Now, that was probably the correct action to take, inasmuch as my site was an attack site during that period of time. But would have been too much to ask to send me mail identifying the problem -- or, at least, when I submitted a review request on the site to identify the problem in advance, to avoid a back-and-forth where I fix one problem only to have another one identified before my site status can be returned?

Also, I discovered that my metablog had become stuck, due probably to a prior disk-full condition, and wasn't posting all of my stuff. Further, del.icio.us changed the RSS feed address, and either I missed it or they didn't bother to tell me, so that wasn't showing up, either.

Now that it's fixed, you can see that I've been identifying all of the Mac dive log software. I've become interested in getting an air-integrated computer (with hose and console, probably, rather than wireless, due to the substantial cost difference) and tracking my air consumption at depth. I figure that Laura wants to get Nitrox-certified, and as long as I'll need a new dive computer for that (yes, I will, that's how old my dive computer is), I might as well track air consumption too and upload log data.

Unfortunately, the list of air-integrated dive consoles that play well with Macs is fairly limited. Suunto and Uwatec would be my only choices. I like what I've read about Suunto (though it sounds like the original Cobra, otherwise my best choice, is perhaps overly conservative), but know next to nothing about the Uwatec Smart COM. Reviews and opinions welcome.

This weekend, Laura and I planned to not scuba dive. Last weekend, the five Advanced Open Water dives wore us the heck out. Somehow, though, it doesn't feel right to not dive this weekend. Plus, we just bought high-pressure steel tanks today: two 80 cubic foot tanks for Laura, two 100 cubic foot tanks for me. It'd be a sin not to try them out, wouldn't it? And since we're moving from aluminum to steel, we need to adjust our weights for buoyancy, and why wait to do that?

We were waffling on the tanks, but the fellow at Underwater Sports up on Aurora gave us a very fair price for them — as good as anything we were finding on the Internet. And so seeing as Craigslist just wasn't turning up used high-pressure steel tanks, we decided to spring for it.

We've never been diving before, just the two of us without a divemaster or instructor. Assuming that we can figure everything out, we'll probably just go to Redondo, where we've been a fair number of times. That'll give us an experience we're somewhat familiar with, to transition more easily.

So, it looks like we will be diving tomorrow, at Redondo, after doing the farmer's market in Ballard. (With any luck we'll put something in the crockpot to have ready when we get back.)

We've spent a bloody fortune on dive gear this year, but almost all of it should last us for many years to come. Over the number of dives we're hoping to do, it'll amortize out quite nicely.

We really only need one last piece of dive gear. I'm still trying to talk myself out of it, and hopefully I'll succeed. But the car's developed a ripe funk in the last week, and those rubberized floor mats are beginning to sound really attractive. If the Lysol doesn't kill the dead-sea-creature smell emanating from the trunk, we may be forced to take drastic measures.

I suggested this idea back in February 2005.

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Don't all shout at once...

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