Posted: Thu Oct 01, 2015 11:55 am
My kid just turned 10, and suddenly it hit me that he is getting old enough to do fun things. When I was a teen my divorced bio-father had me down to his place in Florida a few years in a row, a couple weeks each time, and he taught me how to scuba dive. He was a master diver, at the time he was a rescue diver at NASA (and he was there the day the Challenger blew up), so I never needed to get certified.... but now I'm gonna.
After the first of the year my kid and I are going to get our book-learning materials, and do that... then in March we will be doing our indoor-swimming pool checkout dives, then in May we will be hitting a cold-ass quarry for two days to do our "open water" checkout dives.
THEN, in June my kid is going to Huntsville, Alabama for Space Camp, and assuming Jinx doesn't screw up and launch him on the space shuttle, he and I, alone, will be spending the next 10 days tooling around Florida diving in the various springs where I learned to dive. I'm not taking him out into the ocean currents for a few years... sometimes they push hard and I want him to be a little bigger and stronger and able to fight them before we do that.... but I am already contemplating Bahamas dive excursions, an a few years, where you live on the boat for a week straight and to 7 dives a day.
But yeah, I actually have something I am excited to do. I started training hard, lifting and dieting, to get stronger and lose weight, down 10 pounds in the last month, and feeling pretty good. Feeling motivated.
Anyway, I hope this makes y'all feel slightly more pathetic about your own lame lives. You're welcome.
After the first of the year my kid and I are going to get our book-learning materials, and do that... then in March we will be doing our indoor-swimming pool checkout dives, then in May we will be hitting a cold-ass quarry for two days to do our "open water" checkout dives.
THEN, in June my kid is going to Huntsville, Alabama for Space Camp, and assuming Jinx doesn't screw up and launch him on the space shuttle, he and I, alone, will be spending the next 10 days tooling around Florida diving in the various springs where I learned to dive. I'm not taking him out into the ocean currents for a few years... sometimes they push hard and I want him to be a little bigger and stronger and able to fight them before we do that.... but I am already contemplating Bahamas dive excursions, an a few years, where you live on the boat for a week straight and to 7 dives a day.
But yeah, I actually have something I am excited to do. I started training hard, lifting and dieting, to get stronger and lose weight, down 10 pounds in the last month, and feeling pretty good. Feeling motivated.
Anyway, I hope this makes y'all feel slightly more pathetic about your own lame lives. You're welcome.