Jessica
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I'm not giving those rig-dirtying jerks anything! I'm keeping it!
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Also, I didn't write the above. Someone with a dumb sense of humor has obviously hacked his way into my account.
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Whoever's sneaking up when I'm not around and smearing dirt on my rig and jumpsuit, quit it! It's just not funny anymore! People are asking me if I don't know how to land. I keep trying to tell them that my landings are GREAT, it's just that unknown persons are trying to make me look bad. But everyone just laughs when I say that. Also, I swooped my PD 170 today. For 900 feet. Down the runway. Chasing the plane. After the 500-way. It would have been bigger but a bunch of people were in Waller for the freefly stuff. OK, I'm sorry. My inner 5-year-old is kicking and scratching her way out today.
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Well, they're weak compared with last weekend, anyway. $20 spent for B license (finally faxed in paperwork):3:0 Made one jump yesterday, then had to go to work. Got two in today, and they were schweet! The second was a 6-way that I got to SWOOP (I *heart* swooping) and we turned three points. I flew my slot like a mofo. Yay me! Also, I think I'm finally learning to fly that Kleenex tissue of a main I have. I stood up both landings today. Yeeha. Weekend ratio rules: first number is how many times you got laid, or, alternately, some other number that was significant to you in the past weekend. Second number is how many jumps you made. Third number is how many cases of beer you owe for skydiving firsts.
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I'm at work..."earning" (hee hee) jump money and parrot food. I swear, sometimes those two things are the only reason I bother going to work. Jump tickets. Zupreem fruit-shaped pellets. That's all I really need. Oh, and plane tickets in a northerly direction.
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A number I hear a lot is around 20 or so jumps the door fear goes away. I don't know if anyone ever feels in "total control" of the jump.
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http://news.bbc.co.uk/hi/english/uk/newsid_2020000/2020889.stm
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*hugs to Medic* Listen to Spy. He is wise. And we all care about you.
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I think that I shall never see A poem as lovely as a tree. I also think I'll never see Anyone as disgruntled as me To be at work on Saturday night does just one thing, and that is: BITE This poet made one jump today But past 1 p.m., she couldn't play Grr my job is dumb. Thought I'd give y'all a break from haikus.
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On a pro-dytter and a pro-track, you can set three warning altitudes. Most people do breakoff, pull, and oh shit.
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What happens when you jump a pack job that has a badly twisted, but otherwise correctly routed bridle? What if the twists are from the closing pin to the attatchment point on the d-bag? What if they're from the closing loop to the pilot chute?
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What's your dytter/pro-track flatline set for? a) Hey stupid, wanna pull sometime? or b) OMG SHIT SHIT RESERVE For me (since I like to reach for the hackey at about 3500), the former would be probably around 2500, the latter around 1600 or so. I'm not sure which is smarter. Right now I have it set for 2K, and heard it flatline this weekend while I was under a deploying canopy. It got me wondering (after the self-flagellation for pulling low) what I'd have done if I'd heard that in freefall. I think I need to set it a little higher or a little lower. And of course, my audible is ONLY a backup. I don't rely on it. Thoughts?
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I know, it's madness, I just called her and gave her my credit card number too. I can't even remember what I bought. I think I was hypnotized!!!!
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Heh! Won't let me edit, which is highly ironic considering what I was going to add: Post whoring is also posting solely to build up your post numbers and/or ranking. In moderation, it's kind of funny, but it gets old fast.
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I think of post whoring as making purposely making virtually content-free posts that are only entertaining to the poster.
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Skycat makes a very good point. I pretty much sat out of skdiving for a long while early in my jumpin' career, but I still went out to the dz and got my ear talked off and picked up jumpers landing out and hung out with my friends and drank beer and sat in on FJCs and stuff. I learned a shitload. Dropzone.com is good, but there's nothing like watching 10 loads of canopies land if you can't be under a canopy yourself.
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*I* didn't know they existed before my tandem jump. I did before I started AFF because I'd read Poytner's book, but I was only dimly aware of them. They were barely mentioned in my FJC. However. My parents are somewhat horrified by my skydiving, and are comforted solely by my telling them about my Cypres. What they don't know is I haven't had it in my rig for my last 50 jumps. I believe if they were aware of that, my father would sneak into my apartment in the dead of night and steal my rig and put it in the dumpster. Then break my legs.
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From the skydiving glossary on this site: Bounce To land at unsurvivable speed. Also to frap, or go in. It was an honest mistake, but with understandable emotional reactions. Let's move on.
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Good God, that's not work-safe! Having something like that up on my screen jeopardizes my reputation as a badass!!!!
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work-safe attatchment?
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The last incident reported in the database right now is April 7, actually. I think Barry does very well with a difficult job.
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I don't think I could take an action that would positively cause someone's death, in either situation.
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They put benches in my plane? I'll never forget climbing into that thing for the first time during AFF, and realizing I had to sit not only on the FLOOR, but jammed between some stranger's legs. They didn't remain strangers for long.
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So are flat turns and braked turns two separate things? When are each applicable?
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Man, I wish I'd been drinking when they pulled that. Damn societal inhibitions.