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LOL this WHOLE year Ive been trying NOT TO scream hoot and holler or sing during freefall! so I can sing after the beer light comes on...it hasnt been working too well Its imbedded into my skydives. JUMP YELL land "WHOO HOO" EDIT FOR GRAMMAR I have an overwhelming desire to go surfing.

I did, baby. I had a real nice Saturday. Thanks. Get well soon. The sky misses you. I got my first dock on a tandem today, and I yelled 'MOUTH!' around my tongue switch. I'll try and screen print it later. The tandem's name was Nobuku, and you could hear her screaming over the turbines as we left the KingAir. She was worthy of a Mouth jump.

It's still a secret? Shucks.

She's an awful lot prettier than that. So that goes to show you just how pretty she is.

We are wired for sound, and video. I am teamed up with BoyFallDown to produce the DZ.Eloy'03 Holiday Boogie Video. Jim is the gold medal camera flier of last years CRW national champion team, and his day job is video post production. He was a big motivator for me to go into cameral flying. He does world class tandem fluffage along with being a mad style RW camera flier. I leant him my FF suit, so he may be making progress taking docks, but today he was scared as hell of letting ChopChop dock him. We'll have a 60 minute DVD out within 30 days of the conclusion of the holiday boogie or your money back. Well, your contribution to Sangiro back, actually. This is gonna rock like a San Andreas earthquake people, your only excuse not to be there is being on active duty somewhere else. Katie will be there, so you can too. Put your ear on the rail. Hear that? Big fun is coming! Whooooo-shah! JP

If the thief shows up on any DZ where I am at, I will use whatever force I deem necessary to detain them while I contact the local police. It will require a trip to the ER. Return the gear now.

Ray, I've got the Canon 20 on mine. It's a nice lens and works well for tandems and RW. All the air stuff on my shutterfly site was with my 20. I really like DiabloPilots 14, it is really cool, but dude! you have to be right on top of stuff! The 20 is very similar the the 28 (it's actually a 32) on the Canon. On the ground I have the 28-200 Canon. It's very effective for swoopers. Setting up the focus points is important. That's one thing about the 10D. You just really have to read the f*cking book. Many times. One other thing? On the 20, it seems to need the lens hood pretty bad. Light leaves those little spherical light-blobs on the images if you don't use the lens hood. BUT, if you have the hood on, it casts a very big shadow on your subject if you use the on-camera flash. So prepare yourself to also get a 550EX flash fairly soon. That flash is muy smart. The great thing about the camera is you learn all this really fast shooting hundreds of instant gratification shots a day.

I'm in. Oh, or filming. But definitely hanging on at least one. I heard something about a record.....

Clearly you are such a superior employee you are making your supervisor look like crap. NOICE!

Nice. Congrats.

No, she just wouldn't let her supervisor tell her anything. It's just weird when you assign somebody a procedure and they say "no". Supervisor: "Huh?" Firee: "No. I don't want to do that" Supervisor: "Um, it's part of your duties, you have to" Firee: "NO! I'M NOT DOING THAT! YOU'RE NOT LISTENING TO ME!" It's just weird. When I was 20 I didn't expect to be an equal member of a team when I showed up. Some people think the concept of paying their dues is bullsh*t, and they are going to have a hard time in life. Anyhow, it went OK, as far as it goes. A little crying and the horrid box-walk out the back door. I liked my old job so much better. When firing somebody meant launching them into the Oakland City Jail. Grrr. 15 years to retirement? Ugh.

I really value your argument. It's oversimplified in Maslow's heirarchy, but you gotta feed yourself first, then get self-actualized. I'm bummed that I had to fire a very, very bright person, with great technical ability, who didn't get that you have to do what your boss tells you when your boss is paying you to do something. I'm frustrated that I'm getting employees with great self-esteem, but the inability to properly fill out a time card. There's something missing out there, maybe that assignment should have been given in a sociology class, or a psychology class, and maybe it even has merit on it's own. But when I review a transcript of somebody I'm hiring, I expect that "Intro to US Government" is going to produce a graduate who understands the basics of the Constitution, the Congress, the Senate, the Presidency, and the Supreme Court, and their interaction. "So, can you tell me how a bill becomes law?" "Uh, no. But you know, if you type something about killing the president and sent it to a elected guy at the Smithsonian Institution, you get to actually meet real-live men in black?" That's all.

Man, I just dig it when you talk in that Darth Vader Voice. "Bring the Prisoners to Me."

http://www.ktvu.com/news/2325459/detail.html I'm betting these students haven't been taught the legislative process, but have been taught fear and paranoia. What value is a scared, paranoid person with an associate's degree to an employer? Geez-Louise.

I have had exactly two kiss passes in 530 jumps. The first was my wife, doing a tandem on our 16th anniversary, and the second was a very sweaty, whiskery CRW Dog when I was flying video on a 4 way team. That combination is like having your head in a freezer, your feet in a broiler and saying "overall I'm feeling pretty good" Lizzie? Why are you working on your birthday?

I hate this part.

That's it...that's it...keep that thought going... Hmmm, freeze in AZ or come party in sunny, temperate FL at the Stacy Boogie? Tough decision. Not. Ah. You haven't seen the video from last year. There are reasons aplenty. The Eloy Holiday Boogie knob goes to 11.

That picture is brilliant! Just beautiful. That's the joy of shooting tandem video. At least once a weekend I get to watch the transformation of somebody from that face "NO!NO!NO! sounds just like GO!GO!GO! once the door's open, lady" to a commitment to mastering bodyflight. Thanks for sharing that.

Well, the key to this is that whoever you get with now won't be the same 20 years from now. I got married my last year of undergrad, and it has been a very long, very strange trip indeed. I think lifelong commitment is way different than the joy of having a successful date. It's the knowledge, or hope, that there will be successful date soon, even when your in the midst of the most awful date you could ever imagine. Got some snuggling just this morning, get to skydive with SkyBytch tomorrow, kids singing in the choir Sunday, then dinner with Grandpa Kelly. Even 5 years ago, there's no way I could imagine that would be the weekend I would look forward to. If you find a person you can trust, you can find a way.

I still haven't decided if i'm going to Eloy this year. I might go to Heatherb's Florida Lovefest instead.... She's the best, but that will still suck spectacularly compared to Eloy. It will suck like interstellar space compared to Eloy. Like a neutron star and other BillVonesque stuff I gotta look into that blast furnace of morning happy singing energy again! Eloy!

Oh, srroyo.

The PC 105.

I tried to look that one up, but it's not in any dictionary. You check your mail today?

ARgh. I was driving the coolest 1976 Volkswagen Rabbit the year you were born. Chick-magnet car, that was