangen, Norway 4:00pm 6:00pm
Mon. 30th Hellesylt, Norway 10:00am 12:00pm
Geiranger, Norway 1:00pm 6:00pm
Tue. 31st Bergen, Norway 8:00am 1:00pm
Wed. 1st Oslo, Norway 1:00pm 8:30pm
Thu. 2nd Aarhus, Denmark 1:00pm 7:00pm
Fri. 3rd Copenhagen, Denmark 8:00am 5:00pm
Sat. 4th Cruise the Baltic Sea
Sun. 5th Klaipeda, Lithuania 9:30am 6:00pm
Mon. 6th Tallinn, Estonia 1:30pm 7:00pm
Tue. 7th St. Petersburg, Russia 8:00am overnight
Wed. 8th St. Petersburg, Russia -- 8:00pm
Thu. 9th Helsinki, Finland 9:00am 4:30pm
Fri. 10th Stockholm, Sweden 10:00am overnight
Sat. 11th Stockholm, Sweden
Sun. 12th Stockholm, Sweden -- 1:00pm
Mon. 13th Riga, Latvia 8:00am 5:00pm
Tue. 14th Saaremaa, Estonia 8:00am 3:00pm
Wed. 15th Gdansk (Gdynia), Poland 8:00am 3:00pm
Thu. 16th Berlin (Warnemunde), Germany 8:00am overnight
Fri. 17th Berlin (Warnemunde), Germany -- 5:00pm
Sat. 18th Copenhagen, Denmark 7:00am 4:00pm
Sun. 19th Kristiansand (S), Norway 8:30am 3:00pm
Mon. 20th Bergen, Norway 7:00am 6:00pm
Tue. 21st Flam, Norway 8:00am 2:00pm
Gudvangen, Norway 4:00pm 6:00pm
Wed. 22nd Cruise the North Sea
Thu. 23rd Invergordon (Inverness), Scotland 8:00am 7:00pm
Fri. 24th Edinburgh (Rosyth), Scotland 10:00am overnight
Sat. 25th Edinburgh (Rosyth), Scotland -- overnight
Sun. 26th Edinburgh (Rosyth), Scotland -- 2:00am
Mon. 27th Amsterdam, Netherlands 8:00am 5:00pm
Tue. 28th Brussels/Bruges (Zeebrugge), Belgium 8:00am 8:00pm
Wed. 29th Paris (Le Havre), France 7:00am 7:00pm
Thu. 30th Portland, England 7:00am 4:00pm
Fri. 31st London (Dover), England 5:00am 5:00pm
Sat. 1st Brussels/Bruges (Zeebrugge), Belgium 8:00am 5:30pm
Sun. 2nd St. Malo, France 1:00pm 10:00pm
Mon. 3rd Cruise the Bay of Biscay
Tue. 4th La Rochelle, France 8:00am 6:00pm
Wed. 5th Cruise the Bay of Biscay
Thu. 6th La Coruna, Spain 8:00am 6:00pm
Fri. 7th Leixoes, Portugal 8:00am 6:00pm
Sat. 8th Lisbon, Portugal 7:00am 3:00pm
Sun. 9th Cadiz, Spain 10:00am 9:00pm
Mon. 10th Malaga, Spain 8:00am 7:00pm
Tue. 11th Alicante, Spain 10:30am 3:00pm
Wed. 12th Barcelona, Spain
Thu. 13th Aix-en-Provence (Marseille), France 8:00am 6:00pm
Fri. 14th Portofino, Italy 8:00am 6:00pm
Sat. 15th Rome (Civitavecchia), Italy 7:00am 7:00pm
Sun. 16th Capri/Pompeii (Sorrento), Italy 7:00am 7:00pm
Mon. 17th Cruise the Ionean Sea
Tue. 18th Santorini, Greece 9:30am 7:00pm
Wed. 19th Athens (Piraeus), Greece
Thu. 20th Ephesus (Izmir), Turkey 7:30am 3:00pm
Fri. 21st Istanbul, Turkey 9:00am 4:30pm
Sat. 22nd Mykonos, Greece 2:30pm 9:00pm
Sun. 23rd Cruise the Dardanelles & Sea of Marmara
Mon. 24th Dubrovnik, Croatia 8:00am 4:00pm
Tue. 25th Venice, Italy 12:00pm overnight
Wed. 26th Venice, Italy -- overnight
Thu. 27th Venice, Italy -- 5:00pm
Fri. 28th Zadar, Croatia 8:00am 6:00pm
Sat. 29th Korcula, Croatia 7:00am 3:30pm
Sun. 30th Corfu, Greece 8:00am 4:00pm
Mon. 1st Taormina (Naxos), Italy 8:00am 6:00pm
Tue. 2nd Capri/Pompei (Sorrento), Italy 8:00am 6:00pm
Wed. 3rd Rome (Civitavecchia), Italy 7:00am 8:00pm
Thu. 4th Portoferraio, Elba, Italy 7:00am 8:00pm
Fri. 5th Florence/Pisa (Livorno), Italy 7:00am 8:00pm
Sat. 6th Nice (Villefranche), France 7:00am 8:00pm
Sun. 7th Cannes, France 7:00am 8:00pm
Mon. 8th St. Tropez (Toulon), France 7:00am 5:00pm
Tue. 9th Palma, Majorca, Balearic Islands 11:00am 7:30pm
Wed. 10th Barcelona, Spain 5:30am 4 pm
Thu. 11th Aix-en-Provence (Marseille), France 8:00am 6:00pm
Fri. 12th Portofino, Italy 8:00am 6:00pm
Sat. 13th Rome (Civitavecchia), Italy 7:00am 7:00pm
Sun. 14th Capri/Pompei (Sorrento), Italy 7:00am 7:00pm
Mon. 15th Cruise the Ionean Sea
Tue. 16th Santorini, Greece 9:30am 7:00pm
Wed. 17th Athens (Piraeus), Greece 4:00am 6:00pm
Thu. 18th Canakkale, Turkey 9:00am 6:00pm
Fri. 19th Sail through the Bosphorus
Sat. 20th Yalta, Ukraine 8:00am 6:00pm
Sun. 21st Odessa, Ukraine 8:00am 5:00pm

Damn. There's at least 10 places on there I'd kill to go back to, and another 20 I've never been to. And then there's Athens. Athens sucks. Have fun getting paid to go to Athens, Alan! :-p