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In addition to posting it in the stolen gear database, call all the nearby dropzones and let them know of the theft. Whoever stole it might try to sell it back at a nearby DZ. Keep a lookout on EBay as well.

Lots of other folks have had this problem. There's a few other threads on it. Change your avatar, then delete your cookies. Should fix the prob.

I'm a bit biased on this one, but I would absolutely not, never, ever renounce my American citizenship and become a citizen of another country.

In my 3 years at Texas A&M, I've had 7 room mates. I've hated, yes HATED, one of them, despised one of them, had no opinion of two of them, and got along with three of them. I've got some horror stories about a couple of them, but I'll give the condensed version. One I hated: Shit started hitting the fan on day one. This person went to bed at 10 pm and awoke at 6 am. Everyday. Including weekends. Drove me insane. For most of the semester, we intentionally pissed each other off through various means. Generally what would happen is he would make all kinds of noise in the morning waking me up so I'd make lots of noise at night, preventing him from going to sleep. Yes, I know, quite childish. Things came to a head one day and a fistfight almost ensued right there in the dorm room. Fortunately, cooler heads prevailed. We kinda agreed to ignore each other for the remainder of the semester and things more or less worked out. One I despised: He would play his music loudly any time he wanted, regardless if I was studying, sleeping, whatever, didn't matter. Brought his friends over to watch movies and they made a hell of a lot of noise while they were there. Refused to share the only TV in the room. Things never got physical, but we were both glad to see the semester end. Strangely enough, we're friends now. No doubt because were aren't room mates. Humm, this is longer than I thought it would be. Like I said, it is the condensed version. Whole lot of shit went on for those 16 weeks during the semester. Luckily I've got the same room mate this coming year that I had last year and we got along great.

I'll just say the same thing that was said above. Just being there and listening is very important. My mother had breast cancer a few years ago and us (my family) just being there for support was huge. Do what is necessary to make sure your friend doesn't feel alone through this hardship. Best of luck.

Absolutely. Someone said driving is a PRIVILEGE, not a right. I think this is of utmost importance. Fact is, for *most* folks, the older you get, the worse your eyesight, hearing, reflexes, etc. are. The same things you need for safe driving. So I believe a test would be a very good idea for the elderly. On the same subject, I think some of the laws should be changed with regard to new drivers. It scares the hell out of me to see young drivers every day. Just hang out at a high school one day when classes let out. (Had to pick up my sister one day, don't think I just sit around a high school

I got a chuckle from "opened up the hatch". Hatch?

Smells too. Smells like shit.

Off the top of my head: Learn to speak German. Learn more about engines. I swear I couldn't find my way around a car engine if my life depended on it.

Ha, just the differences in how we talk in different parts of the country. Down here in the south we say ya'll when refering to groups of people. Ya'll northerners say you's guys. We drinks cokes, regardless of what it is and others say soda pops. And we chunk things while you's guys chuck things. I love this language!!!!!!!!

Much appreciate the programs. Unfortunately, whatever the hell this thing is seems uneffected by both Spybot and Ad-aware. Any other ideas??

Maybe someone could help me with a problem I've been having recently. Starting a few weeks ago, when I try to access a site, instead of loading up the site, some other site starts loading and this site wants to download something called IE Extension. I hit cancel, but I can never go to that site again without this thing popping up and trying to download this program. It seems to happen completely at random. Any help would be much appreciated.

I hear ya Dave. Unfortunate where A&M's is, and where it is heading.

I think money is a big part of it. But for those of us dedicated, we find a way around the money. I certainly have no intention of quitting, but money has kept me south of 100 jumps and coming up on 2 years jumping in a week or two. Not to mention being busy as hell at school. Priorities must be set, and my education must be #1. Otherwise, forget about jumping, I won't have money to live on.

I've got it now. I now know why you have such an insane number of posts.

I don't know. But if she is out there, I wish she'd quit hiding.

Your Total Score: 21 Your Car's Coolness Factor Rating: Piece of crap. Your car really sucks. People probably make fun of it. Hahahahah. I don't care what it says, my truck starts every morning and gets me where I'm going every day. So to me, its a coolness factor of 1000!

2500 is the lowest for me.

I know the feeling. Haven't jumped since late April. I've failed miserably on my job hunting. And you know everything comes due now to take what little cash I have left. Car registration, car inspection, repack, USPA membership, yada yada yada. Yep, don't think I'll be in the air until September sometime. I finally have more financial aid than tuition, so I've gotta put that free money to good use!!

also try it with folks with about the same fall rate. Last time I tried it, it was me, Pablito, and AggieDave, after we put our legs together, AggieDave immediately sunk below us and the formation flipped over and we scattered. Loads of fun nevertheless.

I definitely will be going to see this one again. I don't want to say anything more as to not spoil it, but I absolutely loved it. I thought it was a great addition to the Terminator series. But I could have done without all the jokes.

No More Mr. Nice Guy Poison Great tunes.

ROTFLMOA!!!!!! I like that one Cabana boy!!

HAHAAHAHAHAHA. Yea, I guess your right.

Well seems to me if they can fly through interstellar space and possibly visit other worlds and all we can do is a hop a quarter million miles to our moon, I'd say they are quite a bit more advanced than us.