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Actually, if I'm correct Icarus has offered to sponsor him if he wanted it, but he worked out a much better deal with them. One that fits his personality much better.

naked?

From the front....You know that D-bag look big.

Nope that isn't turbulance, it's a snap hook. Sorry it's blurry but it isn't like he stands still.

Hey where is that other button??? Cause the answer is hooknswoop

oh oh oh ...me too me too PD-113R - Max recommended weight 149 lbs TSO-c23(d) 220lbs

Hey me too, exept it's with one of those bra tank top things. Although it doesn't seem to matter how often I wear them I still get comments about the kitties or puppies on my jammies.

Yeah I didn't want to go into how I noticed that when I'm shopping for the house the colors I tend to buy are my gear colors. I finally forced myself to break away from the blue and yellow and make my guest bath purple and green although there is purple on my rig and freefly pants

Hey now my fashion sense is great... My jumpsuits match my rig which matches my canopy which matches my closing pin necklace which matches the bikini I usually wear underneath. Even my dog wears my colors. So I think my fashion sence is perfect.

Yep got smoke scared.......actually Derek said the caravan takes longer to go to alittude and I would probably end up hypoxic, so I decided to not risk it.

Ummm...you know she is texan, so you for got the "Hold my beer" part.

That does it I need to come out to Perris and see if Lisa will mom me. Maybe that's all I need to get my spirit back. Lisa, I swear I cost less than your son.....I can even by my own beer

Thanks alot everyone, it really does mean alot to me. I think Pammi hit the nail on the head, I'm under so much stress in every other part of my life that being at the DZ and getting stressed out to the point that I go home crying is the last straw. Also, it's the only stress that I can avoid, like someone said in another post about fear, but switch it to stress. You have to live with the fear (stress) in some parts of your life, you have no choice like work, but skydiving you can quit you don't have to put up with it, your life will go on just fine without it. Every weekend since I've been here I've gone out for the weekend, hung out after hours and tried to get to know people. I mean it should have been easy, they loved Derek the weekend he was up, quite a few of you know me, I'm really laid back and friendly and usually have no problem getting to know people. Instead I pretty much getting ignored, and if I'm not ignored it's cause someone feels that I should know thier opinion on my canopy. I know I should check out the other DZ that is 2 hrs away, but it's hard to get motivated to drive that far when I know I'm going to have to listen to the "you jump a what?" comments. I mean it was cute at first but now it hurts my feelings, cause they have seen me land perfectly fine for weeks now. It's not things like you cut someone off or you are flying dangerously or anything like that it's stuff like well if you aren't going to hook turn it you shouldn't be on it, and why even bother at that wingloading, it's not ment to be flown that light, you should get a spectre or something like that cause you aren't flying that thing to it's potential. So the stress is too much and it's not worth it, I'd rather sit at home alone all weekend stareing at the walls than spending another weekend crying and feeling sorry for myself.

Well it's not only low # jump jumpers that wonder if it is time to quit. Sometimes the reasons you jumped are not longer there, it has nothing to do with fear, but more the fact that what brought you to the sport is gone. When you wake up in the morning on weekends and dred going to the DZ, but you go anyway cause that is what you have done every weekend for the last 3 years. Then you do a few solos and go home wondering why you even bother anymore. So today I finally make the decision, I'm quiting the sport, in the last year I've had friend after friend turn away from me because I was dating Derek the Spaceland Anti-christ, and in houston if you do anything to make anyone at spaceland not like you you are shunned. But it was ok, I had new things I was working on solos are good for that, head-down, sit-flying, canopy control, alots of stuff. Well a year later I've moved to a new town thinking things would be better, well they are worse, since I'm the new person no one wants to jump with me, I can't even get on a 2 way. *shrug* It has nothing to do with my flying abilities or any safety issues, it's all about clics and unfortunately I don't fit in. So the reason I started jumping, the friendly people and the fun of the jumps are no longer there,so it's time to sell the gear and move on.

Clay keep your gonads to yourself and no one gets hurt.

Derek and I are planning on being there, just don't know what days yet. I was going to say he hasn't said what days he want's to go, but that's right I'm the one who does all the scheduling, so guess I better figure out which days.

Yep more than likely it's the altitude, I noticed a HUGE change in the opening characteristics between Denver and Houston. Here in Denver it really wants to dance around and likes to dive off heading on opening. Actually in Houston I could be pretty sloppy during the opening and it wouldn't spin up, 1st jump in Denver.....Spinning line twists. Got out of them with no problem and have since started concentrating on my openings again. The elevation really does make a big difference.

ummmm....walked into manifest and told them to take the cost of the helicopter jump off of Hook account There are few benifits to dating an instructor, even if you don't ever get to jump with them.

Ummm...I haven't sold anything, but I have skipped a car payment before...luckly the loan is in the X-hubby's name, and I didn't feel guilty one bit

Actually the article does state the canopies that had issues. "Vladi Pesa from Florida got the worst of it when 3 cells on one side of the PD Velocity folded in near the bottom of the course. The canopy instantly re-inflated and he negotiated the remainder of the course safely." "The first competitor on load five, South African Andy Anderson, came over the ridge at the top of the course and started getting bounced around. He was managing to fly through it until the third gate, when rotors over the trees hit the far end of his Xaos 21, collapsing it almost from end cell to end cell. He slammed into the ground." The person after him had no problems and they didn't say what kind of canopy. "Moments later is cousin, Andy Farringotn entered the gates. At the same spot where Anderson had trouble, Farrington's Xaos27 suffered even more sever and complete collapse than Anderson's canopy slamming him hard onto the mountain." Anderson had broken ribs and Farrington was ok. You can read the whole article in the May 2002 Parachutist, page 30 - 33 btw....after watching this fire here in CO I can definately understand how unpredictable the wind can be going threw trees

Ok I did a quick little search so this # is not written in stone, but so far this year there have been 11 fatalities. The thing is 6 of them were last month.

So how is that monitor tan coming along?

Yep, she either has someone else or is scared that you may have found someone else and is trying to end it before you do, don't ask me why but it does hurt less when you are the dumper rather than the dumpee. Having just moved 14 hrs away, I do understand the stress distance can have on a relationship, if he wasn't moving out here I know I'd be having second thoughts about the relationship in general. How do I know that cause I already have those feelings inside, it's like you are trying to protect yourself from being hurt when he decides to dump you cause he met this cute little blond tandem student. Of course, then I smack myself on the head and remind myself that he already turned in notice with NASA and I have his cutaway rig in the toy room closet. The thing is I have the comfort of knowing he is going to be joining me here, what are her options with your relationship other than being far apart with no end in sight. On the other hand she might have been looking for an out and now with you out of town, she has the "reasons" that she needs to end the relationship.

did you get an A #? You have to pay basically for every #, I went strait to my C and only paid for a C # so I have an A and a C, but no B. This was a little over a year ago, but I doubt anything has changed since then.

Well I don't know how this figures into Bill's equation, but the hop-n-pops that I’ve done the last few weeks including one from a helicopter, from 4k AGL, 9K MSL have taken longer to open, I was pumping on the rear risers to make it open. The jumps from altitude opened, I don’t want to say faster, cause I think even they were slower but they were harder, more of a snivel, snivel, snivel, pop, rather than snivel, snivel, ahhhh. I’m sure what I just typed makes no sense what so ever.