You had rocks?
We had to sculpt them out of digestive byproducts.
I think that explains a lot about software in general @chillyinCanada and Word in particular.
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You had rocks?
We had to sculpt them out of digestive byproducts.
I predict the bell curve we see will just march like a rolling wave forward until it is half of a bell and then the tail of a bell and finally none of a bell. N
I'm not sure about your childhood and how your parents raised you, but mine were always paranoid from the news and would never allow me to be outside alone or even with friends unless I was doing yardwork with my dad. Any outings with friends had to be 1) cleared at least a week in advance, 2) only take place at a friend's home or a known location like a school 3) less than 4 hours. Everyone I know my own age or younger has similar stories unless they grew up in total farm country (and most of them don't often see the ocean and have no interest in it). If I tried to get permission to go someplace alone or outside with friends where they thought there would be even a small amount of risk, it was shut down and I was grounded. Eventually you get used to it and used to never being allowed to be outside except for a few very small exceptions, so the hobbies you take up are inside or fit within those parenting rules- games, crafts, maybe organized sports. You only start branching out and exploring when you're no longer under the paranoid thumb of family.So, that is my point, when I was 12, I was certified. My friends too. We read everything we could find and pestered the library to get more, Scoured the magazine racks for Skin Diver magazine. We did not need anyone to coax us or send us pearls of knowledge because we sought it out on our own initiative. The interest was infectious at the time and explains the bump in that bell curve and why your "younger diver" needs financial resources that none of us had, yet we dove. We dove in lacks, rivers, mud puddles, not exotic trips to sunny warm places far away. I am sorry, but why is it different now? Why is there no or little interest?
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I'm not sure about your childhood and how your parents raised you, but mine were always paranoid from the news and would never allow me to be outside alone or even with friends unless I was doing yardwork with my dad. Any outings with friends had to be 1) cleared at least a week in advance, 2) only take place at a friend's home or a known location like a school 3) less than 4 hours. Everyone I know my own age or younger has similar stories unless they grew up in total farm country (and most of them don't often see the ocean and have no interest in it). If I tried to get permission to go someplace alone or outside with friends where they thought there would be even a small amount of risk, it was shut down and I was grounded. Eventually you get used to it and used to never being allowed to be outside except for a few very small exceptions, so the hobbies you take up are inside or fit within those parenting rules- games, crafts, maybe organized sports. You only start branching out and exploring when you're no longer under the paranoid thumb of family.
Plus, as someone who will be graduating college and possibly entering the job market in 3 months, I have a lot bigger things to worry about than where to dive next.
As for financial, I don't want to get into this argument again of how prices have risen, wages have fallen, and everyone at the upper end of the bell curve is ignoring the many elder divers who have already talked about having to wait decades to dive because of financial issues in previous threads. Financial difficulties are nothing new and yet constantly it is being blamed on younger divers being frivolous or lazy even by the people who had financial difficulties when they first tried to start diving. Hindsight gives you rose colored glasses