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Post by scubalawyer on May 29, 2023 17:41:47 GMT -8
No diving today. My view driving up Highway 395 along the Eastern Sierras in Central California!
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Post by SeaRat on May 29, 2023 17:44:56 GMT -8
Wow, that seems to show the entire Eastern Sierras! Beautiful photo.
John
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Post by scubalawyer on May 29, 2023 18:00:46 GMT -8
Wow, that seems to show the entire Eastern Sierras! Beautiful photo. John A new photo-stitching app I loaded onto my Android phone.
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Post by nikeajax on Jun 7, 2023 12:35:20 GMT -8
This was interesting JB
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Post by SeaRat on Jun 7, 2023 17:43:09 GMT -8
This is why I never go to rock bands.
John
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Post by nikeajax on Jun 8, 2023 12:58:42 GMT -8
We went to see Gary Numan on May 19th, you can just bet I was wearing triple baffled earplugs: I already have a problem with tinnitus, not to mention highly sensitive hearing JB
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Post by antique diver on Jun 18, 2023 9:41:15 GMT -8
I had a great day yesterday inspecting, filling cylinders and swapping stories with another "antique" diving friend. Our good friends, Don and Bessie, were the owners of Scuba Schools of Fort Worth for 51 years. Until their retirement a couple of years back that was the oldest, still-operating under original ownership, Dive Shop specific business in Texas. By that I mean they didn't have to rely other businesses to help support the Dive Shop. Here's Don, being greeted by my own personal Mermaid.
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Post by vance on Jun 18, 2023 9:57:06 GMT -8
Love it.
BTW, Happy Father's Day, Bill. And to all the other dads!
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Post by nikeajax on Jun 19, 2023 7:54:45 GMT -8
Bill, thanks for sharing: that's a very cute picture I love her mischievous smile, she looks tiny: my wife is five feet tall. JB
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Post by nikeajax on Jun 19, 2023 13:22:39 GMT -8
I love all sort of music: sometimes when Stephan and I are chatting back and forth, I'll send him something I think he'll like My brother sent me this fun bit of heavy metal sitar: The thing I didn't know about the sitar, is that it uses sympathetic-strings, that being there are underlying string that resonate purely through the vibration of the strings that are actually being manipulated, or played. In Norway, they have an instrument called a Hardanger Fiddle (hard-anger) that also uses sympathetic-strings. I thought this was really cool, I think most everyone knows this song: JB
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Post by SeaRat on Jun 19, 2023 14:43:01 GMT -8
JB, that Sitar is very unique. The violin as also great, but when I see a stream like that I want to be in and under it, not flying over it. That ending on the strings piece was fantastic!
John
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Post by Jim Perdway on Jun 19, 2023 20:07:36 GMT -8
I enjoy all sorts of music and discovering new stuff. It’s easier for me to just name what I don’t and never will enjoy:
Michael McDonald (except as backing vocals for Steely Dan) bro and pop country Sea Hunt theme song
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Post by antique diver on Jun 19, 2023 20:09:08 GMT -8
Bill, thanks for sharing: that's a very cute picture I love her mischievous smile, she looks tiny: my wife is five feet tall. JB Yep, she still has a bit of mischief going on. Comfortable cave diver, swims with sharks and whales and such, been diving old wrecks in Columbia for treasure, and so on. Been diving for 56 or 57 years. She could write a book.
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Post by antique diver on Jun 20, 2023 14:51:46 GMT -8
Bill, thanks for sharing: that's a very cute picture I love her mischievous smile, she looks tiny: my wife is five feet tall. JB Yep, she still has a bit of mischief going on. Comfortable cave diver, swims with sharks and whales and such, been diving old wrecks in Columbia for treasure, and so on. Been diving for 56 or 57 years. She could write a book. Here's the mischievous mermaid with the antique diver on one of our adventures. Spanish coins dated from 1688 to 1700 from the Potosi mint we retrieved from unknown wreck in South America in 1992. Don't need no stinkin' permit... no problem... we were well off the beaten path and never got caught. Sac Actun cave system in Mexico:
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Post by scubalawyer on Jun 21, 2023 18:01:13 GMT -8
Choosing to look at the bright side of my annual multi-day Halibut Hunt to California's Northern Channel Islands leaving tonight being cancelled last minute due to gale-force winds. Why is this a thing that made me happy today rather than sad? Because I'm not currently flat on my back in my bunk trying hard not to lose my cookies as we cross the Channel. I am all rigged up for when the conditions improve and the trip rescheduled so there is that.
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