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I wrestled 11 seasons (in a span of 8 years) and liked it. It boosted my self-confidence and is handy enough in your average streetfight (especially when combined with other "techniques") that I was able to fall back to being a bouncer when I couldn't find other work. I think the attraction is just fitness level and the lure of being a victor, but with the added testosterone of it being "fighting" instead of just beating someone at a video game or non/light-contact sport. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I've been out on 2 dates now with this gal, once to a winery for a few glasses and a cheese platter, the other time for dinner. She's young, cute, short, smart, and funny, and her job as a librarian has serious fantasy potential. "SSHHhhhhhh!!" The thing is, I feel like a complete fish out of water. I'm trying to remember the last time I "dated" a woman who I wasn't already friends with, and I'm drawing a complete blank. It has to have been at least 10 years, maybe more. The difference in approach is huge! With someone I'm friends with, we already know each other, when the other is joking, what each other likes, what freaks each other out, etc. A stranger is an entirely different ball of wax. I have absolutely no idea what is an appropriate level of communication (e.g. where the line is between ignoring her and scaring her off), nor how to approach any of the awkward moments of a date, e.g. saying goodbye...to kiss or not to kiss, and plenty of other things. Anyhow, I'm so good at so many things, I figured I ought to fess up when I find something I suck at. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

While on the subject of tattoo's, I've got my 10th sky birthday coming up in July and would like to get some skydiving related ink to celebrate it. The thing is, I want something very original, but I'm a terrible artist. Anyone got any ideas? The only one I've thought of so far would be too big and would probably require a bit too much detail (a 4-stack with known figures that represent different aspects of skydiving, e.g. the Reaper as pilot, Taz representing fun/craziness, a stunning nude woman representing beauty, and, I don't know...someone else, maybe the drunk from that one comic strip in the papers). Anyhow, any ideas from anyone? Whether you could draw it yourself or not? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Well, not "lots"...there's sex, and there's skydives, and then it tapers off pretty damned quickly! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

On a barely related note, does anyone know why AFF jumps don't pay more than tandem jumps? I mean getting an AFF rating is much more difficult than getting a tandem rating, is more difficult to actually do than a tandem, takes a lot longer to do than a tandem, and requires the instructor to use his own gear instead of dropzone gear. It would seem to me then that AFF jumps should pay considerably more than tandem jumps, but I've yet to see that be the case anywhere. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I would blame that on the evaluator, not the system. Since a failed dive can't possibly be a candidate's last in a course, failure to catch such a "student" should result in his seeing the same orientation at some point on his re-jump. OK, I'll agree with that. I thought you were saying a person could fail more than one jump. Personally, I passed the first three by substantial margins and didn't bother with a fourth jump. I tried to unsat my third jump by starting to celebrate early (during the bottom end dance), but I pulled my head out of my ass with a couple seconds to spare and ended up with a good score. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Only if the evaluator chooses not to fall back to earth. If you don't catch a back-to-earth evaluator, or stop a spinning evaluator, or both, or in any other way fail to correct an unstable evaluator, it's an automatic unsat. Huh? You have to pass a Cat. C main side, a Cat. C reserve side, and a Cat.D. You have 4 tries available to you, thus you can only fail one dive. As soon as you fail a second jump, you're washed out. One of the guys in my course did just that (passed one but then failed two in a row). Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

CRWPJ wrote Now there's a name I haven't seen in years. Do you know how many times I've referenced or quoted the midrocosms of the universe in that span? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

So what is/was in your lunch pail today? I'm currently eating tuna and salmon nigiri and california rolls.

D22369's sig line..."Life is not measured by the number of breaths we take, but by the moments that take our breath away." Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

:2:0 A slow casual weekend...did other things on Saturday and then made a couple 3-way freefly jumps yesterday. It's nice jumping in Washington State, in early March, in Teva's, with no gloves and no sweats under my jumpsuit.

The forecast here is clear for the next four days, with temps of 69, 70, 72, and 69. (Two 69's are better than one). I think I'll go climbing tomorrow and jump on Sunday. Of course, I jumped last weekend, and the weekend before, and two weeks before that, and.... Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I put over 300 miles on my first car. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Who needs a piece of paper if they have a perfectly good pencil? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

You ain't making out with anyone other than me unless I get a pack of smokes out of the deal! "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Pick me! Pick me! Now go to my room! Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

I have zero red on any of my jumpsuits (or other gear for that matter) and intend to keep it that way. Black, purple, green, silver, blue, white, and grey...oh yeah, and 1 fluorescent yellow pro-tec. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

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Oh it wasn't that bad...I'm still under 40 and haven't had to endure that one yet.

LOL - Having read all the posts on here in which women have said they like their guys "trimmed", I recently decided to give it a whirl. Well I apparently used the wrong guard on the clippers because I ended up essentially bald. I had a doctor appointment that day, my first with a new (female) doc because I'd decided to get a general practictioner so I'd have an answer other than "the closest doc-in-a-box" when asked who my physician is. I wasn't worried though; I was just seeing her about some shoulder pain. Unfortunately, she decided to give me a full physical. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

ummm...wow!

Here's one I think I posted somewhere else. I'm a damn fine man with my nerd goggles on. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

No, that's not at all the reason. Synthetic corks and screw tops are being used because the oak 'cork' has an occasional bad habit of bringing undesirable bacteria to the wine and ruining it. . If you open two bottles of the same wine and one smells bad while the other doesn't, it's said to be 'corked'. It's a rare and random but annoying problem. Some say it happens as often as one bottle per case, but I haven't found that to be true at all. I find corked bottles maybe half that often. Corking is a factor in 8-10 percent of naturally corked bottles, with some cork producers having better records and some worse. The thing is, there are many types of "corked", not all of which create trichloroanisol (TCA), the compound that makes for characteristic sweaty gym sock/lack of flavor problem that most people associated with the term "corked." That particular variant of corking is indeed

Any wine is at its best when properly stored and aged, however the proper age for a wine is dependent on the wine. MANY wines are being made these days specifically to reach their peak at a fairly young age. Note of course that the referenced quote is simply talking about aromatic compounds transferred from wood, not the aliphatic chains that develop as a result of aging. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)

Of course. We don't have a GPS in either of our airplanes, and I'm also a TM. At some point in time, the students I'm teaching today will be spotting a load that I'm getting out last on. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)