After Lynne mentioned meeting Doc Intrepid at the expo I sent him a PM and we met for lunch today. We've lived a 10 minute drive from each other off-and-on for years but we'd never met in person. So we met for lunch and ended up talking for a couple of hours. That was cool. It's going to be fun diving with him. He's done a lot of East-coast wreck diving when he was over there for work and is interested in PNW wrecks now that he's back. He should be joining the forum soon, so keep an eye out for him and give him the good welcome I know you will. We'll be hitting the river quite a bit over the summer, keeping tuned up for our Puget Sound excursions. Together with Loretta I'll finally have a full 3-diver team here at home.
The DIY thing is getting out of hand. I'm putting pockets on my fushion now. Not a tech-skin neoprene one. Just the plain old spandex one. It's actually working really well but I'm not much of a seamstress. I've been sitting on the couch with needle and thimble for the past few nights. My eyes are pretty good, but it takes a lot of light to see black nylon thread on black nylon fabric! I'm half of a pocket away from being done attaching the pockets and just have to do the velcro part to secure them to the dry-core so they don't sag. Oh, then there's the DIY overboard discharge valve project 1/2 finished, and some knives that are 1/2 finished, and a new light project... It's an illness I need to get under control. I don't know if I've ever had so many simultaneous projects going (that's just the diving-related ones!). No new projects until the current pipeline is purged.
Whoah! I'm watching a documentary while I'm writing and they just said that polybrominated diphenyl ether levels measured in harbor seal biopsies are doubling every 3.5 years (all the biopies are done on pups so as to avoid the affects of long-term accumulation). PBDEs have similar polution impact as PCBs. That's scary. And depressing.
That's probably enough randomness from me for now. Feel free to add your own random posts to this thread.
Later,
Ben
I have the tech skin with pockets, and I have to say that the pockets are not my favorite. Too hard to get stuff in and out of them.
with water and drink it, not snort the powder directly from the packet, right? 
" - Spatman
But I'll tell you what, it sure looks better than that craig's list monstrosity that's been kicking around. We need to get them together and race (or dog fight!).