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Hold on...I'll let you know when I'm done... -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

Hmmm...nope...no...hmmm...no...no idea what you're talking about... -S PS - Welcome to our world, and the new life priorities that come along with it... _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

I keep seeing the same thing, over and over..."It's the risks of the sport." IT'S NOT!!! This is not the same as having a double mal. This is preventable. Being involved in a sport that is inherently more dangerous than the average does not give us the right to do whatever we want to do, and then write it off to being the issue of the sport. We cause this, not skydiving. This is our issue, not something that we should just shrug off to, "shit happens." Again, I go back to the seatbelts. When someone doesn't put their seatbelt on and flys through a windshield, is that the fault of the car, or the act of driving? No, it was something that was preventable, and the cause of someone not doing what they were told would prevent the outcome of the situation. -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

I am not clear on how this would be a financial burden on us. People pay thousands to get into this sport, and are trained little or none on canopy control. How would it financially hurt us or our sport to have them tack on $100 or $200 for canopy control training? We do water training for our B license...how many of us will ever actually need that? 100% of us land on 100% of our skydives, and canopy control just falls by the wayside. People don't have to die. It sickens me to hear attitudes of people who talk about it "just being part of the sport". WHY??? Yeah, people are going to die, but if there is anything that we can do to help prevent it, why not do it? Knowing that Adria was doing what she loved to do doesn't make me miss her any less, and it's not going to bring her back to her family. The only reason that I am alive today is because Jack Gramley in Perris told me that if I didn't take a canopy course that I would be grounded from jumping. Did it make me happy? No. Did I think I really needed it? Maybe. But the bottom line is that it is the best money and time that I ever spent. Here's the problem that I see...government and agencies like the USPA generally stay out of things until we demonstrate that we are too stupid to be able to "handle ourselves". They have left the regulation up to us for a long time, and we have seemingly told them time after time that we can't do something as simple as picking the size and type canopy that is appropriate for our experience. Everytime someone says something bad about skydiving, I point out that only 30 people or so die each year out of millions of jumps. From USPA's point of view, what if we could nearly cut that in half? 15 people a year...our friends, our family, us. Let's be real...we know that people will die skydiving. I don't want to die. I don't want my friends to die. We can't just write it off to it being part of the sport...we need to learn lessons, impliment changes, and help to solve the problem. As much as I hate to speak on behalf of more legislation, I would be willing to pay a hundred bucks and take an extra test or two to have my friend back, and to give people's children back to them who they have lost because of preventable situations. There is a problem, we're not fixing it, and it's sure not going to fix itsself...we have tried. How many people would buckle their seatbelt if it wasn't a law? How many lives has it saved since they made it a law? Again, something simple, and a piece of legislation that doesn't seem like it would be necessary, but something that has saved and will continue to save lives. -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

I barely ever get to anyway... -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

I fly out Saturday morning. Planning to go out tomorrow with a skydiving friend from LA, if you aren't busy. Lemme know. -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

So, here are a couple more pictures from the past couple of days in New York. The girl in one of them is the girl from the new movie Wicker Park...Rose something. The second one is of protestors. The third one is recognizable...but more importantly, his girlfriend is on the other side of him...may I just say, "Damn!" -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

Yeah, my long, hairy, pasty white legs... -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

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Doesn't he look thrilled to be taking a picture with me??? Oh well, it was cool.

Yeah, but it would cost me $23.45 everytime I wanted to have sex... -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

You can help me work on issues that involve my unit anytime... -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

Dude WTF! _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

I don't use condoms...I prefer to dip my unit in hot wax...that way, I can carve my own little designs on it...

you bastard...it was close, but you beat me to it. -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

HUMP DAY!!! -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

What??? They give good baths... -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

I think it would have been better with a Bonnie thong, but didn't have one available. -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

Stranger in a Strangeland Tao of Pooh -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

Yes, yes, she's hot... but she refuses to make sheep sounds...sorry. -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

Unfortunately...or fortunately...I do not. Oh, and yesterday on my train back from Philadelphia, I got to sit next to a Magic The Card Game nerd who was large, smelly, gay, loud, and at minimum, mildly retarded. Then the rail had a problem, so the time with my new friend was lengthened by an hour and a half. He just kept going on about how he was going to miss the first protest... -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

Just things that are making my New York experience memorable...

At least I got my eyes and nipples... -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

My god!!! You would swear the president was coming to town!!! Police cars, police horses, police scooters, police towtrucks, police barracades, police EVERYWHERE!!! And to top it off, I am in the gay neighborhood sipping a latte...It's actually a caramel apple cider, but I don't think that's much better. Oh, love New York... -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...

Rich is just jealous... -S _____________ I'm not conceited...I'm just realistic about my awesomeness...