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Author Topic: The Anti-Rant Thread  (Read 29571 times)

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Re: The Anti-Rant Thread
« Reply #45 on: September 07, 2007, 03:21:34 AM »
More good news on the diving front!
Just booked my diving trip that I got as a gift for my fortieth birthday.
10:th of October it's time to go to Malta for a week. I've never been there but apparently it's great diving. It's a package tour with my diving club and a few courses are included so after that I'll get me a little card saying I'm a "PADI master Scuba diver" apparently the highest "rank" one can have in recreational PADI diving without working with it.

It'll be a few hundred dives more before I'm a master scuba diver for REAL though  :icon_wink: And THEN I'll feel ready to take the whole "Divemaster - instructor" route and get me some holiday jobs with it.
Oh and go to Mexico and get my "Full cave" certificate  :icon_twisted:

Odd: It's the first time I travel abroad without any kids in twelve years...
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Re: The Anti-Rant Thread
« Reply #46 on: September 07, 2007, 04:00:20 AM »
Enjoy the break Bodhi you deserve it. I hope you have a grea time on your trip. Take some great pics so you can show us.
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Re: The Anti-Rant Thread
« Reply #47 on: September 07, 2007, 04:17:02 AM »
Can't afford an underwatercamera I'm afraid (and wouldn't know how to use one...). But I'll bring me regular one.
Perhaps someone else on the trip will take some underwaterphotos that he/she can mail to me...
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Re: The Anti-Rant Thread
« Reply #48 on: September 07, 2007, 04:23:11 AM »
I think they make some cheap ones (the disposable variety), you just have to search a little.
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Re: The Anti-Rant Thread
« Reply #49 on: September 07, 2007, 05:21:03 AM »
Nah, disposable ones hold to a depth of max 5 meters. We'll mostly be at 25-30 so that doesn't work. A real functioning underwater camera (including the very strong lights needed for some depth and ALLWAYS needed in swedish conditions where visibility is usually between 1 and 3 meters) usually runs around 1500-2000 euro.

Pressure is tough on electronical equipment. Some researchers once fastened a camera to the head of a sperm whale to find out what it is they DO down there at 2000 meters. At 1000 meters the camera imploded and the spermwhale kept going down  :icon_wink:
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Re: The Anti-Rant Thread
« Reply #50 on: September 07, 2007, 07:48:31 AM »
Oh I didn't know you were going that deep.
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Re: The Anti-Rant Thread
« Reply #51 on: September 18, 2007, 02:34:25 PM »
I placed my first dental implants yesterday!!!

WOW.. what a rush. ive restored many of these in the past by putting crowns on, but these were my first surgicalls. So that means i opened the gums, drilled the holes in the bone and then placed the titanium fixtures into the bone. Heady stuff!!

It went well.. but now i have to wait and see how the healing goes.. wish my patient luck!!

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Re: The Anti-Rant Thread
« Reply #52 on: September 18, 2007, 02:59:30 PM »
Very nice. :clap2: He should be fine, we know you are capable and take it seriously. I mean you traveled all around the world to attend conferences on your craft. (or was that to collect lead? :shrug: :icon_wink: )
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Re: The Anti-Rant Thread
« Reply #53 on: September 18, 2007, 03:05:23 PM »
My PC works again - thanks to my girlfriend sending me her Windows CD (I love her!) all the way from Oklahoma, and me spending several hours online and calling Microsoft - it lives!
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Re: The Anti-Rant Thread
« Reply #54 on: September 18, 2007, 03:08:19 PM »
Long live the PC! (and you need to move to Oklahoma or move her to you) :icon_wink:
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Re: The Anti-Rant Thread
« Reply #55 on: September 18, 2007, 03:12:53 PM »
Split the difference; I hear Minneapolis is nice this time of year...  ;)
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Re: The Anti-Rant Thread
« Reply #56 on: September 18, 2007, 03:15:36 PM »
That is so weird! Her best friend lives in Minneapolis, I've been to the airport and I've applied for a job in Duluth (well near enough!)
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Re: The Anti-Rant Thread
« Reply #57 on: September 18, 2007, 03:23:12 PM »
Oooh, Duluth is beautiful.  Its like a seaside town, as the great lakes really seem like an ocean.  Just a couple of hours drive from the cities!  good luck!
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Re: The Anti-Rant Thread
« Reply #58 on: September 18, 2007, 03:30:34 PM »
Glad to hear your comps alive.. hey and whats with all the Uk mini lovers getting US babes as girlfriends.. im sensing a pattern here!
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Re: The Anti-Rant Thread
« Reply #59 on: September 18, 2007, 04:31:41 PM »
I need a babe in the Uk
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