Is there a way to send a message to someone without having to make five public posts first?

[happyharris]

@happyharris Actually, there is another way to get a poster's attention without sending a DM. Just address a public request for the poster to connect you by DM, but start your request: with @user, as i did with this post ti you. They will be notified.

Huh clever. I will go back and delete all my posts from yesterday now.

 

[tursiops]

Huh clever. I will go back and delete all my posts from yesterday now.

Why bother?

 

[happyharris]

Why bother?

Joke

 

[Ukmc]

Joke

Sarcasm? Very nice! You will fit right in here

 

[Wookie]

Huh clever. I will go back and delete all my posts from yesterday now.

I do t think you have enough posts to delete your posts. You need to get your post count up to do that.

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Yeah, I don't get what the fuss is about with lobster (obligatory xkcd reference). It's fine, but a lot of work to eat, really expensive, and ... just meh. If you need that much butter to make something taste good, how good is it really?

I see you are from Santa Rosa. I've been there a number of times, as my wife's step-father lives there. Is there good (beginner) scuba there?

Are you kidding? lobster's the best man!
Pronounced "Lobstah" in Bostonian.
I think the small ones were 4.99 lb then
The next size up which everyone wanted was like 6.99 lb. Then the really big ones went back down to 4.99 or 5.99 lb. That was in the mid 90's.
Steam that sucker and gorge out with about a cube of butter.

Is there good beginner diving here? I guess you'd have to define "good".
It's where I started as a beginner, but I was also an abalone diver before scuba (freediver).
the water is 50 degrees average and exposed along our coast (Sonoma County) so swells and unpredictability. The vis averages 10' or 15' but I have seen it 40'-50' and as high once as 90' up north, a total fluke.
When it's nice it's really nice but it can be pretty crappy too. lots of fish though and if you like rock scallops we have those too, and trillions of purple urchins which a team of divers are I are actively and systematically removing in a kelp restoration effort.
I use a 7mm two piece freediving wetsuit because they're warm, but it would be considered drysuit territory by most sane people. Actually, most sane people don't dive here, they will go to Southern California or get a plane ticket somewhere. I dive here because it's free, I don't have time or money to fly somewhere, there's no people here to speak of, and I like to hunt which it's a paradise for that.
But to answer your question, yeah we have divers that do OW here (ocean check out dives in Monterey) and continue to dive locally in Sonoma and Mendocino Counties.
Small world that you have a relative here in Santa Rosa.

I hope you like wine.

 

[happyharris]

Sarcasm? Very nice! You will fit right in here

Was that sarcasm? This could go on for ever

 

[RIHappyDiver]

Look at that, @happyharris . You’re at 16 posts, and most of them are right here with you just shooting the breeze with us. And that, my friend, is how it works.

Erik

 

[Eric Sedletzky]

Look at that, @happyharris . You’re at 16 posts, and most of them are right here with you just shooting the breeze with us. And that, my friend, is how it works.

Erik

what did I tell ya, I'd have him up to 15 posts in no time!

 

[nimblemind]

Here's a first post for me just to get one, but I will post a "Hi my name is" post in just a minute!