:Six Feet Under… and then some.

"Have you ever met anyone who built their own wing?"

"No."
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This is how I opened up a conversation with one of the guys over at ScubaWorld today where I went to test my "wing" in their pool.  A wing is basically a back-mounted bag of air that helps with your buoyancy when diving.  Anyway, I’ve been making one for the past few days because basically I wasn’t too happy with my regular stab jacket.
As luck would have it, they had just chlorinated the pool, so all I could do was toss the whole unit (tank, wing, reg, and weights) into the pool to see if it would float.  Suprisingly, it did

Anyway, it would’ve been fun to try out the trim of the thing in the pool, but the earliest I could do that would have been monday.  While packing up my stuff, I received a text message from Ernest who invited me to go diving this weekend in Anilao.  Seeing as I had a prior engagement with the boys over here (getting hit by plastic BBs again), I asked if I could do a day trip.  Lucky for me, Dan was just doing a day trip.  So now I get to test my new rig in open water!  Now I’ve got to get to work on it and patch up a few of the sources of bubbles I saw in the pool…
And don’t worry - that orange thing at the base is my safety balloon for redundant buoyancy.  Just in case.
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Its been a while since I’d gone airsoft-ing.  I’m sure there’s proper lingo for that (like wargaming?)  but like I said, its been a while.  It’ll be nice to get back into gear and scuff up a few elbows here and there.  It’ll also be nice to just hang out with the guys dissecting each encounter ad nauseam, laying blame on who did or didn’t do whatever
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So there.  This weekend will be one of those rare times I get to do all three of my hobbies.  Dive on Saturday,  Airsoft on Sunday.  And both times will be photographed.
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Man, I’m so psyched, I don’t know whether or not to chant "DIve! Dive! Dive!" or "Game on!"

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Well.

I know I’ve been very delinquent with this blog.  Time seems to fly when you’re having fun I guess.  All to quickly, my month here in Chicago is up.  Scramble has come and gone, and (no surprises here…) I guess all I can hope for is for better luck next year.  But really, in spite of everything, I am so glad I came over.

Likewise, I’m glad to be heading back home tomorrow.

Home.

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This is gonna be a short post.  I promise a longer one tomorrow.

All I have to say right now is that weather wise, we’ve finally turned a corner.  Temps will be up to 9 degrees centigrade tomorrow, and most of the snow on the ground is GONE!

Spring is in the air!

Good bye boots.  Good bye, overcoat!  Good bye pea coat!

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