livendive

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  1. Need me to hold you stable? Maybe...and even more I could use you holding the regular users of it stable (when you don't have someone strapped to the front of you)...say, second and fourth weekend of every month? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  2. Happy birthday! Sorry we can't make it over to play this weekend. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  3. NTSB has released the radio transmission tape. Knowing the outcome, the ATC's constant steering toward runways made me laugh. http://www.avweb.com/podcast/podcast/AudioPodcast_USAirwaysFlight1549_Audio_199716-1.html?kw=HomePage Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  4. This is a trick question - right? No, should it be? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  5. I think that one mistake, even a major one, does not warrant a bowling speech.... there needs to be a lot of poor judgement calls, a bad attitude, history of unsafe behaviors, etc that would make me want to give a student a bowling speech. I had a student just like yours... I was a brand new coach, maybe 300 jumps, student pulled a similar maneuver (low turn, ground came up fast, no flare, butt landing) and broke his back in two places. I spent a lot of time working with him (after he healed up) and a year to the day after his injury, he got his A license. He's now considering being a coach, and will most likely be a very good one, in part because of his own experience. I've given the speech once and had a student spare me giving the speech once. The former was a student who'd made a series of several bad decisions on several consecutive jumps. Instead of quitting, he went to another DZ and earned himself a trip to ICU a short time later. The latter was a student who freefell to AAD territory on a 4500' hop & pop. I met him for a beer the next day to potentially give him the speech, and he offered that maybe he should stick to mountain climbing where he can pause and think when things get sideways, so I just agreed. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  6. Of course it's reasonable, but when have you ever expected to find that quality in a woman? Shoot a load in her left eye on the one day, her right eye on the next, and sign the card twice. Blues, Dave Thats it Todak! Aspirin for you if you ever get a kidney stone That's ok, Cindy. That's why I wear goggles to bed. Of course we don't need to mention the fact that you adopting this practice gradually made me find goggles sexy. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  7. This arrived on my step a couple weeks ago. I'm guessing I'll jump it exactly once, just on principle. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  8. Of course it's reasonable, but when have you ever expected to find that quality in a woman? Shoot a load in her left eye on the one day, her right eye on the next, and sign the card twice. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  9. I agree with you. On the flip-side of that coin, I'm disappointed in his continued support of a Faith-Based Initiative office. I think he should have simply cancelled that organization. "Faith-based" anythings should not have a seat at any table set by our government. If we're going to throw the weight of our givernment (sic) behind charities, that support should be entirely "action-based". Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  10. When an individual goes into bankruptcy, they have to report all income and schedule all payments with the bankruptcy coulrt until they have taken care of their obligations. Why should banks taking billions from the government not be similarly restricted? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  11. They can return to profitability after they give us our money back. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  12. Bubba complained you were getting loose(r)? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  13. The way I understood the article, it said these highly compensated employees may get more than $500,000, but anything above that can only be in stock options that cannot be sold until the government loan has been repayed. Thus the only time those "star execs" would turn down a job is if they didn't believe they could turn around the company. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  14. No I don't care to guess, and I don't care who it was. Again, it has nothing to do with the supreme court considering reversing an amendment that was legally put into place by a fair and square vote by California voters. As I'm understanding the debate, the part I bolded has not been established. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  15. I couldn't care less whether Phelps smokes pot and don't get why so many people do care. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  16. Maybe just move somewhere that 3/4's of his neighbors aren't bigots? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  17. Or Preparation H. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  18. Especially if you wear contacts and/or think you might be getting lucky any time in the near future. Better yet, wear gloves when slicing hot peppers. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  19. If I consolidate different inter-company jobs (promotions/lateral transfers count as one job) and different employers by fields (e.g. working two different boats as a commercial fisherman counts as one), my answer is 12 (not including skydiving instruction which is highly unprofitable). Roughly in chronological order: Berry picking Landscaping Fast food Navy Painter Gopher type role (printing company) Bouncer/bartender Commercial fisherman Recruiter (fishing industry) Radioactive materials tech Hazardous waste specialist Geo/enviro scientist Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  20. I suppose this has potential as a good thing, but it still strikes me as an odd headline. Healthy kidney removed through donor's vagina. And honestly, I thought human kidneys were much smaller than human fists. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  21. I agree. People who can't navigate the internet safely should stick with Macs and she's since been kicked off the good computer and relegated to her Powerbook. I just still have to clean up the aftermath of letting a 20 year old drive something she wasn't good enough to handle. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  22. So my daughter recently discovered myspace and of course just *had* to visit all the damned "pimp my page" web pages, and picked up a couple virii that avg & zonealarm seem unable to permanently repair (they respawn after reboots). My hard drive was simultaneously causing some fatal crashes due to a few bad spots on it. A full chkdisk with repairs seems to have eliminated the crashes, but now I'm getting .dll errors every time I boot up in addition to the threat warnings from zonealarm. Is there any credible benefit provided by all the "registry cleaner" programs all over the internets that would repair the .dll problems and hopefully remove any lines in the registry that are respawning the trojans? Based on the way they advertise, I'm suspicious that the cure might be even worse than the disease, but there also seem to be some reputable writers touting them, so I'm not sure. Any of you geeks on here know of a good one that might fit the bill for me? Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  23. Quit fantasizing about my bacon touching your twinkies. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)
  24. You suck! g It's nearly 3 o'clock. I think I'll go home and have one right now. Blues, Dave "I AM A PROFESSIONAL EXTREME ATHLETE!" (drink Mountain Dew)