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I was going to mention Coolidge as well...

Hrm...methinks someone's dropzones are going to be the recipients of beer tomorrow? =) Way to go you guys!! I'm trying to finish up my A right now... way to go! WHOO HOO!!

Yes..to make sure your head/shoulders are square with the front once more. (and just remembering the "check in, check out, prop, ready - set - arch" made my heart jump again. heh...) -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

Fuel tank and tarmack Heh...after I landed on the tarmac during my AFF - and reached towards the ground in a proctive gesture (can you say "released the flare"? I knew you could...) - and got drug miserably on the tarmac (proof that I actually did a decent PLF: road rashed my ankle, knee, hip, shoulder, elbow, and hand...my shoulder lost a huge chunk of skin, though, from being drug by the chute).. I know exactly what you mean. Almost every landing since has been short. (except two weekends ago...when there was basically NO wind! Which meant that I went long - but I actually steered myself parallel to the tarmac - ANYTHING not to hit that flippin' tarmac again!!) but I'm so dreadfully afraid of low turns that even though I was coming in straight for the tetrahedran, I lifted my feet up thinking I was going to skim my bum on it rather than turn that low even a little bit. (didn't hit it...heh.) I have a heck of a time with my landings, though...because I'm wingloaded so light (I'm 135 pounds flying a nav 220), that if there is ANY wind, it all but stops my forward motion...and if there's NO wind, then I seem to fly forever. At least I'm landing more of them (whenever I touch down). we won't talk about the time that my left toggle had an issue...I could steer, but my left toggle, for some reason, I was BARELY able to pull it down...couldn't manage to flare the left and right sides at the same time. practiced in altitude to do an even flare...came in, put everything I had muscle-wise into the flare, but my left stopped halfway while my right went all the way. There was a definate "OH CRAP!" moment when I felt my body go sideways and pound into the ground sideways...bounced up and did a sort of barrel role in the desert. OUCH! Scared the DZO, that's for sure. =) *reads back* I'm really not as bad at landing as I'm making myself sound. *lol* If you look at my skydiving page...you'll see me landing several on my feet in a nice soft touchdown. (including the one NEXT TO the tarmac) (Katherine...if you read this...will coolidge be doing jumps this weekend? Weather is supposed to be "extremely windy this weekend with temperatures plummetting"..? I was hoping to get 7-8 jumps this weekend but don't want to drive the hour each way for nothing..? and what plane do they have no? 2 weeks ago the otter was gone and the porter was back..?) -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

but the ORIGINAL is from History of the World Part I... the french king (mel brooks, of course)... (except the quote is, "It's good to the THE king..") that's WHY the quote is in Men in Tights...Mel Brooks was making reference to his other movie. -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

"No pulse, no heartbeat. If condition does not change, this man is dead." -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

http://shop.store.yahoo.com/jsbstash/bluflyfflyts.html -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

Top Gun...goose. "Excuse me sir, exactly how obscene an amount of money were you talking about? Just profane or REALLY offensive." -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

My name is Stephanie.. and I'm a doula, childbirth educator, pregnancy portrait and birth photographer, and student midwife. I am also a wife and mother to three.

Christopher Lloyd-- Back to the Future (?) Nope... Goonies? Yup! (the others were right, too...it's just that this one had a question mark on it. *wink*) *** That's all I could get. Kelly Not too bad! (either that or really bad, depending on what you think of the movies. *grin*) -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

Easy... When Harry met Sally....harry said it to sally at the end, new years eve, at the party. -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

Alrighty...because I'm bored and feel like announcing to the world my horrible taste in music....have fun with this list. 1. TK421, why aren't you at your post? 2. I'd rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special. 3. I feel the need...the need for speed! 4. It's good to be the king! 5. Is it true what they say about the way you people are gifted? Zzzzzzzip! Oh it's Twue.... it's twue.... it's twue! (as a side note: the "Badges, we don't need no stinking badges!" quote isn't from Time Bandits...it's from this movie. heh.) 6. Faster...must go faster! (this was actually in two movies, said by the same actor. bonus if you can name both movies.) 7. Look, I really don't think they flew 90 billion light years to come down here and start a fight, and get all rowdy. 8. Get away from her you BITCH! 9. Through dangers untold and hardships unnumbered, I have fought my way here to the castle beyond the goblin city to take back the child that you have stolen. 10. Oh God, the dog wet on the picnic basket. 11. To the winch, wench! 12. Five, six, grab your crucifix...Seven, eight, better stay up late 13. I WANT MY TWO DOLLARS! 14. All we are is dust in the wind, dude... 15. "Why do you have a fake ID?" "So I can vote!" 16. Let's show this prehistoric bitch how we do things downtown. 17. You know, you're kinda not so bad looking when your face isn't messin it up. 18. OHHH!! Smile Pretty Chickies...ohhh, Sank you very much...sank you...hair pie, hair pie! 19. I've got a trig mid-term tomorrow, and I'm being chased by Guido the Killer Pimp! 20. Byebye boys, have fun storming the castle Enjoy. 11. -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

Ok...I haven't found a lot of interest in this whole story and have sort of been ignoring it for the most part.. but that picture is hysterical!!! Absolutely hysterical! *wipes away the tears* -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

we have a man at our dropzone...believe he lives out there...that says that he's been jumping since 1948. that he should have been one of the first 10 given a license from the USPA but that he ended up with a 2 digit number that he gave away several years ago. that guy is absolutely fascinating to talk to. Truly. He still jumps once a week or so... -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

I think that if you guess it and know you're right that you're supposed to put another quote in for people to guess? "Aaaas you wiiiiiish..." -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

Awesome pictures!! Beautiful!!! Although you did get my curiosity up...level 8? My AFF only had levels 1-7. heh. wonder what I missed. Great pictures...I can see why you'd be proud of them!! -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

that's funny... I'd say Playa Del Carmen because of the hot tandem guy I was hooked to. umm..err...I mean..I WOULD have said that, except that I'm married. HEY HONEY! Proof that the views are gorgeous there.. click on the link in my Sig and look at "first tandem". amazing views there. (and landing softely on the beach was pretty awesome, too) downfall to Playa Del Carmen: The hike to the plane, the drive back, no DZ "atmosphere"... -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

Why? (so asketh the student) -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

When I'm driving with my navigation system telling me directions...and it says 1000 ft...750 ft... in my mind I translate it to altitude. And when it comes time to slow down for a turn, I'm thinking, "Flare..flare..flare..." as I push the brake. When I hear a plane overhead and think, "DOOR!" When my children pretend to be skydivers. (my 8 year old moved the coffee table near the couch and laid down so one leg/arm was on the couch and one on the table with his body between them suspended, and said, "look, mom...I'm freefalling!") When my 14 month old sees ANY skydiver and starts pointing and chanting, "mama...mama...mama..." When every single friend you have is divided into one of three catagories... 1. skydivers 2. potential skydivers 3. Whuffos -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

*snort* isn't that the problem with trying to land without a parachute? -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

Actually...the reason we have restrooms isn't because we don't want to see it in public (or else mens rooms would have private stalls as well). The reason we have restrooms is for sanitary reasons. Sewage running down the streets is asking for diseases and infections and such. Feeding a baby is hardly comperable to going to the bathroom. Feeding a baby would be more likely compared to....to you eating a hamburger. I may think you're gross the way you personally eat your hamburger...but there's nothing immoral or unsanitary about you eating your hambuger next to me. -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

Heh...maybe there is something wrong with me... but seriously, I should have followed up my statement with a question... "Why do people want to do static line instead of AFF? What are the benefits of static line in comparison to AFF?" Not being a smarty pants or something....I'm a shiny newbie myself! I'm seriously wondering what the benefits are.... -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

Hey...I agree with you!! I have absolutely no problem with breasts on television. In fact, I have to laugh because if you watch medical shows, they can show major surgeries in detail, can show a cesarean in detail (major abdominal surgery), they can show any number of oh-my-gosh graphic things... but when the baby is being born..they can NOT show pubic hair...and can not show nipple. You can show any other part of the breast...except nipple. And God forbid you get any pubic hair in the picture...the horror!! *laugh* I agree with you...what's the big deal? -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

I will agree with this. In our society, we should be respectful for those around us. We use silverware when we eat, chew with our mouths closed (most of us, anyways ), we hopefully don't burp too loudly and without saying excuse me... but we DO eat in front of each other. I agree with you that nursing a baby is no different than eating lunch. You should show respect to those around you by making it as least offensive as you can. With nursing that means making sure you are exposing as little as you have to. (honestly, I've never seen a nursing mom in public expose *anything* other than a quick flash latching baby on...so my issue with a woman lifting her entire shirt up isn't that she's nursing a baby, it's that she seems to lack common sense and manners.) that, to me, is like vulgar language in public. You have the right to do it...but don't be surprised if you are making those around you uncomfortable. -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings

*spews her coffee all over her monitor* Hee hee... thanks a lot...now I have to clean my monitor off. -------------------------------------------- Elfanie My Skydiving Page Fly Safe - Soft Landings