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  1. livendive
    What he said. I meant to stop a visit my grandfather one Friday when he'd eaten real food and gone to the bathroom by himself for the first time in a month. I was headed out of town for the weekend to see friends and passed the hospital about an hour later than I planned...so I figured I'd stop on my way back Sunday. He deteriorated suddenly that night and died very early Saturday morning. Driving past the hospital where his body was on my way home after my grandmother called sucked, and 15 years later I still can't think of him without wishing I'd stopped to see him that one last time. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
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    Nah, I'm too old & beat up. When snowboarding I like to go fast & make turns...straight air is cool too as long as my legs are fresh, and I'll drop into a pipe on occasion, but I'll leave the learning curve shit to the younger crowd. I couldn't be found without my skateboard as a teen, but these days, bailing on concrete just hurts too much. Blues, Dave lol....i figured you would say something along that line!! Well you gotta give skater some credit, we aren't out to harm anyone, all we want is to land a specific trick, get it on video or hang out with our buddies and just challange each with new tricks and to have fun. Hey, I've been snowboarding for nearly 20 years and started skateboarding at the same time as Tony Hawk...you throw a couple thousand jumps in, and by the time you reach my age, you'll probably have backed it off a notch too. I have no problems with skaters...if anything I'm a bit jealous. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  3. livendive
    Nah, I'm too old & beat up. When snowboarding I like to go fast & make turns...straight air is cool too as long as my legs are fresh, and I'll drop into a pipe on occasion, but I'll leave the learning curve shit to the younger crowd. I couldn't be found without my skateboard as a teen, but these days, bailing on concrete just hurts too much. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  4. livendive
    I always think it's funny when people show what dipshits they are, and that cop did so with perfect clarity. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  5. livendive
    A friend of mine sent an email out last week soliciting suggestions and requesting RSVPs for his DZ's Safety Day. He sent it to his entire email list, to include an awful lot of regional jumpers, some hundreds of miles away. Yesterday he sent out a "reply all" to it, as follows: There have since been many replies...about the strippers. I think I'm tentatively planning our Safety Day for April 11. In early March, most folks up here are still going skiing or hibernating or whatever on the weekends. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  6. livendive
    Being cynical makes me feel old, but at least it's old with a smile on my face. Rabble-rousing is good for the soul, especially where USPA politics are involved. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  7. livendive
    I'm curious how long it'll be before I have an AFF student pantomiming video game inputs in freefall in an effort to control himself. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  8. livendive
    She strikes me as completely phony and only interested in power for power's sake. She's perhaps even more divisive than our current fucktard in chief, and her proposal for mandatory state-run healthcare is bullshit. Oh, and the way she points, smiles, & nods her head to acknowledge supporters gives me the heeby-jeebies. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  9. livendive
    Ha ha...this video is funny. I wish it just went one or two more seconds so I could hear the threat about the video ending up on youtube. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hxOr3q7nrk (CNN reports the officer has been suspended with pay pending an investigation) Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  10. livendive
    That one will be funnier next time, when I pig him into the local city park. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  11. livendive
    Have them sit student on a cessna load. JM slot spots (badly) & calls climbout. Once they've cleared the door, close it and speed up. It's funnier if it's a significant jump for them. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  12. livendive

    Why??

    livendive replied to jasonRose's topic in The Bonfire

    You??!!! I don't believe it for a second. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  13. livendive
    I don't think I ever rode my 210, but I did ride my 170 a couple times (1.3-1.4:1). Nice openings, decent flight characteristics, easy landing. I had no complaints and would have stuck with it, but a test jump on a PD-143 convinced me to swap the Tempo 170 out for a PD-160. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  14. livendive
    What if the guy with 300 jumps trying to swoop the first few times with a smaller canopy than the one you have cuts you off at 50 feet? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  15. livendive
    Wait till you hear a couple people actually bounce. I bet it takes the top spot on the list of sickest shit you've ever heard. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  16. livendive
    There's also the GM database, which, if I remember correctly, lists USPA numbers in addition to license numbers. I'm a fan of photocopied blank ballots, as it makes it easy to vote for someone who makes the effort of actually coming to a dz to solicit votes. I can also understand the potential for fraud, and am sure it has happened in the past, at least on a small scale. I have to imagine there's a fairly simple happy medium that respects both sides of the coin, but haven't given it enough thought to propose such a solution. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  17. livendive
    2007 rates: TI - $40 (plus $1 per lb over 190 lbs) Video - $25 (+$15/edit, +$35/stills) AFF-I - $35 IAD-I - $5 Coach - $6 Tandem pack - $10 Student pack - $5 Experienced pack - between packer & jumper I'm considering a couple changes for 2008, but they're unlikely to be anything real drastic. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  18. livendive
    Well, it's official. Skydiving is dead. We used to have a technique to do what this devise does. It was called spotting. I know I'm preaching to the choir here, but it seems to me that the ability of people to spot has declined in almost exact proportion to the increasing number of turbine aircraft. I wonder how many Cessna DZ's there are today compared to 10 or 15 years ago. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  19. livendive
    Cop: I was going to give you a warning until I saw the sticker, NOW you're getting shafted! I once made the mistake of being pulled over with this shirt on (see attachment). I then spent a few days in jail because I had a license plate in the car that wasn't registered to me (and yes, the cop commented on the shirt before he got all bent out of shape...he didn't believe it was just a band or that I'd bought the shirt at a skate shop in Okinawa). Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  20. livendive
    I wouldn't go that far, but yeah, done well, it's amazingly good. Burgundy/pinot noir is a VERY tempermental grape and wine. It's easy for a winery to vary between very good and below average between seasons or vineyards, and consistency drives price almost as much as quality. There are several Oregon vintners who consistently reach at least "good" and sometimes "excellent", but you aren't likely to find one under $40 and the better ones run $60+. I've hosted a couple traditional and oddball horizontals and verticals, and Panther Creek was incredibly helpful (and generally make good wines). On the French side, if you can't afford top shelf bordeaux, you're really screwed on burgs. I've yet to try any of the DRC reds, and am kind of afraid to given my penchant for good pinot. I have had a couple of their montrachets, and wish I could afford it over just about any other chard. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  21. livendive
    Google didn't reveal anything interesting, at least not in short order, so how about you enlighten us. And yes, it was highly entertaining how you started out with a Che thing and switched to a gun thing a couple posts later when your first claim was discounted. With enough rounds in that shotgun, surely you'll make something stick, but bit of transition from one smear to the next will make it a little less obvious. Who does the KKK support in the election? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  22. livendive
    That was about as dramatic a shift as I've seen in here. I'm not really sure what the fuck you're talking about. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  23. livendive
    No, it's not. If you were to volunteer for Fred Thompson, would that make your office a Fred Thompson Campaign Office? No. If his campaign later sent some staffers to operate out of your office, then it would become a Fred Thompson Campaign Office. See my edit above. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  24. livendive
    Click the links through to the video on which this blog is based and read the disclaimer underneath it. Edit to add screengrab and note that the narrator of the video does wait for the flag to be show, say "Paid campaign staffers", and then takes a dramatic pause before saying "will arrive sometime late next week". Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  25. livendive
    Whatever the maximum is they can do to our guys without us making a fuss, that's the worst we should do to their guys. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)