Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class...
- nwscubamom
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Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class...
First off....No hijacking please!
So I tried this little game on Facebook, and thought I'd try it here. The idea (many people on FB didn't quite get this part) is to make a statement of something that you learned in OW class that applies, in a double meaning, to something else in life! Sounds harder than it actually is.
I'll start:
Sometimes getting in over your head is a good thing!
- Janna
So I tried this little game on Facebook, and thought I'd try it here. The idea (many people on FB didn't quite get this part) is to make a statement of something that you learned in OW class that applies, in a double meaning, to something else in life! Sounds harder than it actually is.
I'll start:
Sometimes getting in over your head is a good thing!
- Janna
Janna Nichols
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
Don't hold your breath ...
Threats and ultimatums are never the best answer. Public humiliation via Photoshop is always better - airsix
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
A snorkel is not required to do a dive.
Life can be short and dives even shorter. Time off work will put it all in perspective.
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
Keep your head up
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
It's always good to have a buddy--not only for safety, but so you have someone you can turn to and say, "Did you see that? How cool!"
Kelly
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
Never depend on someone else to save your ass.
Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
When you're under more pressure, time flies.
"Sometimes, when your world is going sideways, the second best thing to everything working out right, is knowing you are loved..." ljjames
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
Corollary ... "doing it with a buddy is more fun than doing it by yourself" ...ktb wrote:It's always good to have a buddy--not only for safety, but so you have someone you can turn to and say, "Did you see that? How cool!"
... Bob (Grateful Diver)
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
Don't fight the current, just go with the flow
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
Two buddies are even better, but just require a little more planning!Grateful Diver wrote:Corollary ... "doing it with a buddy is more fun than doing it by yourself" ...ktb wrote:It's always good to have a buddy--not only for safety, but so you have someone you can turn to and say, "Did you see that? How cool!"
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
If you fall off the boat, you can always get back on again.
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
Sometimes being down is not a bad thing
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
When you hit Rock Bottom, the only way to go is up....
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
Never get yourself into something you don't know how to get yourself out of ...
... Bob (Grateful DIver)
... Bob (Grateful DIver)
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
Sometimes the most attractive things are the things that can hurt you the most.
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
Don't panic! When things go wrong, always keep your head.
Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
I think that might have been from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy! Was Douglas Adams a diver?
Jenbowes wrote:Don't panic! When things go wrong, always keep your head.
Dave
Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
Go slow and enjoy the little things. Don't take them for granted.
Kelly
Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
...and, the faster you go, the shorter your time will be.ktb wrote:Go slow and enjoy the little things. Don't take them for granted.
Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
STOP, breathe, think, ACT
If I'm killed by the questions like a cancer,
Then I'll be buried in the silence of the answer.
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Life isn't like a box of chocolate's, life is like a box of chocolate and horse bisket's and no matter which one you get you have to keep on chewing...
Then I'll be buried in the silence of the answer.
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
Yes, and yes. I think it would have been fabulous just to meet him, my head would have asploded had I gotten to dive with him.dlh wrote:I think that might have been from the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy! Was Douglas Adams a diver?
Jenbowes wrote:Don't panic! When things go wrong, always keep your head.
As long as you have air, all other problems are solvable.
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
Slow is smooth and smooth is fast.
If you do this wrong, you will only do this once.
If you do this wrong, you will only do this once.
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
I've got a variant of this game which is "everything I know about IT, I learned from George Irvine":
"standardization of equipment and procedures improves MTTR when shit goes wrong" (nothing like having 10 completely different conflicting server standards to render your tier 1 support useless and constantly escalating problems)
"if you see some engineering that is designed to accommodate some phobia while ignoring all else, you are dealing with a stroke" (reminds me of our IT security guy)
"that is just farm animal stupid" (occasionally applies to my own perl scripts that i've written 3+ years ago -- probably applies to some network architecture that i'm playing around with now)
"that is solving a technological problem with a policy solution" (IT managers *constantly* make this mistake and wind up IT policy hell because they can make rules to govern people, but don't understand technological solutions...)
"don't work with strokes" (I really wish HR departments in corporate america would figure out how to fire people because it just screws up IT policy when you have to assume that everyone you work with is an imbecile because of the presence of some imbeciles that the company can't get rid of)
"standardization of equipment and procedures improves MTTR when shit goes wrong" (nothing like having 10 completely different conflicting server standards to render your tier 1 support useless and constantly escalating problems)
"if you see some engineering that is designed to accommodate some phobia while ignoring all else, you are dealing with a stroke" (reminds me of our IT security guy)
"that is just farm animal stupid" (occasionally applies to my own perl scripts that i've written 3+ years ago -- probably applies to some network architecture that i'm playing around with now)
"that is solving a technological problem with a policy solution" (IT managers *constantly* make this mistake and wind up IT policy hell because they can make rules to govern people, but don't understand technological solutions...)
"don't work with strokes" (I really wish HR departments in corporate america would figure out how to fire people because it just screws up IT policy when you have to assume that everyone you work with is an imbecile because of the presence of some imbeciles that the company can't get rid of)
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Re: Everything I need to know in life, I learned in OW class
Just a reminder - Janna's first words were a request: "No hijacking please!"
Please try to stay on task...IT and GI3 don't have anything at all to do with her thread....
- John
Please try to stay on task...IT and GI3 don't have anything at all to do with her thread....
- John
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