Scuba

I took off Friday and went scuba diving for the first time in years. We went to the Indra, a ship that was sunk deliberately in 70 feet of water as part of the artificial reef program. It was a fairly unremarkable dive, but I had nearly forgotten how much fun diving was. I was so excited that I immediately signed up for a Nitrox diving class so that I can have more bottom time on the many deep wreck sites in the area. I had the classroom session and written exam Saturday, and Wednesday I'm going out for my first Nitrox dives. This is going to cost me a lot of money, since I have a lot of equipment that needs replacing.

Things have cooled off a lot, starting Saturday; yesterday and today have been just beautiful. I'm sure it will get hot again, but the cooling, combined with the fact that the undergraduate summer employees and students have just left, has created a premature but distinct and slightly melancholy feeling of the end of summer around here.

Goodbye to Jenessa, Trevor, Haley and the rest -- it was fun!