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I found my car in a dismal state this afternoon. It makes me wonder how the hell this could happen within the secure confines of my company’s parking lot.

A quick look inside my car revealed the “murder weapon”, so to speak, used for this act of carnage.

It could be that a car speeding through the gravel car park spun a piece of rock off the road and hit my car. But that’s highly improbable, with odds akin to winning the lottery. It is more likely that someone had decided it would be fun to play target practice on my car.

If this is some sort of vendetta against me, I applaud the effort, you’ve managed to piss me off. But come on man, if you have a problem with me, why don’t you just take it out on me. We can talk it over or if that doesn’t work, let our fists do the talking.

Just leave my car alone, she’s innocent.

KISS - Keep It Simple Stupid

I’ve been reading a lot on DIR (Doing-It-Right) diving recently. Basically it is a set of philosophies and techniques developed and popularized by a group of technical cave divers. It calls for a minimalist approach on equipment configuration and emphasizes on proper dive skills and safety practices.

Like most recreational divers, I started out by going for the PADI open water diving course. While it did a good job of introducing the basics of diving, I find that some of the stuffs taught by the PADI course is much less efficient and possibly outdated when compared to the DIR diving techniques.

So far, in my few dives with the local dive center, I have not seen any awareness of DIR diving with the recreational divers there. Even the instructor didn’t know much about it. Hopefully more local divers will find the DIR practices appealing and adopt it.

I think I’ll be giving DIR diving a shot. It is, after all, the next logical step to becoming a better diver.