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Dunno. Where you you like it? Where is the place where mindless jibber-jabber goes?

it was either this or go to work today. work sucks. dropzone.com is kewl. if you crunch the numbers, the choice is easy.

AFF Levels 1-7 i should say. I had to start at AFF Level 1 because I did my jumps and was working my way through my A in Skydive AZ but I moved to dallas and the weight requirement was 210, presumably because they use different gear that is only rated for the lower weight than Skydive Arizona. I weighed 235 do my jumping career has been on hold forever it feels like. I weigh 209 now and I am going jumping. Not just jumps but instructors jumping with me so I can get my A. I also bought a helmet ($150), a protrack audible/logbook ($250) and when I am gonna buy another alti (I can't find my old one). They are about $175 I think in the gearshop. Plus about $1100 in the jumps themselves, so ~$1675.00 Yes, they get cheaper after the first 7. Thank god... LOL

you may want to consider PRK instead of standard lasik. With PRK, they dont use the microkeretome to shave a flap off of your cornea. With PRK they zap the eyes directly with a laser. I had it done about 2 weeks ago. Be aware that the recovery time is much longer and you will be useless (literally blind) for upwards of a week. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photorefractive_keratectomy The doc told me no skydiving for two weeks, which ends today at 9:00AM. With lasik, the flap can have issues, get infected, or become detached up to 10 years later. I had PRK about 14 days ago, and my vision up close (on laptop) is better than 20/20 (can see individual pixels in the screen), and my vision at distances is something like 20/60 maybe. My eyes are still healing, and it will take more time for it to be finished stabilizing, but looking back on it I don't regret a thing. Cost me $3200, but they did a line of credit for me and I only had to pay $100 out of pocket and miss a week of work. The surgery is about 20 seconds per eye and it doesn't hurt at all. Its a little creepy having everyone touching the surface of your eyeball so many times. the doc uses some dremel-ish type tool to grind the corneal epithelium (the fast growing thin outer layer) off of your eye first, but then the lasers zap-zap-zap and you are done. From the time I laid down on the table till the time I got back up was about 90 seconds. After a few hours they burned and itched because the doctor removed the corneal epithelium (which is the the material that the flap that they cut open and replace with standard lasek is made out of), but they give you magic cocaine drops to put in your eyes for the pain. Try to score an extra and keet it safe or you will be in a world of hurt. The outer layer of the eye regenerates in about 5 days, and your eyes stop hurting after about 4 days when the surface of your eye completely regenerates the corneal epithelium. I splurged and picked up a pair of Oakley sunglasses ($200), and I wear em practically everywhere. It is WONDERFUL to not have glasses any more. You can make text bigger in your browser by hitting CTRL+

They used this song in "The Science of Risk", which is an HD Skydiving Show i recorded off of discovery channel. I have watched it like 100 times. Its a great song... Thanks

If you have ever heard "I wanna be sedated" by the Ramones, then: A. you are cool, and B. this might be funny. Starvation does weird things to your mind. LOL 24, 24, 24 hours to goooo I want to be satiated. buy me a burger, and put me on a plane feed me feed me feed me before I go insane weak as hell and starving but you wont hear me complain I wanna be satiated I lost a ton of pounds so I dont break my main cheesy tater tots, they're driving me insane just put me in a rig, and put me on a plane I wanna be satiated my heart is pumping hard, cold air is on my face stomach dropping rush, and falling into space filet minion and french fries is all I'm gonna taste oh oh oh oh noooo 209 and counting , but what a price to pay I wish, I wish, I wish I coulda had a meal today now my gut is burning, cause I didn't eat yesterday 'scale please be kind', is all I'm gonna pray oh oh oh oh nooooo Just get me to the dropzone, and put me on a plane hurry hurry hurry, before I go insane i wanna be satiated Twenty-twenty-twenty four hours to go... Just put me in a jumpsuit... Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be satiated Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be satiated Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be satiated Ba-ba-bamp-ba ba-ba-ba-bamp-ba I wanna be satiated

Well, it is true. I got AIDS. Altitude Induced Divorce Syndrome. I dont know... Maybe she was just tired of my shit. Haha.. I did drop a grand or two on skydiving instead of paying the mortgage and I think that was the last straw... that really pissed her off to no end. But at least it has been quieter around the house lately... LOL I was a little bummed about her leaving me so I go to the doc to get some drugs or something without really doing any research or anything. Now keep in mind, I wasnt WAY depressed just a little melancholy over the divorce. The doc gives me Lexapro like it was no big deal. I kinda wanted Xanax or some godd old fashioned valium, you know, something to chill me out so my heart wasn't broken when I get served with papers.. Just to warn the rest of you... Lexapro is evil stuff. It isn't something you can just stop taking whenever you want. There are serious side effects and withdrawl can make you sick. It can also make you lose track of time and have serious brain farts. I thought I might just post a warning out here because losing track of time or having a distorted sense of time might be ok for the average joe, but for us it can be a killer. 10 seconds is LONG TIME in freefall. before you take lexapro(or quit taking it), be aware of the side effects, and also be aware of the side effects of stopping it suddenly. this stuff messes with your brain chemistry. I have been wracked for a few days now and I am finally starting to feel better. I am deliberately halfing my dose and I will go for a week and half it again to where I am taking 1/4 of the original dose. Then I am going to quit this evil medicine. Yuk! Blue Skies and see you up there http://wiki.answers.com/Q/After_stopping_Lexapro_how_long_do_the_withdrawal_symptoms_last

Are you a writer? Your post has got tro be one of the easiest to read despite it's length that I have veer seen on DZ.com .. Hope your pussy cat is feeling better...

welcome to skydiving. Skymama, she has been in the sky, she will never be able to look at it the same way again. Of course she will jump again. Doesn't everybody? I don't understand how there aren't like 250 million people in this sport. Don't worry. I been doing some research, and liquor store employees are trained to do whatever you ask when you are wearing a ski mask. Little old ladies at the ATM arent so tough either, and you can get all four rims off of an escalade in 28 seconds if you work as a team with a few other hoodlums. LOL I wish I would have gotten addicted to Crack Cocaine. It would have been cheaper. hahaha just paid for a recert class and my 1st 7 jumps. May have to knock off a liqueur store or get a night job delivering pizza to get the rest of my A though. That set me back a pretty penny! LOL If only there was a female DZ owner in search of a world renowned lover, then I could just have a sugar mama.. Oh well...

welcome!

never seen it... i did serve in the military though. thats as American as it gets.

Me - 5'8", 41, 135 and short brown hair. No complaints here either. Oh, and I have great boobies. Boys and their polls ... Great boobies!!!

5'11", 235 in that pic. MOOOOO!!! Now I am 209. Losing that much weight was tough (results not typical), but I did it. Yeah my other 3 jumps are AFF. This was over a year ago, so I am restarting AFF Level 1. I just dropped a little over a grand and paid for all 7 AFF jumps just to piss off my soon-to-be ex wife. And yeah, my legs were straight and my opening was all cockeyed because when I reached back to pull the ripcord, I didn't compensate for the airflow on my left hand. blues

you got 36 jumps and you are jumping a 150? Hows that workin out for ya? I don't plan on downsizing till I get at least a couple hundred. I will be jumping with noahs ark on my back till 250 probably. How does the canopy fly?

tunnel time is good. i will teach you a lot

you havent met the right men... Nice tat!

I want to convert a video from VOB file format (it is burned onto a DVD right now) into either AVI (best) or mpeg (acceptable)... Anybody know how to do that? Thanks!!

put it out of its misery... it bounced. let it go and move on. dont make it spend the rest of its life sitting in a box looking at the sky knowing it will never fly again.

I was watching my 1st jump video today, and I noticed a lot of stuff I did wrong. I took some captures of the images and I am uploading them to myspace. Have any of you guys ever gone back and looked at the first time you ever jumped, or when you were really new? It was a tandem, so my instructor kept me safe, but god I bet is was hard keeping us stable... LOL I attached some pics... enjoy!

Because the OIL FRIENDLY politicians havent cracked down on fuel standards yet. If fuel efficiency were a key issue, you would see a lot more 2 3 and 4 cylinder cars. Here in Texas every other car is either a yukon, a hummer, an escalade or some other SUV. Its about the oil. If they passed a law that required all cars sold in the u.s. would get 50mpg by 2009 then it could be done. But say goodbye to your hummer and hello to your Prius.. But that will never happen because our government is run by the Ford, Chevy, Exxon, and Conoco lobbyists, not the people, and definitely not the politicians. Ford has killed numerous fuel efficiency laws that it thought were "bad for business". In Arizona, they were going to let super fuel efficient cars (40mpg+) use the HOV lane on the freeways. It was supposed to be a way to promote greener commutes. Well, guess what, ford doesn't make a car that gets 40mpg, so they sued because "they were discriminated against". And with all of the gas guzzling suvs gone, the price of gas would probably drop by a dollar due to decreased demand. I think its funny to see those soccer moms on TV all pissed off and "outraged" about the price of gas when they are standing next to their 5.8L V8 Suburban. boo hoo... LOL And by the way, the noise generated by American Motorcycles is by design. Its a dick thing. Bikers aren't happy unless they are rattling the fillings out from 100 feet away. The Suzuki and Yamaha motorcycles of the came displacement are basically silent or very low noise. The noise issue is a red herring in this instance. America has infrastructure built for large, gas guzzling cars. Unless there is a fundamental paradigm shift in the way we think it will stay that way. I bought a highlander for my soon-to-be-ex wife because it was large, safe and had great safety features. I suspect that many purchases are made for the same reason. Nobody wants to put their wife and son in an egg-shell of a car. that is, unless you could be guaranteed that every other car on the same road was also an egg shell of a car. than it would be a lot safer.

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in statistics they have thing thing called a bell curve. most people are near the middle. Some are not. I would be curious to see who she voted for in 2004.

Day 7... eyes are a little better. went a dr appt last night and they say my eyes are healing fine. I took out my contact lens bandages because they were killing me. I lied and said they came out skydiving... HA you should seen the doc... i think he may have shit his pants a little bit.. He said no skydiving. Then he asked me why anybody would jump out of a perfectly good airplane. I told him it was obvious he never smelled the inside of a skydiving plane climbing to 13000 feet.. Not exactly 'perfectly good' if you ask me. I'll take my chances with the black death rather than smell the recycled macaroni salad from my JMs... LOL Anyhoo, vision is getting a little better. At least I can drive now. Got all of the top of the line supplements and drops and whatnot. My vision was 20/20 if I squinted hard enough and I am seeing everything in triplicate in both eyes. the doc says that this is because they eye is "lumpy" because of the parts that were burned off havent completely healed yet. let this be a word of warning: Lasik -> fine by the next day, but with a flap that can come loose at any time exposing your gooey inner eye to the hard cruel world. PRK -> No flap, but blind and worthless for a week. You won't be able to work, unless you are a 900 phone sex operator. Oh yeah, and make sure you read the fine print BEFORE they dilate your eyes, because those critical Legally Binding Documents just look like like white Squares when your eyes are dilated.

hahahahaha yep... at least in firefox... I don't use that other browser. The gay one with the blue E... I mean "gay" in the "happy" way for those among us who may be gay in the "naked twister" way

virtual daemon software will allow you to make the ISO look like a dvd drive in your computer. Then you can squirt some lube on it, mount it and drag and drop the files inside. cheers.. ps. dont really squirt lube on it. I was kidding about that part.