While planning a vacation for later this year, the urge hit us to look into scuba diving. For some reason, I'd always considered it impossibly expensive and technical, but quickly discovered that something like a third of my co-workers were certified divers, and the training was actually reasonably affordable. Their reassurances went a long way toward convincing us to go for it, as well as all the exciting stories they had to tell about actually putting the skills to use. On their recommendations, we headed to Diver Dan's shop in San Jose, picked up the class material for the PADI Open Water class, and two weeks later were in Monterrey for our check-out dives.
I haven't done a ton of work in Final Cut Pro X before, so getting to clip together bits of footage from my phone and the GoPro was fun. It was a bit tricky patching together footage that I hadn't bothered to keep a consistent aspect ratio and frame rate, but I learned a bit along the way. I realize it's the modern equivalent of showing off your vacation photos to bored family members, but I'm not about to let that stop me. Hopefully travel this year will give me a little more practice taking video, as well as a little more time with the software.