Tuesday, October 28, 2014

Santiago, the Shepherd


A good friend of mine recommended this book to me two days ago.  And with the utmost enthusiasm I suggest if you haven't already, give The Alchemist a read.  It's an easy read, a fable of a young boy who makes decisions in his life that may not make sense to the closest people around him, but decisions he knows are true to him.

"The greatest lie in this world, is that life is eventually engulfed by fate."

Friday, October 17, 2014

Scuba Time


I went scuba diving this week! It's a pretty cool story how it happened. I had previously gotten Open Water Certified in August, which means I can dive down to 60ft deep. When I got certified, I also bought fins and snorkel from the shop. Two weeks ago I went snorkeling with my friends and my snorkel had a hole in it, so it kept filling up with water! So i went to the shop to return it, and the shop was under new ownership. The new owner, Mike hooked me up anyways with a new snorkel and said if I want to come by the shop and go out and scuba, he goes all the time by the jetti in mission beach/bay. So I dropped by the shop on Wednesday this week and went out with him and his friend. It was sweet! There were a couple seals that swam by us and we saw a lot of wildlife in the jetti rocks....goes down to about 30 ft. I really hit it off with the new owners and we struck a deal. They will take me out scuba diving whenever I want in exchange for some volunteer time on my part, helping put the new shop together and getting it up and running. It's a sweet gig and I'm learning a lot about scuba gear, equipment, etc. as well as how to start up a new company. If any of you are interested in getting scuba certified I say do it! It's awesome, quite a cool experience being in the world below land. The shop that I am helping out at used to be PB Sports and a new name is coming soon. Later!

Tuesday, October 7, 2014

Downhill Biking

Went to Big Bear, CA this past weekend and did some downhill mountain biking.  Took the ski lifts up the mountain, but rode mountain bikes down.  It was such an adrenaline rush.  What a blast.  I have a little war wound from a slide out on one of the berms.