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how's your week going, Beehaw (beehaw.org)

submitted 1 year ago by alyaza@beehaw.org to c/chat@beehaw.org

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a bit of a late post today but i've been exceedingly busy working on some important stuff on the side and that's taken up most of my time. things are going pretty good currently and are generally productive.

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[–] JCPhoenix@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago

Been pretty good so far. Last week, I went to visit my parents and brother in Las Vegas. It was a working vacation as I'm full remote. Brother and I checked out a couple bars at Resort World casino. Pretty nice place.

On Saturday, him and I drove down to the Los Angeles area to check out Long Beach along with some of the other beach towns. We didn't go all out or anything. Had dinner and drinks in Long Beach on Saturday night, then on Sunday we did a little walking around the beaches around Long Beach. On Monday, we walked around Redondo Beach and Manhattan Beach. Then went back to Vegas in the evening, where I caught a fly back home ~10hrs later. Got home yesterday afternoon. Good trip, glad I got to see my family.

First day back online for work this week. And my co-worker essentially ambushed me into doing a mini-workshop for her subordinate (my other co-worker) on how to use Word. In 2023. Simple stuff, too, like tabs vs spaces for horizontal alignment. And line spacing. And indentations. It's 2023. I don't understand how her subordinate graduated from college...This person is like 27, too. Not someone who grew up using a typewriter or something. Ridiculous.

[–] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

Exhausting week was capped off with a relaxing scuba trip. Just a bunch of really high stress stuff at work. But I got to do 7 dives in 2 days and it was incredible. The trip was perfectly timed.

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) (1 children)

I don't know anything about diving. There's not a limit of dives per day? Like, to avoid that the body is exhausted or something.

[–] ursakhiin@beehaw.org 3 points 1 year ago (1 children)

There's not so much a limit to dives per day but there are depth/time limits to give your body a chance to desaturate from nitrogen build up.

There's also a time limit for exposure to compressed oxygen which comes in to play sometimes.

I spent about 3 hours and 45 minutes yesterday under water over the course of 5 dives. And most of it was between 70 and 100 feet. Each dive had about 2 hours between them to allow for that desaturation. I probably could have done another 40 minute dive if the boat had it scheduled, but 5 is really enough in a day.

To limit that nitrogen exposure, I was breathing a mix of nitrogen and oxygen that has more oxygen included called enriched air nitrox. It allows me to dive more throughout the day, but the increase of oxygen comes with the downside of limiting my depth.

[–] Kajo@beehaw.org 1 points 1 year ago

That's fascinating, thank you!

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