Deuce

Are you expecting any of the folks from the other gun diatribe to be convinced of the validity of your position and change their minds? Bah. Wanna buy my Dillon progressive reloader?

9/10 Deuce knows boobs.

OMG. I believe in empowering women. They usually hate that. I'da handed you my sawzall and said "there you go", you'da batted your eyelashes and said "I don't know how to make this go" and I'da said "Shame. About time you learned then. You plug the prongy thing into one of those plastic things on the bottom of the wall with the two sets of three holes in them. This here's the trigger and it makes the blade thingie go back and forth. When you put the blade thingie on something you want to cut and pull the trigger, it gets cut off. How about you show me, Andy?" That would have you visiting the toothless Canadian in nothing flat, huh?

I arrive in the bright red REO DeuceWagon late Friday the 26th, with BigBen, VideoScooter (VanDershoor but I just renamed him ) , Cornholio, and Skymama. Help me get all our stuff loaded into the trailer and then drink my beer. Prayers that my Mrs. can figure a way to get down New Year's Eve so I can stay until the second. Otherwise I'm out on the 31st.

I feel better knowing my pilot is a badass engine failure-on-board=with-skydivers kind of pilot. That said, I don't want the engine or engines to fail due to bullshit failure to maintain. I am completely ready to "bail on reserve" at a grand. But a KingAir can climb on one engine, and I expect Derek The Great to put me over the DZ at 3 grand regardless. Our pilots and our aircraft rip. BTFU and let them command their aircraft.

Duh. If a fella wants to make use of equipment at a later date, he must maintain it now. But then again, I was domesticated over a decade ago.

The rebel D is $899. The lens interchangeability, availability of excellent flashes, and superior quality of the pictures is worth waiting and saving for. The guys with the Dimages, and the Sony megapixel cams I hang out with are all envious of the Digital Rebel/10D. They are selling and will lose the devaluation of the point and shoots.

Officer Doughnut was badass. He was just way too heavy for his aristocratic French bone structure. Bagels and cream cheese make your feet hurt. Really bad.

I just saw "Master and Commander". It captured the horrible beauty of masculinity better than any film I've seen yet. Masculinity can be a stubborn, stupid thing, but it is what it is. Losing one's arm bravely for one's country is uniquely a masculine traight. Boys pretending to be men is also along those lines. The first time I felt that stupid, amazing, fearless bravery was in Quantico in 1985. I was at OCS and we were double-timing with our rifles and I felt as badass as I have ever felt. Ten years later I felt the same way kicking doors in serving search warrants. It's not particularly nice, but it is uniquely masculine. I have had female partners, and they have all felt a little silly doing the martial stuff when men felt righteous. Funny. But I think the movie was worth seeing. Particularly for guys. It's a renter as a couple movie.

Roy, I have to admit to giving a really bad gift. When I was a new-penny cop I thought that guns were really cool. Such a dork, I bought my wife a nice Colt .380 for Christmas for her self-protection. Ugh. How stupid. It's not what you would like, but what THEY would like. Lesson learned.

I'm in Antioch. Way, way out in the East SF Bay Area. Great school for my kids, great house, way far from most of my buds that I skydive with. The rest of my family is going to see a play I'm not interested in. I'm goin to go see "Master and Commander" at 6:55 at the Deer Valley Cinema in Antioch, and after I just might have a beer at Schooners, right across the way. Cheers, all. I wish you lived on my street.

D'oh!

Call him Arty. He hates that, and that's the best kind of nickname to hang on somebody

Thanks, Jessicakes I don't do a strict Adkins. I think the culprits are sugar and processed flour. I think most folks unmonitored diets contain tons of sugar, and that is why our (US) diabetes rates are so high, along with our obesity rate. It's just been my experience that 100 calories of white bread "sticks" a lot more than 100 calories of popcorn (without butter), and way more than 100 calories of turkey breast meat. Also, muscle burns more calories than non-lean tissue and keeps your metabolism up. If a person can find just a little time each day for push-ups, pull-ups, curls, leg lifts, the ab-wheel, and situps, (not all of them every day, but two or three) it makes a world of difference in the rate one loses fat. The biggest muscle groups are in the legs, so an easy way to get those going is to walk with ankle weights. I must also add, I would never have lost the weight if I hadn't developed a chronic pain condition in my feet. Like most men, I didn't really have a problem with my big body. But, that said, the Mrs. likes the new me much better.

I got your before and after right here.

I lost about 100 pounds on Atkins, but you can never go off it. Put on some muscle mass, and keep it on. Walk every day. You must marry meat, and keep carbs as a secret mistress.

It's what by BA is in. I just liked the lighthearted tone of the article. There's no doubt that anybody's words can be parsed to paint them into a corner, no matter their ideology. Heck, we see that done in posts here all the time. When I first got involved with DZ.com I used to participate in the political forums all the time, but it gets old, and I haven't seen any opinions change. I think it's kinda funny.

By Charles Krauthammer ( a non-practicing psychiatrist)

Yeah, on my chest strap, pull down to get it out. No, I haven't used it on a skydive.

Uh, with Sunny in that kind of mood, I'd suggest the jockstrap/cup combo pack. No, really.

You being off the internet is killing us! We need to do a letter-writing campaign to your school district! Yeppers.

A really good one for both boys and girls is: "Do you know why I pulled you over?" "No, officer. But I REALLY NEED TO PEE!" Like Philly said, usually you will lose in court if the cop shows up, but you might get the penalty adjusted. Not in Hayward, California, though. The court commisioner who was there found every offender guilty after giving them one last chance to go to traffic school. Another thing in California, once pen is put to cite pad, you are getting the ticket. It's a misdemeanor on the part of the cop to take back either a parking ticket or a moving violation.

Work has been too good. Been shooting not much but film. Don't wear the cam with the BM suit yet, and I don't wear it much for inside RW. Come to Eloy.

I recently tried out by quitting my lucrative day job. Thank God I didn't make it! (Thanks, hon