weekend

finally a mother fucking weekend... so to speak.
haven't had two days off in a row since i asked for that weekend off so i could learn to dive.
but i was busy that whole time. before that... i can't even remember.
at least a few months.

so what am i doing with it now? wasting it.
well. i guess i could find a few things to do.
tomorrow i'm pretty booked: lunch and diving.
good times.

speaking of, i was talking to a guy at the pool who just came back from a caribbean cruise.
he says its the best diving he's ever done (and the man's been to the Great Barrier Reef.
he said the viz was as good underwater as it was on land.
he went to cozumel (off the yucatan penninsula) and the grand caymans.
i think he enjoyed the latter better.

but goddamn. this just makes me want to get out to warm water.
he says cold vs warm are like two different sports, and if you don't treat them like that, then you'll never want to go back to coldwater diving.
he wore a wetsuit one time and went "naked" the other.

goddamn. i need to get my ass down to mexico.
i guess the way to go is to bring all your gear down except your weights and tanks (the heaviest of the gear) and just rent that down there
(plus, i'm sure airplanes don't enjoy the idea of highly pressurized tanks onboard).

oh, but did i mention how next week is going to be hell?
this is why no one in retail can really enjoy the holidays:
i'm going to be working 6 days out of the week, 40+ hrs at fred's.
that's not to mention the at least 10 hours that i have to work at the pool (thankfully they're closed on friday).

so needless to say, 50+ hours will make for a happy week.
all it does is spawn the want for the holidays to be over.
hurray for my life.

oh, but yes!
i get to go diving tomorrow, and hopefully for the last time in a wet suit.
before xmas i should have a new drysuit. yay for me.
funness factor of cold diving will exponentially increase.
i'll probably even be able to last for multiple dives.
(but that will also depend on getting a new light.)