Less than a week to go
It has been nearly 2 months since I decided to do the GUE fundamentals course and it is nearly here, this time next week and I will be about half way through, if I haven’t already given up and gone home 
I have been trying to work through my kit wondering what I might need in the spares department just in case something goes wrong. I must have always been quite lucky people have described all sorts of things going “bang” and I don’t think I have had any major kit failures in the 13 years I have been diving but I know next weekend will be the day something goes “bang”.
Am I prepared for it - I don’t know but I decided to have a weekend off diving as Easter wasn’t the best trip I have had but then again it was Easter and it always seems to be the same. I have been preparing kit for a few days but today I realised I can’t find my Fourth Element Xerotherm trousers and I don’t know where they are, so planning has stuttered a little as I now had to find another pair and do the alterations on them before Wednesday, not the best preparation. I took my twinsets to be filled today but when I got there the compressor had been taken away for repair, hopefully it will be back on Monday and I can pick them up on Tuesday. Wednesday will be packing the car and I will be off first thing Thursday morning.
I am also a bit nervous about diving with 2/3rd of TFT on Thursday, I have read all their past reports and I just hope I am don’t look too much like a complete novice 
This weekend I have been reading the course work we have been sent and I seem to be struggling with some of the minimum gas and gas management calculations, it is obvious my dives up until now have been based on “past dives” and nothing more. I haven’t thought about this before and I seem to be “out of my depth”, but they are simple calculations and I should be able to nail them. I am now frustrated before I even start the course.
