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QuoteThere is a blend you can get that is Jamaican Blue with the same bean type that is grown in Hawaii.Quote There is a Jamacian High Mountain that is not as expensive as as the Blue but is still very tasty. I think this is the same as what Ruby is talking about. It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

Burr grinders are the best, IMO. And if he is a really GOOD friend, then get him some Jamacian Blue Mountain(it may cost you a kidney though). It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

Take this for what it is worth from a guy with low jump numbers. I started with a Sabre2 170 and did what one of the higher jump numbers guys here said and just rang the shit out of it. Only when I reached the point that it didn't scare me did I jump a smaller canopy. I jumped a friends Safire2 149 and it was love at first jump. The first 100 jumps I didn't do anything low until I felt I knew what could happen. Started to move into swooping then and only 90's. The thing about this canopy is that it recovers very quickly, which I like. So, maybe that is a thought. BTW, I bought my Sabre2 170 from a guy who was banned from a DZ because he showed up with a Crossfire2 149. He was 240 lbs without gear and 250 jumps. Hmm, wonder why he was asked to jump elsewhere? There's my two cents. Take it for what it's worth, two cents. It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

Hehe, I just picked up a case of the stuff for $5. a bottle. A local restaurant is going to stop selling it, and the mngr. offered me the rest of their stock of that, plus some Clo Du Bois, and some Wente. 3.5 cases, all for $5 a bottle! Can you say YEAH BABY!

Coppolla Claret 2004. It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

Quote That quote makes more sense than the one from the first article: --The Hollywood heartthrob was petrified when he jumped out of a plane and realised he couldn't open his chute. Luckily, another skydiver swooped down to rescue the actor just in time. He cut Leonardo's faulty parachute cord and the pair floated to safety together using the man's chute.-- It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

The Quick and the Dead Not the piece of shit with Sharon Stone, the one with Sam Elliot, Tom Conti and Kate Capshaw It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

Silverado Tombstone Jeremiah Johnson Little Big Man It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

Friends of mine in college were using a couple different ones and I thought I'd give it a try. One was a freebie and the other cost me $25. Both seemed to focus on what I think they thought would be the obvious stuff and bought were completely off base. I did however get a box in the mail that one told me about. Big deal, I was a student, Mom was always sending me stuff. Oh, and I never did go to California with the blonde chick I had yet to meet. That's my experience, maybe I'm just not a true believer. It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

Just read something in Bonfire where this was posted too. Tuesday morning they fertilized the main landing area and I know my wife had one landing that she slid in. Perhaps it was the N in the fertilizer that set it off. It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

They did fertilize early Tuesday morning and I know she had one landing that she slid in. Hmm? It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

Posted this on an old thread in Gerneral Discussions but thought I'd stick it here too since more people seem to hang here. I'll let the mod's decide what to do with it. Leaving PHX yesterday from a Eloy trip. Both my rig and my wife's get pulled for inspection. They do the explosive test on hers and the machine goes off. The guy calls for his supervisor and asks her to observe while he retests. Uses a different machine and it goes off. Tells me he will have to have me open it for inspection. I politely discuss this with him to no avail. I figure no sense in being an ass because its a two day drive home and a repack is cheaper anyway. He is very careful not to just start tearing things apart and quite honestly looked as if he new his way around the rig. Long story short, I asked what the machine alarmed for and he said, "NG, a component to explosives." I asked, "since there obviously isn't any in here then why did you machine go off?" He explained that there are also additives in hand lotions and sanitizers that will leave the same marker. When we got home I asked a TSA rep at that airport and they told me the same thing. Anybody else have this problem and/or know how to avoid it? Oh, when we we're leaving for Eloy and they ran our rigs the lady behind the x-ray hollered for a supervisor because she saw what looked like a "detonator," which she hollered loud enough for people 30 feet in bought directions to hear. Luckily the supervisor was retired military with airborne training. He was pretty cool. He looked at the screen, pulled the rig, walked over and said, "don't worry I got your back," visually inspected it, said, "I still have to do an explosive test," did it, on bought hers and mine and let us go. I guess my biggest issue is that with todays technology they don't have a machine that can be more accurate. Enough rambling. It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

This thread has been quiet for awhle so I hope that means nobody has been having problems, until yesterday. Leaving PHX yesterday from a Eloy trip. Both my rig and my wife's get pulled for inspection. They do the explosive test on hers and the machine goes off. The guy calls for his supervisor and asks her to observe while he retests. Uses a different machine and it goes off. Tells me he will have to have me open it for inspection. I politely discuss this with him to no avail. I figure no sense in being an ass because its a two day drive home and a repack is cheaper anyway. He is very careful not to just start tearing things apart and quite honestly looked as if he new his way around the rig. Long story short, I asked what the machine alarmed for and he said, "NG, a component to explosives." I asked, "since there obviously isn't any in here then why did you machine go off?" He explained that there are also additives in hand lotions and sanitizers that will leave the same marker. When we got home I asked a TSA rep at that airport and they told me the same thing. Anybody else have this problem and/or know how to avoid it? Oh, when we we're leaving for Eloy and they ran our rigs the lady behind the x-ray hollered for a supervisor because she saw what looked like a "detonator," which she hollered loud enough for people 30 feet in bought directions to hear. Luckily the supervisor was retired military with airborne training. He was pretty cool. He looked at the screen, pulled the rig, walked over and said, "don't worry I got your back," visually inspected it, said, "I still have to do an explosive test," did it, on bought hers and mine and let us go. OK, enough rambling. It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

IceBurner beat me to it but that's what I was thinking. IMO it's pretty tought to beat Dallas. It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

I'm no wine expert by any stretch of the imagination but for an inexpensive wine that is mighty tasty. It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

This thread hasn't been revived in awhile and since I had a bitch of a day, I figured, what the hey! Bombay Sapphire over ice with a lime twist(double), but will most likely be more. It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

0:0:0 Started out for the dz yesterday

Several of us were packing in the hangar last summer and the dzo was talking on the phone at manifest. When she hung up she started laughing and said something like, "that guy is so busted." She had been talking to a woman who's date from the previous night was going on about being a skydiver so she called just to asked questions about the stuff he was saying. Guess the guy didn't know much. Also guess you don't have to be a skydiver to bust somebody on it. What is the stat? Less than one per cent of people ever even try it much less continue. In most cases it would seem your odds are pretty good of getting away with. It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

You really don't want to see my work desktop. I tend to believe that "if a cluttered desk is the sign of a cluttered mind, then what is an empty desk?" It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

I just found out from reading another thread that we all are "annoying." What should we do? It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

Have your friends from Phoenix pick you up and drive you with their fifth wheel to the dz and park it there. Oh yeah, only a week a way. It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

I don't give a s**t, just don't do it in June.

Last weekend we did a 62 point 4-way out of a 182 from 10K. We breathed helium all the way to altitude to slow our fall rates down. Stupid vidiot forgot to hold his breath though and went low so the last 38 points didn't get videoed. It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.

Last January it was $70 and I got out at 5800. It's a gift, I don't try to explain it.