Kris

Michele, thoughts and well-wishes from Oklahoma are well on their way.

The song is "Tears From The Moon (Hybrid's Twisted on the Terrace Mix)" by Conjure One with Sinead O'Connor. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

A FREE VIKING HAT?! WooHoo! That's gonna be AWESOME! ummm...waittasec.... What am I going to do with a hat with a picture of DZ.com's own Arthur on it? Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

*note to self...wear body armor around Stacy* Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

I'm having a pocket put on the back of my D-bag so I can freestow. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Heh....you've never jumped with Mouth. Raeford, April of this year. She's on the other side of a 15-way....and I can hear her! That woman has lungs like a forge bellows. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

I know. That's the part I laughed at! Who knew bears were freefliers? Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Oh. Daer. God. Plaese don't let Jessica see tihs trhead. She wlil klil us all! Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

SkymonkeyONE? Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

- have and display one or more tattoos Check! - smoke and often require at least one cigarrette between loads Check! (sigh.) - have body piercings (ears don't count anymore) Not yet... - can drink heavily in the evening and be on the first load the next morning 2 beers and it's nap time. And don't even think about waking me up before the crack o' noon. - are ectomorphic or, at least, fall on the ectomorphic side of mesomorphism Nope. Fat bastard here. - have some kind of attitude (doesn't really matter what kind If the golden rule is an attitude, I'll take it. - come across as a bit touched (and by touched, I mean crazy) Why would anyone want to be normal? - live a relatively non-materialistic lifestyle (money isn't good for much except jumps and beer!) Well, I guess I need to get rid of my motorcycle and my kick ass home theater. Actually, I've never really been that materialistic. - live in the present (can't really execute emergency procedures if you're daydreaming about the future, now, can you?) Damn my investments and my 401k - live from jump to jump (always thinking about that next fix) Check! - consider themselves good looking (the guys) and have skydiving SOs (the gals) that are good looking I am a troll. Children pelt me with stones before they run away screaming in fear. - seem to actually live (!) at the drop zone Does 45 minutes away count? - can easily pack in 10 minutes or less (mostly, it appears, because their canopy is about the size of a trashbag) I can pack my Stiletto 190 (yes, a 190) in about 8 minutes - have a seemingly unending source of money (maybe something illegal going on here, like in that documentary CUTAWAY about that cop... what's his name... Stephen Baldwin or something) Nope, I just have a really good job. But I still had to scrimp so I could order my BirdMan suit this week. - (some) inexplicably live nomadic lifestyles (how high do you have to exit to actually reach the next DZ?) It's all about spreading the love. Be yoursef. And may the devil take the hindmost.

Most are sensitive to Kris' farts too...the plastic melts. So be warned incase he every comes over and wants to check his e-mail... Umm...HELLO?!! Pot, I'd like you to meet Kettle. Dave, You're single-handedly responsible for turning more people on to BASE jumping in TX than anyone I know. Once you let one go even the most safety-conscious jumper is ready to leave the plane at 300'AGL. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Happy birthday, ! Have a cockatillo, or 12, from me! Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Not a joke, try rotating your monitor around in 90-degree increments and see if that clears it up. Some CRT monitors are sensitive to even the natural EM field of the earth. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Whether it is OJ, or the certain King Air pilot you are referencing, you are forgetting one very important fact. They were acquitted by a jury of their peers. That's the way the justice system works in this country. Innocent until proven guilty. A guilty verdict requires proof beyond a reasonable shadow of doubt. Who are you to say they are guilty? Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Damn, even I figured out Junior [Monkey]-Lips In Training! Face it, Deuce, your suit isn't going to be as smacky-booty as the GTi I'm ordering this week. That's okay, for a dollar, I'll let you touch it. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

In order from worst to best is: Composite S-Video Component When you get your DVD player, get a model with Progressive Scan. Coupled with a component input the quality is outstanding!

No canopy is immune from them but a more heavily loaded canopy can easily make line twists an unrecoverable situation. 6 or 7 line twists on a student canopy or something loaded 1:1, probably not an issue. The same amount on a loaded canopy (especially an elliptical) and you're probably going to be going on a pretty wild ride. I've been there, it's not fun. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

You forgot one: 4. Pure random chance. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

I like to take a really hot grill, I mean so hot that the metal is in danger of turning liquid. Then I take out the steak and I show it to the fire and threaten it. Then I put it back on the plate. In other words, anything from medium-rare (warm pink center) to very rare (cold red center). It just depends on the cut and quality of the meat. A ribeye, medium rare. A choice KC strip, rare. A filet mignon, bloody. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Sorry, I couldn't resist! Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

It's not just the lounge, you can't have it within blast radius of CoconutMonkey at any time. No telling what that boy is carrying! Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

A friend of mine was the BASE instructor at one of the world's busiest cliffs this summer. He took his iPod on virtually every jump (so, about 5 hours of hiking and three BASE jumps per day). I don't know if this meets your definition of "strenuous", but the iPod seemed to be doing just fine at the end of the summer. Too true. The iPod is a hard drive based system, but it also contains a 32MB buffer. The drive only spins to load the data into the buffer. Thus, the drive is stopped with the magneto-resistive head parked at a safe place on the platter. It is essentially a player with no moving parts at that point.

Suffice to say, she kicked mucho ass this weekend. I'm sure she'll be on later with an update. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Actually, the Stiletto is as close of a 9-cell equivalent as you're going to get to the Spectre. The Sabre & Spectre aren't even close. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™

Darn it, Coconut...you had to pull this little trip of yours 10 days before my vacation time renews. Dammit, monkey! Sigh. Sky, Muff Bro, Rodriguez Bro, and Bastion of Purity and Innocence!™