Die hard, old habits do. Yoda, I like too.

Funny we are; us Star Wars fans....LOL!

I have not stepped foot out of my building today so I am off to get some lunch, late breakfast, early dinner at 3 pm est
Everyone have a good, rest of the day!!! Will peek in later from home.

Thanks for being the MPT, Brad. You really do rock; hope we get to meet sometime!

Tom - Are you sure your zipped up. That's what I meant! You remember those two signs What's her name upstairs put up?

Is it time yet!!!???!! I don't like to drink and think I need one before I leave work today.

I'm by myself here? Looks like I'll have to work for another 1.5 hrs. Nahhh. I'll just stay here and play.

Howdy all! Wes doesn't get here until June 25. Ann...I'll take you up on that offer! I love the critters and hanging with you is great!

So...I'm the proud owner of a Suunto Gekko. It has made it for 2 dives and I have hope.

Good afternoon ladies, U2 Brad.

It won't be time for me until we get to the woods tonight for some camping this weekend.

Allo, Jerry.

Tribs, That's the computer I use. Got is last year and used it on our Nekton trip to the Bahamas. Thank goodness there was a group of dive masters from a shop in NJ on board. With their help and patience, I finally learned how to use it.

Yep it is a little tricky. Bruce got me started and then I figured the rest out during my first surface interval. I think I like it. Just don't like the HUGE wrist strap.

Tribs a buddy at work make a Gekko into a Viper. He now downloads his dive profiles from his Gekko.

Tribs, I don't like the "ruffley" part of the strap - It make tucking the end in tricky. Is the length of the strap what bothers you? It is long to fit all sizes. I just cut a bunch off, but left enough on for a 5mm ws.

I don't mind the ruffley, but do mind the length and the width. I found a way to tuck the strap. I don't want to cut it until the warranty expires. LOL!

Cecil...how'd he do that?

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NO TRIBS, NOT A GEKKO!!! It's not as good of an insurance as the commercials make it out to be. Don't cut the wrist strap - seriously.

Linda,

Tribs, you just go ahead and dive with Gekkos, Iguana's, whatever you can find!! You just dive girl!!!

Home from Lowe's...George is out back now putting up a fence that is high enough that the gopher turtles can get under, low enough that the deer can still come in the yard, and just right to keep Calypso in...I know he's loving it, since I told him EXACTLY how to do it!!! I won't go stand over him, that'll make him think I'm all bossy or something....

We had the BEST lunch!! There's this Mexi\asian\Island restaurant that opened, OH THE ONE THAT HAD ALL THOSE BEES!!! Anyway, we went there and it was SO good!!!! I felt like we had gone to an island!!!! I think we are going back tonite for beers w/ lime and wings!!!!

Tom, my wrist is almost 6" around with my 3mm on. I'd be flapp'n in the breeze and tearing up the reef with the left over.
But for Trib's situation she shouldn't. Is this on a trial run?

Timmmy! Are you playing with Jerry's monkey again?

Phew! Moving 8 ton of stone is slow work and ya can't shovel it as it is too big of pieces, so doing it by hand into 5 gal. pail to garden. I'm beat, off to make dinner and then off to work. See ya later~

Tribs, glad you got a computer that's good now.

Beer with wings?!
Sounds like yummy food, PS! Have a great time if you go back later!

Hugs to Calypso and I know he doesn't think you're bossy; you're the Mommy


This chick is outta here. Work gig is now over and I must brave the heat and head home via a pit stop by the Yamaha dealer for some parts for Rob's YZ. Men and their toys!! Funny thing is the owner of the Yamaha shop was just here in my shop shooting the poop. He just ordered himself the new V-Max. Thing goes 200MPH! YIKES and on two wheels no less LOL!
I asked if they sold Lathe's there....NOPE they don't so I won't linger in their shop...pffft

MPT, had a great weekend camping!!!

See yall later from home!

Good night KIV.

Timmy, no touching the monkeys.

Well, Calypso can't run deer anymore!! He goes back there and looks at the fence, then turns around to come in!! He doesn't like it...BUT I DO!!!

Sorry, Brad..meant to say HAVE a good weekend camping!!

Calypso, we GOT MOLES here in VA!!! Tell Mommy to pack you up and bring you here for a weekend; it's fun chasing and catching them

PS. Put on your HR dress, it's close.

Have a nice evening.

Oh my gosh!!!! I was reading info on Statia and totally missed HH!!!!!!
IT'S TIME!!!!

IT IS NOT WINE TIME yet...dang!

Brad, have fun camping.

Debbie, have fun at work...NOT!

Linda, we have scubapro extenders with the fat strap...won't fit over my dry suit, or my 7mm...so I did what Cecil taught me, zip tied another strap portion so it's long enough. Last year, we got in the water (with 7mm) and i looked down and the puter was gone! Thank goodness we were diving off the boat, and it was in about 15 feet of water. I had it on the last 'hole'...not anymore!

Tribs, what happended to the NEW puter you had brought down????

Jerry, is louise really watching?
HI LOUISE!!!

Hey dudes and dudettes - It's FRIDAY and happy hour on the east coast!

Only 2 chat threads so far - you all wore yourselves out earlier this week!

I did a little shopping today. Got 2 nice outfits that will work well for dinner out on Bonaire! I also bought the girls some stuff for nice vacation outfits. J C Penny had some good sales going on. I love the 50% off stuff!

John's on his way home. Chaos and I just did our usual poop pick up walk around the yard. Sprinklers run on Saturday morning..... we don't want mushed up poop!

I don't have a clue as to what's for dinner, but there was a new take out menu for Chinese in the mail today.....

So how's you evening looking up?

I shoulda knowed Jerry would beat me to HR!

hi everyone!! Hope you all had a great friday!!
I am in the mountains with BOB {and Annemarie}
I must say, he feels right at home in the hills of Tennessee!!! Here is a sighting of BOB playing golf. I will post more later...he hasnt met Dolly yet and he is getting VERY angry!

TIMMMY!!! I need a relaxer PALEEZ!!

BC, safe travels. Can't wait to see the dreads.

I'll have a cold one when we get to the camp spot. Y'all have a good weekend!

Did I ever tell ya'll that I never learned to type? When I started high school my mother told me I needed to take the commercial courses so that I could get a job after graduating. Well, I'm a stubborn Taurus...... And I insisted on college prep courses. The parents said - 'You're not going to college - we have 8 younger kids than you'. And I said - 'I am too!' And I did, on a combination of scholarships, grants, and student loans.

I refused to take typing because that meant I was going to be a secretary! Who knew computers were going take over our communication skills!

It really gets my goat when people want me to donate to special interest groups because otherwise those kids couldn't go to college - without a free ride. I'm here to tell them that if those kids have the grades and ambition, they'll find a way. I did.

That's why I'm such a slow typer..... I look at all keys!

some body HELP!! BOB took mom and said he was holding her hostage for Dolly! What should I do?

Oh NO Annmarie, call in the reinforcements!

who are they?

Nobody knows, honey! But good luck finding them!

Give BOB SPAM!!! Now! SPAM is the only thing that may work!!!

We're back from the doc's...blood is red and heart is ticking. This is going to be a wonderful weekend of playing, drinking wine and eating

OK...thank you...SPAM worked PegiSue! Thank you for saving me!(thank goodness the neighbor had a can)

I'm thinking FEMA, National Guard and some Marines might be more appropriate. Bob can be a handful. Unnecessary Violence has been authorised.

Tribs this is what I did with mine.



As shown in cold water mode. I cut the strap for my wrist with a 3mm then I add a section if cold water diving. Which I am doing tomorrow morning, wanna trade?

Awe Cecil, you'll be in cold water diving tomorrow, and I'll be in the warm Jamacian water getting my dreadlocks applied/inserted/whatever...lol!

Now who really has Spam in their pantry?

True story. You all know my rebel, unappreciative daughter moved to Maui......

Well, the first visit home she brought us a Musubi Maker. It looks like Tupperware's hamburger maker except it's the perfect shape of spam.

The instructions say to put seaweed (Nori) on the bottom, a layer of gata (mold) next, then add rice and pack firmly, then a layer of spam, and then more rice to pack down. Then remove the gata (mold) and wrap the Nori completely around. Then slice. Needless to say, this non-stick Musubi make has never been used in our home!

Should I have sent it on with Bob?

Okay ya'll...here I am still at work 3 of 5 HVAC units in trouble and high temp in a phone office is not a good thing....looks to be a long weekend if they don't get them fixed....I might not even get to join the west coast HH.

Kristi still working on Saturday forgot to ask Karen but, I will if I don't end up back in here tomorrow.

Ok...computer saga recap. My baby, the Atmos, perished in a tank falling off the back of the truck incident. The second computer, brought by Carole, and provided by my LDS was an Oceanic Veo and it was eating batteries. I got 14 dives on the first one, 8 dives on the second one, and 2 dives on the third one. The Gekko just completed dive three and is still looking good.

I have a pretty small wrist too, so once the warranty has expired, I will cut it. I never alter anything that is still under warranty so as to not negate the warranty.



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BH....hope you're NOT still working by now?! If so, I'll drink one in your honor

Gail, you do a FINE job typing!! Good girl on the shopping; glad you got you some nice things for both you and the girls.

We're chilling this evening; INSIDE! TOO darn hot to do much else Even the Yorkies don't want to hang outside too long. We went from 70's to almost 100 in a day. UGH!!!

That was odd. I tried to post pics and got this error:

Internal Server Error
The server encountered an internal error or misconfiguration and was unable to complete your request.

Please contact the server administrator, www-admin@nettech.an and inform them of the time the error occurred, and anything you might have done that may have caused the error.

More information about this error may be available in the server error log.

Let's try the pics again:

Well that was a thread killer. Sorry.

anyone hear from patrick
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LOL, Tribs I love hearing about your (mis)adventures. So sorry about the snafu with the computers

Sounds like you got a good one now though so dive on, chickie!

Elaine,
Patrick posted on an earlier thread that he's doing fair and waiting on results.

Big healing hugs still going out for you, Patrick!!!

Hmmm misadventures didn't quite sound right after I posted it.
I am VERY glad nothing serious has happened and meant that I have enjoyed hearing about everything you're doing on island; from bumps & hurdles to all the perfect dives!

I know what you meant. I disappeared because the internet connection went down. Another...misadventure!

I'm just loving that you're sharing your vaca with us. It's like we're still there!!!

I'm going to call it a night. Hope everyone has a good evening!

Goodnight, Tribs! Safe diving tomorrow.....

Thanks Kobi! Good night from me as well. Chat with ya'll in the morning.

Jeanine, that's how I wear the strap on my computer...I'm used to it now!!
Maybe one day I'll trim it off, but like you said with the warranty.....