Another one bites the dust
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.
