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The objective made me laugh.

But were you putzing around or futzing around? They have slightly different meanings to me. Both mean wasting time, with putzing suggesting doing it foolishly while futzing is more aimlessly.

But I'm three generations removed from my native Yiddish-speaking ancestors. So who knows?
 
I log on paper with interesting notes, and then sync to Shearwater Cloud for easy metrics on buddy's and dive sites.
I managed to get all my Suunto dives from the beginning of my diving adventure onto my Shearwater Cloud through a workaround using Subsurface (export from DM5, import into Subsurface, then export again in a format that Shearwater accepts), and added the missing dives manually in Subsurface and exported the whole thing to Shearwater Cloud. Pretty convenient to have everything in a single app. I'm considering replacing paper in the future, but while I'm still doing trainings it still adds value.
 
The objective made me laugh.

But were you putzing around or futzing around? They have slightly different meanings to me. Both mean wasting time, with putzing suggesting doing it foolishly while futzing is more aimlessly.

But I'm three generations removed from my native Yiddish-speaking ancestors. So who knows?
Putzing surely does suggest foolishly (and perhaps fatly) milling about. Futzing could be frivolous, but not necessarily aimless. It could be purposeful, focused, and important. As in last-minute futzing to adjust a finicky regulator before a dive rather than efficiently swapping it out while your buddies sit there fully geared up and sweating in their suits.
 
Sure thing. Here y'go...

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wow, your effort makes my abbreviated entries look silly!

I find it interesting, the idea of keeping the running track of your total time for each entry (log+run=total)
The SDI student log books (paper) that were part of my family's recent OW cert class have that. I never remember recording that or wanting to really, but looking back I see that there was a space in my student log book for "total bottom time to date". Meant to take the total from the previous page and add it to the current dive's time....but I never filled that in.
The abbreviated log that I used after I filled that one up doesn't have that.

I feel like I'm more curious about stats such as lifetime average depth than I am lifetime bottom time.... but then that's impossible for me since my log has only been max depths for each dive, and I find it difficult to even estimate an average depth for most dives. I suppose newer computers would do all that for you. My old Aladin Nitrox probably woould too, if I had the software and cable to download the data.

Sort of interesting to me that I never tracked any of that, becasue I'm also a private pilot and our aviation logbooks have that in spades.... carrying forward lifetime totals for almost every metric.... total time, number of landings, day, night, instrument time in the clouds, etc...
On that note - several years back I transposed all of that over to a spreadsheet. It was a fun project that allowed me to break out a lot more trivial information. I have it set up for time in each aircraft by serial number and each type, statistics about all the airports I've operated in and out of, etc... Anyway, in doing that project I discovered lots of math errors...yikes!

anyway
here's a screenshot of a page out of the logbook I've used since I filled up my student one. Some dives I wrote a lot more in the comments, some dives I wrote pretty much nothing. These are average. Looking back, I also see that I used to fill in the whole repetative group section for many of the dives, but I got away from doing that.

I noticed that I didn't write my buddy's name for these dives. I happen to remember dive 100 very well. This was on a liveaboard enroute back to port form the Dry Tortugas. I was buddied up with someone I didn't know. I remember being very disappointed because my buddy was a newbie and so I was very distracted keeping an eye on him so I didn't really get to see and enjoy the wreck, and as I recall, he ran low on gas and so we headed up a little early. I thought that he actually breathed off my pony during the ascent but I didn't note that...so maybe my memory is off.

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Are the stamps from dives still a thing? I hope they are... seems like a nice tradition to preserve.

They are. Many of the dive operators in South Florida that I use offer to stamp your log book if you'd like. Pura Vida, Jupiter Dive Center, Sea Experience, Diver's Paradise, Horizon Divers. All popular charter operators between Jupiter south to Key Largo offer to stamp your log, and those are just the ones that I've used in the recent past. I'm sure others do as well.
 
They are. Many of the dive operators in South Florida that I use offer to stamp your log book if you'd like. Pura Vida, Jupiter Dive Center, Sea Experience, Diver's Paradise, Horizon Divers. All popular charter operators between Jupiter south to Key Largo offer to stamp your log, and those are just the ones that I've used in the recent past. I'm sure others do as well.
Dive with me.. lol
 

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...I have a friend that has been diving for many years and she has the paper logs and a lot of stamps from the DMs when they went on trips. I like the idea of "collecting" things like that.

Are the stamps from dives still a thing? I hope they are... seems like a nice tradition to preserve.
Your post piqued my curiosity to go back and look at some old logs. Twenty years ago, Ocean Divers in Key Largo (acquired by Rainbow Reef in 2018), had an operator stamp as well as stamps for the Spiegel Grove, Duane, and the Benwood. I have many stamps in my log archives, quite a few from good operators that are no longer around. Many good memories in those log pages :)

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These are from September, 2004.
 
Your post piqued my curiosity to go back and look at some old logs. Twenty years ago, Ocean Divers in Key Largo (acquired by Rainbow Reef in 2018), had an operator stamp as well as stamps for the Spiegel Grove, Duane, and the Benwood. I have many stamps in my log archives, quite a few from good operators that are no longer around. Many good memories in those log pages :)

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These are from September, 2004.
Yeah... see... that's pretty cool.

I am into things like this. I have challenge coins coming out of my ears... and I love it. This is the paper equivalent for me. =)
 
Yeah... see... that's pretty cool.

I am into things like this. I have challenge coins coming out of my ears... and I love it. This is the paper equivalent for me. =)
Some operators have nice stickers, like this one from JDC I got in 2007

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I've got a very few stamps like that in my book.
If I had to guess there are a few still out there with them but probably not many...and you would have to ask.
Sort of like passports that don't get stamped anymore
 
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