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Better get your Kleenex ready, Clay!

http://www.google.com/search?sourceid=navclient&q=sheep+magazine Google rules!

Hey, Clay. It could be much worse.

I think in the long run, that was the wise choice. I hope for your sake that they just say something like, "Ice it, take to advil and call in the morning." I hope it is nothing big. Good luck, man!

Be careful of the cold. It can lead to unforseen problems. I know of a jumper that jumped in very cold weather with a full face helmet. I'm not sure what combination of conditions in the plane, temperature, humidity and whatever else caused it, but his face shield completely iced over and he couldn't see anything. I could be wrong, but I believe it ended in a Cypres save. Nobody is saying not to jump in the cold. Just be extra careful and research what you are doing.

Umm... no I don't.

Well, that is a totally different scenario. Thanks for posting the additional facts.

Back to the original question.... I wouldn't feel too much remorse for the guy that got shot. But I'd also love to see the security guard get locked up. His actions were totally uncalled for and not much better than the guy stealing his car. This was no case of self-defense. The car was going AWAY, not trying to run him over. So somebody steals your car? Chances are decent that a quick phone call to the cops would have been just as effective as shooting him. Maybe he would have even gotten his car back in one piece. Even if the cops didn't get him, is it worth a murder? All the Wild West analogies fall flat. We don't live like that any more. Being without a car usually isn't a life & death emergency. Before you go glamorizing the cowboy days and people killing horse thieves, look at the life expectancy, the number of innocent people that got caught in crossfires and the number of people that got killed by accident. I'm even sticking to the topic at hand and NOT going into the whole broader issue of gun ownership. We've been through that one too many times already.

Okay, now THAT was funny!

suborner (sub-ORN-uhr) noun One who suborns i.e. induces another to perform an unlawful act secretly or give false testimony. [From Latin subornare, from sub- (secretly) + ornare (to equip). Other words that derive from the same root (ornare): adorn, ornate.] "I am not in the least provoked at the Sight of a Lawyer, a Pick-pocket, a Colonel, a Fool, a Lord, a Gamester, a Politician, a Whore-Master, a Physician, an Evidence, a Suborner, an Attorney, a Traitor, or the like: This is all according to the due Course of Things." Jonathan Swift, Gulliver's Travels (Part IV. A Voyage to the Country of The Houyhnhnms), 1726. This week's theme: Words from Gulliver's Travels.

http://wordsmith.org/awad/index.html Another daily word mailing list for when you want to build up your vocabulary or at least sound vaguely intelligent.

Sadly, I say go to the doc. 95% of the time, they tell you shit you already know and you feel like you wasted your time and money. It is the 5% of the time when they know something that you don't that makes it important. The time when you don't get it checked out and something gets even worse will bite you in the ass. A (very!) distant relative went something like 14 years without going to the gyno. She died young of a tumor that could have been spotted by a routine checkup. Pretty damned stupid. I'm not saying your knee is like a huge tumor, but in general it is worth the aggravation just to rule out the serious stuff. I know it is not generally a laughing matter, but Nathan, if you did get an ovarian tumor, it would be damned impressive in a freak-o-nature kinda way.

I have the despair.com skydiving poster: http://www.despair.com/idiocy.html and a framed copy of this: http://www.dropzone.com/cgi-bin/forum/gforum.cgi?do=post_attachment;postatt_id=1572; I have some skydiving photos as my screensaver/wallpaper, but that is all that is visible. Whoops. Also have the Jump-Track cradle for my Pro-Track. Found another... A picture of my daughter sitting in front of my rig.

Man, I love Lego! I have tons of them, and now that I have a child, I can play with Legos and say I'm just doing it for my baby. My wedding cake was 3-tier. The lower 2 tiers were made out of Lego blocks. The bride & groom cake toppers were also Lego. I shit you not! http://www.jennandjustin.com/photos-family-wedding4.asp

I kinda like the way the milk actually squirts out in like half a dozen little streams in all directions. Cool!

"Milk. Does a body good." Wasn't that the ad campaign? If health and boobies mix, who am I to argue?

Admit it, Nathan. You just liked getting strapped to that tandem instructor, didn't you? Didn't you, Nathan? ADMIT IT!

And what is wrong with quality testing?

Or just a willingness to sacrifice the other kids as test dummies.

I just had a major case of "Oh yeah, well, F(*^ you, Army, I don't have to do that stuff any more."

Succinct translation!

Do yourself a favor: keep exercising. Even if you don't get up at oh-dark thirty and do it in combat boots, don't quit completely out of rebellion. I did, and it was moronic. I'm still not in as good a shape as I was then. If I had stuck with something on a regular basis, I would have been much better off. Just a thought....

You were lucky. We didn't have pellet guns. So we had lit cans of WD-40 and the "No burning hair" rule.

I'm still trying to figure out how to get ice cream or a good milk shake out of there.

I don't think any of the DZ's I've been to have required a tandem before doing AFF. I'm against it as a requirement. They can recommend it, but not everyone wants to do it or needs to do it. I've never done a tandem, and I have no intention of doing one. Just not my thing. Places that give discounts on AFF or SL training to tandem-experienced jumpers probably have the right idea. They can make it easy, and remove much of the financial burden of doing one first. If someone gets hooked, they will more than get their money out of them.