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1:02am Saturday 8 September 2001

Tonight Dude and I had a goal of taking underwater pics for humanclock.com. I brought the laminated numbers that we cut out of some Crayola brand Walgreen's special construction paper; Dude had a disposable underwater camera (also from Walgreen's). Dude also had a neighborhood pool open until 10pm.

I arrived at his house around 9:30pm, and we got to the pool around 9:45pm, after having forgotten the camera the first time we left his house. So Dude called his friend who lives in some apartments nearby. They have a pool in the apartment complex. We got the keycode to get in the parking lot and the code to get into the pool.

A couple of peeps were standing out near the pool, and it turns out they were there for a surprise 24th b-day party for some guy in the clubhouse. "Surprise!!" had not been yelled yet; the lights were all off.

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First, we noticed that we forgot the dots for the colon. Dude was all, "fuckit," and I was all, "no; we gotta do this right." I went back up the four flights of the parking garage to get them.

We went underwater to take the first picture, and couldn't see shit. "We need goggles!" and then, "oh! I have some in my truck!" Dude went up the four flights to get them.

Once we finally had everything, it was well after 10-something. We woulda had no time at all had we gone to the pool that closed at 10.

Took 7 pictures - between 11:38pm and 11:44pm. I think they will all turn out well. I'm extra-pleased with all the good ideas we had. We'll do even more fun stuff during the day, I'm sure.

Ideas included:

1. numbers floating on water, camera from below
2. Me holding numbers underwater
3. Dude holding numbers underwater
4. Me sitting in chair underwater with numbers suspended in front of me.
5. Shadow of numbers projected from pool light onto wall.
6. Camera lens 1/2 in 1/2 out of water.
7. (something else, maybe)

We found that by hyperventilating, we could stay underwater for a pretty decent amount of time. Enough to set up twice for the same picture.

So then, of course, we were all, "just how long can we stay underwater?" I told Dude I've stayed under for two minutes before. We hyperventilated and submerged. I just did a dead man's float for as long as I could. After a while, I heard Dude talking to the cat who had been meowing at us around the pool, which indicated to me that I had stayed under longer. So I just stayed longer and even relaxed into it for a short bit. Then I resurfaced.

Dude clicked his stopwatch. "That is amazing."

"What?"

"Two minutes, point six five seconds."

Nice.

We just finished watching about an hour of TechTV. Screensavers is a pretty funny show. It's about how I would run a TV show.