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A good friend jut has his retirement party today. He indicated when he graduated from university with a BS in engineering he made $19K his wife made $10k. the cost of his first home was $40k, which he bought two years after getting a job and getting married. He was able to buy a new car his first year of working and start a saving money for a vacation home which later funded his kids education at a very expensive university. The recent new guys in the office make about $45k a year, the average home now sells for a little over $250k and a new car or a vacation home are a pipe dream unless they stay at home with their parents. 40 years, not long at all......i hope things change back to how they once were. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Guys, dumb question, what's the lowest reliable resolution of an Optima II Audible Skydiving Altimeter? Will it reliably give you say 100ft or 50ft? Settling an office argument. Thanks! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Tom Petty? GREAT SONG! It's so.....deep. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

ultima ii is on it's way. This way i can keep my eyes from my hand and on the field =) Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

He was very good in Syriana http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iS3GFnSGOfk Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

A closed mouth gathers no foot. Hey, Shah, I thought you were married. Did I miss a news item? Nope soon to be divorced. Not what I wanted in life, not thrilled by it.....but it is what it is. HINT: If your better half comes to see your second and third tandems and is not at all happy to see that you have made it down to earth unharmed odds are things will not end well no deep in denial you are. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Have you seen "Burn After Reading"? He's a rather unlikeable character in that movie. (Another movie that I thought was hilarious, while many hated it.) Oh god that movie was freaking great! It's was humanity at it's worst! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Yeah, but how much of it is all about you? There is only one time you let a woman lead the dance, and that's when she is speaking. The more she talks the smarter I sound and the sexier i look.

I'll bet he eats quiche too. Shut up you know how that turns you on! Speaking of food...any place where they sell food supplies or high end grocery stores.....single mom / MILF central. Extra points given if you walk in carrying something interesting. IE helmet or an altimeter. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Really....really? Are you sure! http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2395/1789192297_08953ec03f.jpg http://208.96.47.3/images/community/misc/yoga_woman_2.png http://www.padmakshiyoga.com/iStockYogaWomanTreePosture.jpg Ever wonder where all the hot down to earth women in your town are? Check your local Yoga studio. And if it weren't for Yoga I would still be walking with a major limp due to my argument with mother earth....but now I can do jumping jacks and almost sprint! Yeah..........I'm sure! For real brother...for real! I liked the movie and I can't comment on any information I have seen that agrees or disagrees with the movie. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Hey I'm freaking trying to reform over here! I said yes, gave her my carD (bight me) and even paid for coffee. A great 4 hour date. Yes ladies, I can go for 4 long hours of deep conversation. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Really....really? Are you sure! http://farm3.static.flickr.com/2395/1789192297_08953ec03f.jpg http://208.96.47.3/images/community/misc/yoga_woman_2.png http://www.padmakshiyoga.com/iStockYogaWomanTreePosture.jpg Ever wonder where all the hot down to earth women in your town are? Check your local Yoga studio. And if it weren't for Yoga I would still be walking with a major limp due to my argument with mother earth....but now I can do jumping jacks and almost sprint! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Funny thing....I liked it. But then I work for the "system" and the part about the French hoax causing the Russians to start and thus we also have to start...was spot on. The sun salutation on the roof of the car...even better! Funny thing, my Yoga instructor did not like it! Go figure! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

My last date was a single mom. Cute girl, even cuter little one. Rock climbing gym, the little one was climbing and was sort of stuck. I was next to her looked over and told her she was doing well and to look up and pointed to what rocks she could move to next. In a few min she was at the top gave me a high five and i told her how to put her legs to go down safe. By the time I got down her mom had showed up and I was asked if I was free for coffee. Nice girl, nice date. Is that a tactic or just dumb luck? I don't know? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Oh god you are more than just women. My god you are super women! How some of you do what you do and still have time to look amazing is beyond me! It's actually a little intimidating to be honest. But it's not the that having a kid is a turn off....rather, as I stated, it's the kids. It's one thing if we were to get together and smile and have a good time and get to know each other. But for kids, and I know kids are stronger and smarter than we give them credit for, an unstable situation may occur and well.....children need stability. ......ah crap...now you guys are seeing my good side. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

My smart ass side is telling me to for you to tell this person that you want a threesome. In which case if they say yes....well she's a keeper! The more Zen side of my brain is telling me that I should tell you to be honest. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

I have but two rules in life when it comes to dating. 1) NO big girls. 2) NO single moms. Again it's not about the mom it's about the kids. Kids are great! They are all in their own way "good" and by coming in for a side swipe sure it may be fun for you but....(god this is going to sound bad) "Some one think of the children!" But that being said, I've actually have seen guys get with a single mom and having it work out very very very well. So just be respectful and treat the kids as if they were your own. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

In a very strange way I now feel "normal". I have some thoughts but I would keep them to my self. But yeah replace it with an equal or better model and maybe some couples Yoga classes......didn't work for me but it may work for you. But in a dumb way......and i know your not going to understand this....I know where you are coming from. As a friend once pointed out "Anger is an emotion afforded to more stable people." Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Well the leg is %90 in that I'm an office jockey. I can only get go much "jogging" time on any given day. And that's where the other %10 lies, not with strength but with mental acuity of knowing my leg is "fine". Let's just call it nerves. As for the new gear, yes the old gear is now condemned....the instructor who weighs a solid 50lbs less than me had to "PLF" it due to "it" not "working". Again I'm new so I not sure what that means other than...."Dude....it has no flare!" As for the "new" gear, I actually jumped it last summer. And was amazed at how soft the landing was....but here is the insane part....I wasn't use to it. while the "questionable" rig hand a landing slope of \ the "new" gear actually had lift and flair and thus had a much more shallow landing angle which at that time I was not use to nor expected and for some dumb reason decided not to use since I was so use to my "look down, and land" landings. So watching my friends videos (head cams) has really helped me understand not only the height of flare but also how the landing process is suppose to look Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Parachute and Its Pilot Well let's put it this way, i was practicing up in the air....and even up there for "full" flare my hands were by my knees.....hey things stretch. So when i needed FULL OH CRAP! my hands didn't make the trip from my ears to my knees fast enough. But I'm told the new gear wont' have this problem. I've also asked a few friends to shoot me some landing videos which have really helped. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Turns out flare doesn't mean your hands down to your knees. So the student gear was a little tweaked. That and.....my PLF sucked and caught the inside right part of my right foot and well crunchy spinny ouchy. Turns out from talking to my friends, all of my landings were "crash landings". I just didn't know any better that "full" flare was suppose to be gut height not knee height. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Yeah I'm thinking of hitting the SV tunnel in Montreal later this month. But what are your thoughts about doing a tandem? Worth it? Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Which is fine by me. Nothing wrong with more training. But I guess I should have been clearer in my question. How should I deal with the fact that one leg is less then the other. Any suggestions for recovery. Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

OK! The right leg is 90% (small little argument with mother earth regarding right of way left me with a rod in my right tib) now how to do get back in? I was in the process of getting my A license. I was on jump #8, left 360, right 360.....track forward, pull back. I know it sounds dumb but I'm actually an ok belly flopper and so I'm sure I could be stable with out much issue. But I would like to ask those who have had years of experience in this sport and have seen people come back from injury. In all seriousness what should I do? Should I do one tandem to regain the basics? Or should I go back to the last jump? I'm planning on sitting in on a ground school session to refresh and to remember all the emergency procedures. I've read Mr. Germains book and now %60 can visualize my landings. Though the last 20ft is still a blur. What are your suggestions? Thanks in advance. Shah Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!

Not enough to retire on but enough to make life easy and to help your kid go to a great school. And to throw one hell of a BBQ! Life through good thoughts, good words, and good deeds is necessary to ensure happiness and to keep chaos at bay. The only thing that falls from the sky is birdshit and fools!