Scuba's Second try - Sink or Swim!

scubaangel

I may have been wrong about the hangover clearing up - still felt rough as this morning!

On the other hand a surprising number of compliments this evening make me think that either everyone has decided its confuse the angel evening, or some people know some things they shouldnt do about Thursday night or having been for a run this afternoon and leaving my hair loose is a good look, or most likely I've looked like something the cat dragged in via a few trips up and down the ugly tree for the last two days and getting rid of the alcoholic fug surrounding me has utterly confused anyone who saw me between leaving the pub on Thursday and leaving work at lunchtime today (when I was still feeling very rough).

scubaangel

Go me...I seem to have got loads done over the last few days.

4x min 3 mile runs - I've needed the thinking time away from a computer and my friend who is likely to have got me in to the pub and there's a very good chance I'd have spilled my guts and lost her respect (believe me my head this week has been absolutely all over the place and I can't post about it as I don't want to risk my real life friends finding it and linking me and the mse user). Happily I now have a fairly good idea of what I need to do, how to go about it is another issue but one which can be deferred somewhat.

Cleaned the bathroom, hoovered the living room, hall, stairs and bedrooms.

Got my small fish tank running again, just water, heater and power head running at the moment, need to introduce some filter media and then do some water tests before I start thinking about gravel, which of my rather large collection of aquarium ornaments and eventually fish can go in to it.

Several hours of study. I hate the topic so it's a real challenge getting me to do it this month.

And most importantly of all I've found a dive centre/club which I think I would enjoy being a member of, the last one I visited the shop staff were too pushy and I didn't much enjoy being talked in to doing courses I'd already said several times I wasn't interested in doing. This one however was lovely, the woman working there ran through the club info, and the course structures (one of the customers at work has said he'd be interested in learning to dive) and put no pressure on me to sign up to any courses, buy any kit or even to join the club there and then. Lovely dive centre itself, big retail area, plenty of relatively new school kit and everything looked really well maintained.

Knitting_Nora

Sounds good on the diving front. if you like, we can arrange to have some of your fish tank ornaments stuck to the bottom of the pool...just to make it a little more interesting and homey.....;)

scubaangel

Umm no ta Nora, at the moment the ornaments are strewn around my dining table and if I drop one more little plastic plant and then tread on it in the dark I am going to hurt someone - not entirely sure who since hurting myself seems somewhat counter productive!

And I generally find the flesh coloured nudibranchs and the fuzzy water aneamones at the bottom of the pool are plenty to keep me amused. Hopefully though after a quick 'check' dive in a couple of weeks I'll be able to pursuade matey from work to do the full diving course and develop myself a sparkly new dive buddy ready to be molded to my specifications. The main problem being his ability to cope with being in the same pool as my whale like proportions trussed up in neoprene - even with the weight I've lost I'm bigger than I was when I was diving regularly. And poor lamb that he is matey is under the fairly common impression that women in neoprene will all magically look sleek and svelte - sadly that is distinctly untrue, and I'm yet to see a real life man who looks good in a wetsuit, even the ones who make me drool wandering around the pool side in their normal clothes/swimming shorts lose the appeal once inside the magic rubber suits.

Knitting_Nora

Neoprene - beer googles without the fun!

scubaangel

Knitting_Nora wrote: »

Neoprene - beer googles without the fun!

Ohh I'd never thought of it like that before - and it probably does explain the vast quantities of alcohol we swill down post dive in an attempt to either gain retrospective beer goggles or just to cleanse the memory.

scubaangel

So far today I have achieved absolutely nothing - well mostly, I've put a load of washing in the machine, and when that's done might even go get dressed so I can put my dressing gown in with the second load.

I know I should be going getting on a train and walking the 8 mile route from work to home in an attempt to establish if it's practical to do on my bike (I really don't like driving to and from work) but the section farthest from home is posted as 'footpath' only on the website for the route, but the site is 6 years out of date and claims that by the end of 2010 all sections should be multi-use. I can I guess either drive up there, most likely leaving my car at work and do the walk - as its about 1.5 miles from work to the last section posted as multi-use. So about a 3 mile round walk or roughly an hour, or I could run it, but I don't really want to be running in and out of campus - I got laughed at enough last year when I was running home from work and there are people I really need to keep avoiding there at the moment.Although I really do need to go buy some fresh food since my milk has gone gloopy and the bread could probably run as fast as I do!

scubaangel

OK so I've walked the 5 mile section between the train stations took me about an hour and a half, to just do that bit and I know I need to add on 0.5 mile at one end and about a mile the other to get in to where I actually work. So I reckon allowing about an hour to cycle is reasonable given I'll need to change and most likely shower when I get to work.

scubaangel

Seriously stuck for the way to answer a question I've been asked this evening. What I do about it could make a massive difference to alot of things or just make me feel really really bad about it.

Knitting_Nora

scubaangel wrote: »

Seriously stuck for the way to answer a question I've been asked this evening. What I do about it could make a massive difference to alot of things or just make me feel really really bad about it.

So, no pressure then! Did you sort, or is it still outstanding? If so, can we help at all? Pm if you prefer.