dmcoco84

After talking to the Apex crew at BD, they have been super busy. I'm sure the site just isn't done yet. I would be shocked if they didn't offer velcro. Even though I love my pin rig!!!

Nice!!!! I'll go jump tonight! I promise I won't be bitch-whipped!! Coco

Hahah well you answered my question before I even called. Your ankle still hurting? D Edited to add: I can ask my dad to get some morphine out of the med box. Come jump with me!!!!!

Yea I did and she said that was fine. So now I just gotta hope I'm not late. HAHA Winds are looking decent: 180 is right down the middle. @7pm winds are @190 and at 10pm @ 220. So if I am on teh platform at 830 at the latest winds should be safe to jump. I won't jump if its past 200.

Well, Yes and No, If the winds are shitty I am going to go to the gym just like I do every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday. If they are nice I’d like to go make a jump. Climbing the tower is great exercise so I am still getting a workout. I have to climb a ladder for one part of the physical agility test (50 feet or something up and down with 70 pounds of gear) for a city here so its practice plus I get a bonus after the climb. I’m getting a workout either way. If I go jump I’ll tell her, if not I’ll be at the gym. No, I’m not hiding it from her, she knows about the BASE-jumping and is fine with it. She even jokes “ok I’m busy tonight so you can go jump off something”. Lol. I just wish when she was busy the winds were good. Which they haven’t been. It’s just the fact that I have skipped so many days in the past 3 weeks (BASE, workouts and also neglected my school work. I pulled a late nighter the night before last to be ready for a test.) The winds are looking decent tonight so I really wanna jump. Up until an hour ago, this post was just about being a little late. There was no issue with having to tell her or not because she was going to go out to dinner with a group of girls and then we were going to get together after at about 9ish. After she got the flowers she asked me to come. So I’m kinda just saying I don’t want to change the plans so I can do something else, which yes is kind of a lie, but I mean come on its not a terrible lie…. QuoteDon't do it. Start out honest, and stay that way. As much as I gave him some shit for his way of expressing it, Nick's right. There are a lot of people on this planet, and at least one of them is going to accept you for who you are--all of you, not part of you--as a whole person, not as raw material to remake into the perfect man. (Because the perfect man is perfect at the start, just the way he is, regardless of his flaws. Perfection is all about "fit," no more, no less.) Women will tolerate a lot if men are honest. Lying will screw up a relationship faster than anything. Not to mention that if she knows you're a liar, when the time comes that you really need to tell the big whopper, you'll have no chance of being believed.Quote I agree!! So should I tell her now I might also go make a jump if winds are good or, or is it ok if I tell her after?? If the winds change there is no reason to say anything. Yes I am very honest person. Always have been always will be. We all tell a fib here and there but nothing to the extent where I have when against my morals or hurt someone. I’m gonna pm you something in a sec.

Damnit, She is killing me!!!! Now she wants me to go to dinner with her at 7. Well I already told her I was gonna go to the gym to train and be done by 8:30 so I’ll have to tell her I need to stick to the original plan of meeting at 9. I work out 3 times a week minimum and I haven’t been since last Tuesday so I gotta do soemthing!!! Climbing the tower will at least give me some good cardio!

HEHEHE I knew that would get me a comment! Just messin with ya rhonda!

The same can be said of men, except the interval is more akin to water molecules from a faucet. rl Wow thats a pretty trashy woman if she goes thought men like that!!

Nick, what can I say!! You always have exactly the right responses. And that’s a very good point too because I am only 21. There are tons of fish in the sea!! I dated a girl about a year ago who I was extremely crazy about. Unfortunately it didn’t work out and I was pretty heartbroken but the next one was just as good. Be then again she was the one that didn’t understand my jumping desires so that didn’t work out either. As for this new girl, it’s not like I’ve been with this her for a long time and am looking to settle down too. If it doesn’t last I’m sure I’ll have no problems meeting someone else, especially once I get into a FD also. #1 sexiest job!

Well I already sent her flowers and a cute little B-day bear to her work today. Should be there any time now actually. But yea good Idea but if I go make a jump wouldn’t have time.

Very good points and thanks for your advice. I’ll do that. But here is another part of my dilemma. In my case it’s not just the fact that I have something else I want to do and am putting it before her. Along with my desire to spend time jumping (BASE and skydiving) I am balancing working full time, part/full time college (online), training to be a fire fighter (at the gym at least 3 times a week), studying course material for fire entrance exams and trying to spend time with my new gf. So I’m kinda loaded up!! I was kinda hoping to get into a fire department and then try and meet someone that way the very nice 10 day a month work schedule of a fire fighter would allow me plenty of time for all those things above but it kinda just happened and now I’m having to skip things. I’ve skipped not only BASE jumps but also my training, which is not good because I need to stay in shape for the academy. That a very good point. I’d have to say that’s a lot like how my parents are. My mom is very understanding when it comes to skydiving with my dad. He does spend a good amount of time on the weekend at the dz but always makes sure he spends an equal amount of time with my mom. Its not that I put BASE in front of my GF is just the fact that I am so busy that I am missing out on jumps. And I don’t know about the rest of you but when I go too long without a jump of any kind, I get irritable. P.S As for jumping on non-special occasion days, Saturday was a perfect night also but I had to go with her to a Halloween party. She also spent the night at my house so I couldn’t get up early and make a morning jump. She was pretty sick from drinking so I wanted to take care of her. That I don’t have a problem with in skipping a jump! And Sunday night I had calculus to do.

That is my biggest problem when it comes to dating. I need to find a gf that is totally understanding of the fact that skydiving and BASE are my life! Yea I may love you very much but she’s gotta understand with out these two things in my life, I don’t have a life. I sometimes do see a point! My most recent ex wasn’t to understanding to this fact. She didn’t even want me to be at the dz for more than a few hours on Saturday. Yea…It didn’t work out.

Yea...... Well I'm not gonna be doing any "true" solo's for a while. If I burned in on one of our towers, I'd die in the middle of a soy field and no one would find me. Screw that!!! I'll do a true solo on a B so at least someone will find me. But congrats to you Le Roy. That does take some balls. I stick to the VGC!

Wasn't that jump on Continuum 2? Email the Triax guys if so.

Aight! So I met this girl about a week before Bridge Day. We’ve been chillin A LOT and I have missed at least 4 FREAKIN PERFECT opportunities to jump. Her birthday is today “Tuesday” and she is having a get together, who knows what yet and probably gotta meet at 8:30-9pm. Sun goes down at 6, drive is an hour round trip, walk 20 min round trip, climb 40ish to 900 feet, Winds are looking decent! (at the moment) “Sigh”, So what should I do? P.S Tonight was prefect too but I had class. Grrrrrr!

I'm up there by myself, I climbed by myself, jump, landed and left by myself. Thats solo enough for me.

Ummmm….Yeaaaa!!! So jealous!

I prefer using VGC “virtual ground crew as Tom put it”. I'll be doing a lot of those in the future. Yea it’s definitely a totally different feeling! Quite wonderful…. exhilarating if I may! I absolutely love jumping with my buddies, its great to be able to share the experience of BASE with those close to you. But along with that I've always been kind of a loner (that is until meeting those similar to myself in the skydiving and BASE community) too so jumping solo is just like a lot of other things I have enjoyed doing solo in my life. And like base60 said, he never knows when he is gonna be jumping. I’m pretty spur of the moment also so if the winds are right and I call up a buddy and he’s busy, VGC is a pretty smart way to make a solo. It’s the “safety net solo”, as I like to call it. Coco

Nice!

Yea, looking back at my work I did get too here, but using another example in the book somewhere I went screwy.

Thats it! Awesome. Thanks you. -1/15 is one of the answers! Thanks for your help everyone!!!!!

Would you mind working that again. I left out ) after 3 and ( before the 4. ln (square root sign) (2x+3)/(4x+5) is correct now here and above.

to find the derivative of a natural log you put take the derviative of the function over the function so the derviative of x = 1 so yes f(x) ln x = 1/x But the problem I am doing has more too it. The SQ root over those whole function si messing me up somehwere and I can figure it out Any math majors out there?

Yea thats correct....for x but not for the problem I'm working on. There a lot more work to it.

Anyone good at calculus? I need help! what is the derivative of this natural log. ln (square root sign) (2x+3)/(4x+5) then I have to find f'(0) If you can find the derivative I can find f'(0) easy Edited to add: I can do the quotient rule but the square root is throwing me off.