PADI SCUBA Open Water Certification Weekend

This weekend, Clementine and I completed our PADI SCUBA Open Water class with a beach dive at Redondo’s Veteran’s Park on Saturday and a boat dive off Catalina Island on Sunday. The beach dive was fairly strenuous as we needed to battle the waves with full gear to get out past the waves’ breaking zone and near our decent area. Hopefully this prepares us for future dives at and around Laguna Beach. We did 2 dives and completed a majority of the skills necessary for certification.

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Model Build Night

From a couple of discussions over at HF regarding the current state of available kits: Post at HobbyFanatics, and coming off the fun of teaching at AX, the idea of holding a build night occurred to me. The idea is to host a build night either once a month or twice a month, invite local modelers over to my house and build models. Since model building is such an introverted hobby, most of use sit in our work areas all alone and build without human interaction. This would be an interesting way to share ideas and techniques; and in the long run, this could spread out to further help the community.

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