kimemerson

what's a 'shute'?

I'll take an uneducated guess: Enviromentalists & reintroduction?

Dylan (Bob) said it on the Nashville Skyline album. "Oh me, oh my, love that country pie"

hula hoops where I was when both Kennedys & King were killed (ok, maybe this isn't a "cool" thing from my era. It just dates me) Howdy Doody Color TV as a fantasy Remotes with cables Kruschev headlight dimmer button on the floor getting pizza by the slice meant a trip to Manhattan being a liberal Davy Crockett hats

Including the president . you give him too much credit.

No opinion. I was just curious about the person with a dick AND a vagina. Is this one of those mid-way transgender moments? Like before the last of the estrogen shots?

milk chocolate is for beginners. The exerienced pallette favors dark, semi/bittersweet. Belgian dark. Hmmmmm.....

My 2nd & 3rd wives are both named Kate. And I used to go out with a Kim. Everything convenient. No mess. With Kim I could call out my own name during sex and, hey, why break the moment? She was flattered. So wait, who knows? That tat might come in handy someday. Start by dating only other Annas.

Mike called yesterday. He's still in the hospital in Bangkok and will remain there until he can walk again, about two months. The accident he had should have broken his femur, according to doctors there and on the World Team. But Mike chose the creative, original, outside the box thinking and let his femur fracture the pelvis. That's right, his femur fractured his pelvis but didn't get hurt itself. He will not require surgery as it will heal itself, though P.T. is a must. He's walked a little with a walker but not much. Dr. says he'll skydive again, but not til he can walk & run well. This was the first practice jump as the full 400. The spot was bad and the 76(?) way base funneled and when Mike pulled he had a pilot chute in tow. With all that his landing options dwindled somewhat, but he saw what he felt was a landable, though tight, landing area. He saw trees and power lines but stayed clear of those. Well, almost clear. There was still a maverick lone wolf line that he didn't see till too late. It snagged his canopy, pendulumed him forward, and just as Mike was on the upswing of the pendulum, the power line broke, causing him to land the same time his canopy did. Mike has a phone number. It's a local (845) call as it's got to do with the Internet and his computer and may or may not be Skype. But you can call from any phone. Just remember it's 12 hours ahead there. Here's the # 845.228.8573. I'm sure he'd love a few calls.

seanmaccormac@yahoo.com

I haven't used a soap or cream in about ten years. I use a blend of essential oils - called Unique Solution - available through Mont Source http://www.montsource.com/. I get the best, smoothest shave ever and the stuff lasts forever. Hot water, a clean, sharp blade and this solution - you won't even know you're shaving. Even a week's growth comes off smooth. If you absolutely cannot do a blade, well then, forget this. But everyone else out there should give it a try.

Kipling's "Kim". All my life I've been told "it's a girl's name" and all my life I've known otherwise. Right in there with Leslie (Howard), Carol (O'Connor), Beverly (Peer, the late bassist in Bobby Short's trio), Marion (Marion Michael Murphy, aka John Wayne)

quit it myself eight years ago. I found that sobriety is about as strange a place as any. When I made the decision to quit, it occured to me that there might be some DZ peer pressure untill I remembered who I hung out with. There was never any pressure but only partly because they're my friends. The real reason was, of course, that what I didn't drink became more for someone else. Hell, I was thanked! Love those guys.

in response to the original question, "Is George Bush an idiot": Not in the technical sense in that his IQ is actually above the idiot level (what's that? 75 or so?)How much above is a mystery to me. As a non technical evaluation, I'd have to reserve calling him simply an idiot because I'm afraid of offending the real idiots who don't know better, are probably innocent, dear creatures and do not deserve to be categorized along with Bush, who is actually more of a fucking idiot, a non technical term for ass wipes like him. There's a book called "Bush on the Couch" by Justin Frank (I think that's his name) who is a psychoanalyst and has "analyzed" Bush, admittedly from afar and not in person - which he acknowledges is not the best. (Bush is a public person and much of his character and personality are available to us all). This book explains some of the mental incompetencies of "Shrub"which then makes it hard to take him seriously as a President, which of course makes him that much more dangerous, because he is president anyway. Frank is not a Bush lover. This much comes through in the book, I'm sorry to say. (I didn't need his editorializing in a somewhat ostensibly biased way. I hate Bush with a passion but I don't need to be led along. Just give me the facts) Still, it's an interesting read and I reccomend it.

I notice this Dudge Report fails to mention FISA - Foreign Intelligence Surveilence Act - which allows for unwarranted surveilence of American citizens for 72 hours BEFFORE getting court permission to do so. They can get the court to OK the surveilence retroactively.But that's the last resort. Prior to that, the Prez could use the emergency court for said permission within a few hours. So Bush's assertion that he needed to be able to act with speed is challenged by the established protocol. This Drudge Report also fails to mention whether Clinton or Carter went through proper procedure within the law, or whether they did what Bush did, which was to act outside the law on his own. Then again, Bush has shown a great disrespect for either law or truths.If that man had been my skydiving instructor I'd probably be dead.Fucking asshole!

It's also a sign of a healthy mind to be able to change it when new information or maturity or education causes one to think or rethink a position. A person who "stays the course" indefinitely regardless of anything new is a fucking idiot. And when there's an overwhelming direction change in information and one remains intransigent, entrenched in his position, and that person is in a position of power, that person is a dangerous idiot. Could start a war for no good reason. Or spy on people illegally. Or lie, lie, lie.

I may have missed it, but so far I haven't seen anything telling us what Don died of. Are there any details yet?

Thanks, Scott, for that reminder of Jo landing. If you absolutely had to come up with one word to describe someone or their life, "wheeeeeeeeee" would just about cover Jo. He was sometimes called "broken Jo", though I don't think he liked it much. But it was a fact. Jo had been broken. Once when he landed in the ditch - remember the ditches? - in DeLand, he became for a short while, "soakin' Jo". That name was given to him by Gus Wing. Well, fuck, I hope they're both laughing right now. They both had those laughs you could tell from across a crowded room. See you, Jo. p.s. Anyone know how to contact Rob?

make her laugh.

Couldn't agreee with you more. In fact, it was the very jump that taught me about airspeed. That was maybe 15 years ago.

1,500'. Cessna 182. Full flaps. Bungee pilot chute.

oops. Didn't even notice the 121. I just saw the paint job, and assumed it was 122, though I've known for years 121 was out there. I just got excited, I guess. Excuse me.

Where is this? 122PM is the first Otter the Ranch in NY owned. It's the first airplane I ever jumped from. That's like my first love or something.

Mostly, it seems problems occur in light and variable winds. Stronger winds are usually more consistent. So, why not have a predetermined diection in light and variables when there is a question. Maybe an arrow that can be locked into position. In light winds, landing downwind shouldn't be a big deal. Even for the youngsters. And it certainly wouldn't hurt anyone to know how to land downwind and to lose the fear of it. In stronger winds there usually isn't a question - it's obvious. But there really should be more education on the light & variable winds because with them, as Quade said, it can change up just on on load. If everyone lands in the same diredtin, then you have some landing downwind, others upwind, and still others in a crosswind. If everyone is dead determined to land into the wind, you get hurt people eventually. For the most part, landing into the wind serves to keep us all in the same direction. With Otter loads this is more important than on smaller Cessna DZs.So what really matters is that we arern't face to face on landing, not what the wind is doing.

(Ok, a short NYC area briefing: Around here, we refer to "the Island" and "the City" as though there were only one city or only one island. We know what we mean but if we ever say someting like "I'm going to the island" and someone says, "What island", we automatically know we're talking to a visitor or some alien form.) Technically Long Island is not part of NYC, except for Queens, the only one of the five boroughs which is on the Island. And only the five boroughs make up NYC proper. None of the rest of the Island is part of the city. So Queens would have to be considered part of any service which states it serves the City - which, though this means all of means the five boroughs, some foreigners refer to "the City" when they mean only Manhattan. The rest of Long Island consists of other counties, cities and towns far too numerous to be part of "the City". So it really depends on which part of Long Island you mean. Limited to the City may mean no farther east than Nassau County. Double check the limo service to see what they mean, and if their rates reflect going to the City or if that's extra. But these people seem to cover a lot. http://www.metrolimousineservice.com/main.htm