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Diving in Chuuk

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Stephanie and I took a long vacation, and the first week of that we went scuba diving in Chuuk, Micronesia.  This was an amazing trip, and we had a wonderful time.  The island was tiny, and there wasn’t much anything to do on land but the diving was amazing.  Chuuk lagoon was the site of Operation Hailstone where the US bombed many Japanese ships in WWII.  The diving there was amazing, and we penetrated many wrecks, as well as going as deep as 165 ft.  Below is a video that is cut and sped up from the original 9 hours of video.  You can see all the video at normal speed on my youtube, but this is the highlights.

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Game of Thrones at Rong’s

We went to Rong’s place on Sunday to watch the most recent game of thrones.  It is getting really amazing, and I’m really looking forward to how things are changing.  I like the way it is changing from the books, and it will be really nice to see things evolve that I’m not ready for.

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Rafting with Steph

Steph had a great surprise for me this past weekend.  She did another great birthday surprise like she did last year with the great trip to the cave.  This year she took me to the American River and we did a rafting trip to the South Fork.  We had a great time, and I was surprised when we got there.  My best guess was sea kayaking, and the whitewater rafting was so much better than that.  We got there early since there was not traffic, and stopped by McDonalds for breakfast.  We got in a raft with another couple and had the fewest people in the raft.  We also had the coolest guide.  I decided to jump into the first rapids that were swimmable, and it was really really cold.  Since it was pretty early in the season this was really early snow melt, at about 50 degrees.  I’ve been in water that temp many times before, but it usually involves a wetsuit.  We were able to make it through all the rapids with no issues, and the area around there was absolutely gorgeous.  We were both really tired at the end of the day.  We got back home pretty late and we decided to makes some misir wot and go to sleep.

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Waffles at Beachhead

We got some tasty waffles at beachhead, and it was a great time.  I liked talking with everyone, and we played a game of Dungeon Lords while Steph was at the ballet.  I got some bacon, and we had some veggies, but mostly had waffles.  Tina made some amazingly well spiced ones.

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Andrew’s Place

We played a good round of Poker at Andrew’s on Saturday night with Lindsay, Adam, Kevin, and Debby.  Steph joined us for dinner, but didn’t want to hang around after that.  The food was decent, but not great.  The ma po tofu was the most disappointing part of the dinner.  We had a great time, and I won a lot.  I was making some really bold moves, and got some amazing hands.  Adam was nice enough to take me home.

The next day I joined Andrew and Adam for brunch.  It was pretty tasty and very filling.  We then went back to Andrew’s place and met up with Lindsay and Kevin there.  We played a bit of magic (dragons), where I did ok, but not great.  I had a few amazing plays, but not enough that I could win. Kevin had a really fast deck, and he ended up winning the day.  We decided to do dinner at Tasty Indian Pizza, and it was pretty tasty.  We were hoping for something like tikka masala sauce on pizza, but it was a bit less Indian than that.  We then went over to a place nearby for watching Game of Thrones, and boy was it a good episode.

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Brunch at Andrew’s

I had a nice long bike ride over to Andrew’s place for a brunch, which was delicious.  The ride over was about an hour and a half.  The whole way there and back was sunny and the perfect temp.  I wore my new helmet and got a compliment on it from another cyclist.  It was interesting meeting Andrew and Haru’s mother, and I could see how a bit of their personality developed.  The food was amazing, with some delicious pastries as the part I liked the most.  Debby brought some she got from Alexander’s and Andrew’s mother made some herb biscuits that were phenomenal.  I left when they started the fist episode of the new Naked and Afraid season.

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Kitties loving the new place

I got a cat tree for the kitties at the new place and they are loving it.  They also have been loving to play with a red rain jacket I have hanging by the front door.  I decided to give up on the jacket and hang it on the cat tree as a kind of tent.

They also like going on walks, and since we are at the back of the complex it is pretty safe to let them wander a bit on their own.  Lana is especially safe since she runs back inside if anyone comes near.  They have been looking out the windows a lot and carrying their toys around the apartment.  They’ve also been surprisingly social when we have people over; sitting close to everyone and letting the guest pet them.  I’m really happy that they are adjusting well.

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Checklist Manifesto

This book made some really good points about checklists, and it didn’t talk about them directly, but the concept of willpower comes in a lot with them.  The checklist is there both to make sure you don’t forget and to allow you to not remember.  I builds up the habits, and refines them, while at the same time you don’t have to think about it.  Something I also noticed while building my checklists was that I could optimize them for order of operations.  I could also add things in that I haven’t normally done and it makes it easier to do them.  I think it is going to work out really well.

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Games Night

We went to BHH last night and it was strange since none of the occupants of the house were playing games with us.  We had a few drinks and I played a fun game with Adam and Brian called Imperial Settlers.  It is a dumbed down version of New Era which is good in many ways and not as good in many ways.  I liked the theming and removal of many of the restrictions.  I also didn’t feel like I was desperate for resources the whole time.  I had control of the board for most of the game, but Adam had some really good early scoring cards that got him the game.  I was able to destroy two of them but not in time.

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