JULY 23, 2008 @ 12:11 PM | NO COMMENTS
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Work is mad crazy at the moment. They are sucking up all the hours I can provide. I am thinking it will help fund a nice trip out to Hawaii sometime this winter. I did manage to get to New Mexico over the weekend and do training for a pair of aspiring technical divers. We did a bunch of training dives and a couple of fun dives just to let them relax. I was able to pass one by the end of the weekend. The other guy was pretty discouraged, but I let him know that these skills are very hard to master and that the weekend was not a final examination, but an opportunity to practice.
I spent some time over the weekend reflecting on my teaching. In these courses I drive students very hard as these are essential survival skills. It's not for everybody, but I still hate to lose students and see them so discouraged after being pummeled in the water so. I don't think there is any other approach possible really. At least one that leaves me feeling I have given them the best possible chance at doing these aggressive dives safely.
We have a pesky bear in the neighborhood who has broken open my storage shed twice now. I heard it out there a few nights ago and went out and yelled at it a bit. It really did not want to leave so finally I chucked a Croc shoe at it and hit it in the ass. It slowly wandered off at that point. We came up with a better way of securing the door after that so maybe it will have to look elsewhere. Part of life in the mountains.
Work is mad crazy at the moment. They are sucking up all the hours I can provide. I am thinking it will help fund a nice trip out to Hawaii sometime this winter. I did manage to get to New Mexico over the weekend and do training for a pair of aspiring technical divers. We did a bunch of training dives and a couple of fun dives just to let them relax. I was able to pass one by the end of the weekend. The other guy was pretty discouraged, but I let him know that these skills are very hard to master and that the weekend was not a final examination, but an opportunity to practice.
I spent some time over the weekend reflecting on my teaching. In these courses I drive students very hard as these are essential survival skills. It's not for everybody, but I still hate to lose students and see them so discouraged after being pummeled in the water so. I don't think there is any other approach possible really. At least one that leaves me feeling I have given them the best possible chance at doing these aggressive dives safely.
We have a pesky bear in the neighborhood who has broken open my storage shed twice now. I heard it out there a few nights ago and went out and yelled at it a bit. It really did not want to leave so finally I chucked a Croc shoe at it and hit it in the ass. It slowly wandered off at that point. We came up with a better way of securing the door after that so maybe it will have to look elsewhere. Part of life in the mountains.
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I spent some time over the weekend reflecting on my teaching. In these courses I drive students very hard as these are essential survival skills. It's not for everybody, but I still hate to lose students and see them so discouraged after being pummeled in the water so. I don't think there is any other approach possible really. At least one that leaves me feeling I have given them the best possible chance at doing these aggressive dives safely.
We have a pesky bear in the neighborhood who has broken open my storage shed twice now. I heard it out there a few nights ago and went out and yelled at it a bit. It really did not want to leave so finally I chucked a Croc shoe at it and hit it in the ass. It slowly wandered off at that point. We came up with a better way of securing the door after that so maybe it will have to look elsewhere. Part of life in the mountains.