That last post was a strikeout, I thought it was a pretty good comic.
This was a long weekend, as far as weekends go, it was cold and windy and waves too big for diving. I didn’t do much. I did go to the beach Saturday, but yesterday I didn’t do anything. I can’t even account for the time. I did kind of watch both football games. Redskins won again and I won $5! When I say kind of watch both games, I went to the NFL Gamecenter website, and from there I could see a scoreboard and read a play by play. Kind of like radio, except you read it.
I don’t know when I am going to see the OI Girl again. I was going to go next weekend, but after no diving this weekend… well I don’t know. I am asking myself how I got into this situation. I had a hard, fast rule: No Long Distance Relationships. Now it’s worse than before, before if I ws lonely, at least I could try to go and meet someone, now I just have to suffer. And the loneliness is worse now than before. Locked-in loneliness with a no-relief safety valve.
But, this is going to be a good week, last night I had to wake up and turn on the AC again. This morning when I went for the dogs walk it was nice and warm again, except the breeze was still cool. Mentally I actually feel pretty good. I feel like I am able to see clearly, which probably means that I am especially disillusioned.
Remember months ago when that girl from work went on vacation and I was entering the computer info while she was gone? Well, she’s going on vacation again and nobody has told me if I’m covering for her again of not. If I don’t have to, it’s good, because I get off early enough in the afternoon to do something fun. If I do have to, it’s good because I’ll be working a split shift and I love those loooong lunch hours! A Win-Win situation!
I hope you have a good week!

This morning I am wearing a jacket and long sweatpants. Last night I was too cold to sleep well, (plus I had taken a nap)
But YOW!! it is cold for here!

A cold front moved through yesterday evening, I opened the windows and shut off the AC. It is so nice with a breeze blowing through!
I took a nap when I got home from work yesterday and now I’m wide awake at midnight.
I say yesterday but really I mean earlier this evening.

My mind is a perfect blank, I can’t think of a thing to write. Today my coffee is good. All week I’ve had this new coffee (from my freezer) Dunkin’ Doughnuts brand. I just can’t get a decent pot of coffee out of it. every morning I’ve been saying to myself “Don’t drink that nasty coffee, make some good stuff!” Then the other voice in my head says “No dammit! use up the nasty stuff and be rid of it!” This morning I made the good stuff. It’s not THAT great, but acceptable. It’s some of that fancy grind-your-own from the grocery store. It’s a helluva lot better than that Dunkin Doughnuts type though. I’ll be glad when it’s gone. Normally I drink “Pilon” coffee. It’s one of the cheapest brands but it is real good. Also “Cafe Bastillo”, super cheap and real good. Here, jamaican blue mountain isn’t that expensive, but I don’t really like it. It’s so smooth I always think it’s weak.
I drink my coffee black with no sugar.

PS, yesterday this guy, ooranos, left a comment that is a link. I clicked the link and it’s a slide show of all the pics on my page. Interesting and worth checking out.

I didn’t go postal yesterday, It wasn’t even a bad day. I had to cancel my Vets appointment. I always forget I have to work late on Wednesdays. I rescheduled the appointment for next Thursday. I had the good ‘ol split shift yesterday, I went to the beach at lunchtime and walked and walked. There were 6 or 7 cruise ships in so it was crowded. Sometimes I like a crowd and sometimes I like the beach to myself.

Also yesterday I got a real bad hankering for a new underwater camera. I stopped by a photo place at lunch, and I called around a little bit, picked out the best one and after work, went to pick it up. Then the salesman was a jerk (not the lady I talked to on the phone). All he had to do was ring it up and crunch my credit card. But noooooo! he had to try to sell all this other crap I said I didn’t want. And of course you all know I’m an idiot for not buying everything he wanted me to buy. I ended up not buying a single thing. I’ll order it online today.

I found a magazine article about people who have been fired because of their blogs. I scanned it and here it is. I read it, but I didn’t go read their blogs. I’ll have to take a look at mine and see if I could get in trouble. AND by the way, it’s from PEOPLE Magazine, and no, I didn’t ask anybodys permission to post these pics!

Anyway, that’s about it for today. Tomorrow is FRIDAY! and I was working Saturday but now I’m not! Yipeee! My rebreather is all put together, tested and ready to go!

Not much to post today. I have a veterinarian’s appointment today (for my dog) but I just remembered, every Wednseday I have to work late for the talk show. So this morning I have to call the vet and re-schedule.
I’m trying to maintain a better attitude at work. My problem is lack of self control. I have to stop myself from acting even when I get angry. I always take everything so personally. I don’t know why I just typed that. Probably sign that I will go postal today! Hooo Ray!
My dive watch is in the shop. I have my old 1982 Casio waterproof-to-200-metres on, which, except for batteries twice, has never failed me. It costed an astronomical $40, a lot way back then.
I am still on my first cup of coffee.
Uh.
See ya

Last night I went to the Astronomy Club meeting. There was a new guy there with a telescope that I liked a lot. I’ve been thinking about getting one for years but my main desire is portability. I have heard a lot of stories about big telescopes that never get used. Also there was a pair of “image stabilizing binoculars” there. I’ve heard about them but that was the first time I actually saw a pair (outside the store). The Andromeda galaxy and the Orion Nebula looked fantastic through them. The Andromeda Galaxy is visible to the naked eye, but you have to look next to it, if you look right at it, you can’t see it, because of your blind spot because of where your optic nerve is connected to the back of your eyeball. It was very cool seeing it well with the small telescope and the binoculars. It was still just a fuzzy light spot, but extremely cool.
I have a Treo phone (with a Palm Pilot built in) I have a program called Planetarium. It is the best star chart software anywhere. It beats everything else available, even programs for desktop computers. This guy brought his Palm Pilot last night and I beamed Planetarium to him, then spent a lot of time explaining it to him. Toward the end of the meeting I noticed I was angry, for no reason I could explain. I was wondering if it was because I had to go to work today, of if I felt I “wasted” the night showing that guy the software, or what. On the way home I stopped and got gas, ($62 for 16 gallons). Also I got a tuna sandwich and realized I was starving. Maybe I wasn’t angry at all, just hungry. For me, they are just about the same thing.
This morning for the dog walk I saw the Southern Cross, Centaur (the half man, half horse), and Scorpius the scorpion is coming back up again.
Anyway I was just getting into the weekend and now it’s time to go back to work.
I don’t wanna go to work!!
Last night I had a dream I was working on an old radar, it looked kind of like the dashboard of a 50’s car and had a lawnmower engine to rotate the antenna. I was thinking “great, another piece of crap for me to fix”. And I was worried about getting zapped (electric shock) because it was falling apart.
And, as long as I’m complaining about everything, my dive watch broke last night, the light stays on all the time. I just had it repaired because the light quit working completely, now it stays on all the time. That’s bad for battery life, as well as making it hard to sleep. It’s really bright. (It’s a Suunto Stinger Titanium, in case you’re interested.)
I hope you have a great week everybody!

Thank Gawd! I had a great dive yesterday and want to go again today, but nobody else wants to. So maybe I’ll just go to the beach, or ride my bike. Or ride my bike to the beach.
Maybe I’ll do a solo dive….

I hope everyone has a Happy 2006. For me, I want an improvement over 2005. I think I need to write down my ideas as I have them, instead of thinking I will remember them and then forgetting.
All my life I wanted to be a scuba diver. I am an instructor for several agencies. I stay in electronics mainly for the money and because I care what my parents think. I think I’d be much happier in the dive industry. When I worked in the US, I had my electronics job from 7 am till 3:30 pm then I went to the dive shop at 4 till the evening. Here, it is not so easy to have two jobs. Another thing I think about is getting old and retiring. How can I take a job with a quarter of the pay and ever think about retiring? On the other hand, even now, I can’t see ever being able to afford to retire. I see myself working till I die. I would like to be successful. To me, being successful means being able to quit work and have fun while I’m still young enough to enjoy it. this year I need to figure out how to do that.
Have a great day and a Happy New Year!