Hambone 0 #1 March 22, 2007 So after lots of thought and reflexion I have decided to take a couple of months off of skydiving all together. Yes, it is in response to something that happend, but it is something that I have been thinking about doing for a while. I love each and everyone of you and the freindships that I have made through skydiving are some of the strongest in my life. The personalities are second to none and the people clearly make the sport. I just have a feeling of dread that I can't shake, maybe something will change in the next couple of months and I will come running back, but maybe I won't. regardless I just want you all to know that you have had a positive impact on my life, and I plan on keeping intouch. One love!Yeah...You need to grow up. -Skymama Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Squeak 17 #2 March 22, 2007 CYAYou are not now, nor will you ever be, good enough to not die in this sport (Sparky) My Life ROCKS! How's yours doing? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
simplyputsi 0 #3 March 22, 2007 Lick my balls, ball licker Dude, it's all good. Remember the sky will always be there. I see how it is though, you are gonna make me actually go out somewhere other than the dropzone now to see you. You live down the street basically in Atlanta terms, but man that is far. If I ever make it to trivia or neighbors I hope to see you there. see how I never shot a beer. I'm slick like that.Skymama's #2 stalker - Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hambone 0 #4 March 22, 2007 You are a sneaky little bastard. You will be doing that.Yeah...You need to grow up. -Skymama Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
kelel01 1 #5 March 22, 2007 Love ya, Hammie. You do what you have to do. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites chaoskitty 0 #6 March 22, 2007 The first one is the hardest to deal with sweetie.. so take your time to deal with it.. come back when you're ready. We can always use your brilliance at trivia. Don't be any stranger. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites BillyVance 35 #7 March 22, 2007 QuoteThe first one is the hardest to deal with sweetie.. so take your time to deal with it.. come back when you're ready. Everybody deals with things like this differently. Whatever works, just go with it. After my canopy collision incident that killed a fellow jumper 10 years ago (even though neither of us were to blame more than the other), my mind was a mess. My friends pulled me out to a nice quiet DZ the very next weekend and put me back up in the air. That first ride to altitude seemed like the longest one ever. A lot went through my mind, but as soon as I left the plane, my mind was as clear as it's ever been. Got to love those friends... wish more of them were still jumping though. "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Lindercles 0 #8 March 22, 2007 On the plus side, as long as you keep posting here you and I can still be friends. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites yardhippie 0 #9 March 22, 2007 Its all good. Keep your head up. I'll be the first one to sit it out of my heart isn't in it. Plus the break helps you get focused, one of the reasons I take the winters off. Gives me a chance to get caught up on house stuff, and do wuffo things. Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites yardhippie 0 #10 March 22, 2007 QuoteOn the plus side, as long as you keep posting here you and I can still be friends. You have friends? Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites ianmdrennan 2 #11 March 22, 2007 "Linda" doesn't have any friends......Performance Designs Factory Team Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites tmaricle55 0 #12 March 22, 2007 Does this mean you'll learn to use a phone?? Back me up Fitz... Muff Brother # 3883, SCR # 14796 ICD # 1 - Pres. Yeah, I noticed and I think it's funny! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Hambone 0 #13 March 22, 2007 QuoteQuoteOn the plus side, as long as you keep posting here you and I can still be friends. You have friends? I think that he thinks that just because we put up with him for the last week or so we are all "friends" now. And i will def still post and will hang out. I just don't know that I want to jump.Yeah...You need to grow up. -Skymama Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Hambone 0 #14 March 22, 2007 QuoteDoes this mean you'll learn to use a phone?? Back me up Fitz... Yeah maybe if you are lucky. fritz and i are doing lunch and beers at Cheeseburger in Paradise tomorrow at noon if anyone is interested. (consider this your invite tanya) So much for the freaking title. I LOVE YOU PEOPLE!Yeah...You need to grow up. -Skymama Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites simplyputsi 0 #15 March 22, 2007 QuoteQuoteDoes this mean you'll learn to use a phone?? Back me up Fitz... Yeah maybe if you are lucky. fritz and i are doing lunch and beers at Cheeseburger in Paradise tomorrow at noon if anyone is interested. (consider this your invite tanya) So much for the freaking title. I LOVE YOU PEOPLE! I don't know who fitz is? And well what is a phone for that matter. Oh great invite everyone why don't you. It will be a drunken fest in the end I just know it. I do have to return to work you know. Ahh who cares though, i'm out in 4 days after tomorrow. Skymama's #2 stalker - Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Hambone 0 #16 March 22, 2007 QuoteQuoteQuoteDoes this mean you'll learn to use a phone?? Back me up Fitz... Yeah maybe if you are lucky. fritz and i are doing lunch and beers at Cheeseburger in Paradise tomorrow at noon if anyone is interested. (consider this your invite tanya) So much for the freaking title. I LOVE YOU PEOPLE! I don't know who fitz is? And well what is a phone for that matter. Oh great invite everyone why don't you. It will be a drunken fest in the end I just know it. I do have to return to work you know. Ahh who cares though, i'm out in 4 days after tomorrow. thats the spirit! Tanya my phone has been on the FRITZ! ha ha haYeah...You need to grow up. -Skymama Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Icon134 0 #17 March 22, 2007 Shit I just finished three months off... Its called winter... meh... its cool dude... Take it easy...Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites PsychoBob 0 #18 March 22, 2007 ***I just don't know that I want to jump. QuoteHey Homey, You do what is best for you. Skydiving is something we do it is NOT who we are. If you not comfortable doing something then you should take a break and think about where your discomfort is coming from and go from there. Until then, take it easy, keep in touch and explore some other hobbies. I enjoy canoeing, rafting, hiking and there are a million other things out there to enjoy. Good luck bro."I'm not a gynecologist but I will take a look at it" RB #1295, Smokey Sister #1, HellFish #658, Dirty Sanchez #194, Muff Brothers #3834, POPS #9614, Orfun Foster-Parent?" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites skinnyshrek 0 #19 March 22, 2007 You say there are a million other things out please name them all. I don't believe youhttp://www.skydivethefarm.com do you realize that when you critisize people you dont know over the internet, you become part of a growing society of twats? ARE YOU ONE OF THEM? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites lauraliscious 0 #20 March 22, 2007 If you don't KNOW that you want to jump then you shouldn't jump. Period. Getting back in the air on Sunday really helped me out, but everyone is different and needs to deal with things in their own way. We'll all back you up 100%. And you better still hang out with us in the ATL, you always make me smile! (((((HUGS))))) Love ya Hammie!! edited to add a pic from Dublin Enemiga Rodriguez, PMS #369, OrFun #25, Team Dirty Sanchez #116, Pelt Head #29, Muff #4091 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Hambone 0 #21 March 22, 2007 I am not going anywhere. I just don't know that i want to jump. I love you guys!Yeah...You need to grow up. -Skymama Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites BIGUN 1,483 #22 March 22, 2007 Hambone, While I understand your position and encourage you to do what you feel best, I'm also inclined to share some thoughts with you during your decision-making process. My _guess_ is this _may_ have been one of your first experiences with this type of situation and are going thru a mortality phase. My first mortaility phase was at age 18 when I watched a group of fellow soldiers crash in an aircraft at the end of a runway and burn to death. Hearing the screams as they passed while trying to save them. I didn't sleep for a week. Fortunately, those with me (the military "family") all talked about it and comforted each other until we accepted that this would not be the first in our military career. I mean if you're not willling to face death up close and personal, then you shouldn't be wearing the pickle suit. Over the years, I would get to experience many more such incidents, each no less saddening than the last. When I first started skydiving in the early 1980's, While on leave, I went to the Nationals in Muskogee, OK (home). It was there I witnessed one of the Golden Knights tragically go in after chopping his main. It was as a reesult of his death that we no longer have rubber bands on the reserve D-bag. Over the years, I would witness many more skydiving incidents and here again, each no less saddening than the last - but, with each came knowledge and change for prevention. If one does a swoop that results in their demise - that is their decision. But, I'm sure this incident is more thought provoking than most in that while accidental, could have been avoided and even more importantly did not have to result in one taking out another. It has left many sad and angry. However, I believe that based on this incident and the skill levels involved that the issue will surface more to the top for change and prevention. Many, myself included have championed for more canopy control training, certifications, USPA involvement (recommndations), DZO participation, etc. While our natural instinct is to retract from the sport in order to avoid, one could postulate that it's more important to embrace the incident with your skydiving "family," remain a part of the community and be a fellow educator based on experience as to how to avoid an unneccesary incident. Consider the possibility that being a beacon of educational light may help our sport more than a fading candle of darkness. What you've experienced in the past can make a difference in the future. You see the theme is change and prevention. People will espouse numerous variations of statistics comparing the safety of skydiving over driving, motorcycle riding, bass fishing, etc. But there's only one statistic that matters to me.... When I started skydiving, there were approximately 10K active skydiving members in the USPA, now there's approximately 30K members and hundreds of thousands more skydives per annum, yet approximately the same number of incidents. That is an impressive safety path. Believe it or not, we do learn, police ourselves, change and in some cases - invent ways to be safer. Had the SkyHook been deployed a couple/three years ago when two experienced jumpers chopped at the WFFC convention at less than 1000' - they might still be with us. The SkyHook will be an awesome tool in our arsenal of safety to prevent such incidents in the future. Good luck with whatever decision you make, but I do hope you return and take the next generation to an even safer plateau.Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Amazon 7 #23 March 22, 2007 Good on you. You have to do what you need to do for yourself. I took off 22 years fromskydiving due to my need to be responsible for someone else and after seeing one too many incidents... plus after moving across the country there just was not someplace I wanted to jump where I liked the vibe or the faciliites... or the safety. There are other avenues to being in the sky... take up flying.. take up paragliding... take up hang gliding( I did all of the above) and you can still spend time in the air. The sky will be there when you are ready. 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chaoskitty 0 #6 March 22, 2007 The first one is the hardest to deal with sweetie.. so take your time to deal with it.. come back when you're ready. We can always use your brilliance at trivia. Don't be any stranger. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BillyVance 35 #7 March 22, 2007 QuoteThe first one is the hardest to deal with sweetie.. so take your time to deal with it.. come back when you're ready. Everybody deals with things like this differently. Whatever works, just go with it. After my canopy collision incident that killed a fellow jumper 10 years ago (even though neither of us were to blame more than the other), my mind was a mess. My friends pulled me out to a nice quiet DZ the very next weekend and put me back up in the air. That first ride to altitude seemed like the longest one ever. A lot went through my mind, but as soon as I left the plane, my mind was as clear as it's ever been. Got to love those friends... wish more of them were still jumping though. "Mediocre people don't like high achievers, and high achievers don't like mediocre people." - SIX TIME National Champion coach Nick Saban Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Lindercles 0 #8 March 22, 2007 On the plus side, as long as you keep posting here you and I can still be friends. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yardhippie 0 #9 March 22, 2007 Its all good. Keep your head up. I'll be the first one to sit it out of my heart isn't in it. Plus the break helps you get focused, one of the reasons I take the winters off. Gives me a chance to get caught up on house stuff, and do wuffo things. Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
yardhippie 0 #10 March 22, 2007 QuoteOn the plus side, as long as you keep posting here you and I can still be friends. You have friends? Goddam dirty hippies piss me off! ~GFD "What do I get for closing your rig?" ~ me "Anything you want." ~ female skydiver Mohoso Rodriguez #865 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
ianmdrennan 2 #11 March 22, 2007 "Linda" doesn't have any friends......Performance Designs Factory Team Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
tmaricle55 0 #12 March 22, 2007 Does this mean you'll learn to use a phone?? Back me up Fitz... Muff Brother # 3883, SCR # 14796 ICD # 1 - Pres. Yeah, I noticed and I think it's funny! Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hambone 0 #13 March 22, 2007 QuoteQuoteOn the plus side, as long as you keep posting here you and I can still be friends. You have friends? I think that he thinks that just because we put up with him for the last week or so we are all "friends" now. And i will def still post and will hang out. I just don't know that I want to jump.Yeah...You need to grow up. -Skymama Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hambone 0 #14 March 22, 2007 QuoteDoes this mean you'll learn to use a phone?? Back me up Fitz... Yeah maybe if you are lucky. fritz and i are doing lunch and beers at Cheeseburger in Paradise tomorrow at noon if anyone is interested. (consider this your invite tanya) So much for the freaking title. I LOVE YOU PEOPLE!Yeah...You need to grow up. -Skymama Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
simplyputsi 0 #15 March 22, 2007 QuoteQuoteDoes this mean you'll learn to use a phone?? Back me up Fitz... Yeah maybe if you are lucky. fritz and i are doing lunch and beers at Cheeseburger in Paradise tomorrow at noon if anyone is interested. (consider this your invite tanya) So much for the freaking title. I LOVE YOU PEOPLE! I don't know who fitz is? And well what is a phone for that matter. Oh great invite everyone why don't you. It will be a drunken fest in the end I just know it. I do have to return to work you know. Ahh who cares though, i'm out in 4 days after tomorrow. Skymama's #2 stalker - Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hambone 0 #16 March 22, 2007 QuoteQuoteQuoteDoes this mean you'll learn to use a phone?? Back me up Fitz... Yeah maybe if you are lucky. fritz and i are doing lunch and beers at Cheeseburger in Paradise tomorrow at noon if anyone is interested. (consider this your invite tanya) So much for the freaking title. I LOVE YOU PEOPLE! I don't know who fitz is? And well what is a phone for that matter. Oh great invite everyone why don't you. It will be a drunken fest in the end I just know it. I do have to return to work you know. Ahh who cares though, i'm out in 4 days after tomorrow. thats the spirit! Tanya my phone has been on the FRITZ! ha ha haYeah...You need to grow up. -Skymama Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Icon134 0 #17 March 22, 2007 Shit I just finished three months off... Its called winter... meh... its cool dude... Take it easy...Livin' on the Edge... sleeping with my rigger's wife... Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
PsychoBob 0 #18 March 22, 2007 ***I just don't know that I want to jump. QuoteHey Homey, You do what is best for you. Skydiving is something we do it is NOT who we are. If you not comfortable doing something then you should take a break and think about where your discomfort is coming from and go from there. Until then, take it easy, keep in touch and explore some other hobbies. I enjoy canoeing, rafting, hiking and there are a million other things out there to enjoy. Good luck bro."I'm not a gynecologist but I will take a look at it" RB #1295, Smokey Sister #1, HellFish #658, Dirty Sanchez #194, Muff Brothers #3834, POPS #9614, Orfun Foster-Parent?" Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites skinnyshrek 0 #19 March 22, 2007 You say there are a million other things out please name them all. I don't believe youhttp://www.skydivethefarm.com do you realize that when you critisize people you dont know over the internet, you become part of a growing society of twats? ARE YOU ONE OF THEM? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites lauraliscious 0 #20 March 22, 2007 If you don't KNOW that you want to jump then you shouldn't jump. Period. Getting back in the air on Sunday really helped me out, but everyone is different and needs to deal with things in their own way. We'll all back you up 100%. And you better still hang out with us in the ATL, you always make me smile! (((((HUGS))))) Love ya Hammie!! edited to add a pic from Dublin Enemiga Rodriguez, PMS #369, OrFun #25, Team Dirty Sanchez #116, Pelt Head #29, Muff #4091 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Hambone 0 #21 March 22, 2007 I am not going anywhere. I just don't know that i want to jump. I love you guys!Yeah...You need to grow up. -Skymama Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites BIGUN 1,483 #22 March 22, 2007 Hambone, While I understand your position and encourage you to do what you feel best, I'm also inclined to share some thoughts with you during your decision-making process. My _guess_ is this _may_ have been one of your first experiences with this type of situation and are going thru a mortality phase. My first mortaility phase was at age 18 when I watched a group of fellow soldiers crash in an aircraft at the end of a runway and burn to death. Hearing the screams as they passed while trying to save them. I didn't sleep for a week. Fortunately, those with me (the military "family") all talked about it and comforted each other until we accepted that this would not be the first in our military career. I mean if you're not willling to face death up close and personal, then you shouldn't be wearing the pickle suit. Over the years, I would get to experience many more such incidents, each no less saddening than the last. When I first started skydiving in the early 1980's, While on leave, I went to the Nationals in Muskogee, OK (home). It was there I witnessed one of the Golden Knights tragically go in after chopping his main. It was as a reesult of his death that we no longer have rubber bands on the reserve D-bag. Over the years, I would witness many more skydiving incidents and here again, each no less saddening than the last - but, with each came knowledge and change for prevention. If one does a swoop that results in their demise - that is their decision. But, I'm sure this incident is more thought provoking than most in that while accidental, could have been avoided and even more importantly did not have to result in one taking out another. It has left many sad and angry. However, I believe that based on this incident and the skill levels involved that the issue will surface more to the top for change and prevention. Many, myself included have championed for more canopy control training, certifications, USPA involvement (recommndations), DZO participation, etc. While our natural instinct is to retract from the sport in order to avoid, one could postulate that it's more important to embrace the incident with your skydiving "family," remain a part of the community and be a fellow educator based on experience as to how to avoid an unneccesary incident. Consider the possibility that being a beacon of educational light may help our sport more than a fading candle of darkness. What you've experienced in the past can make a difference in the future. You see the theme is change and prevention. People will espouse numerous variations of statistics comparing the safety of skydiving over driving, motorcycle riding, bass fishing, etc. But there's only one statistic that matters to me.... When I started skydiving, there were approximately 10K active skydiving members in the USPA, now there's approximately 30K members and hundreds of thousands more skydives per annum, yet approximately the same number of incidents. That is an impressive safety path. Believe it or not, we do learn, police ourselves, change and in some cases - invent ways to be safer. Had the SkyHook been deployed a couple/three years ago when two experienced jumpers chopped at the WFFC convention at less than 1000' - they might still be with us. The SkyHook will be an awesome tool in our arsenal of safety to prevent such incidents in the future. Good luck with whatever decision you make, but I do hope you return and take the next generation to an even safer plateau.Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Amazon 7 #23 March 22, 2007 Good on you. You have to do what you need to do for yourself. I took off 22 years fromskydiving due to my need to be responsible for someone else and after seeing one too many incidents... plus after moving across the country there just was not someplace I wanted to jump where I liked the vibe or the faciliites... or the safety. There are other avenues to being in the sky... take up flying.. take up paragliding... take up hang gliding( I did all of the above) and you can still spend time in the air. The sky will be there when you are ready. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites Join the conversation You can post now and register later. 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skinnyshrek 0 #19 March 22, 2007 You say there are a million other things out please name them all. I don't believe youhttp://www.skydivethefarm.com do you realize that when you critisize people you dont know over the internet, you become part of a growing society of twats? ARE YOU ONE OF THEM? Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
lauraliscious 0 #20 March 22, 2007 If you don't KNOW that you want to jump then you shouldn't jump. Period. Getting back in the air on Sunday really helped me out, but everyone is different and needs to deal with things in their own way. We'll all back you up 100%. And you better still hang out with us in the ATL, you always make me smile! (((((HUGS))))) Love ya Hammie!! edited to add a pic from Dublin Enemiga Rodriguez, PMS #369, OrFun #25, Team Dirty Sanchez #116, Pelt Head #29, Muff #4091 Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Hambone 0 #21 March 22, 2007 I am not going anywhere. I just don't know that i want to jump. I love you guys!Yeah...You need to grow up. -Skymama Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
BIGUN 1,483 #22 March 22, 2007 Hambone, While I understand your position and encourage you to do what you feel best, I'm also inclined to share some thoughts with you during your decision-making process. My _guess_ is this _may_ have been one of your first experiences with this type of situation and are going thru a mortality phase. My first mortaility phase was at age 18 when I watched a group of fellow soldiers crash in an aircraft at the end of a runway and burn to death. Hearing the screams as they passed while trying to save them. I didn't sleep for a week. Fortunately, those with me (the military "family") all talked about it and comforted each other until we accepted that this would not be the first in our military career. I mean if you're not willling to face death up close and personal, then you shouldn't be wearing the pickle suit. Over the years, I would get to experience many more such incidents, each no less saddening than the last. When I first started skydiving in the early 1980's, While on leave, I went to the Nationals in Muskogee, OK (home). It was there I witnessed one of the Golden Knights tragically go in after chopping his main. It was as a reesult of his death that we no longer have rubber bands on the reserve D-bag. Over the years, I would witness many more skydiving incidents and here again, each no less saddening than the last - but, with each came knowledge and change for prevention. If one does a swoop that results in their demise - that is their decision. But, I'm sure this incident is more thought provoking than most in that while accidental, could have been avoided and even more importantly did not have to result in one taking out another. It has left many sad and angry. However, I believe that based on this incident and the skill levels involved that the issue will surface more to the top for change and prevention. Many, myself included have championed for more canopy control training, certifications, USPA involvement (recommndations), DZO participation, etc. While our natural instinct is to retract from the sport in order to avoid, one could postulate that it's more important to embrace the incident with your skydiving "family," remain a part of the community and be a fellow educator based on experience as to how to avoid an unneccesary incident. Consider the possibility that being a beacon of educational light may help our sport more than a fading candle of darkness. What you've experienced in the past can make a difference in the future. You see the theme is change and prevention. People will espouse numerous variations of statistics comparing the safety of skydiving over driving, motorcycle riding, bass fishing, etc. But there's only one statistic that matters to me.... When I started skydiving, there were approximately 10K active skydiving members in the USPA, now there's approximately 30K members and hundreds of thousands more skydives per annum, yet approximately the same number of incidents. That is an impressive safety path. Believe it or not, we do learn, police ourselves, change and in some cases - invent ways to be safer. Had the SkyHook been deployed a couple/three years ago when two experienced jumpers chopped at the WFFC convention at less than 1000' - they might still be with us. The SkyHook will be an awesome tool in our arsenal of safety to prevent such incidents in the future. Good luck with whatever decision you make, but I do hope you return and take the next generation to an even safer plateau.Nobody has time to listen; because they're desperately chasing the need of being heard. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
Amazon 7 #23 March 22, 2007 Good on you. You have to do what you need to do for yourself. I took off 22 years fromskydiving due to my need to be responsible for someone else and after seeing one too many incidents... plus after moving across the country there just was not someplace I wanted to jump where I liked the vibe or the faciliites... or the safety. There are other avenues to being in the sky... take up flying.. take up paragliding... take up hang gliding( I did all of the above) and you can still spend time in the air. The sky will be there when you are ready. Quote Share this post Link to post Share on other sites
