Hi all.
Since I've signed up to ask some questions before deciding to take lessons, I guess it's only fair to introduce myself.
My name is Rick, though I go by Hoomi more often on the internet. The nick started as a phonetic pun in an online game we used to play, and just kind of stuck ever since. I'm 48 years old, have been happily married since 1980, and together my wife and I have raised two terrific kids. We currently live in Tucson, Arizona, with a small pack of Australian Shepherds, two cats, a bird, a snake, and about a bazillion geckos that hang around our porch light during the summer months.
I've never gone Scuba diving, though I've snorkeled in Okinawa and Hawai'i way back when I traveled with the Air Force. My wife lived in Hawai'i with an uncle and his family for nearly a year when she was a teenager, and did some snorkeling there as well. She's expressed an interest in learning to dive a number of times in our years of marriage, and repeated that desire last night while we were watching a movie.
I asked DebbyDiver a couple of questions, and she recommended I pop over here and ask those with more recent instructor experience, so here I am. Provided nothing precludes being able to do so, I expect to surprise my wife with lessons for her birthday next month, and we can start doing another one of those things we've only talked about previously.
Anyway; that's the Hoomi story in a nutshell.
Since I've signed up to ask some questions before deciding to take lessons, I guess it's only fair to introduce myself.
My name is Rick, though I go by Hoomi more often on the internet. The nick started as a phonetic pun in an online game we used to play, and just kind of stuck ever since. I'm 48 years old, have been happily married since 1980, and together my wife and I have raised two terrific kids. We currently live in Tucson, Arizona, with a small pack of Australian Shepherds, two cats, a bird, a snake, and about a bazillion geckos that hang around our porch light during the summer months.
I've never gone Scuba diving, though I've snorkeled in Okinawa and Hawai'i way back when I traveled with the Air Force. My wife lived in Hawai'i with an uncle and his family for nearly a year when she was a teenager, and did some snorkeling there as well. She's expressed an interest in learning to dive a number of times in our years of marriage, and repeated that desire last night while we were watching a movie.
I asked DebbyDiver a couple of questions, and she recommended I pop over here and ask those with more recent instructor experience, so here I am. Provided nothing precludes being able to do so, I expect to surprise my wife with lessons for her birthday next month, and we can start doing another one of those things we've only talked about previously.
Anyway; that's the Hoomi story in a nutshell.
