Month: January 2013

The Second Rule of Scuba

The first rule of scuba: NEVER hold your breath.
The second rule of scuba: always look cool, because if you look cool doing it, you are probably doing it right! :)

For my divemaster class, I did my, “teach a scuba review” today, and I passed. It is hard to get used to getting that close to the “students” while they do their skills, but our instructors threw us curve balls today to emphasize how to maintain control of a student, responding to issues as they arrive and preventing panic.

I also did my skindiver course again…the instructors that did it with me in the past forgot to sign the sheet, and it was just easier to do it all over again than to keep trying to track them down.

The only thing (besides a little paperwork) I have left is “supervising a Discover Scuba in open water”, and I have that scheduled for the weekend after next.

So excited to be finishing this project!

Mistah Kurtz – he dead … I’m not feeling so good myself.

I have a cold …well, not a full blown cold…I have a cold virus which, rather than waging open war, has been conducting a low-intensity insurgency against my immune system for the past week. I am ready for it to be over.

My dive site map, “needs alteration” because I did not show the beach…like the map needs more sand on it, and as if the diver cannot figure out that the beach is just past the area where the depth is two feet!

There is a legend about Ernest Hemingway claiming he could write a short story in six words. While I do not know if this is true, I have seen several six-word-short-story threads on various boards I frequent. I offer the following six-word contributions:

He wrote, read, sighed, tore, wrote.

Sisyphus sat, calling, “penny for Guy”.

Six word stories: easier in Latin.

…then Buffy staked Edward. The end. (This comes off a jinx.com tee shirt.)

I also present to following, six-word one-act play:

Elysium
Sisyphus (sitting): Penny for Guy.