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I got my open water certification, so now I can go diving for fun. The last dive yesterday (Old Garden Beach in Rockport) was for fun, and I got to aggravate some lobsters, including the one that went shooting straight at me (backward), so I reached out and grabbed him. He wasn't pleased, but I had him by the carapace, so all he could do was wave claws at me. And I was wearing gloves anyway, which is why I was also aggravating various sizes and species of crabs.

Other fun stuff, which I didn't try to aggravate, included a 1" flounder, a 12" spotted skate, a teeny little starfish, hermit crabs by the bushel, and a 4" empty clam shell (both halves) being used as a condo by probably 20 teeny little snails.

Today is for Advil and not carrying anything heavier than the trash any further than downstairs, because my shoulders are screaming at me. Five dives in two days, with 16 lb extra weights for the first three dives and 24 lb extra weights for the last two, and an 80-liter tank which weighs 41 lb full, will do that. At least today I'm down to starting with two Advil instead of three, and I don't have a headache. Saturday I got a carbon dioxide headache; yesterday I had a lack-of-caffeine headache; today I merely have a sore neck. Or I did, before the Advil.

And I still don't have to go back to work for another week. This is a lovely thought.