While I was in Grand Cayman on vacation I took the chance to try out a closed circuit re-breather. This is different from normal open-circuit SCUBA gear in that you re-breath the same air. I remember when these units first started to be available for recreational diving a good few years back, it always peaked [...]

Kerry and I just got back from our diving vacation in Grand Cayman, 10 days of fun with 8 days of diving. I got in a total of 19 dives, we took a NITROX course and I got to play with a closed circuit re-breather (but more of that in a future post). This was [...]

Dan Sorkin is the founder of the Stumps ‘R Us amputee support group. We came across Dan last year, a few months after I was back up and about after my accident. The Stumps group are a light-hearted, fairly irreverent bunch of amputees and as part of the group’s charter, Dan, (who lost his left [...]

Kerry and I have taken up golf (some of you may laugh I know…I always said I’d never play golf since it’s a boring game)! Well we took our first lesson this morning with Dale Bradley from San Ramon Golf Club, a local public golf course. Neither Kerry or I have ever really played golf [...]

Kerry and I joined the Stumps ‘R Us crew for a tour of the San Francisco Giants baseball park that Dan Sorkin (the Stumps organizer) had arranged. We’re not big baseball fans per-se, but, it was a fine afternoon and seemed like fun to go look around the ball park. I highly recommend anyone take [...]