Remember the picture I took of the twin waterspouts? Well I emailed it to the newspaper and told them I’d get a thrill if they put it in The Caymanian Compass. Well, they did, they put it huge on the front page! I got a big thrill! heeee heeee heeee heeeeee!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Last night the internet was down here, Cable & Wireless dropped the ball again.
I have a list of things to do today, non work related and work related errands. Hopefully I can slip away today and go unnoticed.
I slept good, but don’t feel quite right. I feel “level”, which I can’t really describe, but I think I would be easily irritated today. Just let me go and do my work and leave me alone.
My coffee is very good this morning!
Last night I dreamed about my Grandfather, he’s been dead since the 1970’s. I woke up at 12:45 and thought “better write it down”, but I didn’t and now can’t remember the dream. I do remember there was something I wanted to remember about it though.
Just got home from diving, it was a deeper one, 260 feet. The whole time I was crinkle crinkle crinkling on my water bottle and all of a sudden I hear “Muah! Muah!” (that’s what it soounds like when my buddy is yelling Mark! Mark! underwater.) I look and he’s pointing down. Guess what it was? Yep, a shark. It was a maybe 5 foot grey reef shark, no big deal. He never came very close. In fact he stayed below us the whole time, back and forth. He was definitely interested in the crinkling sound.
I filled the bottle up with air again and brought it to the surface. I don’t think it will ever explode, I think it can go up to outer space and still hold the air in it. We opened it on the boat and it sounded like opening the valve on a scuba tank. It took a full second for the air to come out. I filled it at 260 and took it to 200 and had to let some air out because it wouldn’t crinkle anymore. Then I brought it up without letting any more air out. 200 feet is 7 atmospheres. When I brought the bottle to the surface, it was at 1 atmosphere, so there was a difference of 6 atmospheres, That means there was about 88 PSI in the bottle. If I had left it full from 260 feet, there would have been about 118 PSI in the bottle at the surface. Hmmm, maybe I could get one to burst…
Anyway, the crinkling the bottle thing seems to work, the shark was definitely interested in the sound. I think they like it cooler than it is here. I had 86 degees F most of the dive and 84 at the deepest depth. I bet those sharks are staying down deeper where it is cooler.
Here’s a picture of me before we got in the water today. I love this wetsuit because the zipper is in the front. I’ve had it forever, it used to be dark blue, almost black. It used to have long legs but I cut them off.
This is a picture of my car, the one with the “bad transmission”. I had another that I wanted to post but couldn’t find it so I took this one.
today I went diving. We saw one Spotted Eagle Ray. I’ve been told that if you take a plastic water bottle down with you, fill it with air and make crinkling noises it will attract sharks. So I took a half liter water bottle down and did just that. No sharks. My divemaster buddy told me that 8 out of 10 times, he has seen sharks while crinkling the bottle, I’ve done it twice without seeing any, that means the next 8 times I will definitely see sharks! Ya Hooo! One cool thing, I filled the bottle completely with air and as I ascended the air inside expanded and expanded. I thought the bottle would burst but it didn’t, when I got to the surface it was tight as a drum and very swollen looking.
Tonight I went grocery shopping. I spent $164 and came home, put the stuff away and now it seems there’s nothing to eat. My house absorbed it. I did get cookies, but already ate the whole bag. Ginger bread men. And 2 cases of water.
Anyway, I’m in a hurry to post this, so bye for now!!!!
This afternoon I was driving to go do a dive at Funky Town and I saw these twin waterspouts. I’ve seen lots of singles, but I think this is my first double. I pulled over and took pictures. I think it’s cool the way you can see the disturbance where they touch the water.
On the dive the current was too strong to make it across the sand flats so we stayed along the mini wall. Since I was planning on a deep dive, I didn’t have my camera with me then.
It’s a Friday night and I’m sitting home alone again. Oh well. Tomorrow is an early day any way.
My favorite cereal in the world and quite possibly my favorite food is Lucky Charms.
But there is a procedure I must follow to eat them properly.
first, I need a huge bowl and a very pointy spoon, like a grapefruit spoon. And of course plenty of Lucky Charms and milk. (I drink only soymilk)
First fill the bowl to heaping with Lucky Charms, then add milk till the cereal floats and starts falling out of the bowl.
Then very carefully, using the pointy spoon, I eat only the cereal bits, avoiding at all cost the mashmallows. This may be contrary to your previous training and experience, but trust me, I am an expert.
When the cereal bits are gone, the marshmallows MUST uniformily and completely entirely cover the surface of the milk. If there are any milk patches uncovered, I refill the bowl with Lucky Charms and more milk and and again eat only the cereal bits.
When I have a the milksurface completely covered with marshmallows, then and only then do I eat the marshmallows! Then I put down the spoon, pick up the bowl and drink the pink milk!
As far as I am concerned, it is the only acceptable method to be used when eating Lucky Charms Cereal.
It’s Thursday. I am looking forward to the weekend.
At lunch yesterday I swam the half mile again then sat on the beach in the middle of all the cruise ship visitors. There were 4 cruise ships in yesterday so the beach was somewhat crowded. It is a good place for people watching.
Here there are cruise ships almost every day. The most I’ve seen on a single day is 7. This November, there are some days that 11 cruise ships are scheduled to be here. The government is taking measures to reschedule some of them. This place would be packed with 11 cruise ships!! It could almost double the population of the island!
Last night, I promised myself I would go running this morning. I used to run every morning before Hurricane Ivan, but haven’t much since then. (A lot of people say something similar.) But this morning, I woke up and said “no way!” I went to bed early enough, but woke up super tired. Now I feel fine and am kicking myself in the butt for lack of self discipline. This morning I found myself showered and ready to walk out the door with more than an hour before it was time to leave! Swimming is good exercise, but it doesn’t get your heart pumping like running does. I think that’s important. And sweat. I think good, heavy sweating is important, your body gets rid of some stuff it really needs to get rid of.
Anyway, I have to go put my rebreather together as I hope to dive today. So If you’re reading this, I hope you have a great day and I’ll talk to you again soon. And leave a comment!
I’m embarrased by my tiolet paper post yesterday. Today it seems stupid.
Yesterday I got off work at 8:30, the day before that I got off at 9:45. Guess I’m getting the hang of that computer program. Wanting More said I might start to like it, and she might be right. Of course, because I say I’m getting the hang of it now, It will probably explode when I get to work.
At lunchtime yesterday, I went to the beach and swam the half mile course and got a little sunburned on top. If you know me or met me or saw my picture, you probably couldn’t tell, but I’m getting a little bald spot. No one else would probably ever notice, but when the light is juuusssst right and I look verrry closely, I can see it. Anyway, the sunburn seems to be gone this morning, but I hope it doesn’t peel.
Yesterday my deep dive buddy arrived, but I haven’t talked to him yet. He lives in the UK and has a condo here and visits several times a year. He was also kind of my rebreather trimix instructor. (trimix is the mixed gas for deep diving, helium nitrogen and oxygen). He was a student taking his trimix instructor course, and I was a student for him to teach while he was being evaluated. does that make sense? I was a students student.
Today I’m feeling like my blog is the most boring place on earth. I have nothing important or worthwhile today. On the news I’m interested in the Cypriot Airline crash and the Israelis pullout from Gaza. but don’t particularly want to talk about stuff like that here.
