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Kinda reminds me of Joe Cartoon. That stuff's pretty good but Joe is more twisted. ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

Good luck PT! I'm being a homebody today. ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

Um, somebody owes pie with me. ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

Good job dealing with a whole buncha shit thrown at you at once! ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

Yep that's right. Beer Karma. Every time I come to the DZ bearing beer I go home with some sort of award. Today I come in with a 12 of Heiney and a 12 of Corona and leave with an Eagle/Double Eagle (twice) and an almost hoop SCR. Do a little head down to start the day as I usually do (get some blood in me noggin). Then my RW friends show up so I put on my RW hat. Our first 8 way turns 8 points (this despite a botched exit). YEAH! Next jump is a 6 point 12-way that was just flawless. Double YEAH! Then we do a hoop dive. We all get through (though the guy in front of me lost both his shoes on the hoop ) and build a 9-way on the other side. This would be a hoop SCR except the hoop we were using is a half-size too big. The best part was I flew my slot & didn't go low! This day made all that work and frustration worth it. I love days like this. Guess it pays to appease the Beer Godz! Hope y'all had equally fun days. BTW. Ran into slappie out at S-land. Nice meeting you dude! Hope your AFP jumps went well (I know at least one did!)! See ya next week! ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

Man I'm glad I just bopped into this thread now. I'm staying way the fuck out! I just got a reserve repack and I want to keep the good Karma flowing.

Congrats! Now you can jump anywhere you want! ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

Yepper. I'll be there. Ask anyone in the front office to point out Ted. I wear a black full-face helmet with bullet hole stickers all over it. Please stop & say "hi". As far as other dz.com-ers at S-land goes, I know jumperpaula & ramon are here a fair amout. There are probably others that lurk here as well. ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

Hmmmmm... I love it all. I probably like packing the least mainly because I'm so slow. Post jump debriefs for RW can be sorta stressful. Actually I thought of something I don't like.... DZ politics. But that's everywhere and it's tolerable at my DZ. ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

My bad. I have to agree with you on that one. That'd make a great trivia question! ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

I have a serious weakness for tequila. Especially margaritas (with a shot or two of the good stuff -- El Tesoro, etc. -- on the side for good measure ). ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

Uh oh. The Great Apostrophe Debate has started. "Ya'll" would not be a contraction of anything. Other than maybe Ya-all. Which I suppose is possible. In any event, "Y'all" is found in Websters. "Ya'll" is not. ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

LOL @ Spectre! And bring 'em to Texas. We're planning to secede here in the next few months. ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

Bzzt!!! Yankee alert! It's spelled y'all because it's a contraction of "you all". Thus it is only used in the plural. The singular tense, as is used in your example, would be "yew". Plural possessive, in case you're curious, is "y'alls". Nice try though.... In Advanced Texan you will learn proper use of terms such as "fixin". ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

I take it you fell victim to this? Sorry 'bout the main dude. What canopies did you demo? ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

Right on! I love twisted irony. Kinda reminds me when I was picking up bullet hole stickers. The guy goes "What are you going to them on?" I said "My skydiving helmet." He just gives me this funny look and says "You guys are sick." ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

Just outside of San Antonio toward Austin. ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

Heh, so I take it your nick is based on Pvt. Snowflake from Full Metal Jacket? ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

Heh, this is like live chat in slow motion. No worries. No wind tunnels here. There's supposed to be one in Beaumont though. 'Bout an hours drive away. I'd like to go there one of these times. Great training aid at any level. Did the tunnel in Vegas and it helped me immensely. ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

You're at one!

Hey, there's plenty of great restaurants here. Especially if you like Thai (as I do). I'll bet there's more Thai restraurants in Rice Village alone than anyplace outside of Thailand. Great seafood here as well. Come to think of it, great Vietnamese, Chinese, Japanese, Mexican, Brazilian, Italian, Indian, Cajun, Continental, TexMex, MexMex (mmmm..... Pico's) also. And what the heck's wrong with Montrose for nightlife? Plus we get a brand new football team and a new retractable-roof football stadium (to match the existing retractable roof Enron Field). Great museums. Six Flags Astroworld. Two water parks. Two turbine DZs. I love Houston. ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

Funny how life is all a matter of perspective. I consider Dallas wonderfully dry & cool in the summer. 'Course I'm in Houston as well. It's amazing how you adapt to 95F/90% humidity. Makes for interesting Otter rides. I'll definitely take it over winters up north. ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

DANG! Arch any harder & you'll split yourself in two! You could start a new discipline... Sky Yoga! BTW. Is that your ripcord I see in your deployment photo? ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

I lived in Dallas for 3 years. Lots to do. Lots of good restraurants & nightclubs (I hung out in Deep Ellum at Club Clearview a lot -- dunno what it's like now). Weather-wise it's not to bad. Not humid like Houston in the summer, but cooler in the winters, though much more tolerable than up north (lowest it got was usually mid-30s and the next day it'd be in the 60s). Definitely year-round skydiving weather. It's about 3 hours from Austin, 4 hours from Houston, 4 hours from San Antonio. Which by Texas standards is fairly close. My big problem with Dallas was that it always struck me as a tad cosmo/snotty. But then that may be because I was in the Highland Park area. Still I'd recommend it if that's your only Texas option. I personally like Texas. Fell in love with the state first time I got here. ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie

Hey Slappie, welcome! I jump out at Spaceland as well. I'm pretty easy to spot. I'm the short bald guy with bullet holes in his helmet. Stop by and say "Hi" sometime. When you get off student status let's play. ------------ Blue Skies! Zennie