Reflections & Insights

This year I crossed off one of my bucket list item, got Open Water Diver certification. I had done scuba diving before at Honolulu. It is among my top 3 best experiences. Ever since that vacation, I had been wanting to get into diving more seriously. But since we live in land locked Dallas, I didn’t think it was possible or worth it. Then this year in February I saw GroupOn from International Scuba and I decided to just go for it. I think GroupOn was for $250 but then there was a fine print which said we need to buy our own mask, fins, snorkel, and boots. I bought all this gear from International Scuba as they offered free gear rental for checkout dives. But this added about additional $200. ...

I have had this domain since 2003. Originally, I wanted to make video games and Chaosplay was supposed to be a video games studio. But then it was mostly a blog. I blogged about video games and programming. A bit about personal life. Eventually my focus was on photography, so I blogged about photography. When we became parents, I was blogging about parenting. I wasn’t a consistent blogger. I stopped blogging many times. Also several times I wiped old posts and restarted blog with clean slate. ...