Is your ship about to come in? Or has it sailed? Or are you jumping ship?
Perhaps you've been running a tight ship? Or trying to steady the ship. Perhaps you and your beloved are like two ships passing in the night. Maybe you're sailing on a ship of fools or going down on a sinking ship.
Now that's something to ponder, as we approach Christmas and New Year's Eve.
But before you start navel gazing, have a look at this live map of ships across the world, a screenshot of which we took on Monday morning.
A colleague came across the live map, while checking some ships moored in China recently.
While using the vessel-tracker website shiptracker.live, he came across "a map of the entire world and the ships at sea at the moment".
"As you scan in, you will see some ships on top of each other in, I presume, crowded places," he said.
"Another example of the wonderful world of high tech.
"And if this is what they show the public for free, imagine what you could get if you were paying? It never ceases to amaze me."
What also never ceases to amaze us is the number of great shipping metaphors.
A Cauliflower Christmas
Belmont North's Eunice Hobson-English tries to do the right thing by eating healthily.
But she's drawing the line at cauliflower nuggets - especially for Christmas.
"That would definitely be the most depressing Christmas concept, bar Dickens," Eunice quipped.
Eunice came across the ingredient in a Cancer Council NSW blog about eating healthier over the festive season.
Eunice is clearly no fan of cauliflower but - as we reported in October - cauliflower is now cool. OK, cool may be stretching it, but the cruciferous vegetable has become a trendy food item.
"It's such a fad that people make pizza bases out of it," Warners Bay nutritionist Gemma Daley said at the time.
The Cancer Council blog also shared a Christmas tree pizza recipe.
Perhaps Eunice would find that more festive - but not with a cauliflower base.
Password Protection
People choose Christmas-themed passwords like star, angel, god, elf, Jesus, snow and carol at this time of year because they "struggle to make a password that is both secure and memorable," an IT expert said.
"This results in weak passwords. These passwords are easy to guess and commonly appear in lists of breached passwords."
Non-Viral Joke
This from Elaine Richards, of Salt Ash.
Divorce Court judge: "I have reviewed this case very carefully and I have decided to give your wife $775 a week."
Husband: "That is very fair, your honour. Every now and then I will try to send her a few bucks myself."
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