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What he said. If I'd gotten into this sport when I was 21, forget it - I never could have afforded it. The key is to find a job/lifestyle that affords you the opportunity to make enough money to do what you enjoy. Unfortunately, you enjoy an expensive hobby. So you need to find a good job. Or several. It's doable. _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

Things always get darkest right before the storm breaks... Seems like you're there now... Storm breaking can't be far behind. Good vibes, prayers, and thoughts sent. Peter _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

Damn... Ruth's Chris is about the most expensive place you can eat at... Not uncommon for a dinner for two to top $100 easy. Yeah - like 99% of all restaurants in NYC. Steaks: Peter Lugar's, Shula's, STK are three decent places in the city... _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

Yes. And even swallowing it won't help the flaming hot sears of pain I feel. Oh - and taking 15 minutes to go and fly in the tunnel - thinking that'll help knock it out? Doesn't work. :-( - But I was able to confirm that my belly flying is actually getting better. :D _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

What, in fact, sucks more? a) Being french-kissed by Karl Rove b) Changing the ice in the men's urinals with your teeth c) Nothing sucks more than being a thousand miles away, having to go to meetings all day while pounding Augmentin (Thank you my Doctor for trusting me and phoning it in) and Tylenol and Advil and whatever crap I can get my hands on... _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

Of course! _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

Thanks, everyone. :) Really kind of cool! And for those who are wondering, the publishing world takes its DAMN SWEET TIME in paying you. I'll be lucky if I see dime one from sales before the next skydiving season starts. Scary. _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

My first "child" just arrived via UPS. This really is kinda cool. I didn't think it would be as cool - but I'm feeling like quite the shit right now. :) -Peter _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

Rebecca said it best. Google the shit out of them, the company, the CEO, the hiring manager - use google news (news.google.com) to track their competitors, use Hoovers (www.hoovers.com) to bring out info on them and their competitors, and use Google Trends (trends.google.com) to bring out info on trends in their industry. Walk in, and blow them away! _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

All the best, KA, a few days late. Hope it was wonderful! :) _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

I love these. I still show my friends you cleaning your house and Karma watching. It's sort of like, "yeah, here's this guy I know - but I've never met. Watch him clean his house. It's cool." Yeah. I'm the normal one. _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

I tried it once - kept falling down - really hard to make any time and cross the finish line. Better to wait until the race is over. _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

Just so you all know - I've made a ton of friends here - some really good ones, too... So on Thanksgiving... Among other things, (family, health, etc...) I'm really thankful for everyone on Dropzone.com. So... Thanks. :) -Peter _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

OK, not for nothing, but freakin' ROCKED that interview. I mean, I seriously ACED it. _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

This time, it's on OJ. I'll be taking the position that the difference this time between Fox airing OJ vs Fox airing "When Celebrities Get Attacked Anally by Zoo Animals" is that this time, it's NOT ok - Despite what the courts say, the majority of this country believe that this man killed his wife and her friend - and that's just not OK. When Fox realized they couldnn't make any money from it, they changed their tune and cancelled. This is actually a great day for this country - Remember how every time there's a new reality show, people go, "Oh, when will it stop? Can it get any worse? Don't we have morals?" Today, we responded as a country: IT STOPS. We've proven there IS, in fact, a line you can cross. So anyway. 8pm tonight, Fox News. :) _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

No techie, it's called a Blog. I thought you actually had a sizeable one somewhere else? Actually, after I posted it here, I realized it would be a good blog post, as well. But I'm more just curious about opinions... I know there are hardcore talented techies on this forum. _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

I couldn't sleep, so was going through my junk folder for false positives - 34.87 megabytes of SPAM since one week ago Friday. Just thinking about that multiplied by everyone on the Internet scares the hell out of me when I think about bandwidth. So I don't. What I do think about though, is this - and tell me if I'm odd... SPAM that's spelled incorrectly or has grammatical errors bothers me more than SPAM that doesn't. For instance: "She wants a better sex? All you need's here." It hurt me to type that ."a better sex" is incorrect. All you need IS here. You can't conjoin the words "needs" and "is" with an apostrophe. Another one that drives me BATTY, is "Our store is your cureall." Do you know it took me over six months before I figured out that they were not trying to spell Cereal, but rather "CURE ALL" I imagine some guy in Russia/Kazakhstan/Algeria/wherever who read a book on English and composed from there. Same with the Nigerian scams: "This letter I pray finds you safe with much health." Yeah. "How you doing today, Bob?" "Oh, pretty much health, I pray about you, Jim?" Insanity. Any others that drive you bonkers? I'm amazed how well, by the way, Panix is doing in not catching false-positives. In over 150 megabytes of SPAM over the last month or six weeks, I've found three that it incorrectly tagged - and they were all from a mailing list on Yahoo. (which has since been fixed.) Does anyone wonder if they didn't get SPAM at all, how much their email would drop in usage, and whether or not there'd be some kind of psychological implication of all of a sudden not having your Blackberry go off every 45 seconds, but rather, every 10 or 15 minutes or so? Deep down, without really realizing it, would we feel less loved? Also, has anyone noticed that we've simply "adapted" into understanding what a SPAM email looks like just from the sender and subject line put together, and 99.9% of the time, we're totally right? We adapted to that - almost subconsciously. The same when how when I was seven, and my parents would be introduced to someone, if it ever came up that we went to the same Temple, or that person was invited for a holiday dinner, I'd ask how my parents knew he was Jewish. "Oh, you'll just know," they said. And eventually, I did. Same thing with SPAM. I don't know "Joseph S Davis," but I can bet that no one I DO want to know would send me a message that says "PERFECT FOR CHRISTMAS." I also don't know Tissue E. Tidings, but I've adapted to know that there does not lie a real name, regardless of the subject line. It's interesting from a human nature/brain standpoint how we've managed to figure that out, huh? Finally, I got a "receive your Sony Playstation 3" SPAM email today. Usual garbage, sign up for seven credit cards, six home loans, etc. My question is - since they're so hard to get now, what if I did everything and they couldn't deliver? Could I sue for false advertising? Finally finally: I must have, several years ago, signed up for something and used the name "SHANK PETER" - Because to this day, a good third of my SPAM is subject lined with that. Also - I get ads for mortgages in Farmingdale, NY. I've never lived there. Just in case you were wondering. And I get a lot of them, too. Yet I've still never lived there. I'm sure of it. Of course, a few years ago, I never lived in Florida, either, but that didn't stop someone from opening up a phone in my name and then going delinquent on it. Oh, happy day, to get THAT letter in the mail - "Hi. We're suing you over a phone bill you never paid when you lived in Florida." "Um... OK..." Happy Friday, -Peter PS: It's not post-whoring if it's a legitimate question, or actual ramble, right? _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

One more thing - go by how the clothes fit - not by the scale, especially if you're lifting. Measure your stomach (have someone do it for you) then measure it two weeks later. _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

Why not? I mean, I'm up now... Gonna shower, I already made coffee... If I can get through my 9:30 pitch, then an 11:30 Satellite interview with Fox 26 Houston (thank you MB for being my Houstonian again) then I can work from home for the rest of the day and catch up before dinner tomorrow night. It should be good. _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

Touche. _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

How does sending PM's help you lose weight? At least two extra mouse clicks. Seriously, though - a study came out a number of years ago that said it's the little thing that matter the most. Switching from Mayo to Mustard for a year: 8 pounds gone. One bottle of water in replacement of one soda, or one diet soda in replacement of one regular soda - 6 pounds in a year. Parking at the back of an average parking lot, instead of close to the front - 3 pounds per year. (I don't recommend this for women or men who work late at night when it might be dangerous to park at the furthest away spot.) Tons of those little tricks. Of course, this is all over time. Which doesn't help our original poster. The vodka and sodas vs vodka and tonic rule works REALLY well - Tonic is just unneeded sugar. Check the things out that you thought were healthy... Jamba Juice - full of sugars and carbs, despite them being natural. Coffee - switch to skim or fat free milk. Frappuccinos and the like? HORRIBLE - close to 700 calories per large, if I remember correctly, and I think that's before the whipped cream. Never supersize. Order off the kid's menu. One thing I've always noticed is that if I start eating smaller meals more often, say, 6 per day small as opposed to 3 a day large, I'm not feeling hungry around the time I'd usually want to deep fry a Volvo as a snack. Also, as mentioned, a lot is based on your activity rate. Swimming rocks, and is no pain on any of the joints. An hour of swimming laps burns mega-calories. Lifting weights keeps buring calories long after you've stopped lifting weights. Spend the money and have a Basil (I think that's how you spell it) caloric rate test done. They make you breathe through a tube first thing in the morning before eating or drinking, and can determine how many calories you burn per day simply by existing on this planet - i.e., if you never moved, but just sat there. Like my apartment building's management, when something needs fixing. This helps, because then you can determine how much or how little you need to exist, and from that, whether you're taking in more or less than you're burning, not including exercise. Add in exercise to see how many you're really burning, but then you need to apply some other formula I never understood because even though you're burning 300 calories, say, on 20 minutes on the stairmaster, you've really only burned 280 or something because you have to subtract the calories you burn by simply existing. Of course, now we're getting very anal. (anywhere from 20 to 400 calories.) Just try to live caloric-negative. (term I made up, use it, get it into the lexicon, I like it) that basically means you're outputting more calories (energy) than you're taking in. Simple as pie (no pun intended,) that's how to lose weight. Sucks, but true. Oh, and make sure you're taking a multi-vitimin made for your gender/specific age group every day. What was that email that was once floating around that had "headlines from the future," and one of them was "100 year study proves key to losing weight diet and exercise." Of course, I'm not a doctor. I'm an author, an ntrprnr, and tonight, for some reason, a complete and utter insomniac. Which should be fun when I pitch a new client at 9:30, but I digress: See a doctor before doing this, and don't do anything I say without a doctor's ok. Your mileage may vary. Manufacturer is not responsible once you drive it off the lot. Normal wear-and-tear is not covered under warantee. Skydiving is a dangerous sport. You could be injured or seriously killed. This tandem skydiving system is still experimental, and we expect to get final approval in the early 1990's. My name is Friday. I carry a badge. This is my city. Proper names do not count as scored words. _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

Lovely. Common bonding with Muenkel. _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

And... Well, actually, that's it. I hate not being able to sleep. _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

PM sent. _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."

Here you go. :) http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ArskxmebiXo _______________ "Why'd you track away at 7,000 feet?" "Even in freefall, I have commitment issues."