I believe my destiny is to spend the entire weekend at the beach. I have no car, can’t transport my rebreather. The beach is across the street, and that’s what I’ll do.

And clean my apartment.

I stayed up last night watching the movie “Signs”. I had seen it before but it was good again.
Normally I go to bed about 9PM. Last night I went at 11:30. I woke up at 3:30 with a backaache (from riding my bicycle?) and I took some ibuprophen and went back to bed.
But it was hard to get up. I got up at about 40 minutes late.

My landlady called yesterday. She’s cranking the rent up more that 15%. And she wants me to sign a new lease. I really don’t want to sign a lease, as I hope to have a house built to live in by 6 months of so.

I didn’t get my car back, I went to pick it up and I found a lot more rust. I told you I thought the price was too low! Now I’m pretty much going to get all the body work done. I probably won’t have a car all weekend. Heck- I definitely won’t. Its FRIDAY!

A long time ago I planted some Papaya seeds, a long time ago like 2 weeks. They didn’t come up and I was beginning to worry. But this morning, Ta daaaa! 3 out of 4 little papaya plants are growing. Maybe the fourth will come up today. I planted them from seeds of a papaya I ate.

My car is still in the shop. I rekkon I’ll get it back today. I rode my bike home yesterday and will ride it in today. It amazes me that people are amazed that I ride my bike to and from work. It’s less that 10 miles. I bought one of those geeky helmets. As a car driver, I take a biker with a helmet more seriously that one without. Like they’re a tri-athlete or professional bike rider or something.

I’ve been thinking about buying a Vespa. Instead of paying $70 a week or more for gas I could pay $6 every other week. the only problem is that I’m worried about killing myself. I don’t quite understand why I am worried about wrecking or getting run over on a Vespa more than my bike. On my bike, I could get run over by a Vespa! Maybe it has something to do with an engine, or license plates. On a Vespa, I’m in the same class as a car in some ways, but on a bike, maybe I think drivers have an obligation to look out for me. . . I dunno.

Today I have an appointment to get some rust fixed on my car. I’m kind of having reservations because of the expense, but it’s going to be less than 200 dollars. I guess I should get it done.
Because . . .
I found out the other day that my inspection expired in JANUARY! that’s 7 months ago! When I first noticed, I thought I must have scraped off the wrong sticker after after having it inspected, but no. the paperwork says it’s way overdue!
I’ve been driving around for seven months in ignorant bliss, and I haven’t been stopped, but you can bet your bottom dollar that now that I’m driving around with a guilty conscience, I’ll get busted for sure!
So I might as well get my brakes fixed too, and that WILL be expensive!
Plus I got that dirt theifin’ thing to worry about . . .
I hope my next couple years of posting aren’t coming at you from JAIL!
Yesterday my life was SWEEEEEET! Today I’m a cop-dodging fugitive!
I’m just going to try and act normal. If you see me around, you try to act normal too, OK?

Oh yeah, check out this: Kelli got a blog.
finally.

The weather here has been following a strange pattern. It is nice and sunny in the morning, then around noon it gets cloudy and rains and thunders, then at about 4 or 5 it clears up again.
It just hit me that this is going to be one of those days I can’t think of anything to post.
My BBC receiver at work seems to be failing. It stays locked onto the receiver, but looses audio. that was the original symptom, before the guy dropped a tree on the dish. That added to the problem quite a bit.
Also I stole dirt this morning, There’s a construction site across the street, and this morning I went over there and stole a flower pot full of dirt.
I signed up for an on-line college. Cleveland Institute of Electronics. My resume has gotten kind of stagnant, my current employer has provided zero training so I decided to do something on my own. Hopefully it will be challenging without being too difficult. Most of the info in the course I have already had. If I need help I will be asking you. And my study habits have gone to crap.

Yesterday was a great day! I went for a dive I always wanted to go on, a shore dive to the Carrie Lee. I went to this fairly new park, I think it’s called the Dart Family Park. It is adjacent to the Carrie Lee and there is no piece of land that is closer. I parked in the parking lot and geared up and walked down to this antique boat ramp and got in and compassed out. I saw a nurse shark, a spotted eagle ray, turtle and a lot of good things.
As I went out further, the current got stronger and stronger. I tried to compensate, and when I got to the depth the wreck was at, I couldn’t find it. I swam into the current for a while, looking for it, but nada.
When I reached the shore, I was a little north of where I intended to be, which makes me think I think I over-compensated for the current and I should have looked the other way for the wreck. It was probably right there! It was too deep for my camera. Too bad, the shark was beautiful!

After the dive, I invaded a hotel swimming pool, You should have seen this girl there. she was wearing the smallest, lowest bikini. I wished again that I had my camera! When it comes to womens swimsuits, less is more!
After staying at the pool for a while, I went home for lunch and to rinse my rebreather. Then to the beach for the rest of the afternoon.

I’m at work already, we were off the air one one frequency this morning. It was the BBC Satellite receiver, it was locked onto the satellite, but there was no audio, I re-booted it and it started working. We musta had a power failure last night.

Since I came in early I plan on taking off early and that means extra beach time!
Have a good week!

Yesterday I worked and it was hot and sunny. Then as soon as I got off it started raining thundering and lightninging. So (after I got my car out of the shop) I came home a took a nap. When I woke up it was sunny so I went to the beach and went snorkeling and took some more of the same ol’ pics . . .

A lobster

A Parrotfish (they were acting weird yesterday, not running away)

 

And yesterdays answer was a dictionary. Congratulations Scott!!!

It’s Saturday and I’m getting ready to go to work. My car is in the shop because the radiator started leaking and the engine was overheationg. I just had that fixed less than a month ago. So I a have works van. Thank you to my new boss.
I want to get done working and get to the beach. I want to go diving tomorrow. I think I’ll assemble my rebreather before work today.
My coffee’s good. I’m out of Costa Rican and I’m drinking Cuban. OI Girls dad is sending her some more so maybe I’ll get some of that! Did you know Starbucks uses Costa Rican coffee?
In case you can’t tell, I can’t think of anthing to post today, I’m just rambling.
Posts like this don’t generate many comments. I love to get comments, so I’l leave you with a question:
Here on earth it is true, yesterday is always before today; but there is a place where yesterday always follows today. Where?

People always tell me I’m lucky to live here. Luck is when something you can’t control works out in your favor, so I am lucky, but also I took action to be here, and I learned action is infinitely more important than luck. Action generates luck.
First of all, let me give some history. I lived in Hawaii and planned on staying. I wanted to stay and work for a year at a new job before I went back to visit my parents, but I hadn’t been home in 3 years and they urged me to go so I went.
While in Maryland, the job I had lined up in Hawaii fell through. Looking back, not going back to Hawaii was a prime example of inaction. I ended up working in DC a year and I moved with my job to Virginia.
And I got into credit card debt.
After I quit drinking and doing drugs and decided I needed to get out of debt and move back to the tropics (The Marktic Circle). It took a long time to pay off my maxxed out credit cards.
All the while I was planning on moving, and planning and planning, and looking and looking. I thought that Belize, english speaking, 400 years of unbroken peace, looked pretty good. So I was looking and looking. Library and internet. Looking and thinking about it with no action.
Then one day I got a call from an acquaintance who I usually saw only one weekend a year. He was going on vacation. He usually went with his son, but his son couldn’t go that year so he called me because I was a scuba diver. I wanted to think about it for a while, (which would have been more inaction) but in this case that wasn’t an option and I ended up saying yes. Then I came here and met a girl.
When I was leaving to go back home after my vacation, I had a strong sensation I was supposed to stay.
I kept in touch with the girl, I thought she might be “The One” (she wasn’t). But she sent me the ad for the job I have today. I applied and came back down and interviewed.
When I got the job, I was still scared. But I called the newspaper, ran an ad for a yard sale. I called the airlines and bought a ticket. And I made calls to sell my van and rent my house. I turned in my resignation at work and that was it. I was surprised at how easy these little actions were.
From the time I decided to move and took the first action, to the time I was living here, was two months. There was very little planning and thinking involved. Before that, I was planning and thinking for years and years. With zero results.
Sure I was lucky, I got hired, I met the girl, but all the luck is the result of my actions. I could have sat in Virginia and thought about and planned it forever, and nothing would have ever happened. After I took action things happened, and my luck started.
So now I’m here, and grateful every day for it. I get a little irked when people tell me I’m lucky, but I know I am.

I had the day off yesterday, for the OI Girls visit. Today it’s back to work. The OI Girl is here till Friday morning. We’re meeting for lunch today.
Yesterday, I was writing my post when the OI Girl got out of bed and came out to the kitchen. I think it’s the earliest she’s ever woken up. have never shown anyone my blog, so I just kinda stopped writing where I was and published the post.
Yesterday we went diving, our first Grand Cayman dive together, and her first time seeing my rebreather in action. Then we found another geocache by another beach. She liked it I think. There’s not too many more here to find here.
Now I’m drinking my coffee while she sleeps. I’ll wake her up when I go to work.
Saturday, I’m working.