Yes, there is. I need to get out of this house -- too much cooking with chocolate. My happy place is going to make me fatter. I went to the doc for the regular check up and I'm pushing the BMI envelope -- I hate that little chart.
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Yes, there is. I need to get out of this house -- too much cooking with chocolate. My happy place is going to make me fatter. I went to the doc for the regular check up and I'm pushing the BMI envelope -- I hate that little chart.
It is so interesting to see the different kinds of folks and the different ways in which they think. I think people like tbeck, stuart, me and others think about things and do research and assume we understand what we read because we usually do. Often we don't and we learn later that we were indeed arrogant on a particular matter. Others learn more by doing and to some of those people it seems absurd and arrogant to see someone post an opinion online that isn't based on many hours of experience. I often see these two groups of people get irritated with one another and I assume that it often happens quietly without the irritated person posting about it.
I have watched tbeck dive into scuba without yet getting wet and I find it totally amusing and inspiring. I would never tell her she is overthinking it. I wouldn't tell Marie to stop fussing with her gear. I wouldn't tell tbone to stop preaching the back plate and the long hose primary. These are my family and if they were all like me I would invest my time elsewhere. Y'all are all great and as long as we are kind to one another we will enrich each other's experience by our diversity. We all belong; the over-thinkers and the plodding plodders and all the rest.
Tbeck, I will tell you my instructor of OW was nothing like me and didn't think like me at all. He tried to teach as if he was teaching someone like himself. He was a wonderfully nice guy but a bad fit as an instructor for me. I needed more of an aspergers type overthinker. We made do and I like him a lot. I will look for another type of thinker for future training.
I have watched tbeck dive into scuba without yet getting wet and I find it totally amusing and inspiring. I would never tell her she is overthinking it. I wouldn't tell Marie to stop fussing with her gear. I wouldn't tell tbone to stop preaching the back plate and the long hose primary. These are my family and if they were all like me I would invest my time elsewhere. Y'all are all great and as long as we are kind to one another we will enrich each other's experience by our diversity. We all belong; the over-thinkers and the plodding plodders and all the rest.
Tbeck, I will tell you my instructor of OW was nothing like me and didn't think like me at all. He tried to teach as if he was teaching someone like himself. He was a wonderfully nice guy but a bad fit as an instructor for me. I needed more of an aspergers type overthinker. We made do and I like him a lot. I will look for another type of thinker for future training.
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tbeck,I was lucky in that I had a very good OW instructor 12 years ago, and one whom I assisted on a course much later on--confirming what I thought back then. Though I was extremely comfortable as a "water" person, I, like a lot of students, had no idea what to expect with scuba--nor did I do any research on it. I just was lucky. Having said that, the courses with most agencies today are quite short, with the weekend ones cramming an awful lot into 2 pool days. I took the week night thing spread over 3 weeks then the ocean weekend. In my first year I had a lot of "Gee, why wasn't I told that in the class?" But the time just isn't there to cover a ton of extra information.
I know what you went through recently, as I had a similar 5 year situation in the 90s with my mom and uncles. I was glad I had just recently met my wife back then--she is now a Life Coach.
I know what you went through recently, as I had a similar 5 year situation in the 90s with my mom and uncles. I was glad I had just recently met my wife back then--she is now a Life Coach.
You almost got it right:
You got to get out of the house to get your fix of diving Zen, which in return will, by virtue of the caloric expenditure in the process, will let you enjoy yor chocolate Zen sin free and caloric punishment free....
That's my story ... and I am going to stick with it.
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StefinSB
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160 mph is 258 km/h. Besides that fact that most production cars don't go that fast ou do not drive windows down music blaring at those speeds. If you are talking 160 km/h that is a different story .....
wildjetskier
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Not really. In Europe most German made cars are limited to 155mph. But it depends on your definition of many.
Never let the truth get in the way of a good story.
I do not have a lot of experience driving the autobahns, maybe 1,000 miles, but what I remember is driving my relatively cheap rental car at about 100 MPH in the right lane and coming up to a slower car. I would carefully check the side mirror and see that there was absolutely nothing in the left lane and then pull out to pass. Once in the passing lane, I would look in the rear view mirror and see a Mercedes or BMW absolutely filling the view because it was already on my tail. I would get back in the right lane as fast as I could, and it would zoom past me and out of sight.
Although that happened on more than a few occasions, those were by no means the majority of the cars. In fact, I had the sense that the vast majority of cars were going no faster than they would on an American expressway. Driving 100 MPH, I was definitely among the faster cars. There were, however, a few going much, much, much faster than I. 160 MPH would not surprise me.
Although that happened on more than a few occasions, those were by no means the majority of the cars. In fact, I had the sense that the vast majority of cars were going no faster than they would on an American expressway. Driving 100 MPH, I was definitely among the faster cars. There were, however, a few going much, much, much faster than I. 160 MPH would not surprise me.
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