wildfan75

The Todd patches have arrived and will be available at P-Toss. We still need some more players for the TIC tourney on Friday night. Email or PM me if you're in. Club members who still owe beer for your firsts over the summer...the time to pay up is now! Three days to go...

Yep..Slipstream is rhemwa's team. Way to go guys! Good to see some medals coming home with MN/WI skydivers!! Now we just need to get Team Flew-ID on board during the freestyle event. And Bill...good luck to you and the rest of "Slip and Fall" in 8 way. I'll be checking scores every 20 minutes at work like I did today and yesterday.

Run Way

Go Slipstream and Team Flew-Id!!!! You guys are missing P-Toss so you better bring home some hardware!

Hmmm...I don't know. How about SKYDIVE??? Skydive Wissota in Chippewa Falls, WI is open all year 'round. If its warm enough for the planes to start (hehe...we plug them in at night), its warm enough to skydive. Come join us!

Todd often said that if he won the lottery he'd get breast implants because he loved boobs so much, and then he'd have a set of his own and could touch them anytime he wanted. I just got a return email from the organ and tissue donation people. They were able to harvest some of Todd's skin. The email goes on to say that with technolocial advances, human skin donations are not the prefered therapy for burn victims. Instead, skin is now used for breast reconstruction following mastectomies. Todd's going to get his boobs after!! Who knew someone could laugh and cry so hard at the same time as I am right now. Us girls at the dz were going to make shirts that said "Todd thinks my boobs look nice today"...a comment that many of us heard quite often. Maybe the shirt should now read "Todd's boobs look like today".

Hmmmm...Wildfan75 votes for the Wild of course.

My view on this subject has changed. I don't think anything should be done. It should be left just they way they left it. If the family wishes it changed, I'm sure that Sangiro and the other mods would have no problem changing it. But if the family wants it to stay they way their loved one left it, so be it.

My fiancee died 69 days ago. Not only did I lose my best friend and love of my life, but also lost my entire "future". Chock one up for "bad in '08".

I'm Cub/Ourson #83!

1. Whats your name? Lynn 2. How old are you? 33 3. Why did you decide to start jumping out of airplanes? To celebrate my 30th birthday and cross it off my list. I planned on doing a tandem, and watching the video the rest of my life. Who knew? 4. Are you single or taken? Ugh...I guess now I'm single, but 69 days ago I was very happily engaged. 5. Do you have kids? No 6. What do you drive? 2003 Ford Focus 7. Have you ever done a kisspass? Yes. Many of the them. 8. Where do you live? Minnesota during the week and Wisconsin on the weekends. I'm still trying to ditch Minnesota though. 9. Do you have any pets? Two dogs, Lucy, the English Springer Spaniel, is 7 and Jedei, the beagle, is 9. 10. How many jumps do you have? 534 11. What color eyes do you have? Blue 12. What is your nationality? Danish, Swedish, German, Austrian and just a little bit Irish. 13. Have you ever dated someone you met off the internet? Yes. Never again. Those boys are PSYCO! 14. Favorite Movie? Sliding Doors, Beatiful Girls, Dumb and Dumber, The Bourne series 15. What do you do when you arent skydiving? Thinking about skydiving. 16. Have you ever BASE jumped? No 17. If not... do you want to? No 18. Do you have siblings? 1 older brother 19. Where do you want to travel to the most? I hear Perris in May is beautiful from about 16,000'. 20. What's your favorite color? Blue and second favorite is pink. 21. Where was the last place you flew to ( not skydiving )? Last place I flew to was Perris for the Big Way camp in September. Before that was Las Vegas in December 2005 (before I started skydiving) for a friend's wedding.

My guess is that we'd have about four dz in the US, and the topic of conversation among the jumpers would be "You wouldn't believe the day in court I had today!" or "So I was in the middle of doing this surgery and..." Instructors would quit due to the risk of "losing it all". DZO's would close the doors to the risk of "losing it all". There is no amount of safety of gear, airplanes, training that can prevent the "one idiot" from closing the doors of a dz. On the other hand, the selective process of telling someone "Sorry, skydiving is no for you" increases. I have the same "last will and testament" thing as FutureDivot, and it was drafted and certified when I had about 12 jumps. You can keep all of the people safe some of the time. And you can keep some of the people safe all of the time. But you can't keep all of the people safe all of the time. Humans error. And that's just life.

35 degrees in February???? That's a friggin' heat wave

We've gotten some more great giveaways including: *30% off any Aerodyne product *30% off any Micron or M-Series container (Thanks Bigway and Hausse!!!) Also, I should have the "Todd Patches" by P-Toss. See attached for what they will look like. For as much as I'd like to give these away, they will be sold at $2/each to cover the cost. Dinner Saturday night will be a turkey dinner with stuffing, mashed potatoes and gravy (same as last year). Only a week and a half away!!!!

I'd rather have someone be scared away because of the liability waiver than have my dz close over some frivolous lawsuit for some guy/girl can't grasp the concept of "flare" and we're found liable because we should have known that he/she had poor upper body strength.

My fiancee had 4500 skydives when he first "flew" into the tunnel. He did two hours in three days and couldn't believe how much he learned, and you could see how much faster and accurate of a free faller he was. I had maybe 200 jumps when I did 20 minutes in the tunnel. I still kick my own ass for not getting more. I really wished I wouldn't have listed to everyone telling me that "You should only do 20-30 minutes your first time in the tunnel. Anymore is overload." Damn them!! I can't fathum how much I would have learned in an hour or two based on what I learned in those 20 minutes. I think the tunnel to skydivers is like dangling meth in front of a crack addict. Its all very expensive!

Thank you, April!! That is great picture of Todd. You'll have to burn some pictures on a disc from that weekend and send it to me. You were going crazy with your camera and I'm sure there are a boat load of good ones of the Wissota CReW! Todd was so excited about the CRW camp weekend. He was so excited for me to start dabbling in CRW. It pains me to say that other than one "attempted" CRW jump, Todd and I never built the awesome two stack into a downplane that we always talked about. Our one attempted CRW jump pretty much consisted of him yelling "Sashay! Sashay! Sashay!" at me for 10,000' while I tried to keep his old Fury flying straight. Apparently the some of the lines that were finger trapped together were out of trim. The rule about Todd's Fury was only Todd could jump Todd's Fury. Imagine my surprise as I walked out to the plane on that jump and asked him, "What am I jumping?" and his response was, "My Fury". The old Fury got jumped about 500 times more than it should have. After Mary rode a stack almost to the ground and not aiming Todd directly into the peas when she released him, Todd decided it was time to retire the Fury. It had absolutely no flare left in it and it was either peas or knees. About three weeks before Todd passed away, we had a proper bonfire ceremony and burned it. I'm glad he got to do and was there for that. Two months down, the rest of my life to go...

Yep on the Protec. If fact, Protec's are the only authorized helmet for Creeper Wars at Skydive Wissota.

2 years, 5 months and 1 day into the sport... 9 "DZs" Skydive Wissota Skydive Twin Cities Skydive Chicago Skydive Iowa Skydive Superior Sky Knights-East Troy Skydive Perris Fort Dodge Airport (Couch Freaks) Joe Johnson's (Technicolor Helicopter Boogie)

A few more details: * If we get enough interested parties, we will be doing a TIC tournament on Friday night. Winner takes all. Please contact me if you are interested. Don't know how to play TIC? Just bring a fat wallet and be prepared to give even more of your money to Bob and we'll say that you know how to play TIC. * The event fee will for sure be between $5-10 and includes free beer for the weekend (Any people coming to Wissota for the first time: Don't forget to bring your beer!) * We will also be having a raffle. Tickets will be $2/each or 3 for $5 with the money going to help pay the balance on Todd's funeral/medical bills. We have some great sponsers that are helping us out and just some of the prizes include: * 50% off Wings Certificate * 30% off Mirage Certificate (Thanks Merriah!) * 25% off a Skimmer Suit (Thanks Kim!) * A free jump on my jumpbill (not valid during P-Toss) Anyone that would like to donate any raffle items, please email me at skydivelynn (at) netzero dot net. Blue Skies!

[Cough]Skimmer Suits[/cough] www.skimmersuits.com

Are these pictures of Joe in the tunnel???? If they are, they should be saved as Joe isn't going to "do" the tunnel anymore. Joe--How's the shoulder? Get through the 100 ways okay?

Unfortunately the image of you in your wingsuit, with matching shorts, t-shirt, rig, socks and tennis shoes is something that sticks in the brain. No picture needed. Hopefully we'll see you for the film festival on Saturday night...just need to talk someone into being a DD to drive to Baldwin and back.

I was just in Perris for the P3 Big Way Camp and on the advice of two frequent Perris visitors from my dz, I flew into SAN. If you're going with or can organizing with other jumpers flying into LAX, fly into LAX as they have shuttles going "that way". I flew into SAN, rented a car from Fox Rent A Car for $85, and spent $12 in gas going from SAN to Perris and back. Traffic was non-issue (flew into SAN at 7:45pm on a Wed and flew back from SAN at 2:20pm on a Monday). I was bummed to find out that the ride back was so smooth, or I would have stuck around Perris or stopped at Elsinore for "one last jump" before heading back to the airport. Bob and Mary weren't lying when they said traffic is predictable in SAN, were as LAX is not. Bring tank tops....California is friggin' HOT!!!

"It will get better over time." Guess what people? It doesn't. One day more is just another day longer that I didn't get to hug him or look into his eyes, another day longer that I didn't get to talk to him or hear him laugh. What's the stupid things you've heard people say?