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I use Youtube Downloader. Free and easy. Elvisio " post in this forum!" Rodriguez

A lot of attempts at flight went down in flames before we got it right. Now, flight is so commonplace we only ride the airplane one way, then jump out of it just for fun. So, hopefully, SOMEday... Elvisio "entropy?" Rodriguez

You are right! From the NY Times Magazine: When you make your own sandwich, you anticipate its taste as you’re working on it. And when you think of a particular food for a while, you become less hungry for it later. Researchers at Carnegie Mellon University, for example, found that imagining eating M&Ms makes you eat fewer of them. It’s a kind of specific satiation, just as most people find room for dessert when they couldn’t have another bite of their steak. The sandwich that another person prepares is not “preconsumed” in the same way. Unfortunately, the same is not true for sex. I think about sex all the time, but that doesn't make me want any less of it. Elvisio "less of a sexual peak and more of a twenty year plateau" Rodriguez

Interesting that there are three "hell no" votes but nobody posted as to why... Go for it. Or rather, let her go for it. Sounds like she'll be in good hands while she's gone, it's only a week, and anything we 'mericans can do to get our kids a little culture is definitely the way to go. Elvisio "ask them if they want to buy me a vacation" Rodriguez

I guess I've been "on hiatus" more or less since I got to Arizona. There have just been too many other things going on. I've only been out to Eloy twice since I got here, which blows my mind because, well, it's ELOY! Hopefully, once the weather cools a bit, my work schedule will allow me to get back into it. I used to think I would melt if I didn't jump every weekend. Looks like that isn't true, after all. Elvisio "back in the air soon I hope" Rodriguez

The thing that surprises me most is that a login like "Rocco" hadn't been taken yet... Elvisio "Rocco's Modern Life was awesome" Rodriguez

Dude, if I were you, I'd find a way to work that into EVERY SINGLE conversation I ever had with ANYONE. "What's that rash, doctor? Oh, you don't say. I didn't have it when I flew a Mustang..." Elvisio "too cool" Rodriguez

HIGH: Actually a low: I weighed in at 202.5 just now, the lowest I've weighed since sometime in 1997 or 1998. LOW: Other issues... Elvisio "really need it to be Friday" Rodriguez

Picture it, New Years Eve, 1999. My then-girlfriend-now-wife and I are out at a local meat market boozing it up, and she decides she wants to get me drunk and starts feeding me shots. Problem is, she keeps ordering two of each shot, one for her and one for me. Now, I outweigh my wife by at least fifty pounds, so you can imagine how this ended up: she got absolutely housed. Although, I must admit that I was only a couple fried brain and liver cells behind her. At one point, she was walking (or weaving, as it were) across the bar, I'm about two steps behind her, and she slips a high heel in somebody's spilled drink and lands SQUARELY on her ass. All I could do was stare at her gape-jawed: I just stood there so long, my alcohol addled mind trying to decide if I should laugh or not, that some other dude got out of his chair to help her up! The dirty look I got from him was both hilarious and fully deserved. Funny thing is, she was so drunk, I don't think she remembers the episode. Elvisio "barely got her home at the end of the night" Rodriguez

The interwebs is a dangerous place. Wrap your Whopper. You might have better luck posting this in the Bugs and Errors section. Elvisio "what ads?" Rodriguez

Good news is it wouldn't have hurt for long. Elvisio "I bet he puckered up so hard he was pulling the stuffing from his seat out of his ass for days" Rodriguez

-Cruise control -Intermittent wipers (seems petty, but lots of base models don't have it, and try driving any distance in a rainy part of the world without them and you'll see what I mean) -Decent sized trunk Elvisio "Oh yeah, and a hottie riding shotgun" Rodriguez

You don't? Nope, I was just going to crash in yours for a while. I like the betting pool idea, other than the fact there will be more than one piece hitting. Do you go with point of first impact or wherever the largest piece hits? Elvisio "Is this covered by my homeowner's insurance?" Rodriguez

Stay away from her if for no other reason than her appalling lack of punctuation. Elvisio "sure she can suck a golfball through a garden hose, but can't she use a comma or a semicolon once in a while?" Rodriguez

Thank you for affirming EVERY negative thought I've ever had for EVERY dumbass squid that I see on the roads around here. Elvisio "As a paramedic I've scraped too many of you off the road" Rodriguez

Holy crap on a stick. What an awful year for air shows. Elvisio "no more bad news please" Rodriguez

Right, you call me "hysterical", and not in the humorous sense, and then tell me that when I cry "foul" for your personal insult, that I'm just too sensitive. The fact that you don't see a problem here in your own behavior, is the problem. Holy Crap you two! Take it back to Speaker's Corner! Elvisio "way too heavy" Rodriguez

Honor their memories: remember all the good times. Forget about the asshat stuff. Always remember the lessons their passing has taught us. Each fatality may teach us something different, whether their death happened in the sport or not. If we forget those lessons, we cheapen their death and risk repeating it ourselves. Elvisio "way too early to be this heavy in the bonfire" Rodriguez

Life is definitely not sucking lately.

Mmmm... no better way to start the day than with a tall, cold glass of pine juice! Elvisio "needles get stuck between my teeth, and the pinecones hurt on the way out" Rodriguez

Until just a couple months ago we had separate accounts, but only because they were holdovers from before we were married. When we made the move to Arizona permanent we changed banks and just transferred everything to joint checking and savings accounts. We have (technically) separate credit cards in that there is a credit card with just my name on it and another with just hers (also holdovers from pre-marriage) but we both have the account info and password for each other's card. I know that many tout the values of separate accounts for "boundary issues" and ease of separation should divorce occur. It just seems silly to me to go through all that effort for something that only might happen. ...although I imagine those who've been through divorce in prior marriages might be more apt to keep finances as separate as possible... Elvisio "she has my heart, why not my password?" Rodriguez

I was a skydiver before I became seriously involved with my girlfriend (now wife). She never bothered me or complained once about all the days I spent (and will spend) at the DZ. I guess that's one of the reasons I married her. I understand that some folks (especially those with families) need to make compromises and can't be out at the DZ as much as they want to. I can even see how some folks may have a spoken or unspoken "you spend some time at the DZ, but I want my time too" with their SOs. But if you're finding you need to make complicated deals and arrangements requiring a calendar, bus schedules, a tide chart, and a sundial then it's time to choose between her or skydiving, because at that point "both" isn't going to work. Elvisio "glad I learned this lesson the easy way" Rodriguez

The wife and I are considering getting me cut, there's a pretty active thread in the Bonfire ATM about the subject. So, this is a hot topic in the Elvisio household. The Essure manufacturer's homepage won't load right now (internet's been wonky here all day) but I took a quick gander at the wikipedia page for Essure and they report some pretty benign complications (mostly related to "it doesn't work right for one reason or another") but DOES report a 1.8% rate of fallopian perforation. This is nothing to sneeze at: it is what happens if an ectopic pregnancy goes untreated. This is a life-threatening complication. PLEASE make sure you understand all the risks. I'm sure the complication rate for surgical tubal ligation is the same or higher... I just want to make sure you fully understand that this is not a risk-free procedure. Elvisio "I know, EVERYTHING has risk, just be informed" Rodriguez

Interestingly enough, same here. Both my wife and I, when we mention that we don't have 'em and don't want 'em, often have to deal with incredulous looks and stares. As if to say "what do you MEAN you don't want kids?" For me it's a 'have to have kids' thing like you say and more of a "I couldn't imagine not having MY kids, so I can't imagine you not having any either" kind of thing. Being parents seems to be such a cultural standard that when we say "no" people think there's something wrong with us, I guess? Elvisio "long day of work ahead of me" Rodriguez

MILES OFF TOPIC, but: right before I got hitched, I was contemplating wearing my wedding ring "normally." Skydiving, firefighting, rescue squad: all of them had high hazards for just what you describe, but I thought "nah, it'd never happen to me." Then, just a few weeks before my wedding day, a guy on a fire engine in the same district as my rescue squad was getting down from the engine on an EMS call (the most mundane, boring kind of call most firefighters could ever imagine) and his ring got caught on the hook onto which he was hanging his radio headset. His (considerable) weight was already bounding down from the fire engine, and he couldn't stop himself in time. He lost is left ring finger as a result. Hearing that so close to my wedding day snapped me back to reality. My wedding ring (other than my wedding day and the honeymoon) has resided on a loop around my neck. Elvisio "never a fan of hand jewelry anyway" Rodriguez