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  1. peacefuljeffrey
    Yep, then you sue the fuck out of the shitbag parents!! Man, Jake, sorry this happened to you. I hope they catch the little vindictive scumbags and give you the chance to hang 'em by their nuts. Here's to good stuff coming your way to overwhelm the bad that's happened. Blue skies, -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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    Having nobody to hang with... -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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    Who was the hottie who came out of the ocean and had to get the sea anemone spine stuck in her foot and Bond had to suck it out? SHE was the hottest Bond Girl!
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    Thanks. I guess it'll come down to calling in the morning to check before I go driving 1.5 hours to get there...
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    I know that Sebastian's got night jumps on the 26th (and if I can borrow a lighted altimeter I may do some) but are they open tomorrow (Christmas)? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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    Ugh, someday I may go the electronic route... but I have no urge to rush and learn how to do it. I'm not even sure if Quicken is on my Windows suite or not, and I wouldn't pay if it were not. I like the old-fashioned way. I'm sure that eventually when I do start using something like Quicken, I'll look at my current self and laugh and feel like I was being a reactionary idiot technophobe... like before I used a debit card for purchases, or before I bought stuff online, or before I got a cellular phone... The only thing is, computers crash... and with them, all the stuff you thought you'd never have to back up, or thought you'd have more time to back up... -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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    I was from one of those families that didn't ski -- that's just because, well, if your parents don't ski, you don't get to ski. The first time I ever went skiing was in 10th grade. I picked it up pretty easily. I skied again once in 11th grade, and then a couple of times in college. I'd say I was competent on skis. In 1994, I saw a ski shop going out of business and walked in and bought a snowboard I knew nothing about; I had never been on a snowboard in my life and just knew I'd love it. And sure enough, I did.
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    I just finished the tribulation I go through every few weeks. I go several weeks accumulating slips and receipts from debits to my checking account (good ol' Visa checkcard!), and then I force myself to sit down, write each of the charges on ledger sheets, subtract out the debits and add in my paycheck credits, and then I go online and check what the bank says I have. I ALWAYS eventually get the two amounts to match -- and it's an exultant feeling! VICTORY! (Sometimes, though, it's like putting together a puzzle without having a picture of how it's supposed to look when finished!) So, do you keep close tabs on your checking account? Or do you just wing it and hope it stays out of the red? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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    My mind has been poisoned against cordless appliances because of experience with things like cordless phones. The batteries always go to shit long before you think the life of the device should be over! Then, of course, it is difficult (and expensive) to even find a replacement. How are the batteries for things like these cordless tools (drills, saws, etc.)? Do they last? Do they hold a decent charge length? Are they easily and economically replaceable? Those are the three big tests for me (apart from simply working as they should). -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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    I can't offer you any help here except to make a humble request that you POST A PIC WHEN YOU GET YOUR UNDERARMOR! I have seen the way they, erm, conform to the body... It's HOT!
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    You bastidge! I would LOVE to learn to fly helicopters... but it's SO expensive! I've been thinking about taking just a few hours in them to see what it feels like. I have had fairly detailed dreams in which I was flying a helicopter, even consciously using the collective and cyclic, sitting right seat! I don't know how my subconscious dream-mind put that together for me, since I've never even sat in a helicopter. Tonight I saw a seriously sweet sunset from the ground (Alternate A1A, running along Florida's oceanfront, as I drove north) and it made me wish I was up for a dusk-into-night flight or jump. Some time in the next week or two I'm going to go for that kind of flight. There is little that is as beautiful and serene. Ron, I don't think I was aware that you're a pilot. Cool! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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    Good plan! I did that when I had a back spasm that sent me hobbling to my doctor a couple of years ago. I had never felt pain like this -- and I had done NOTHING to bring it on! I just woke up one morning and my back was simply killing me. I could barely reach for a doorknob without an excruciating jolt of pain; I had never before had pain that made me cry out, but this did it. I am not one for pharmaceuticals, so I asked the doctor if there was something he could give me that was non-narcotic (the last thing I want is to get hooked on pain medication) and he gave me Soma. I don't even know what the stuff is -- a friend says it's related somehow to Valium -- but it actually did work. A day after the pain was in full swing, I was taking one of these every 4-6 hours and I was actually able to compete in a disc golf tournament in relative comfort!
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    I do both, too. I was flying long before I skydived, though, since I used to go up with my dad when I was in junior high school. I was learning to fly from him in the late '80s, and I did my first jumps (5) in 1991 and 1996. I did AFP in 2003. I love them both a lot, but I fly maybe once every 1.5 months or so, and I keep current with night flying, but I skydive just about every week, between 2 and 6 jumps on average. They're similar, but so different!
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    I like the idea of kids learning to skydive. Look at kids who start snowboarding or skating at an early age -- they get WICKED GOOD at it! It's cool that you have the attitude you state above. I don't mean to second guess you but I do want to raise the idea that circumstances, especially bad ones, have a knack for making people change their minds about things that they thought they were resolute about. I hope nothing ever happens to make you decide, "Oh, you know, on second thought, I am gonna sue the DZO for x, y or z," but the possibility, for many people who say it is not possible, is very real. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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    I sure am ticklish -- and I wouldn't change for anything! I LOVE being tickled! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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    Busy making food Stuffed shells to take to office Who has time to write? -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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    Cute. I love that movie. Now I can love it ... with bunnies! I especially like the July 4th Ball picture at the end. Just like the real thing! edit: Now they should do "The Dead Zone" I'd love to hear the bunny-Christopher-Walken voice! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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    I draw the line at giving any woman named "Bernice" an orgasm... Okay, okay, it's not her fault what her parents named her. Alright, I'll give 'er the orgasm(s). Did you ever see the Chevy Chase movie "Modern Problems"? He gets telekinesis, and in one scene he uses it to give his girlfriend this staggeringly tremendous orgasm while he's in the kitchen mixing some drinks. He kinda wills the blender-effects into her private girly parts to stupendously gratifying effect. Great scene.
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    That sounds like a guy called "Molecule Man" from Marvel Comics. He was the guy whose powers were able to save the universe in Secret Wars II. ...oh my god, I know entirely too much about this stuff! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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    Yes, that was a cute story. Thanks for sharing it. It's funny to me, though, about people's superstitions. If someone has been having a "run of bad luck," it usually means that there's been substantial-enough bad luck to merit being noticed -- and by that time, surely right around the time he or she would apply the red string "because it can't hurt," the luck turns around. It seems as though the string did the trick, but really when you think about it, how long was the bad luck run gonna last in the first place. Coincidence? That's what I think it tends to be. That article posted sure doesn't seem very flattering about these Kabbalah shysters. They sound like any other scam artists. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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    Sure does! Thanks for the link. I scanned over it but didn't see anything about the red string. Was it in part I or II? I'll have to read it more thoroughly when I have time. Blue skies, -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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    Yes, but you still have to deal with making conversation with the tow truck driver -- or the uncomfortable silence of refusing to try. -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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    I have always wanted TELEKINESIS. I figure that in addition to being able to move things, I could also protect myself from various forms of harm, and levitate myself to fly!
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    Dude, that sucks. But it could be worse. I found out from a guy at my flight school that if a pilot loses consciousness from injury like that, he loses his medical for THREE YEARS! One of the instructors was hit by some asshole while riding his motorcycle not 1 minute from the airport, but fortunately he was not knocked out! He would have lost his livelihood for three years! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"
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    Last year on this date, I went for a "centennial flight" in a Cessna 152 with a friend of mine. She was a brave passenger, 'cause it was windy as hell and I was scared! We flew from Lantana, Florida to Pahokee (where Skydive America was located). Landed at Pahokee and it was so windy that once I parked on the tarmac, I was barely able to get the plane turned around in the direction I wanted. I tried a right turn with the wind off my left rear quarter, and the plane almost wouldn't go that way. The tail surface was fighting the friction of the wheels. Thankfully, the wheels won! It was one of those flights that I should not have made, given the conditions. But the centennial of powered flight only comes around once. Fortunately, I survived my indiscretion and lived to fly another day! Thanks, Orville and Wilbur! -Jeffrey -Jeffrey "With tha thoughts of a militant mind... Hard line, hard line after hard line!"