A Powerful and Poignant Message from Stevie Wonder on the Death of Michael Jackson

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Deep stuff, huh?


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(thanks, Bardgal!)

You Know You’re a Scuba Diver When

~You correct non-divers for saying when scuba divers breathe oxygen instead of air.

~You pay your neighbors in abalone for dogsitting.

~Your cubicle looks like an aquarium.

~More than half of your conversations begin with "How's the vis?"

~You stagger into work an hour late on Monday morning, no one things you were out drinking, but instead asks if you have any dive pictures.

~You're determining whether you can afford to go with the Ikelite DS-125 strobe if you apply to a couple fewer medical schools.

~You had gear insurance before you had health insurance.

~You refer to your time at work as "offgassing" between dives.

~The dive shop owners, motel workers, and waitresses in a city three and a half hours away know you better than your boss does.

~You're nicer to people who cut you off in traffic because they have a dive flag sticker.

~You get into more arguments about the genus of a mystery nudibranch than you do about politics.

~You constantly dream of moving to the tropics.

~You are introduced to new people as, "This is _____. He's a scuba diver."

~You have more C-cards than credit cards.

~Someone says, "Want to see some Nudi pictures?" and you expect them to be brightly colored sea slugs of various genus.

~One of the primary considerations of which new car to buy is how much dive gear it will hold.

~You compare everything to the price of dive gear to determine if it's expensive.

~You have at least one dive flag sticker on your car.

Cozumel is AMAZING!

We finished our 11th and final dive yesterday - today is a "free day" before we fly back tomorrow. I'm thinking massages in the morning and a submarine ride this afternoon

It's been incredible!



More pics to follow!

The House of Chaos is Closed (kinda, temporarily)

Okay, Troops - the boys and I are off for a week-long diving trip to COZUMEL!

When I was in high school, my best friend (and dive buddy) was a guy named John Keeney. He was the President of our Senior Class in high school, and he looked remarkably like Leonard Nimoy, so I've always called him "Spock" (He called me "Friar," for some strange reason). We always talked about going to Cozumel - at the time that was the Holy Grail of scuba divers. We plotted and schemed and planned for a our chance at this wondrous, far away land, but were never able to make it happen.

Well, Spock moved to Australia (he is, incidentally, the only person I know who would make Australians look reserved!), and has subsequently turned old and gray (while I have maintained my youthful countenance), and doesn't dive any longer. But back in the day, the dude logged some awesome dives, including Cozumel, as well as on the Great Barrier Reef, the Maldives, and God knows where else.

Now it's Friar's turn.

Dunno what access there will be (if any) to the Internets, so posting may be slim to non-existent for the next week.

Expect a buttload of pictures when we get back!

Here's something mildly interesting...

Tomorrow at 12:34:56 it will be 12:34:56 07/08/09 (unless you are dd/mm/yy, in which case you have another month to go).

You're welcome.

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The Procrastinator's Creed

1. I believe that if anything is worth doing, it would have been done already.

2. I shall never move quickly, except to avoid more work or find excuses.

3. I will never rush into a job without a lifetime of consideration.

4. I shall meet all of my deadlines directly in proportion to the amount of bodily injury I could expect to receive from missing them.

5. I firmly believe that tomorrow holds the possibility for new technologies, astounding discoveries, and a reprieve from my obligations.

6. I truly believe that all deadlines are unreasonable regardless of the amount of time given.

7. I shall never forget that the probability of a miracle, though infinitesimally small, is not exactly zero.

8. If at first I don't succeed, there is always next year.

9. I shall always decide not to decide, unless of course I decide to change my mind.

10. I shall always begin, start, initiate, take the first step, and/or write the first word, when I get around to it.

11. I obey the law of inverse excuses which demands that the greater the task to be done, the more insignificant the work that must be done prior to beginning the greater task.

12. I know that the work cycle is not plan-start-finish, but is wait-plan-plan.

13. I will never put off until tomorrow, what I can forget about forever.

14. I will become a member of the ancient Order of Two-Headed Turtles (the Procrastinator's Society) if they ever get it organized.

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