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The girlfriend just graduated and comissioned into the Air Force. I still have a year of school left, then a year-ish of casual status, then 18 months-ish of flight school. I don't get lonely until I think about how long it will be before we're stationed together. Obviously people who are online all the time tend to be lonelier. If Amy was here, I wouldn't be posting messages at 1:30 in the morning. It's not all bad, though. I can play Halo whenever I want to now and I've got my dog to hang out with. She can sit, army crawl, and play dead. If I can teach her to cook breakfast and do laundry I'll hardly know Amy is gone. -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

One national chamionship 7 years ago and UT fans won't shut up. Auburn beat UT twice in the same season last year. War Eagle -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

I agree with the Momma. Good vodka is good because it's good in your head. Aristocrat maybe an exception, but its pretty much all the same. I like Absolut... little dry... little drity. The girlfriend likes an appletini. Any kind of vodka, apple pucker, melon liquor, and a touch of grenadine -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

My girlfriend has that exact same thing. Her eye doctor told her it was just a "floater" and not really a big deal. She says its her friend and she chases it around when she's board in class. She's special. -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

Um, if you want to keep your girlfriend, don't break your important bone. She loves me for my personality. -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

She's going through Maintainence Officer school. She'll be stationed at Hurlbert Field for her first assignment. I'm going through flight school when I graduate, so that's why I'm nervous about the regs. AETC tends to be a little tight in the sphencter. -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

My girlfriend just commissioned into the Air Force and leaves monday for Whichita Falls, Tx. I'm gradauating next year and will likely end up in Pensacola, Fl. For those of you in the military, do many bases have jump clubs? How do your commanders feel about you jumping? Do you just keep it to yourself and hope you don't break an important bone? -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

You didn't have too many friends growing up, did you? Quit screwing up a good name. -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

That's awesome! Let me know how your friends get weirded out when then come over. If you ever have kids, call me up. Those can be even better. -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

Jet........Jet black and Jets you jump from Crew......Crew Dog I always wanted to name a dog Kitty, so you say Here Kitty Kitty and the dog comes. It would confuse the shit out of guests. -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

DAMN you beat me to it!!! You are both welcome to use my quotes. However, it is copyrighted and you'll need to mail me $37.50 immediately. -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

I made my first jump at the Air Force Academy after my freshman year. I was 19 at the time and didn't know there was a DZ close enough to school until last September. Started jumping again there at 20 and am now 21. -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

I'm young and dumb and would like to hear the elders' stories. What caused your first cutaway? Did it go as planned? RSL used? Interested to hear the responses. -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

If a squirrel can be trained to water ski, one could probably be trained to stay the F off your truck. - Run some copper wire attached to a 9 volt battery around the places he likes to chew. - Spray the area with pepper spray. - Hide a dog in the radiator Any one, or combination of these should fix the problem. I voted for the death penalty by the way. -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

I've never heard anything bad about Tony Suits either. I'm 5'11, 175 lbs, brown hair, blue eyes... I'm trying two suits this weekend, a Bev Suit and a Tony Suit. They both have swoop cords, but I definitely plan on jumping without them some to learn on my own rather than depend on equipment. I've also heard booties are like adding power steering. Any thoughts on that? -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

I understand your point and it's a good one. But when an NBA star jumps over 3 people and dunks one handed, people go "Damn thats awesome. God given talent right there." Or when an NFL althlete catches a 47 yard pass diving in the endzone, it makes headlines for a week. When was the last time Jeb Corliss or Luigi Cani were on Sportscenter? I just think regular ole folks tend to look at skydiving and say, "Eh, how hard could it be?" -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

A guy at my DZ refuses to wear shoes for about 10 months out of the year. Problem is he's a big fan of crew. The first time he came down with line burns on the top of his feet, the shoes went back on. -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

I don't know about all that, but I hear July was an excellent month for Natty Light -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

I'm new just like you are but i bought most of my gear at the beginning of this summer and I've already seen some of it going cheaper. The WFFC ends Sunday so you might be able to get some good deals from people who bought new gear. Just a thought. -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

This penguin is driving down the road when his car starts to smoke. He pulls into a small auto repair shop and asks the mechanic to take a look. The mechanic glances under the hood and tells the penguin it could be a few minutes before he figures out the problem. Now, it's about 92 degrees outside, so the little penguin decides to waddle over to the store for some ice cream. After several minutes of struggling with the wrapper (cause he doesn't have thumbs) the penguin begins eating the ice cream and waddling back over to the auto shop. Upon arriving at the shop, the mechanic steps out and says, "Looks like you blew a seal." The penguin quickly replies, "Nope, it's just ice cream." -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

My roommate and I cut my dog's pubes and put it in a shot glass with a little whiskey. We gave it to our other roommate and raised the glasses high to make the toast (and so he wouldn't see the addition to his drink). He drank it and I was damn near threw up from laughing so hard. He and my dog have an unexplained connection now. So a few weeks later and I asked why my razor was in the shower. Pube Boy said he thought it was his razor and had been using it to shave his nuts for a while. I guess life got me back. -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

I came home to my parents house for a few days this week before school starts back. Between school, work, and football season I don't leave Auburn much in the fall. Anyway, my dad took me and my brother to hit some golf balls at the range. Now, I don't play golf (although I did take Golf and got a hard earned A) so after about 10 minutes I was thoroughly bored and began rolling golf balls under by brother's feet just to irritate him. After another few minutes I half jokingly said, "Let's go skydiving." My dad laughed a little and said, "This requires more skill." After I twisted some clubs into pretzel like sculptures, I regained composure and started thinking. No one outside the sport could possibly understand what it takes just to be a good skydiver. Not to mention excell in any of the disciplines. Wingsuits, CReW, RW, Freefly, Swooping, on and on. Someone on these forums has a quote that says If You Can't Die Doing It, It's Not A Sport. Now that may be a little extreme, but seriously. I know golfers and tennis players are talented, but I've never heard about a skydiver taking a Mulligan. I guess that's what makes our sport and those who participate like a big fraternity. Nobody else understands. -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

In my humble opinion, Jen pretty much sums it up. Every canopy is different and every person is different. If that rule were in place, I would be jumping a 1.044 loaded canopy. Should the rule have anything to do with what type canopy that loading refers to? A Corssfire would still be a bad idea for me even at 1.044. I bought my first rig about a month ago and decided on a Sabre 170 that I load at about 1.17. I wanted a canopy I could have fun with and learn on, but not kill myself. I trusted my DZO (D-597) and my own confidence when deciding on the 170. I'm extrememly happy with the choice and wouldn't have done otherwise. My roommate, however, bought a 150 that he loads at about 1.1 He still hasn't figured out how to properly land it. Like Jen said, everyone is different and we need to depend on the elders to help us make decisions we've never made before. That's all I have to say about that. -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

I know what a whuffo is, but where does it come from? What does it all mean -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.

I have a very fast fall rate which is making it very hard for me to hit more than like 2 points. I come to the formation fine, dock fine, get maybe one turn and then sink. The rest of the guys come down to me and we do the same thing all over again. My roommate says its cause I'm dense, but screw him. I've tried several different jump suits, no jump suit, getting big, hugging the beach ball...etc etc. Would a suit with swoop cords help this? Can you have cords installed easily or is that part of a custom order. -------------------------------------------------- Stay positive and love your life.