I started my prep work on my camera last night as I hadn’t touched it in 4 days and I needed to get it ready for another week of diving. Boy howdy did I get a surprise when I opened my first strobe’s battery compartment. A funky smell wafted out and the inside was all gummed up with rusty gunk. DAMMIT EMMIT~! I settled in cleaning and swabbing and all everything else I could think of to do including filling the battery compartment with rice. I got everything as clean and dry as I could and finally went to bed. Up bright and early – I dumped out the rice, did another clean job on the inside, took the big rubber 0-ring off and cleaned it and lubed it up and reassembled everything. I hooked it up to the camera and was delighted to no end that everything worked like it was supposed to. The only thing I lost out of it were the 4 batteries that were in it. I always have spare batteries – so I was in good shape. I made sure everything was sealed and tightened accordingly and doubled checked it again, right before I got in the water this morning. Dive was going good (lot’s of shark action) and the strobe was working perfectly…….. was…..about halfway through the dive, the flash-ready light went out and the strobe quit working. DAMMIT EMMIT~!! To shorten this up a little bit….. I had to shoot the rest of the dive and the entire second dive with 1 strobe…..makes it really tough to get the kind of pictures I’m used to getting with just 1 strobe…… but a new one is now on the way and when it gets here, I will have that defunct one sent back and hopefully repaired under warranty……. can’t wait to find out what the issue is. I also managed to drop by my phone on my way out to the truck this morning [without realizing it] and didn’t notice it until I got to the marina ….. DAMMIT EMMIT~!!! Didn’t realize how much I use it during the course of a work day until I didn’t have it. Bright side of it is that I didn’t run over it when I pulled out leaving~ I also forgot the red lens on my GoPro…… #$%^&^%$#~!!!!!!! I think maybe I should have stayed home today……. Now I need to work on the microphones for our little PA system we use for our dive club meeting….. I’m hoping all I need to do is change batteries. They keep cutting out, so hopefully an easy fix…….always something~! No rest for the weary….. or is that wicked ??? 😉 Dive club meeting tomorrow night, so probably nothing on here tomorrow night…. we’ll see~~
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