Yesterday I went diving and my SPG flooded. The pressure equalization port somehow got clogged, and water started leaking in through the face seal. Today I took it apart, cleaned it up, and reassembled it. The little temperature coil on the gauge had shown mild corrosion, and I wanted to test it for accuracy over a reasonable operating range. So, to test the low end, I put my gauge pod in the refrigerator.
When my wife came back from the grocery store this afternoon, she found my gauge pod in the frig and got all ticked off. Now she's threatening to cook my SPG for dinner.
Was I wrong?
I'm in trouble with my Wife about dive gear ..AGAIN
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BubbleBoy
, May 27 2007 05:35 PM
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Posted 27 May 2007 - 05:35 PM
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Posted 27 May 2007 - 05:39 PM
not at all but if it taste good send me the recipe 
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Posted 27 May 2007 - 05:54 PM
I don't think you were wrong. At least you didn't spend a lot of money on new gear. How do you cook gear? What seasonings should be used? 
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Posted 27 May 2007 - 06:17 PM
You were not wrong unless you used her nylons instead of silk panties to clean your SPG. Silk does not score the delicate washers inside your gear.
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Posted 27 May 2007 - 06:33 PM
This is where DIR comes in handy.... simple plain brass SPG.. when they are done - they're done... a new one is $60 away.... easily worth less than any argument you'll never win - even if a clear minded rational person would agree with you... 
Edited by netmage, 27 May 2007 - 06:33 PM.
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Posted 27 May 2007 - 07:05 PM
Honestly? As a formerly married woman? I've seen a lot worse things in my fridge. I really don't see what the big deal is. Maybe she was having a bad day?
Maybe she would like to trade days? I had a pretty bad one yesterday.
Maybe she would like to trade days? I had a pretty bad one yesterday.
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Posted 27 May 2007 - 08:05 PM
She would hate my house. I have gear scattered every where.
I have one bathroom that I use for gear cleaning.
It either soaking in the tub or hanging around the tub drying.
You have to move gear to take a bath.
My tanks are all lined up by the front door. (Its usually 4 but for the last year or so its been 5 tanks)
I can't think of an easier way to test a temp gauge than in the fridge.
I could see her getting upset if you had moved food out to make space.
I have had a lot worse in my fridge/freezer.
I guess it takes a diver to understand a diver.
I have one bathroom that I use for gear cleaning.
It either soaking in the tub or hanging around the tub drying.
You have to move gear to take a bath.
My tanks are all lined up by the front door. (Its usually 4 but for the last year or so its been 5 tanks)
I can't think of an easier way to test a temp gauge than in the fridge.
I could see her getting upset if you had moved food out to make space.
I have had a lot worse in my fridge/freezer.
I guess it takes a diver to understand a diver.
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Posted 27 May 2007 - 10:16 PM
She would hate my house. I have gear scattered every where.
I have one bathroom that I use for gear cleaning.
It either soaking in the tub or hanging around the tub drying.
You have to move gear to take a bath.
My tanks are all lined up by the front door. (Its usually 4 but for the last year or so its been 5 tanks)
Now, that's my kind of woman!
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Posted 28 May 2007 - 04:51 AM
She would hate my house. I have gear scattered every where.
I have one bathroom that I use for gear cleaning.
It either soaking in the tub or hanging around the tub drying.
You have to move gear to take a bath.
My tanks are all lined up by the front door. (Its usually 4 but for the last year or so its been 5 tanks)
I can't think of an easier way to test a temp gauge than in the fridge.
I could see her getting upset if you had moved food out to make space.
I have had a lot worse in my fridge/freezer.
I guess it takes a diver to understand a diver.
gis gal,
I read your post to my wife and she calmed down a bit. I think I will send her to you for a couple of weeks of awareness training.
Turned out she was partly just lobbying to go out to dinner. We did that and things are OK again.
I'm going diving at Dutch Springs again today, so, we'll see if she still feels the same by the time I get home.
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Posted 28 May 2007 - 05:20 AM
That made no sense to me at all until I turned on my web-based feminine logic filter which snapped everything about this incident into crystal clarity for me...Turned out she was partly just lobbying to go out to dinner. We did that and things are OK again.
I did a bit of playing around with various scenarios and their resolutions:
- Wetsuit in linen closet = Day at the spa.
- Salt water drips across the kitchen floor = A new dress.
- Car trunk smells like decomposed seaweed = A new dress + earrings + that cute bag in the window.
- Dive knife in the butter dish = My sister is coming for a week.
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Posted 28 May 2007 - 05:53 AM
I thought this was not a dating site.... don't tell SWMBO, but you are stressing my vows.She would hate my house. I have gear scattered every where.
I have one bathroom that I use for gear cleaning.
It either soaking in the tub or hanging around the tub drying.
You have to move gear to take a bath.
My tanks are all lined up by the front door. (Its usually 4 but for the last year or so its been 5 tanks)
I can't think of an easier way to test a temp gauge than in the fridge.
I could see her getting upset if you had moved food out to make space.
I have had a lot worse in my fridge/freezer.
I guess it takes a diver to understand a diver.
No aquarium, no tank in a marine land, however spacious it may be, can begin to duplicate the conditions of the sea. And no dolphin who inhabits one of those aquariums or one of those marine lands can be considered normal.
Jacques Yves Cousteau
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Posted 28 May 2007 - 06:49 AM
BB, your wife needs to see my ex's fridge. You need to be carefull looking for leftovers in there because next to them are the frozen mice and rats for her snake collection 
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Posted 28 May 2007 - 09:51 AM
BB ~ Send her out. I am sure I can talk DG into coming up to assist me in the awareness training.gis gal,
I read your post to my wife and she calmed down a bit. I think I will send her to you for a couple of weeks of awareness training.
Turned out she was partly just lobbying to go out to dinner. We did that and things are OK again.
I'm going diving at Dutch Springs again today, so, we'll see if she still feels the same by the time I get home.
The question is could your wife handle the two of us
I will take no responsibility for the condition she is in when we return her
You will have to sign a waiver.
I have always found it easier to just admit I want to go out dinner ~ a brief " I don't feel like cooking ~ want to go out and get dinner" works best.
Than again..... maybe there is a reason I am single.
Edited by gis_gal, 28 May 2007 - 09:52 AM.
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Posted 28 May 2007 - 11:46 AM
BB ~ Send her out. I am sure I can talk DG into coming up to assist me in the awareness training.gis gal,
I read your post to my wife and she calmed down a bit. I think I will send her to you for a couple of weeks of awareness training.
Turned out she was partly just lobbying to go out to dinner. We did that and things are OK again.
I'm going diving at Dutch Springs again today, so, we'll see if she still feels the same by the time I get home.
The question is could your wife handle the two of us
I will take no responsibility for the condition she is in when we return her
You will have to sign a waiver.
I have always found it easier to just admit I want to go out dinner ~ a brief " I don't feel like cooking ~ want to go out and get dinner" works best.
Than again..... maybe there is a reason I am single.
Wait a second... no veiled signals? Talks straight, obvious and to the point.... and she dives....
I think I'm in love......
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Posted 28 May 2007 - 11:50 AM
Run, Netmage RUN...!!! It HAS to be a trick...!Wait a second... no veiled signals? Talks straight, obvious and to the point.... and she dives....
I think I'm in love......
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