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Not at the DZ but in high school we had girls we called "porcupines" - If they had as many sticking out as they've had stuck in, they'd look like a porcupine. Easy Does It

Hey Jeff- My beer cutaway (and the only one so far) was on jump #60. (about 270 jumps ago-) Somehow I managed to pack my own step-through. (Lessen learned - Don't pack in the family room on a Friday night with a three-beer buzz.) We should know that even if we do everything absolutely perfectly, things can still go wrong, and they do. That's why we have that reserve. I felt like King Shit after that cutaway. Not really spooked, though. Yep - I was a little apprehensive after that, and watched my openings in a new light. That first jump after a cutaway is a little weird, but ya gotta get back on the horse. You did what you were trained to do, and you did it well. And you learned something new about yourself that day, no? I think some apprehension is normal and healthy. For a long time I watched my openings expecting them to malfunction on me. I still do, kinda. Enjoy your next weekend jumping! Easy Does It

My daughter Sarah is only 17, and just started jumping this spring, so instead of beer she has two choices - Give Dad $$ to buy beer or - Large quantities of home-baked goodies - Brownies or chocolate chip cookies. but they HAVE to be home-made, not this store-bought crap! Amazing how well cookies and beer go together! Easy Does It

mmmmm - I don't see anything not to like, either - I can't see where she's a day over 30! Easy Does It

Truly awesome - Which team is that? Easy Does It

When I was a very small child I was abandoned in an alley way, and took refuge in a steel trash bin. I was taken in by a family of New York sewer rats and an Afgan wolf hound gone wild. After a while I was discovered by a sexually dyslexic Manhatten sanitation worker on an "urban safari". She fancied herself some sort of "explorer of the explored". (Go figure - This is NYC after all-) After being run through what we laughingly call "the system" I was eventually placed in the foster care of a large family with chronic explosive diarhrea, where I was forced to sleep in the bathtub and eat table scraps. To this day I have no idea what nationality they were, but Sundays always included some uncle bringing a large slab of meat over then drinking gin and handing out huge amounts of change to the kids. He insisted I needed to eat the meat raw, since that was the way I was raised. They would charge admission for people to see "The Amamzing Dumpster Boy" after my story appeared in all the NY tabloids. At school I was reffered to as "That dumpster kid" and later it was just shortened to "dumpster". Easy Does It

I'm allergic to speeding tickets. I've had some really good ones, too. (Like 30 over the limit and getting faster-) On the interstates I'll run with the pack. Other than that I'm 5-10 over at the most. Around Chicago you can get creamed for running the limit. Easy Does It

Jump # 16 - first reserve ride - (AAD fire due to loss of altitude awareness) Jump # 60 - Packing error (mine). Never pack on a Friday night with a three-beer buzz. Easy Does It

Wonderful! I'm having a bad Monday, anyway! First person to piss me off gets stomped! Anybody got an aluminum baseball bat? Easy Does It

Depends on the area - If I'm familiar, perhaps so. If it's a hot-looking chicky, absolutely yes! Easy Does It

Hey Baby! Let me shoe you my 600 horsepower electric motor! Easy Does It

Machine noise. I'm at work. Large electric motors turning large gearboxes and positive-displacement blowers. Not exactly music. Easy Does It

0:4:0 Two fun jumps Thursday after work - and two coach jumps Saturday afternoon, helping some newbies with fall rate. Won a 50% off Wings certificate! Anybody know how long they're offering free cut-in laterals? And should I go for the stainless option? Took my son Esau and daughter Sarah up to the Sears Tower on Sunday. Sarah and I spotted a good landing area from up there, a nice big field south of the building. We think it would be a cool movie stunt to do a double Birdman jump off the antennas. Esau was busy trying to peer into windows with the telescopes. Made chili, drank some Corona. Played Grand Turismo 3 with Esau. Easy Does It

Man, I don't know, but our club is having a party and first prize is 25 jump tickets. I need some good ideas! Easy Does It

Hugs, Sweetie! Life Is - A box of chocolates, a bowl of cherries, a walk in the park, a bottle of beer, a meadow of pretty flowers that smell bad, it's all kinds of stuff- But I've found a hug here and there makes it all good - Hug yourself for me, baby- And while your at it, give yourself a kiss, too! Easy Does It

Been there, done that, got the T-shirt. The t-shirt has long been gone - She cheated on me, (Probably mich more than once-) tried to forgive and never really forgot. Separated in 95, divorced in 96. I was a wreck, totally demolished. I just didn't know how to handle it. The pain seems unbearable at first, then you finally get used to it, then it goes away. Then you rediscover yourself. Takes longer for some that others. I was a basket case until I finally walked into the courtroom for the last time. The judge was a woman, she looked me in the eye and smiled and wished me good luck. Remarried five years ago. Sharon is a wonderful woman but for some reason it doesn't feel quite as special as the first marriage did. Guess nothings quite the same after that first trip. Neither of us get upset if the other "looks at the menu" once in a while. I get to go to titty bars every so often. I can rev it and tear it up all I want out on the street, as long as I park it in the garage at night. If it happened now? Probably wouldn't bother me anywhere near as much. Although I don't look forward to it, I cutaway once and survived, I'm not as afraid of doing of doing it again if I have to. I like how my reserve flies. The biggest comfort I have now, is I know I have a great group of very good people (mostly skydivers!) to support me the second time around, that I didn't have before. Easy Does It

When our Ceesna 182 was due for a new engine we had a turbocharged one installed by an outfit somewhere in Texas, along with a three-blade prop. I don't have the numbers as far as what model engine or HP ratings, etc. but I can tell you it was a great investment. Airfield elevation here is about 800 feet or so, (East Troy, WI.) and it climbs faster that the Caravan we are renting, for the first 1-2 thousand feet, and I think overall climb rate is much improved over the stock version. We are more careful with it during the winter months than we had to be with the normally aspirated engine. Easy Does It

I must beg to differ - IMHO - Best wings in the world are from the Anchor Bar, in Buffalo, NY. This is where it all started, my friends! I get my wing sauce directly from them. (I go out to Western NY about once a year - ) The keys to making the best wings are: 1.- Anchor Bar wing sauce and 2. - Taking the wings directly from the deep freeze to the deep fryer. That gets the outside nice and crispy. Easy Does It

My daughter learned at the tender age of 16. I jumped her first unassisted pack job. If you have good instruction (and I'm sure there are plenty of good teachers at your DZ) and reasonable confidence in yourself, there is no reason you can't do well. And I've never been to a DZ that had too many packers. Easy Does It

Well I used to scarf up the scrap metal around the shop to pay for jumps, but then the company went on this ISO 14001 kick and put an end to that. So now I pack to put $$ on my account. I'll be getting ratings one at a time here over the next year, and I have about five boxes of old vinyl LP's I may try to get a few bucks for on eBay. I need a new rig. This one will last me two more years max. Easy Does It

1:4:1 Did a hop-n-pop Friday after leaving work early (Told Da Boss I had an "appointment" -With the new privacy laws in effect, management is afraid to ask for details. Cool!) Two jumps and a bunch of pack jobs on Saturday. Took Sarah up on her 25th/ check jump for her "A" license - She is now one very happy young lady! We had tons of fun and Indyz has it all on video - Thanks again Brian!! (HIM HIM - !!) Firsts- I have a skydiving daughter! (Who ROCKS in a massive way!) Easy Does It

That's exactly how my daughter Sarah paid for her tunnel time and AFF and still pays for jumps - And she jumps almost as much as I do. Also, since my supply of scrap metal dried up, that's how I pay for alot of my jumping now, too, along with the occasional coach jump, and hot fueling, etc. Easy Does It

Peace through superior firepower, right? I like it! Easy Does It

Sounds like a possibility to me - Perhaps one side is getting pulled down more than the other during opening - I'd check with your rigger and perhaps your local canopy flight guru. Was this a brandy-new container or new-to-you? It may be possible to get it tailored a little closer to your dimensions by a rigger or the manufacturer. Easy Does It

I've got about 300 jumps on a Spectre 150 - I'm loaded around 1.3 or so - (Yeah, I've been jumping the same canopy since I came off student status-) I've had the end-cell thing happen lots of times (and still do - ) and a quick tug on the risers cures it if they don't inflate themselves. I haven't had any line-twist issues that I didn't induce myself. (I experiment with packing technique once in a while-) Like Val, my Spectre doesn't usually take a long time to open unless I'm sub-terminal, then it takes it's sweet-ass time. I found out dumping in a track makes it do funny things too - My guess would be the line trim, or, (though I can't imagine what,) something with the new container? I was talking with T.J. Landgren about harness/containers back in June, and he was talking about how certain container/ harness systems transmit body input into the canopy better than others. I think it might be a stretch in this case, but ya never know. Easy Does It