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Just another diver with a blog.
The end of July will be the last estate sale that I have to deal with, but I have been working all the weekends to make that happen. I’ve been dry for so long, I may have to take a refresher course, or maybe just a solo dive at Veterans Park to see if I still know how to dive. However, with surf advisories in the news, I wonder how good the diving is lately. With little news, relevant to SCUBA diving or not, I would like to share part of my SCUBA diving humor collection.
The SCUBA Show is once again coming back to the Long Beach Convention Center, June 23-24! I used to be a regular attendee, but after the show kept looking the same year after year, I stopped going for a few years. With 76,000 feet of exhibit space, more than 300 exhibitors, seminars, movies and a pool where you can actually try SCUBA diving, I am once again looking forward to going again. Here are some interesting videos from a few years ago, to give you an idea of what it might be like: If you see me, and I still have beer left in my backpack, I will give you a beer!
Since then, I have started a new job, inherited a Ford, sold my truck to the best Harley shop on the West Coast and have slowly started to liquidate my father’s collection of 40 year old paint, models, items that he bought over the years that are still new in the box, and his car collection. Now it was onto the task of going through my Dad’s vast empire of stuff, which included a garage packed high with boxes, two bedrooms packed high with boxes, two storage lockers packed high with boxes, a living room packed high with boxes and boxes under tarps in the backyard, when he had run out of space to put stuff. The estate sales lady said that she had never seen such an enormous collection of stuff that is brand new in the box. “You’ve never bought or sold anything on Ebay, and it is going to take you 30 years or more to sell this stuff.
His one dying wish, that I could accomplish, was to go to the grand opening of the John Wayne Birthplace & Museum, in Winterset, Iowa in May of 2015. Here’s the posts of our trip, if you missed it: Winterset Rodeo And The Opening Of The John Wayne Museum The End Of My Trip And Other Odds And Ends He died at home, around his vast empire of stuff that he had acquired over the last 70 years, but without experiencing a lot of the things that I wish he could have.