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On Sunday a couple of sweet labradors showed up at the dropzone. One had tags and the other didn't. Once we got the info from the vet on Monday morning, I drove over to the address I got from the vet (the phone #'s didn't work.) One dog belonged to the lady, but she had never seen the second. So I took the second one back, and called local vets/humane society's. I put up a sign at the local grocery store (small town) and asked at the post office and of the UPS guy. Its now Wednesday night and no one has claimed this sweet thing. In the meantime she's been winning over my heart. She climbed right into bed with me the first night I brought her in, and gets along with my cats even. So its starting to look like I may have a new dog :-) But she needs a name (although she answers to DOG all week :-) I just can't think of what to call her. She's solid black, a SWEET gentle labrador who follows me everywhere and is very smart and obedient. Ideas? W (I left her sleeping on the floor for like 1 minute while I went outside. The picture below is how I found her snoozing away when I got back :-)

Pics attached (remind me of your email address and I'll send ya higher-res versions :-) CRW rocks! W

I love the story I heard once about AR-7's landing. A friend was going up to jump one, and he asked the other guys about how they land. They told him to take a rock up with him in the jumpsuit. At a hundred feet, drop the rock and that would be where he would land. He went up, did that, and couldn't find the rock. Pounded in hard, and as he lay there groaning, the rock hit him in the head :-)

Definitely if even HALF the stories I've heard from those days are true then things have for sure been tamed. I just can't imagine anyone riding naked cross-country covered in glow-stick glue anymore :-) Things seem to have noticably mellowed even since I started 15 years ago. Back then naked jumps were a non-event - nowadays everyone is afraid of them!

Mystery shopping is a lot of fun.. They pay me all the time to go eat at restaurants and all over. Last week I got sent a $50 gift card and was required to spend between $40-$45 of it and my only job was to see if the cashier then offered me the store card. It was sweet. I got $45 worth of free clothing and all I had to do was write a 5 minute report...

Exactly! It smokes most Otters to altitude, and is efficient enough to go up with very light loads :-) I've been in Pac's with 3-4 people which had a turn time ground to ground in less than 10 minutes. Had to get used to being ready to go when I got on the plane!

Yeah I showed that to some rookies here who were worried about their pack jobs! They felt better! I also laugh at folks who are so paranoid about tying their risers together but they're jumping big 7 cells and such :-) They never believe me when I tell em it doesn't matter!

Our Pac on more than one occasions with a light load of just a few people round tripped to 14k in 10 minutes :-)

Spectacular fun!!!

That's been our main student canopy for 4 years or so now. We have a couple 230's and a couple of 270's. I've been very impressed with them - they fly _very_ flat - so on no-wind days you gotta get used to having a long final. They are responsive, but they don't do anything really radical (and we've had some students try!). Even a full toggle turn isn't that radical. I've jumped them for demo's and stuff and have really liked their slow flight characteristics. Its nice not having to worry about accidently stalling them in deep brakes. They've held up very well. Our 230's have a ton of jumps on them and are still going strong.

A contributing factor to that might be that Eloy is at a higher elevation. I always noticed that I had a considerably harder time landing my Lightning when I was there than where I normally jump. I can travel to Florida and not blink an eye, but I always found it pretty dramatically different landing at Eloy. W

That's great!

That's not true. My dz in TX's rule is 16 years old with parental consent. Its all about what liability the dropzone is willing to risk. W

Woo Hoo Redskins!

Jump more often, and wait for the new canopy :-) You can get good canopies that aren't brand new in the classifieds here for way less than the cost of a new one. Far better to jump more than to have a brand new canopy you can't afford to jump!

Tie it on or zip tie it. I think I did both on mine :-) And yeah, it was complicated to figure out!

I've got almost 5000 jumps on Racers in all disciplines (and have never worked for nor been sponsored by them). They work great, and the vast majority of people who diss them have never even jumped one nor know why they're talking smack. Modern Dolphins aren't bad rigs either - its just a black Javelin for the most part.

Reading this made me think - we should make a list of folks (kinda like the drunk dial list) who don't really have anything to do on Christmas or no local family, and send it out to everyone else on the list for random Xmas calls. Heck, then at least rather than sitting at home alone, you can call someone and share No shit there I was stories!!!!

He definitely wore the radio again this year! W

The .htaccess thing worked! W

Ah I don't have access to the actual server config. Thought I might could do it some other way.

I'm game - I run the server - how do I set it up so that folks don't have to right click? W

Remember as well - that a _lot_ of people over the years have gone in with just the cutaway handle pulled - my personal preference is I'd rather have 2 out than 0 out - and time flies during a pc-in-tow. And there has been at least 1 case of flapping risers from a cutaway main (which didn't leave the container) interfere with the reserve deployment.

The funny part is that I bet a really high percentage of dzos would love to drop the program as well. They just view it as a wasted hunk of cash they have to send to USPA every year.

Actually most dzo's I've talked to would love to quite the GM program but if they do, then the other dz down the road tells customers "Oh they're not a member of USPA so they don't follow rules and are dangerous." That's the reason more of em don't quit.