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I was helping my g/f buy a rig. Ran into one seller that was outraged at the suggestion of sending his rig for inspection to a very well known rigger for inspection even though I was willing to pay the shipping costs and for the inspection. You wouldn't believe the rude email he wrote pointing out that the "standard procedure in the skydiving community" was for me to send him full payment first and once my payment was processed he would send the rig to me and if I wanted an inspection that was up to me at that point. And of course, if there was a problem we could "figure it out" then. He was outraged that I would even suggest using a third party, and told me I was "obviously new" to skydiving and so he would not deal with me anymore. To me it was pretty obvious that something was wrong. I did not bother to respond to his message and I just hope who ever bought the rig ended up with what they were expecting. Using the "trusted third party" process to handle payment and inspection has a lot of value. In the end it's what we did for the rig that my g/f bought. She's happy with her purchase and the seller got paid. "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

My first book has green pages. I don't know what the colour of the paper is now but CSPA still sells something similar

See this link for Words Americans should avoid saying to Australians http://psy.otago.ac.nz/r_oshea/oztaboo.html "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

I agree with Vallerina but did a google search on flick the bird and found quite a few references. It surprised me. Of course I just refer to it like Mr. Bean did - "The Hawaiian Friendship Salute" "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

No photographer, not even chopchop, "makes" RoysPlayThing look good. She's good looking all on her own! Edited because my stupid computer has not yet figured out spelling and grammer. Stupid thing should know what I mean by now. "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

Uncle John's books are quality literature. I simply refer to that special room where i have read his books, along with many any issue of Skydiving, as "the Library"

Have you downloaded Beta 4.0.15 V4? It worked very well for me, but as you say... we're on different versions of XP. "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

I agree that its not important - from Alti-2's website: ------------------------- The temperature sensor is very accurate, but it is reading the internal Neptune temperature - NOT air temperature. Since we have to measure the internal temperature, we decided to display the result. ------------------------- So knowing the temperature is going to mean that you know the internal temperature of the device. "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

The sad part is that the youngsters here will not know who Festus was I am almost 50 and I ride the carts too. I get these looks from people like they wish they could do it too. I don't understand why they just don't go for it! "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

Yea I got that in the newsletter too. It sounds like it would be easier for a field rep to do this change using the Control Panel available from the field rep site. Its just a check box in the Control Panel. "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

Don't go. The middle east is fucked up and they seem to really like killing foreigners. Money is not everything, unless you don't have any. But I'm out of work and would not even consider a job that had me travel to the middle east. "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

BTW, it's a good idea to visit Alti-2's registration page and get your information into the database. http://www.alti-2.com/registration.htm By registering your product you increase the chances that it will be returned to you should something bad happen. By example right now the at the bottom of stolen page, it shows the serial number of a Neptune that was found. Bet who ever owned that device wishes they had registered it. "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

Don't worry about what you have to do, just do it. It's not hard and people are always willing to help. Mike is right on. Follow the regs. "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

I like dogs, they are loyal to the extreme. With cats you either bring food or you are food. There are countless cases where old ladies die alone and the cat starts missing dinner. A friend of the family was a coroner and he said he hated going to a house where somebody died and they had cats. A dog will stand over your cold dead body and protect you till he can't stand anymore. Reminds me of the saying "A friend will bail you out of jail, a good friend will be in there with you." "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

Goto to the Alti-2 website and to get the list of local field reps, there are a number of them in the UK. http://www.alti-2.com/FieldSupportLocatorPages/_United_Kingdom.htm They have access to a downloadable program called "Control Panel" that will easily let them adjust your Neptune so it reads in Feet and Celsius at the same time. While visiting your rep its a good idea to get your software upgraded at the same time. You can do it yourself if you have an IR port on your computer and feel comfortable doing these kind of things. If you are at all uncomfortable, get a rep to do it. Even though I am not a swooper, I really like the additional alarms that are available with the 2.3 software once under canopy. "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

This is what I've found: In Canada radar detector use in cars is legal in only three provinces, i.e. British Columbia, Alberta, and Saskatchewan. Radar detectors are completely legal to use in non-commercial vehicles in 49 states. Virginia and Washington DC are the only places in the United States that currently ban radar detectors. Radar detector use in commercial vehicles has been prohibited in the U.S. since 1995. And sure there are some miserable cops out there - on both side of the border. I think they're in the minority. As for paying the ticket - If you're not coming back to Canada, it probably won't matter. They're unlikely to extradite you for a traffic violation, but if they do I hear our prisons are less crowded than in the States and we don't have the death penalty. But there are still bug guys called Bubba in there looking for a date.

This I can relate to. When the barber asks me how I would like my hair, I answer THICKER "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

Just be careful where you park the boat "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

This can be fun.... A Barbershop Quartet shows up at her place of work sings a couple of songs, presents a card and typically a polaroid and a rose. A couple of years ago my quartet did 22 of these on Valentines day! Quartets are available almost anywhere and easy to locate using this link http://www.singingvalentines.com/ "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

Don't do it with who? "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

Lot's of good one here.. http://www.allowe.com/Humor/video.htm#BeerAds "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

So how about a video highlighting a use for beer other than drinking. http://www.extremefunnypictures.com/funnypic492.htm "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

As lark I thought I would take a look at the guestbook. There are a lot of entries there that are listings of URLs that look like they come from over seas. I don't know if strange things in the guestbook indicate bots trying to get into the site, but I hear much web site attacks originating from off shore. Someone may want to investigate and/or delete junk from the guestbook. "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

The website is www.rawa.com.br All of the English side of it looks to be "Coming Soon", if you're any good with languages the Portugese side has lots of information. The prices page has prices in US $. You can email them at: rawa@rawa.com.br "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy

I see it's working now... "Where troubles melt like lemon drops, away above the chimney tops, that's where you'll find me" Dorothy