ON MY OWN

Justin, the previous manager, has left the island. Joe, my boss, has left the island. Its just Ben, the crew and myself.

Saturday night the new guests arrived. There were suppose to be 8 divers but we ended up with 10. We are trying to figure out how this happened and make sure the resort lets us know exactly who is coming each week.

We had our first little Saturday night meeting with the divers to explain how things work and what they should expect for the week. One group seemed to be disappointed in the number of dives we do and acted like they hadn't read any of their previous emails or the web sites. We got there expectations corrected.

Our first day of diving on Sunday went very well and everyone had a good time. I stayed back and tried to get organized but frankly I didn't really do that good a job. I also had to move again and I moved where I was told but they asked me to move again just after I had unpacked. It was pretty frustrating but I'm trying to keep a positive attitude. Anyway, I'm not unpacked for this week and ready to go. I'll have to move again on Saturday and then again the following Saturday. This part is not fun and its really hard to run an office when you move every week.

I had a scare Sunday afternoon when we couldn't get the boat started. They kept messing with it and finally got it going. The afternoon dive went well and everyone enjoyed the dive site even though visibility was down a bit.

I had to run into French Harbor, about 15 miles and a 45 minute trip to get gas for the boat for tomorrow. I bought 45 gallons at a cost of $160. It ain't cheap. The trip back too well over an hour as I ran into a huge crowd at the local soccer field about 2 miles from the resort. Its on the 1 lane dirt road and cars were parked on both sides of the road. Getting threw on the way to town wasn't a big deal but coming back cars were leaving and hundreds of people were milling around so it took forever to get threw.

The boat mechanic showed up about 5pm to put in a new wire harness and some new coils. I hope the coils improve the performance because the harness didn't solve our problem with the tilt mechanism on the motor. We took apart another harness and it was so corroded a couple of pins just fell out of it. We ended up cutting the ends of the connectors off and hard wiring the entire assembly. That still didn't fix the problem so the guy tried a few more things. We now think we have a bad solenoid. He left about 8:30 and will come back later in the week with some used parts to see if he can fix the problem.

Its Monday morning and I've got to get going. Ben is teaching a class this morning and then we are going to town to do the shopping we didn't get done over the weekend.