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No one has mine yet....mine is Edward Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

Yeah that makes sense now..... I'm hoping i'm not irritating anyone or upsetting anyone as thats not my intent....its just a different perspective being 21 and trying to understand everyones view points... I do appreciate everyones comments and help... Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

But in actuality, I would say yes to that statement. Even before i was skydiving in my sophomore year and freshman year and even junior year, I would need money. I dont understand how I can't trace it. I do keep up with my funds. I make $21/hr with my internship and $7.50/hr with my DZ job. I get a discount with jumps since I work there. Most of my internship money is used for saving for rent for school. I'm not trying to argue at all, just trying to understand what you're trying to say

Nothing makes me more mad when people take the elevator (at school and at work) from the first floor to the second floor. Ok, if you have a disability thats cool...but if you're healthy...no excuse...i mean honestly walk up the stairs.. Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

Um, here's where my values say that you are doing the wrong thing. If you are still accepting money from them, and you are spending money on things that they find to be objectionable, then they have every right to be upset or even pissed off. DO NOT ACCEPT ANY MONEY FROM THEM WHEN YOU SKYDIVE. DO NOT ASK FOR MONEY FROM THEM IF YOU WILL SPEND ANY MONEY ON SKYDIVING. Skydiving is a luxury. And if you are asking for money, then it is a luxury that you literally and figuratively cannot afford. If you've got 5 jobs and are asking for money, then I'd suggest you get 6 and stop asking for money. No offense, and I don't mean to be harsh, but that to me seems a little too selfish. Its not harsh and I understand what you're saying. But i think there was a misunderstanding. The money they give me, I dont take and spend on skydiving AT ALL. I only use my money to skydive with. My tuition is $32,000 a year and being 4 states away from them, sometimes you run out. How can I have 5 jobs and no money? Easy. Fraternity bills, food, books, Rent, Gas, Tuition, CC bill, Groceries, Haircuts, small living expenses during school. Also my 5 jobs, aren't happening every day. My spring break job works on commission, which I use to pay for me to go on spring break for the past 3 years. My sorority bus boy job is like 4 hours a week @ 7.00/hr. if that. Most of my jobs are like that. I work as a campus tour guide for incoming freshman. Once a week during the fall for 2 hours and then once maybe twice in the winter for 5.5, which is when the tours start. Any money they give to me, is mostly spent on food, haircuts, or other school necessities. They really don't give me money during summer because right now I'm making my own. I knew that when I started AFF last year, that if this was something I ended up liking and wanting to get into, that I would support myself because its something I want for me. I NEVER spend any money they give me on skydiving. With the exception of last year when they bought me an AFF jump for my birthday. All tunnel time, jumps, gear I get all comes from my own personal income. I even got a job at my DZ here in colorado on the weekend in conjuntion with my 45 hour/week internship in order to have extra money for jumping and tunnel time and stuff of that nature. And NWflyer, I definately understand what you're saying about credit. Its something that they've taught that you can fuck up very fast, thats why jumping comes second to everything as far as bills go. And please don't get me wrong, its not that I go and blatently ask for money, my dad also have access to my checking account and if he sees that I'm low, he'll by his own choosing, put some money in there for me to have. That isn't like a weekly, bi-weekly thing either, so I don't wanna give the impression that I'm asking for money from them and not using it for necessities, because thats definately not me. There's alot of kids at my school who do do that (such as buy $500 of Cristal at the bars because there parents gave it to them) but I don't do that.... I understand what you're both saying and you guys are right. But my question still is, how is this different from anything else i were to do? If I were rock climbing (you can be killed doing that too) or if I wanted to get heavy into cycling or something....doesn't every hobby/sport start out by investing time and money into it? Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

As far as school and stuff goes, yeah they help as they can. My parents just bought a new house and just sold my dad's old house and my stepmom's old house, so for a bit they were paying three mortgages. They give me money when I need it, but I've been trying to make my own and not ask as much from them. During school, its not uncommon for me to have about 5 different jobs. Unformed: Yeah, I think my dad would do a tandem, but my stepmom won't. It's crazy to them. The closest I might get is to get them in the tunnel. Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

Ok, I know I've seen the thread many times about parents not understanding why we, as skydivers, do what we do and the various reasonings behind it. I thought my dad & stepmom were always cool about it. They support me in it, but they feel that I should keep my priorities in order, which I do. I always pay whatever bills I have (on time) and take care of other expenses and then use the extra or what I have left for skydiving. Everytime i'm on the phone with my dad talking about expenses, which usually ends in an argument or just being upset, he says "you want to have your cake and eat it too." Me: What does that mean? From the tone of it, I inferred that my parents feel I spend too much money on skydiving. They see it as something thats just fun like anything else. They don't see it the same way I do. I've mentioned before that they're coming out to Colorado for my birthday to watch me, but not sure if that will do anything. They don't understand that this is a sport that I truly feel myself becoming better at and that i want to be good at. I wouldn't be investing my time or money in it if I didn't like it. I don't think they can understand why i'm paying to be in an adult tunnel league or why I jump so much or am in the tunnel so much. I told them that if I wasn't doing this, I would pick up another hobby or sport that I would invest my time and money in to be good at, but they said thats different. I bring up the example that if i was playing basketball and wanted to become good enough to be in the NBA, he wouldn't say anything. He then counters to say that if I was in the NBA, i would be making the money to throw away needlessly. That statement right there said to me that he thinks i'm throwing my money away needlessly. I don't know, maybe i'm reading too much into it. I'm almost to the point of not bringing it up anymore, even though I enjoy telling them about it. I just can't get them to see the positive. There are MANY other things I could be doing (good and bad) but i'm doing something that makes me happy, something that has caused me to make great friends, and something that I am becoming and will continue to practice to become good at. I'm sorry i'm rambling... I don't know what to say anymore....I don't wanna say its a generational thing...but I can't describe to them why this is so important and why i'm ok with spending my money on it. Yes I do have fun and that is part of it, but if it wasn't fun wasn't part of it, would I do it? I'm sure there are others with this problem....I don't want to not talk about it with them, but its driving me to that....what am i supposed to do? Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

Ok, one of the babies are up and walking around a bit...a little more interesting Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

http://www.infotecbusinesssystems.com/wildlife/ Got this from another forum I'm a member of, its pretty cool and very live.....one of the parents just flew away from the nest a second ago Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

I use a 32 oz nalgene bottle and fill it up. Much easier to get through your daily requirement that way. I usually fill it up 3 or 4 times....so i'm gettin plenty... and I usually have to go about every hour or hour and half...haha Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

Holy shit thats REALLY annoying.....thats enough of that... I can definately hear it.....why would you ever want that... Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

i thought it said that but I knew what PLF was trying to say Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

I actually have no clue how to say that in spanish.. Boinky do you know? ¿zapatos pequeños? I dont think thats right because that just translates as "small shoes" Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

¡Ah, De nada mí amigo! Si necesitas algo o quieres practicar, manda me un email Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

Go to your control panel and choose languages and settings. There you can set up another language. If you choose spanish, you will see like 15 different types from different countries. The two I use are Spanish - Mexico and Spanish -Traditional Sort. Once you choose those, you should be able to switch between those two and english on your keyboard depending on the buttons you choose. To type an accent, hit the quotation mark key and then the vowel you want and it'll come up as an accented letter like this - á. The semicolon button produces this symbol: ñ I use left alt and shift to go between languages. Some other buttons. The plus and equal button: ¡ and ¿ when shift is pressed with it. Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

Ok, so I've searched about this but haven't really come up with answers I was happy with. My dilemma is this, per the subject line, my head is about 24.7".....i'll give you a second to get the shocked ooo's and oh wow's out. *pause* Ok, When I called Bonehead yesterday and told them that, they said the XXL pimpdaddy would probably have trouble fitting me. I've fit into an XL pimpdaddy though during a few of my coach jumps. I wanted to know if there were any other choices for those of us who have larger craniums.......I really don't want a Protec, but will consider it comes down to it. I heard about the Velocity...is that another good one? or should I just say fuck it and get an XXL pimpdaddy anyways and see how it fits? Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

I'm currently trying to learn Russian which is pretty hard. I took 5 years of spanish in high school and continued in college and am in my 5 year of fluent spanish in college. I've also gone to mexico for spring break for the past 3 years and everytime we're there, i refuse to speak english and nothing but spanish...it definately helps If anyone on here ever wants some practice, I could use some as well, send me a PM and we'll practice back and forth with spanish....I'm sure we can learn from each other....i'm very paranoid about my spanish too I also use the Foro de salto forum on here as well....anotehr great way to practice Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

Being an engineer in aerospace, I couldn't help but answer this. First, unless there were a way to coat your jumpsuit and rig with thermally dissipating material, i'm pretty sure you'd burn. Secondly, upon re-entry into the atmosphere, if you don't hit the atmosphere at precisely the right angle, it will laugh at you as you skip off the atmosphere back into space. Once you're inside the very top layer of the atmosphere, and gravity does kick in, there won't be such a thing as falling slowly. You'd reach speeds and temperatures not even capable of human endurance. Friction would essentially disintegrate your body into 1 million pieces to be sprinkled upon the rest of earth. Not saying I'm an expert, but just from what I've learned in class and with my internships....I've thought about it too, but doesn't seem possible... Then again alot of people said jumping out of a plane would never be possible, so who knows what we'll be doing in a few years or so Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

Definately am obsessed. I'm on DZ.com at work ALL the time or if I'm at school, usually while I'm in class too. I catch myself walking by this big window in my office and staring into the sky. Anytime i take a flight anywhere, i always have my altimeter and I take it out and watch it and then imagine jumping through the sky and tracking to my destination. Then if I'm not thinking about it, I'm on here reading about it, watching movies about it, or talking to people about it.... I think my parents are gonna kill me if I don't stop soon.....but they're coming out for my birthday to watch me make some jumps, so they'll get to see what the excitement is about Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

Just as tmiracle said, no one will ever understand. There are a few ways though, either get them to try to make a jump or bring them out to the DZ one day so they can actually see it for themselves. Other than that, no one will ever understand the logic of why we do this except you and the rest of us. Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

I mean, i wash my hands afterwards and am not touching my actual drink, so i could care less. We do ALOT more gross, contaminating things as humans on a daily basis that are probably worse than that.... But yeah, i have no problem with taking my beer/drink into the bathroom with me.... Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

I thought about it too....only I haven't been working long enough to say that yet. But I've done it with school several times...but figured it would be worth it to graduate next May... And yeah, no cats, but I'd take my Python with me His name is slider... Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

I like Hip Hop and Rock music and stuff like that....so I'm always resinging songs on the way up and during freefall by people like: Petey Pablo, Pitbull, Bubba Sparxxx, Biggie, U2, Nine Inch Nails, Linkin Park, Nickelback, Eminem, etc.... Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

For those of us who still play video games (and no I'm not ashamed of that at all) they just released some of the making of Halo 3. If you haven't beaten Halo 2, there is a small spoiler during it, but nothing huge.... It looks pretty awesome and the music score sounds amazing!! Check it out: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rkJpsJzfE1M Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----

Here's mine....seems like I'm missing the Northwest and upper part of the midwest...and alaska and hawaii Puttin' some stank on it. ----Hellfish #707----