peacefuljeffrey

Ohh, why don't they just fuckin' kill ALL of them?! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Are you kidding me? The bathrooms at Sebastian stink like sulphur! Who could concentrate?! And yeah, "Horny!" -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

More than once a day. Sometimes once a day. Sometimes as much as five-to-seven times (on infrequent occasions). Usually twice or three times. Hey, it feels great; I can be with "any" girl I want, anywhere, doing anything; and it's a great stress reliever. I am always all alpha waves during and after... Great way to start a day; great way to end a day and go to sleep.

I know, really! I guess I was just a natural... Had to wait a lonnng time from when I wanted sex to when I got sex ... 'cause I would have done it at 12 or 13, but didn't do it until I had just turned 18, in my freshman year of college. I was in love with her in a big way. And I look back on it now and wonder what I knew of love, then. Who knows, maybe more than I know now... I think I'm just jaded now. I have trouble picturing true love. I'm seeing it all as an illusion now... But the sex was good. Very intimate, passionate -- but she was a good Christian girl, so she had guilt problems with letting go and enjoying it. Boy, did she ever have a conflict within herself about it, 'cause she sure did enjoy the sensations and the passion!

My brother and sister both were very into these books back in the '80s or so. I bought a copy of the first book and like you said, it started out slow, and I didn't get more than half-way into it before putting it down. The same thing happened with me and the Lord of the Rings' first book (although I loved The Hobbit!). Some day I'll pick it up again and read it full. As I understand it, Donaldson wrote beyond the initial trilogy, right? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I have here The New Food Lover's Companion by Barron's... It's a great resource for any information about food. Kind of like a little food encyclopedia. It says, regarding cheese: "If mold appears on firm, semifirm or semisoft cheeses, simply cut away the offending portion (plus a little extra) and discard. Mold on fresh or soft-ripened cheese, however, signals that it should be thrown out." Examples of semfirm cheeses are Cheddar, Edam and Jarlsberg. They have been cooked and pressed but not aged as long as hard cheeses like Parmesan. Semisoft cheeses include Gouda and Jack, and are pressed but can be cooked or uncooked. (And I never knew that cheeses ever were cooked!) Soft-ripened cheeses, like Brie, are neither cooked nor pressed, but subjected to various bacteria that ripen the cheese from the outside in. I LOVE CHEESE! But the more I think about it, the grosser it really is. It helps to not think too much about it. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Thanks for the explanation, actually. But meh, in a sport where one second can win a race over thousands of miles, I can't really say that I think a guy who wins by one second really "won." If you can't get more than a one-second edge over a guy during the course of 1000 miles, it's my view that the two of you are almost perfectly an even match. I can't be alone in thinking this, or that when two swimmers tap the edge of the pool .0024 seconds apart, that the first guy really "won." -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I stay up too late Damn! I wake up so late, too I have to stop this! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You are correct! The Dead Zone it is. And hey, I wasn't trying to be compulsive, but isn't it a big mess when everyone's just throwing quotes out there into the ether, some answered seven times, some none... it just gets to be un-fun is all, I think. Hey, if people don't want to do it the way I suggested, fine. I'm not gonna berate anyone. I just remember how it was done on Bladeforums.com, and people kept it pretty well self-regulated and it was a thread that got to be like sixty pages long!

By your leave, milady!... "Bless me? You know what God did for me? He threw an 18-wheel truck at me... bounced me into nowhere for five years. When I woke up, m-my girl was gone, my job was gone. My legs are just about useless... Bless me? God's been a real sport to me!" Okay, what movie? Name it correctly and then give a quote to carry on...

Well, my dad's a pianist... Mom was pretty good at drawing, and each of us kids had some drawing talent -- but our folks were lefties and we're righties. My oldest sister is an amazing artist, and it confounds me that she never did anything with it after high school. Really strange, because she had incredible talent. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

You better start being more specific about your Jeffs... I was about to go check into renting a bounce-house!... -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I am not sure if "handedness" is linked genetically, but both my dad and my late mother are left handed, but my brother, both sisters, and I are right-handed. (We are all the biological children of said parents.) Of all of us four kids, I am the only one who writes lefty. That and shooting pool are the only things I do lefty. (Oh, and the left is my better kitten-killin' hand. Watch out -- I'm deadly! ) And I can shoot pool okay righty if I have a shot to make that requires it. Which hand is dominant for you? Are you the same or different from your parents? And are you one of those people who was forced to use a certain hand because of expectations of parents, or catholic school? Is right or left handedness supposed to be a genetic thing? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Good post. But you don't truly know that you won't win. Buying a ticket means you cannot guarantee that you won't win. The only way you can be sure you won't win is to stay out of the game. Lots of people thought they were sure to not win and then ended up millions of dollars richer!

Yeahhh, it's a good feeling. I have far fewer jumps than you, but I was surrounded during all my training by freeflyers always showing their videos after a load and laughing about it. I remember thinking how EASY it looked, how could it be hard? So I always went about skydiving with an attitude of, "I'll assume I can do it easily until and unless I find out otherwise." Of course, by now, I have found out that head-down is no piece of cake. I can't really do it, but I've made some un-coached attempts, and this winter I'm gonna settle on someone, somewhere, to take a full week of nothin' but skydiving and freefly coaching. I am so psyched to do that... the most I've ever done is two consecutive days of skydiving, so far. I remember being asked by someone what I was planning on doing on a particular load, and I had no answer but that I was going to practice my stability and turns on my belly, and tracking and loops and barrel rolls... so this girl, Kim, said, "Why don't you try standing up?" So I asked her how to do it, and she said to go like I'm starting a back loop, and kick my feet downward when vertical. Well, believe it or not, after a second attempt, I actually GOT to stand for a few seconds. I still remember the feeling of accelerating! Of course, I now realize that cart was way out in front of the horse, and so I started working on a sit, which I can now do for as long as I like, including turns using the feet. It's so cool realizing how much more I'm going to eventually be able to do! Congratulations on your year of freeflying, GFD!

This week seemed to go by quickly for me, too. Can't wait til jumpin' Sunday!!

You got a goofy smile in the mail? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Haha, yeah it is shit. Some guy actually used that line on me a few years ago. He told me my eyes were so deep and dark he could get lost in them. I wanted to vomit. What if you laughed off the one guy in a million who truly felt that way about them and meant it? I have felt that way about a girl's eyes, even though I didn't go and say something as corny as that... Ya gotta realize, a guy goes out on a limb when he says something as universally cheesy as that -- some respect is due to his gutsiness. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I don't know what that's from, but that is ice cold. Hey, people, I dunno about you, but I think this game works best the way they do it on Bladeforums... Someone posts a quote, and everyone guesses, but ONLY the person who is first to get the answer correct gets to post a new quote. It stays WAY more organized and comprehensive that way. The way it's currently going, there are like half a dozen un-answered quote questions. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Have you stopped having sex yet? Oh, wait, that happens just after you get married. I think that your countdown should consist now of 365 kisses per day, less one for every day that goes by until the wedding.

That's "Zoolander"!! Loved it! I need to watch it again for quotables, though. The only thing that comes to mind is him talking about the "eugoogoly" at the funeral. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Is that "Super Troopers"? I don't care if it is or not, that movie rocks and bears mentioning! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

"Look in yuh heart! Look in yuh HEART!" -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

Jeffrey age 33 Advertising proofreader (professional nit-picker) First jump was during college, 1991. Did several more (total of five) stretched out through 1996. Finally took student training in 2003. Currently 112 jumps. Most memorable jump (lately) is #99, or my last two which were attempts at 3-way simple RW with two knuckleheads of about my skill level. We funneled hard on our last one. #99 was good two-way fun with a buddy, and we successfully exited, separated, docked, separated, spun 360s and redocked, over and over. On the last dock, I leaned in and told him, "WE ROCK!" loud enough that he and I both heard me! My philosophy: Find peace. Find contentment and happiness. Keep learning. Become who I am. Do it barefoot, no matter what "it" is. (Okay, not snowboarding.) -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"

I play occasionally, and dread finding out that the numbers I play consistently get picked in a drawing I didn't enter! But I play only one dollar each time. I can easily spare a single dollar and never miss it. Not so easy with five, or ten dollars. That starts to pinch. That's lunch, or a movie, or a DVD, or half a jump. But when you look mathematically at the odds of winning... In a six number game with 54 balls jumping, it's 1 in... waitaminute, I'm getting myself confused... don't they usually say 1 in 16million or so? But I thought you do 54 x 53 x 52 x 51 x 50 x 49 to figure out how many possible combinations there are... that comes out to like 18 billion... Well anyway, the difference, the increase in your chance of winning, between playing ONE dollar and playing TEN dollars puts either ONE over numerous millions, or TEN over numerous millions, and the increase is so infinitessimal that it's hardly worth the extra 9 dollars! I'd just as soon accept 1 in a gazillion odds and keep another 9 losing bucks than fork over the extra 9 bucks time and again to increase my odds of winning one ridiculously tiny amount. Since the odds still remain staggeringly against my winning, I'm much more likely to simply save myself a few hundred bucks over a lifetime. And then there's the idea of buying two, three, four, five tickets with the same numbers on each when you're in a drawing with a huge number of ticket holders. Let's say your numbers come in, and there are five winners; if you bought 4 tickets, and there are four other winners with one ticket each, total of 8 tickets, YOU TAKE HALF THE JACKPOT, AND EACH OF THOSE SUCKERS TAKES ONLY 1/8!!! LOL!!!!! So once in a while, I have done that, when the jackpot was really huge. Two bucks on the same numbers. You better not steal my idea now. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"