Good Deals and Bad Deals

Alright, now for a little more about myself. Things have been going really well here. I'm just about finished my divemaster training. At this stage I have to lead certified divers on a dive, map a dive site, and do up an emergency assistance plan. Honestly, all of this could easily be done in one day, but I'll probably drag it out over a week. Once that's done, I'll be a certified divemaster.

Since you do have to be careful in diving with timing your dives, paying attention to depth, knowing which pressure group you're in, and making sure you don't pass any no decompression limits, I've been wanting to buy myself a dive computer. These usually range from $300-$700 and above, so I was considering getting myself a basic bottom-line computer. As it turns out, the day before I was going to go pick one up, a guy walked up to me and asked, "Know anyone who wants to buy a dive computer?" Uh, yes. The computer is quite basic, and it only calculates regular air (it's possible to dive with other mixtures, with a higher percentage of oxygen, for example), but it works just fine. I bought it for $50. Not bad, huh?

In less awesome deals, my apartment building ran out of water yet again a couple of days ago. There are new tenants in the building, when the water ran out they didn't bother getting in touch with the landlords themselves, and by the time I found out about it, it was too late for us to get more water that day. The landlord did make a point of calling the water guy and bribing him, and the water probably was actually delivered that night, but still it failed to flow through our pipes. Presently, I know nothing about water pumps, so I didn't know how to fix it myself, and I was stuck walking to the other end of town yet again to tell the landlords we still had no working water. Being without water for a day is not serious (because it's only cleaning water, not drinking water), but it is annoying. But why would you not do anything about getting more water for hours after you've run out? It's not going to arrive magically on its own.

I really don't have much else to report at the moment. Still no whaleshark sightings, but I don't think anyone has had any. It's not actually the season, and the sea got rough again. I'm still hoping though. I have seen a spotted eagle ray, which was incredible. And I keep discovering new and cool fish. Recently, I got to see hogfish and toadfish for the first time. Today, it was a whitespotted filefish.

In closing I must say, lounging on a tropical island and going diving as much as I feel like is a pretty rough way to live...