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Congratulations! Yeah, I started with one of those little blue books too. And now look at the mess I've got (see attached photo). Can't wait until I've got that many

Now, if I can just stop doing so many solo tracking dives and start doing some rw, but damn those tracking dives are fun, and I'm sure it only helps me at my experience

Haha...That's why I got me a big fat one!!

Well, finally filled up my first logbook, it's one of the small blue sport parachutist's logbooks that is given to you when you start AFF. Anyway, last jump in it was #48 and put #49 in my new logbook, this one is a lot larger, so I think I'll have close to 300 jumps by the time this one is full!!

Post it as an attachment and one of us will fix it for you. If it's still too big; email it to me and I'll photoshop it for you. Here is an attachment of a pic that I'd love to put up as an avatar. If anyone can shrink it for me, that would be greatly appreciated. If not, please let me know. Thanks so much

Post it as an attachment and one of us will fix it for you. If it's still too big; email it to me and I'll photoshop it for you. Here is an attachment of a pic that I'd love to put up as an avatar. If anyone can shrink it for me, that would be greatly appreciated. If not, please let me know. Thanks so much

This is the best video that I have so far, not sure how to make clicky yet, but following Turtle's advice....I don't really give a shit http://youtube.com/watch?v=Wlj3QtZCs0U

It also helps if you can make more than ONE FUCKING POST while you are at work ALL DAY! Hey man...give me a FUCKING BREAK

I know I know....how can I be a post whore when I don't even post in my own threads....sorry about that...had a lunch break and then actually had to work a little when I got back

Will do, Thanks Bigun, I'll try to get that either attached on here or emailed to you soon, probably tomorrow...getting close to quitting time here.

Great, so I'm going in right direction. Now, how much time do I need to spend on here each day to qualify?

Hello everyone, for a while I've read tons of threads on here, even posted a few myself, but I still don't really know anyone on here. I also get quite bored here at work and think the best way to pass my boring time is by becoming a post whore. A few of the people that I've looked up to include: Turtle, Aggiedave, Airtwardo, Cspence, etc. Ya' know, the true post whores. I know I probably missed quite a few, please don't be offended if I missed you. Anyway, my question is: What are the requirements to becoming a post whore, what kind of experience, training, education is needed? I know I probably need a good avatar, but I'm just not too computer savvy and everytime I try to put one up, it's just too damn big. So, guys and girls, please help me out and welcome me into the wonderful world of post whoring. By the way, Psychobob, if you happen to read this, I talked to Rick Payne the other day. He sounds pretty excited about going to Vietnam. I tried to talk him into coming up to Chester in June to Skyfest, but he said he'd probably be busy doing tandems.

I'd ask her for a ride, I mean I'd ask her if she wants a ride, I mean....dammit, I'd just wait for the dashed line

Yea, I thought about that too, but I'd surely kill myself pretty quickly if it became illegal tomorrow considering my skill level, so I'm sure not everyone could resort to base.....or could we.....hmm??....base aff

Let's say same punishment for getting caught base jumping illegally.

Ok, so not sure if this has been covered before, I did a quick search, but tons of pages came up with the combination of skydiving and illegal...too lazy to look through all of them. Just curious though, if skydiving became illegal, would you still find a way to jump. So nobody has to analyze the question too much, lets just say that it became illegal throughout the whole world, what would you do other than fight it till our death in court.

My Pet Peeves: Most of it is due to driving, but there are a few others that I will post. First off, my drive to work every morning for the last 2 years has consisted of about 30 minutes down a 2 lane highway. For this reason, I have developed a shitload of road rage. The speed limit on this highway is 55. These are the things that make my blood boil: 1. People that are incapable of driving the speed limit, it just pisses me off, because this happens every morning, someone feels that he/she can't safely drive 55, therefore, reduces the whole traffic flow to bumper to bumper 40 mph for 15 miles because they haven't woken up enough yet for their brain to process those kinds of speeds. I'm sorry, but if you can't at least drive the speed limit, you need to get off the fucking road and call a cab. There are exceptions to this rule, certain vehicle configurations, such as pulling a load, etc that will make it unsafe to drive that fast, but if you can't hop in your nice brand new Honda Civic and drive your vehicle at the posted speed limit, you need to get off the damn road. 2. Failure to use a signal, c'mon now, how difficult can it be. You have no trouble dialing a number on your cell phone, or changing your radio station, both of which require more energy than to flip that little handle up or down on the left hand side of your steering wheel. I can't read your mind, and it's gonna piss me off when when you start braking for no apparent reason. 3. Cell phones and driving, I have no problem with it, if you can handle doing both at the same time. However, if the use of your cell phone while driving impairs your ability to drive the speed limit, use your signal, or any other skill needed to efficiently drive your car, either get off the damn road, or get off the damn cell phone!! 4. Taking forever to make a right turn onto another road, street, drive, etc. Ok, so we're driving at 45 mph in a 55, because you don't know how to drive your damn car in the first place, then you feel the need to come to a complete stop before making a right turn onto your street, then slowly execute the turn. Why? Chances are, you're on your cell phone, or you're scared your car is going to flip if you make the turn faster than 5 mph. 5. Not taking advantage of that huge center lane used for making left hand turns, and left hand turns only. I don't know why, but I see it everyday, there is a center lane made specifically for this, yet they can't understand why it's there. Instead they would rather stop in the fast lane without a turn signal, cell phone stuck to their ear, and wait for oncoming traffic to clear, then slowly make the left hand turn into Food Lion. There are several other driving pet peeves. I could probably write a book about them all, but these are just a few that I encounter everyday that really pisses me off. Other Pet Peeves: -Using the wrong form of there, their, or they're, -Using the wrong form of your and you're -Not knowing when to use then vs. than -Not knowing when to use or vs. are-They sound alike, but I promise, they have different meanings. The grammar pet peeves only bother me about as bad as someone not realizing they have a bugger hanging out of their nose. Anyway, enough of me ranting, everyone carry on!!

I thought pineapple on pizza was nasty too, until I tried it. It falls in the same category as explaining skydiving to whuffos and explaining sex to virgins, you wont understand it until you try it. Now, go try some pineapple on your pizza and let this strange majority know how well you liked it!!

So, I guess I'm wrong with my abbreviations too, but I do know that light travels much faster than 42,000 miles per hour....how does that sound?

We are nowhere close, I'm no scientist or college educated person, but I know that in this post, someone has their units of measure all screwed up. MPS would be meters per second mps would be miles per second However, light travels at approximately 186,000 mps, or miles per second, not meters per second, so, 36,000 miles per hour wouldn't even be getting close to the speed of light. Here is a simple way of thinking about it, the sun is approximately 93,000,000 miles away from us, and it takes light a little over 8 minutes to reach us from the sun. Light travels 11,160,000 mpm (miles per minute) or: 669,600,000 mph (miles/hour) If light traveled at 42,000 miles per hour, it would take light 2,214 hours, or a little over 3 months to reach Earth from the sun.

I remember when I had my malfunction, 9th jump. I followed my EP's exactly as taught, "look red, grab red, look silver, pull red, pull silver." As soon as I pulled Red and went for silver, everything everyone said about handles moving came to life. I tried desparately for what seemed like a lifetime (probably less than a second) to get that silver handle in my hand, when all of a sudden, bam, there's a reserve above my head. At that point, I felt no need to pull the handle, but I still practice my EP's the same every time. It's amazing how much confidence a malfunction can give you in your gear early in your jump numbers. I kinda feel sorry for the people that have to go sometimes hundreds or thousands of jumps before their first cutaway. I thought it was a great learning experience. I was amazed at how calmly I reacted to the whole incident and thank my instructors for doing a great job teaching me. I think the scariest part was landing in a cow pasture under a bright red canopy!

I'm sorry, don't know all the terms, just know that I'd probably do the same thing this guy did, with the exception of being sooo anxious to kill someone.

I see now, so let the people get away to go rob another home, because the cops are too slow. Makes perfect sense, does everyone agree? Shoot, I might even put up a big invitation on my door, "All Burglars Welcome."

Now, I could be wrong about this, as I heard it on the radio, but according to them, when he shot the two guys, they were charging at him with crow bars in his yard. If I remember correctly, he did say, "stop or I'll shoot," and thats when they came at him, then you hear, "boom, you're dead." If this is true, does it justify him shooting them?

Wow...so far, 77% of the people on here are confused. At least there are a few of us that know the correct way, I mean, I just happened to notice here at work that it's mounted under and we have a cleaning service that takes care of that for us. They're professionals at mounting toilet paper with extensive training in the process...so...I guess 77% of us are incorrect. Heres a start to another boring day at work