:Six Feet Under… and then some.

I’ll admit it.

I absolutely dislike using my phone’s camera.

In spite of advances in resolution, I think that if you want to properly document an event, you need the right tool for the job.  However, not having a point-and-shoot camera of my own, sometimes a phone cam is all you’ve got to work with.

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I never really figured out how large stoplights were until I was able to stand beside one.  Next time ou’re at an intersection, try figuring out its scale.  Then look at the thin steel cable holding it up.  Makes you kinda think twice before passing underneath one.

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You’d think that a hospital’s admitting section would eventually become familiar with the various admitting diagnoses that they get presented with.  At the very least, they could call up the admitting MD just to make sure. I encountered a patient with a ruptured right eyeball, but this is the diagnosis he got stuck with:

While leafing through another patient’s chart, I encountered this diagnosis:

Now, if you saw that, I bet you’d really want to check out the patient.

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Near our house, there’s this resort with a pool.  Last summer they put up a banner that could be a perfect addition to the "inappropriate quotation-mark-use" file:

I wonder if their restaurant also encourages "eating."

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Dang, I just love these long week-ends.

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Well, if I haven’t mentioned it here before, then I’ll say it now:

My brother is a good diver.

We did some pool work last monday. In spite of the fact that I’ve probably got thrice the number of open water dives he has, his buoyancy and trim are just amazing. And at one point, we decided to go race underwater - he, with my old Mares Plana fins and my Aquamundo stab jacket, versus me, in jets and a wing. Maybe it was the fins I also tried using my old BCD. I remembered how bulky and loose it was - compared to a wing. Still, when Anton tried my harness, he didn’t see the appeal either. Different strokes for different folks, I guess. Either that, or my crotch strap was too tight for him…
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I’ve decided to make the jump and switch to propane for my GBB. Going to try to cut up an old can to make a viable adapter for the camping gas cans, and just drop silicone oil into it to lubricate the internal parts. The current CA green gas I’m using smells remarkably like regular propane.

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Short-tail, one of the enduring step-one kittens has finally gone to
kitty heaven (or hell, depending on how you viewed him).  A rather
large cat with a longish face that gave him an air of stupidity,
short-tail died yesterday as a result of an accident crossing the street
-proof that his wits were a perfect match for his looks.

Actually, I haven’t fully identified the body.  However, based on its
size, gender, lack of a tail, facial markings, general area found, plus
the fact that he hasn’t been coming around to feed, leads me to believe
that it is in fact short-tail.
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I guess we have to start renaming the cats.  Long-tail, in the absence of another similar colored cat with a short tail can just be called "Tail."
Big-black’s little counterpart died almost a year ago.  That means he
can revert to just being called "Black" (I forget what I used to call
him before little-black was born).  Momma-cat can maintain her title as
the village-whore (Yep, she’s pregnant again).
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I am seriously thinking of giving up my Airsource II.  Doing OOA and air-share drills in the pool high-light some of its short-comings.  For starters, I’d have to hold it away from my body before donating my long-hose.  Controlling buoyancy while breathing from it - though possible - requires an extra degree of task-loading which can be difficult under stress conditions.  Furthermore, during an actual open-water incident at Dari Laut, where I had to disconnect my ASII due to a somewhat large leak, I realized that in doing so, I had removed my back-up reg.  So that means I’ll have to now reconfigure my other BCD and reg to take the Airsource, while I return the spectrum reg back to the 1st stage.  Its either that, or I start combing through  eBay again

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They’re showing ET on the Cartoon Network right now.  I just realized something:

ET was stupid. 

Sure he had a glowing finger and could work a Speak-n-Spell, make an intergalactic telephone, make bicycles fly, and bring dead plants to life.  But for a member of a species that mastered space flight, he’s damn slow.  No wonder he got left behind.

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Consider this my formal complaint:

I absolutely hate the way SM uses those water-free urinals.

Its not that I’m against saving water and all.  I’m just wondering what standard they use when determining how high to put those things. Here’s the problem:  I’m not too tall, and those things are placed just a wee bit too high.  They almost cup my balls - one of the last things you want to happen with a public restroom urinal.  I think I can handle splashes and stuff, but ball-cupping is beyond anything I can reasonably handle.
So there.  SM, hear my rant, and fire that tall bastard you’ve got installing your urinals.

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Not that I’m superstitious or anything, but I couldn’t let 8.08.08 just start without acknowledging it. So there. Hmph.

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I’m gonna be crossing my fingers for the next few days and hope my enucleation doesn’t dehisce.

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Ok. Files copied. Time to go back to work.

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