Monday for me.
Yesterday was a holiday here. But last Friday was a workday.
I went to bed at about 9 last night and woke up at 3:35 AM, awake-awake.
I am looking forward to the day, I am going hunting for some 20 amp fuses. And I have to write a paper about what antennas we have at what height on the tower.
So I’ll be working, but I’ll be out of the office.
Tomorrow I’m going to work on Cayman Brac, and I’ll be seeing the OI Girl!
Then Saturday we’re going on vacation and we will NOT be taking a computer with us.
Thats the plan, anyway.

Did you ever reach a point in your life where you had to make a decision that you knew would determine the course of your life forever? For example, someone just graduating High School choosing to go to college or join the military. Or someone who is getting married but just isn’t quite sure if it’s the right thing to do.

Around 1980, there was a plane crash at O’hare Airport. I was in the Navy, IF I hadn’t gotten busted for pot, and IF I hadn’t been planning on going to the east coast of the US instead of the west coast, I would have been on that plane. The reality is, I wasn’t even close to being on board, but when it went down, I thought, “I could have been on that plane”. I was only two “IF’s” away, how far is that? People on that plane were going to the school I was going to.

I wonder what would have happened if I had married that girl instead of breaking up. What if I had gone to college instead of the military? Would I have wrecked my car if I wasn’t drunk? What if I had chosen the red shirt instead of the blue one?

What if, instead of making a desision, we could split ourselves off into clones and do both? And see the results? “there’s the other me, married with 50 kids” There’s me again, in jail for robbing the bank! “I wish that other me had folded that parachute better, he’s dead!, glad it’s the me me who chose not to skydive!”

I wish I was that me instead of me me! Whoa! I’m glad I’m not THAT me!!

Every decision, no matter how small, doesn’t always radically change our course in life, but every teeny decision can and sometimes they do.

What if we could see the results of our decisions more clearly before we make them, would we have chosen the same path we chose? I would, for the most part, because I’m afraid that if everything in my life didn’t happen the way it did, then I might not be me. But still,
what if. . . . . .

Last night, I ws called into work. One of my transmitters was off the air. I went to the transmitter site and found a blown 20 amp fuse in the IPA power supply, (remember me telling you about the IPA and the FPA? ). The biggest fuse I had that was the right physical size was only 8 amps, so I turned down the power and ran it overnight with an 8 amp fuse.
By the time I woke up this morning, it was off again, because the fuse had blown. Here everything is closed on Sunday so I borrowed a 20 amp fuse from a friend and went out and put it in. Then I went to the beach (At the beach, first, I listened to Garbage V 2.0 on my MP3 player and then read my book, David Poyers “Fire On the Water”. I came home around 4. Now its a little after 6 and I just woke up from a nap I don’t really remember laying down for and I am wondering where the day went.
As Forrest Gump would say, “That’s about all I have to say about that”

Actually it was a Sand ‘Sculpting’ Contest, which is probably why I did not see any castles! But it was fun and I think I’ll get into it next year. Because they need some castles.

It was so cold, they were building igloos!

Every Friday I tend to think of the same title, TGIF! But that would be unoriginal. Fridays, the day I kind of want to take it easy at work and get all rested up for the weekend, tend to be one of the busiest days. But me, ever the optimist, (insert snicker snicker here) still hope and plan for and easy day. Wish me luck.
Tomorrow there is a Sand Castle building contest. If I don’t go diving, I may go and take pictures. Last time, we broadcast from there. Imagine, if you will, what it must be like, listening to a sand castle building contest on the radio. TV maybe, but radio? I don’t think so! This is my boss’s idea of an outside broadcast. Of course, I don’t really complain too much, because I like to go to the beach. If it was on a weekday, it would be much better, because then I could go diving on Saturday. So far, my boss hasn’t said anything about this alleged broadcast, but it is anticipated, followed by a repeat of my “I need more advance notice, I have already made other plans” speech. Then I (heroically and at great personal expense, of course!) cancel my alleged plans and do the broadcast.

I didn’t dive yesterday, my buddy was working on his boat. I took my dog to the beach and went snorkeling. I took a few pics too:

A red fish, his eyes really looked like that.

A cruise ship leaving into the sunset.

Taking the jet skis home for the evening.

…We couldn’t have bad ones!
I went to the dentist yesterday and I wasn’t missing a filling, the tooth was broken. There was decay under the filling and the tooth got weak. You can see it in the X-Ray from my 6 month check up a month or so ago, but my dentist apparently didn’t see it. (ya right . . . AGAIN!!!) I guess it’s time to switch dentists. The emergency dentist fixed it, but I have to go back and have it re-checked.
Then I was driving to lunch and somebody ran his car into the back of mine. But it didn’t do anything to mine and mashed his hood up pretty good. He kind of drove his under mine. I let him go.
Then I had a pretty good beach lunch and the talk show went pretty well. Here’s a pic of me at the talk show:

Then I was ready to go and one of the computers went haywire. There was a problem with the licensing for the server, and it wouldn’t let us in, although the date showed a good license. I ended up reinstalling the software and license info and got it working OK. Then because the problem was actually with another computer because it couldn’t access the server, I had to do what it needed to do after I got the server running.

But all’s well that ends well. It was still a good day. Today I plan on another after-work dive!

I had a really good day yestderday, I got a lot done at work, I went to the beach for lunch, and then after work I went diving, first time (hey! that’s the name of my blog!) in almost a month! It was a great dive, nothing spectacular, just the fact that I was diving was spectacular enough for me! I took a few pics, none really post worthy, but here they are:

A squirellfish
Some weird shaped tube sponges:It was quite dark at the end of the dive, I turned off the flash and the shutter stayed open for about a second. You can see my two dive buddies. Lousy shot. Its blurry because it was darker than it looks here and we were moving while the shutter was open. that’s Duncan on the left and Ian on the right.A conch, you can see a little bit of the creature inside. hiding.

And the same conch, how it looks from the front. His eyes will poke out here if he’s not retracted in his shell. This is what a conch looks to another conch when they’re talking to each other: : “Hi! Hows it going?” “Not bad, but I wish I could get this crud off the back of my shell”

Then when I got home I made a frozen pizza and noticed I was missing a piece of a filling in my tooth. I think I lost it while I was eating the pizza. it doesn’t hurt or anything, but I can’t stop poking it with my tongue. I’ll be making a dental appointment today. The pizza was perfect though. Durn good.

Today is my split shift day, I plan on having a goooood long beach lunch two hours!

So Happens It’s Tuesday!
I don’t know what I’m going to post about today. The votes as I counted them yesterday came out 9 beard, 6 no beard. Interesting. I used to grow a beard every winter when I lived in the colder climate. then I had just a moustache for years after I got the scar above my lip (fighting) I couldn’t shave without cutting myself for a long time, so I had a moustache. I didn’t mind the goatee/beard/moustache, except when I got out of the sea, then it was annoyingly crusty. Plus it drives me crazy that I play with it all the time. And mostly, I just don’t feel like a person who has a beard or goatee or anything. That was the first time I ever had a goatee and not a full beard. In the navy once I let my beard grow really long! It was cool! But most importantly, every time I have ever grown a beard and shaved it off, I notice that it seems like my chin has shrunk a little. I don’t want to loose my chin!
I can’t find the key to my bike lock. I was going to ride today but where is that dang key? I bet I could find the spare, but I want the original, it is usually kept on the handlebars and I wonder if it fell off somehow. I put the bike in back of my car yesterday and rode from the car repair place to work. (My drivers side window came out of the track, and I had just had it replaced.) Or maybe I am just too lazy and want to drive.
The OI Girl gave me a Gel Seat Cover and that thing is nice and comfy!
I’m back at that same ‘ol place at work where I have many unfinished projects and today is the day to knock a few of them off. Get them out of the way. Plus I want to make it for a beach lunch and possibly a DIVE THIS AFTERNOON!!!
Well, That’ll have to do for now, I’m going to look for the key! Have a great day!