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This is not a post topic that I would use lightly. Today was, in fact, awesome. Not just normal awesome, as some days are… but so awesome as to warrant the use of an exclaimation point after the proclaimation of the stated awesomeness. Also worth noting is the “holy crap” that’s used to state my [...]

Today was another good day of diving. The first day got off to a slow start due to a pretty good bunch of inexperienced divers. It just kinda goes with the territory sometimes. It doesn’t make it any less annoying, just easier to get over later. We’re all on vacation and we all have a [...]

Today was another great day of diving. We saw our first shark here – a Caribbean Reef Shark. It probably only got within about 50 feet of us, but it skirted the top of the wall that we were diving and passed out of view. I fired off a few shots, but none of them [...]

Today was our first day diving. We’re spending the week with Stuart Cove. So far, they have a really nice operation with great staff. The conditions on the water today couldn’t have been better. The seas were almost mirror-smooth. There was no swell. No wind. Barely any current to speak of. Really a perfect day [...]

We’re at the airport waiting for our departure. We got here early since it’s an international departure but we got to the airport super fast, flew through check-in and security was a total non-issue. Even the cab showed up early this morning. Now we have about an hour and a half wait – though probably [...]

Tomorrow we’re leaving for the Bahamas for a week. I can’t wait. While today was “nice weather” in Boston (relative to how shitty it’s been), I’m happy to leave the mid-to-high 50′s and trade up to mid-to-high 70′s. Packing was a bit of a bitch. I have all my photo stuff plus the underwater photo [...]

I’ve added about 100 new photos to the galleries today. Most of them are macro shots and will show up in the above-linked gallery. I still need to process pretty much all of my underwater shots though, which will be a real PITA. Before I dive into that (no pun intended), I want to get [...]

After working with NextGEN Gallery Plugin on DoctorLovington.com, I decided that instead of trying to hack together my own gallery code that I’d give this a shot. It turns out that it’s a lot more feature-rich than it initially looks – which is naturally great. I started out by adding some macro stuff. I’m a [...]

It looks like we lost power not that long ago. I just went into the kitchen and various clocks are flashing. Since I primarily work on a laptop (and was at the time), I didn’t notice anything. I’ve been mostly working locally, so I didn’t evne notice that my router probably disconnected briefly. I did [...]

I’m feeling pretty out of it right now. I stayed up until about 2:30 last night because there were some disruptive network changes at work and I wanted to make sure they didn’t break anything that I’d be called about (and thus woken up). That went smoothly and I went to bed. Unfortunately, about an [...]