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.

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.

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

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.).