Things are going well and I'm sleeping better. Another year has past and tomorrow I'm having a fire and some friends over. Jen came up from miami for a week and we got to catch up. Good to have her around again, if for no other reason that to bust on her for improper preventive motorcycle matainence...you know what you did! LOL
Diving has slowed down, but then it is winter so thats ok. I'm looking into getting a dive computer and a wetsuit...well maybe the computer. I like diving in board shorts and my coors light shirt. Makes me free like a rebel diver, and makes me look dumb as hell probably.
The case I was working on got picked up by the state and the mother fired the company from it. She was a very disturbed women and I'm really glad that DCF is now poking their nose around. It can only help our client, by keeps her away from him.
Well the big fuck shitty new is that Max , my german sheapard, went missing on Christmas morning. We noticed him gone around 6:30 am and at 9:00 am he had not returned. I went out driving around most of the day looking with no sign of him. Mom was devisated and I have to admit I was significantly upset too. I ignored the events of then day( two F2 tornados ran though the county, one right past my house) in a effort to find Max. By 10pm that night I had to deal with the fact that Max was either dead or stolen. In either case, not comming back. I can tell you that this made for a shitty christnas day and I spent it completely bumed.
Things were not much better the next day, I slept little that night and so around 6 in the morning I decided to try a few last things for Max. I email two talk radio show in the area and let them know and asked if they could let the listeners know. I also put an add in the pennysaver for lost dog. I really knew that it was not going to help but I had to try.
I was just finishing the ad when I heard my mom shreik " shaun! come quick!. Not knowing what was wrong I go bounding out of the house in my sandles and boxers with an AR-15. I meet her in the driveway and she yells" I FOUND MAX!" Where? I asked putting away the gun and trying to calm her down. "He's down a well!" she said....What? I gibbered. He fell down a well in a fernery two blocks away. So...ok...let go.
We drive over and sure enough, 25 feet down this 4 foot square concrete well shaft was max. Looking miserable standing in 8 inches of water, he let out a mornful howl. I get some " save the dog from the well gear" and with chris's help we get with to the surface wioth no trouble. Mom takes him to the vet, who treats him for mild exposure and gives some IV antibiotics and sends him home. No broken pelvis or legs or massive head injury. So for Christmas this year I go my dog back alive and well, which was more than I expected. I had to recant many "fuck christmas's "that day.
This year has been better than other, all things considered. I hope that next year is a good one for all of us. I hope we can all acomplish good things and feel like it was time well spent. I feel that this year was well spent and I like that feeling.
Have a happy new year everyone!
sungod
Sunday, December 31, 2006
Thursday, December 14, 2006
Insomnia = S X 3.14
It's been six days without any real sleep. I'm starting to really get annoyed,...And I'm starting to see things. Tonight I swear I saw a large bat hanging in my room. I asked it to fuck off and it did. It's like I'm not ever really asleep or really awake. I really don't know what's causing this...But I can't make my brain shut up long enough to pass out. I will get tired enough and lay down, but if I don't knock out in 30 min or so, I'm not going to for another seven or eight hours.
The worst part of this is being bored. I can only play so much online and watch so much TV. I used to read to go to sleep in the past, but I now seen intent on finishing the book that night. I can't put it down. I read deception point by Dan brown in 14 hours non stop. I can go drinking and I'll be stay awake long enough to sober up, which is really shitty. I went though 30 ambein in the last 8 days. I logged about 18 hours sleep in that time. And fucking abein costs 127.00$ a fill!
I'm calling into work today and maybe tomorrow also. I don't care if they fire me. That job is stress central, besides that, no one else is dumb enough not to have quit by now. They can't keep anyone in my spot longer the two days before they quit, so I'm not worried too much.
Other than that things are going well. I got my new sound system installed in my truck and it is badass. Two new 6x9's, one 12'' sub and some new in-dash speakers, all pioneer. It really sounds great. It's the first subwoofer I've ever owned, So I feek like I fuckin 16 yro blasting anything I can find with high bass in it.
Jenn is back from med school and is here now. She drove up last night and is camping here for a few days. It's good to see her. She says she's not going back to the DR due to it being a waste of time and money. I don't blame her.
Scott and I have gotten in some really great dives in the last few month's. We went to devils den and back to Ginnie for the Spruce Creek Scuba thanksgiving day thingy. Acutually funny story there.
The last time scott and I went to Ginnie springs we actually missed a diveable spring due to all the tubers and swimmers in the water. So this time we made a point to get to that one. I was out in the Santa Fe river and it was beautiful. It's entrance is a large Ovid with a fallen tree much like blue springs. We went down past the log and over to the cave entrance. It was a medium size opening, about five feet high and maybe six wide and the current was ripping out of there. I got past the current and into the mouth and flipped on my dive light just for a quick peek.
The cave opened into two large passage ways. The one to the left stopped in about 15 Ft and the other went into the devils cave system. I hovered there for a min or so when I saw a light coming from way back off the the right. I shut off my dive light knowing that I wasn't supposed to have it there and watched for a sec. I could barley see two cave guys returning from the right. So I decided to exit. I swam slow out of the mouth and then turned, wanting to watch them exit. It is times like this that I really wish I had full face mask with intercom, cause I saw scott coming down to pass me. I don't think he cared if there was anyone else there, but I would have liked to have given him more warning. I don't think it would have mattered.
Anyway he goes into the mouth of the cave and maybe 5 or six feet past the entrance, Well within the ambient light rule. As the two cave divers came to the entrance, one of them goes over to scott and starts making really angry hand signals to him. I can't see from where I am and what it looks like to me, believe it or not, is the scott is now in a fist fight with this guy. I draw my dive knife and swim down to the entrance as fast and I can, only to find the cave diver scolding scott with hand signals. I sheath my knife and watch as the cave guy motions scott to the surface. He begins his accent and I follow. We make safety stop at 15 Ft and then surface. Scott and then first cave guy surface first and me and the cave guys buddy come up a min or so later. I then thought that we really were going to get into a knife fight. This pompous asshole was screaming at scott, telling him that he had no right to be there and that open water divers die there and was really going on and on...Like this was his fucking river and his spring and how dare dare we piss in his water. Scott, for the life of him, remained cool. And scott does not suffer fools easily. With more patience then the dahlia lama himself, scott calmly explained to the guy ( during the brief moments between scolding) that he was not and open water diver, that he was well within the ambient light rule, that this was not his personal playground, but the guy was not to be dissuaded, he kept going on and on and once he began to repeat himself , scott had to get slight louder saying " fuck man I got it! " He looked like he was going to keep going but I also said " We heard you the first six times fucko" We let it lie, which was a mistake because although scott is able to forget fools like him. I became more angry as the day went on. By the time I left I wanted to find the guy and take him at knife point to the middle of the river and hold his arrogant fucking head under till the bubbles stopped. Next time any fucking prick son of a bitch diver tries to correct me or scott anywhere, I'm going to knife him on the spot. No more waiting to hear the story of blah blah blah... And its really dangerous. I know it's fucking dangerous and its my choice asshole. If I want to risk my life..Its my life to risk.
Anyway, it was a great dive.
sungod
The worst part of this is being bored. I can only play so much online and watch so much TV. I used to read to go to sleep in the past, but I now seen intent on finishing the book that night. I can't put it down. I read deception point by Dan brown in 14 hours non stop. I can go drinking and I'll be stay awake long enough to sober up, which is really shitty. I went though 30 ambein in the last 8 days. I logged about 18 hours sleep in that time. And fucking abein costs 127.00$ a fill!
I'm calling into work today and maybe tomorrow also. I don't care if they fire me. That job is stress central, besides that, no one else is dumb enough not to have quit by now. They can't keep anyone in my spot longer the two days before they quit, so I'm not worried too much.
Other than that things are going well. I got my new sound system installed in my truck and it is badass. Two new 6x9's, one 12'' sub and some new in-dash speakers, all pioneer. It really sounds great. It's the first subwoofer I've ever owned, So I feek like I fuckin 16 yro blasting anything I can find with high bass in it.
Jenn is back from med school and is here now. She drove up last night and is camping here for a few days. It's good to see her. She says she's not going back to the DR due to it being a waste of time and money. I don't blame her.
Scott and I have gotten in some really great dives in the last few month's. We went to devils den and back to Ginnie for the Spruce Creek Scuba thanksgiving day thingy. Acutually funny story there.
The last time scott and I went to Ginnie springs we actually missed a diveable spring due to all the tubers and swimmers in the water. So this time we made a point to get to that one. I was out in the Santa Fe river and it was beautiful. It's entrance is a large Ovid with a fallen tree much like blue springs. We went down past the log and over to the cave entrance. It was a medium size opening, about five feet high and maybe six wide and the current was ripping out of there. I got past the current and into the mouth and flipped on my dive light just for a quick peek.
The cave opened into two large passage ways. The one to the left stopped in about 15 Ft and the other went into the devils cave system. I hovered there for a min or so when I saw a light coming from way back off the the right. I shut off my dive light knowing that I wasn't supposed to have it there and watched for a sec. I could barley see two cave guys returning from the right. So I decided to exit. I swam slow out of the mouth and then turned, wanting to watch them exit. It is times like this that I really wish I had full face mask with intercom, cause I saw scott coming down to pass me. I don't think he cared if there was anyone else there, but I would have liked to have given him more warning. I don't think it would have mattered.
Anyway he goes into the mouth of the cave and maybe 5 or six feet past the entrance, Well within the ambient light rule. As the two cave divers came to the entrance, one of them goes over to scott and starts making really angry hand signals to him. I can't see from where I am and what it looks like to me, believe it or not, is the scott is now in a fist fight with this guy. I draw my dive knife and swim down to the entrance as fast and I can, only to find the cave diver scolding scott with hand signals. I sheath my knife and watch as the cave guy motions scott to the surface. He begins his accent and I follow. We make safety stop at 15 Ft and then surface. Scott and then first cave guy surface first and me and the cave guys buddy come up a min or so later. I then thought that we really were going to get into a knife fight. This pompous asshole was screaming at scott, telling him that he had no right to be there and that open water divers die there and was really going on and on...Like this was his fucking river and his spring and how dare dare we piss in his water. Scott, for the life of him, remained cool. And scott does not suffer fools easily. With more patience then the dahlia lama himself, scott calmly explained to the guy ( during the brief moments between scolding) that he was not and open water diver, that he was well within the ambient light rule, that this was not his personal playground, but the guy was not to be dissuaded, he kept going on and on and once he began to repeat himself , scott had to get slight louder saying " fuck man I got it! " He looked like he was going to keep going but I also said " We heard you the first six times fucko" We let it lie, which was a mistake because although scott is able to forget fools like him. I became more angry as the day went on. By the time I left I wanted to find the guy and take him at knife point to the middle of the river and hold his arrogant fucking head under till the bubbles stopped. Next time any fucking prick son of a bitch diver tries to correct me or scott anywhere, I'm going to knife him on the spot. No more waiting to hear the story of blah blah blah... And its really dangerous. I know it's fucking dangerous and its my choice asshole. If I want to risk my life..Its my life to risk.
Anyway, it was a great dive.
sungod
Sunday, December 10, 2006
Insomnia
I 've been working at a new company for a month now. I work with an autistic guy, part of voc rehab program. I have to retake the paramedic test. I got a 70 and needed an eighty to pass. i have been too busy to retake it yet, going to try in jan. Not much else going on. Been doing lots of scuba and loveing it. Gotta try to sleep now.
later sungod
later sungod
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