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  1. Nightingale
    um... huh?
  2. Nightingale
    hehehe... when we were in Alberta, right across the border, my dad sees a sign... "Speed Limit 80" he says "80 miles per hour! nifty!" and hits the gas. I'm in the front seat, grabbing onto the arm rest shouting "Daddy! That's KILOMETERS!" He hits the breaks, looks over at me and says "oh. thanks."
  3. Nightingale
    ROFLMAO!!!!!
  4. Nightingale
    lol... ya see, they're too polite to do that. They'd pretend to him and me that they like him. its only after we stop seeing each other that I'd hear "I'm so glad you got rid of him!"
  5. Nightingale
    ooohhhh.... Princess Mononoke is a good one! I got a sewing machine, a dust buster, and a george foreman grill. I guess it was the year for appliances. also, some clothes, jump money (YAY!!!) and a draft cat (long story.)
  6. Nightingale
    lol. at least your grandmother has tact. Mine just asked "so. when are you going to get married? the clock's ticking, you know. I want to see my great grandkids before I die." sigh. They're on my case because I haven't brought anyone to meet them in something like three years. I really didn't want to explain why. Its just that when you have a couple of BAD heartbreaks right in a row, you start picking people that are fun to hang out with, but that you aren't that "in to" so its emotionally safe and you know you're going to have a good time, but no matter how things turn out, you're not going to get hurt again. I really didn't want to say "Grandma, I haven't brought anyone home because I've been dating losers on purpose." THAT would NOT have gone over well.
  7. Nightingale
    but then you have no one setting standards, and the kids whose parents have less money are going to end up at even shittier schools than they're at already, IF there's even a school there at all! Nobody's going to fulfill the "american dream" of pulling themselves up by their bootstraps if they can't get an education to begin with. Privatization sounds good in theory, but in practice, you'd get a good percentage of the population who would be unable to get an education.
  8. Nightingale

    kia?

    Nightingale replied to Skyrose7's topic in The Bonfire

    I've got a ford escort. Aside from regular maintenance like oil/belt changes, the only thing I've had to do is replace the brakes once, and the spedometer cable once. In 80,000 miles. That's it. I've got a great mechanic who takes care of the preventative maintenance for me, and its been a wonderful, well behaved little car. I have two friends who drive Kias, and they've had nothing but trouble... and I get called to give them rides.
  9. Nightingale
    something else interesting: philosophically, the governor of illinois is PRO death penalty. He just doesn't believe the US implements it correctly, and that there's too much of a chance of innocents being killed by state-sanctioned homicide.
  10. Nightingale
    that's why I like MPH. Its familiar. I can do okay with MPH or even KPH, but throw feet per second at me and I'm going "um... how many feet are in a mile again??" just to find a similar frame of reference
  11. Nightingale
    can you set all three beep altitudes, or just one? the website says it automatically beeps at 2500, and at 1500, but being a newbie, those are too low for me. I like beeps at 5500 (get ready to pull), 4500 (pull now, if you haven't done it yet), and 2500 (my hard deck)
  12. Nightingale
    money's really tight right now... I'm not sure if I should spend $40 for a used TimeOut, or wait til I have the cash for the protrack, probably in mid february...
  13. Nightingale
    sigh. can we not let this go into a death penalty debate? pweese? we've hashed it out before. nobody's going to convince anyone else.
  14. Nightingale
    I do the same. Pull, maintain arch, until I feel the canopy pull me upright. then I watch the opening.
  15. Nightingale
    from my own experience: I have 22 jumps. I'm wingloading at .75. My landings are spot on, in the circle at perris for the last 8 times I've jumped there. at this point in my jumping life, I would not dream of a 1.03 wingloading, especially with a cast. Talk to your instructors. I'm just relating my own experience here. Also, a cast could make your freefall difficult. you will have more weight on one side than on the other, which can make it difficult to maintain stability. You'll also be foot heavy (I thought you said you broke your ankle), and landing with a cast on your foot can't be easy.
  16. Nightingale
    I got a certificate, but when I visited another DZ, all they needed to see was my logbook, and the words "Cleared for Solos" written on my level 8 jump.
  17. Nightingale
    personally, I'd go for it... who knows, it might be a lot of fun.
  18. Nightingale
    very true. An article in the LA Times said that another reason is because in an abusive relationship, abuser wants to be #1 in the woman's life, and when the woman's attention turns more towards the child she's carrying, the abuser feels very threatened by it.
  19. Nightingale
    Yes. the headline from a few days ago read something like "eating beef may now be as dangerous as skydiving with a garage sale parachute"
  20. Nightingale
    awesome!!!! which level was this?
  21. Nightingale
    hehe... conversation I had with my friend Christopher when he was a tandem passenger and I was doing AFF. Chris: How come I don't get a helmet? Me: You're falling from 12,500 feet. How much good do you really think a helmet's going to do you? Chris: oh... yeah...true... but YOU wear one! Me: Because my landings suck, and I can hit my head on the door on the way out, and bump into my JM in freefall and all that. If YOU hit your head on the door, your TM's still fine, and you'll land fine. You don't get a helmet because if you freak out in freefall and tip your head back fast, you're gonna KO your TM, and you don't know how to pull and that would be bad. Him: Oh. That makes sense, I guess. lol. he's starting AFF in January.
  22. Nightingale
    what I've been told at Perris is that if you finish AFF, most go on to get their license. Most who start AFF do not finish, though.
  23. Nightingale
    anyone know anything about these audibles?
  24. Nightingale
    when I was a first year teacher, I was paid $23,000 a year. In Orange County, CA. I promise you, unless you want to live in a slum, you can't find an apartment that you can afford on a salary of $23K. I had a full time job educating the youth of America, and I had to live with my parents, because I couldn't afford any better! My ex-boyfriend (also a teacher) has to tend bar at a steakhouse four nights a week so he can make his house payment. He makes more money as a bartender than he does as a teacher. Kinda embarrassing when students come in with their parents to have dinner, though. Moral of the story: if you want your kids to have a good education, make sure the teacher makes enough money so they don't have to go out and get a second job. Teaching takes time and energy and attention. sigh.
  25. Nightingale
    if he'd managed to castrate himself, he'd have won a Darwin Award. The only qualification is "Permanent removal from the gene pool."