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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.