Deuce

You had two kids. Physical therapy is nothing compared to that. After your session you will be able to rotate your hand more, and you'll be closer to touching your face. Focus on the progress. When you get assessed they'll measure your range. As you progress in therapy you'll keep exceeding those benchmarks. Don't medicate ahead of time. What you'll need after is a anti inflammatory, and naproxen is better than ibuprofren. Heck, you've been there, when they ask me what I've broken, my answer is "yes". The physical therapy hurts, but that is just a side-effect of the progress you're making. You MUST get better so we can hang from the step in Eloy. You gotta be able to lay down, and reach under the tailgate to get that bar. Then you gotta pull yourself out and just hang there a little bit while I take pictures. You gotta be there for those pictures, so work hard, make progress, and get better.

Wonderful news! Get well soon, Lew!

Get well soon, Lew. Vibes and prayers. JP

Fun! I just got off the phone with Mouth and KatieBear. If you weren't there for the first one, you don't know just how much fun that combination is! The party light will be lit!

Even better! Just got off the phone with two soon-to-be-REALLY-drunk chicks. Katie rented a Mustang and I suspect she will be doing the Smokey and the Bandit run into one of the Carolinas. Just great to talk to you! It's been since last December. See you at Eloy! Whooo-sha!

Hey Katie, maybe go to the pub? It's always fun to watch giggling drunk chicks type!

That's an ugly story, but I agree with jp, way to "nogiveup" ("not give up", it's an expression in a martial art I know). I had a chop with my sidemount on, but nothing caught the camera. This is from the video.

TIMMAE!

Ooooh. Neato. Like Batman had on his utility belt to climb up the sides of buildings with Robin? How hard could that be?!

I liked it much better when I was next to Katibear.

Wrong-o, Muenkey. We've decided we don't want this one anymore. At least that's my prediction for October 7. That is a fabulous shot, Mama! Fabulous!

Cool! You just want another of these pictures, but without the damn full face helmet, huh?

My home DZ uses vectors. I have a couple hundred tandem videos on them. I have two at Davis, which uses the Sigma, right jp? Anyhow, not nearly the "alley-oop" when the main goes. I know this cause I start knee flying when the instructor reaches back to deploy so I can go on my back during the opening. I happened to video jp with Skye on her tandem, and when they deployed I was instinctively ready to do the "alley-oop" move, and they just left, pretty much. Plus its way easier to see the tandem passenger's face, even if they are looking straight down.

More hybrids with Pablito! BUENO!

You made my summer, Lisa.

I've jumped with some pretty spastic people with way, way higher jump numbers than mine. That's why I think individial evaluation is best. We're not talking about shooting tandems or RW here, are we? Just wearing a video camera. Yeah, I'd go higher numbers to shoot tandems, the camera flier introduces a risk. 500 would not be unreasonable there.

Noice! When our own Skybaby was let up from the sedation she attacked the nursing staff . (My kinda chick!) Some of that stuff makes you hallucinate pretty good. Sorry to hear he was hallucinating about getting bombed by napalm, but just overjoyed to hear he is up and talking. Just great news.

Oh, Q, that put up or shut up thing. It just grates on my libertarian proclivities. (I'm having fun with Big Words today) I'd like to see a Camera version of an S&TA. I really like all of jp's suggestions, particularly the cutaway of both rig and helmet, but I don't see how they can be fairly and uniformly enforced. Personality issues can really complicate a simple thing like a mandatory safety briefing and oral quiz prior to being checked off to jump camera. 200 jumps minimum. Formal safety breifing with materials to review. Oral quiz. Checkout jump. I think the person to do this is the video concession owner, but not every DZ has one. A Camera-flier Instructor rating? Minimum of 1000 camera jumps to apply. I'm challenged by the concept of a practice cutaway helmet. My 10D Bat rack setup is huge and heavy. I guess if I cut it from a hanging harness into a deep well of cut foam, but who's gonna set one of those up? I think it's working OK now. It would be nice if there was a rating so that new guys could get their questions answered by a knowledgeable person. When I started I had you, Q, and I turned out OK. It definitely is a process that requires mentoring.

Dave, since you have that option, it doesn't "really suck". What really sucks is not having an out of a horrible situation. Head up. Meet the challenge. Vanquish your difficulties. Just don't see the word "Vanquish" enough. I think I'll be Vanquish Man. Better than Vanquish Dad. That'd be a bad monogram for sure.

With the D license requirement now at 500 jumps, that might be overkill. But the rest of the SIM is right on.

Dude. What? Were you drunk-moderating?

Count yourself lucky to have such a busy person take such time to pay you a compliment, Sangiro-san. What a nice slider! What a happy conclusion to any freefall! B-Squared, you rock! Loving both of you, like in Prison. California Prison! JP

You, you gorgeous creature! But you can't get to the pub due to some Army crap, huh? You have bunches of girlie fun with my best friend Lisa, this weekend, OK? And send pictures! Can't fuck with me. I'm way to old and way too cagey. Anger is for people with lots of time. I only got time for fun and smiles at this point. And I look good.

http://www.dropzone.com/chat/ GO!

Find it in the Pub. Off to the right. Jeeze. GO NOW!