Washington Mall Run

Today Alito (my roommate) and I went for a 5-6 mile run on the Washington mall.  Today was a bit different run than others because by the capital building was a Anti-Obama Health Care rally/protest and by the Smithsonian was the National Council of Negro Women Black Family Reunion event.  There was a lot of people so at some points we had to walk instead of run because there was not enough space.  Once we passed the Washington monument going toward the Lincoln memorial then we could run again since there was not as many people.  Overall, it was a great run.

New Scuba Page

Two updates regarding my blog:

1. I finished migrating my blog between host providers and speed performance has greatly improved.  The change has dropped the average page load from 15.32 seconds to 1.77 seconds.


2. I have created my new scuba page where I'll be putting bits and pieces about my diving.

Labor Day Rawlings

This Labor day I took a trip with Rich and Christie to Lake Rawlings to get some dives in and then end the day with the classic, and always favorite, dinner at Hooters in Chester, Virginia.  Those girls are pretty!!!   We did two dives (2 hours and 40 minutes total):

1. Dive 1:
   
   
   
   • Bottom time: 1 hour and 20 minutes
   
   
   
   
   
   
   • Bottom temp: 55 F / 13 C
   
   
   • Weather: Raining
   
   
   • Summary:  We saw a missile looking bomb toward the back side of the lake.  This was the first time we encountered this object in this lake, so it was a surprise.  I also found a snorkel at the deepest part of the lake (67 ft / 20.5 m).
   
   
   • Exposure: Dry suit
   
   
   
   


2. Dive 2:
   
   
   
   • Bottom time: 1 hour and 20 minutes
   
   
   • Bottom temp: 55 F / 13 C
   
   
   • Weather: Raining
   
   
   • Summary:  We found the missile/bomb again by coincidence.   We also found a pile of fallen rocks that formed a small little cave where it was really cool to see our exhaust bubbles rush through a funnel type hole deep in the rocks.
   
   
   • Exposure: Dry suit
   
   
   
   

Drystan.com hosted on a new domain

I'm in the process of migrating the domain Drystan.com, applications, sub-domains, etc. from hostmonster.com to hostclear.com.  I been with hostmonster.com for about 2 years now, but I have noticed that the last few months speed has diminished so it affects the speed of my blog. I spent some time performing cache optimizations and I did managed to improve the speed of the website, but still not to a desirable level so that's when I decided to move to a different hosting service. I haven't migrated everything yet, but I have already migrated my blog and I have noticed page load improvements so that's good.  Now I need to migrate my other applications (e.g. fitness.drystan.com, melissa.drystan.com, etc.).