readjusting
the past few days have been bittersweet. i'm glad to see all my friends and be around familiar surroundings but none of it seems normal to me anymore. i found myself overwhelmingly sad the night of my arrival on tuesday the 3rd. you could probably chalk the upwelling of emotion to exhaustion or jetlag but i think that it also has to do with the close connection i felt to the maldives - now half a world away.
getting over the jetlag has had it's ups and downs. friday was the first day in a while i felt normal. i've been pretty active - back on my exercise schedule, trying to ease myself back into this life, etc - but i've been getting exhausted at the weirdest times of the day. exhaustion to the point where all i want to do is sleep. thankfully, i took the rest of this week off of work in order to reaclimate myself to this timezone. seeing how this week has been for me, that was a wise choice.
i called my mom today for mothers day and got the news that my parents are putting their house - the home we shared as a family since 1978 - up on the market. so strange. i knew that they were going to be selling soon but not this soon. selfishly, i wanted to be able to have at least one more holday season there but i guess that won't happen. it's for the best. now's the best time for them to sell, the prices in their area are ridiculously high so they'll make a sick profit, and then they can retire in style (or at the very least in moderate comfort). not a bad reward for them after so many years of such dedicated and disciplined hard work. still though, it's sad to know that it'll be gone soon. i have to plan a trip to go back home before it's sold.
so i mentioned that i left my car with the guys at platinum motorsport while i was away to get some work done. well the work is done and it is frikkin awesome. she looks evil. she sounds evil. braking is vastly improved. torque and overall performance is vastly improved. and (*gasp!*) i think, if i drive conservatively, the gas milage has improved by a large margin! i'm talking 3 or 4 mpg which on a large car like this one is pretty damn good. on the highway, at 65-75mph, the car levels off at just above 2000 rpm and just purrs - almost silent. i am so happy with the work that platinum did. it's practically like a new car. if any of you are considering getting any sort of mod work done on your car, do youselves a favor and go talk to george at platinum. you won't regret it.
i bought some of my own scuba gear at a local dive shop a couple days ago and signed up for my advanced open water course classes. real cool dive shop, this place. the guys who work there are knowledgable, helpful and single-mindedly obsessed about diving. they teach a different method of diving there. there's PADI which i think is the oldest and most widely known dive training method and SSI - the form these guys teach - which is almost as widespread. all of the certification i did in the maldives was PADI so it'll be interesting to see how (if at all) the SSI training method differs. now i just have to be disciplined about going out and diving. they organize boat trips practically every weekend to catalina or to the channel islands. they also do once every 2 month trips to baja california or more exotic places like the galapagos and micronesia. and these guys are literally just down the street from where i live! i'm telling you, all signs are pointing me towards diving.
now if i could only figure out how/when to turn it into a career....
getting over the jetlag has had it's ups and downs. friday was the first day in a while i felt normal. i've been pretty active - back on my exercise schedule, trying to ease myself back into this life, etc - but i've been getting exhausted at the weirdest times of the day. exhaustion to the point where all i want to do is sleep. thankfully, i took the rest of this week off of work in order to reaclimate myself to this timezone. seeing how this week has been for me, that was a wise choice.
i called my mom today for mothers day and got the news that my parents are putting their house - the home we shared as a family since 1978 - up on the market. so strange. i knew that they were going to be selling soon but not this soon. selfishly, i wanted to be able to have at least one more holday season there but i guess that won't happen. it's for the best. now's the best time for them to sell, the prices in their area are ridiculously high so they'll make a sick profit, and then they can retire in style (or at the very least in moderate comfort). not a bad reward for them after so many years of such dedicated and disciplined hard work. still though, it's sad to know that it'll be gone soon. i have to plan a trip to go back home before it's sold.
so i mentioned that i left my car with the guys at platinum motorsport while i was away to get some work done. well the work is done and it is frikkin awesome. she looks evil. she sounds evil. braking is vastly improved. torque and overall performance is vastly improved. and (*gasp!*) i think, if i drive conservatively, the gas milage has improved by a large margin! i'm talking 3 or 4 mpg which on a large car like this one is pretty damn good. on the highway, at 65-75mph, the car levels off at just above 2000 rpm and just purrs - almost silent. i am so happy with the work that platinum did. it's practically like a new car. if any of you are considering getting any sort of mod work done on your car, do youselves a favor and go talk to george at platinum. you won't regret it.
i bought some of my own scuba gear at a local dive shop a couple days ago and signed up for my advanced open water course classes. real cool dive shop, this place. the guys who work there are knowledgable, helpful and single-mindedly obsessed about diving. they teach a different method of diving there. there's PADI which i think is the oldest and most widely known dive training method and SSI - the form these guys teach - which is almost as widespread. all of the certification i did in the maldives was PADI so it'll be interesting to see how (if at all) the SSI training method differs. now i just have to be disciplined about going out and diving. they organize boat trips practically every weekend to catalina or to the channel islands. they also do once every 2 month trips to baja california or more exotic places like the galapagos and micronesia. and these guys are literally just down the street from where i live! i'm telling you, all signs are pointing me towards diving.
now if i could only figure out how/when to turn it into a career....
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