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Two years, four months, 494 jumps, should get 10 in tomorrow. My first 20 jumps took 6 months (it's windy at my DZ) Two sprained knees, one broken ankle, one cutaway. But I'm starting to figure it out.

When does that damn hella-serious jumbo way thing start, anyway? Friday? Damn, *Lisa have that airplane-driving ex of yours fly you up to the American boogie Thursday. Then get all scary-eyed and trackadelic and shit. JP *Evil Lisa/AKA Skybytch. Not MouthLisa

Yeah, 40's are pretty big ones. Post pictures, please!

You were hitting on Chris's Mom or something, huh? Sister, Aunt, S/O?

I'm pretty sure you won't miss mine. It has it's own zip code. I'm so ready. I even talked to OJP today.

Check PM's. Sent some good stuff. She a skydiver? JP

Don't sweat it Holmes, I'm a switch-hitter Check out this weather!: http://www.weather.com/weather/local/USCA1181?lswe=vacaville&lswa=WeatherLocalUndeclared&whatprefs= Ha! Everybody else just so sucks. Bwahaha!

See, in the two years of age difference I have over you, I learned that when in a malarial swamp it can help to apply mosquito repellent. You checked yourself for ticks yet? I didn't know the spanish for Insect Repellent one time in Mexico, so I asked for "Medicina para los" and I made pinching motions on my arm and said "Ai Chingao!" The pharmacist laughed and said "Repellente de insectos?" and I said "Si! Gracias!" In Italy I learned that the words for athletes foot is "Pedos Atleticos". Pharmacists are the best language teachers. Oh, just noticed I really need to go skydiving. 500 tomorrow. Jumbo Hybrid planned. Oh, shit. There it is. Nice lizard.....good lizard....

Oh, yeah. Those high school rivalries are SO relevant. As to outrunning me, don't make me shoot you in the leg with a paintball gun or something Tell us about "Survivor: The Appalachia RV trip" C'Mon!

81 Bytch. Don't make me come down there...

Phree, I found that on my suit, wing inflation when transitioning was strongly affected by where my swoop cords were located. I'm having much better luck with the cords hand-loop sized and keeping the cords on the outer part of my hand-wrist-arm. When I had them on my thumbs I couldn't control the wing as well. And, yeah, my back was aching like a mother after the arch I had to put on for that fast tandem!

THe coolest thing to to is when everybody is looking at a bottle or lable on the table to look directly to the left or right of the center of the mirror and mouth "I can see you". It's very freaky when you're on the other side!

I thought it was your job to do the anal probing...lord knows you can't help anyone pee!! What the heck was the monkey supposed to do, put your hand in warm water?

They were supposed to probe me? Oh. They won't be calling me back, then. Cause when there's a big mirror in the room, I'LL BE DOING ALL THE PROBING MISTER!

Just an example of a tandem issue I had last week: MeatBombs. Tandem master weighs 240, student weighs every bit of that, both are stocky. Equipment is at gross vehicle weight. In droguefall they were doing 138. I video on my belly, and I had everything in. The other camera fliers would have had to do it in a stand, cause the rest of our crew all weigh less than 140. So, if I had a freefly style camera suit, I would not have been able to do it on my belly. I think the purpose of the big wing is to give you range. So if the suit is tight, you can accelerate very rapidly when needed. You can keep the wings in to go fast. The wing is there to give you drag and lift. I've never flown a baggy wing suit, but I think it would slow down tracking up the hill at a tandem a little, and would slow down your overall fall rate, and sometimes you want to fall like a greased safe.

Occasionally I get called to participate in marketing focus groups. Folks, this is easy money. You spend about an hour-and-a-half in a room with 6 to 8 other people in your demographic (Male, 35-45, postgrad educated, married, children, single family dwelling, etc) telling them your opinion. Last night Chevron/Texaco was trying to figure out how to get me to buy gasoline additives. And you can vent at these knuckleheads! One phrase they used was "Will increase engine flame velocity". I blew a giant gout of Diet Coke at the mirrored wall at that one! One researcher stays in the bugged room, and it has cameras like a casino has cameras, and it has a giant mirrored wall at one end. (Much like an interrogation room, but it doesn't smell like urine and fear ) They ask your opinion for about 1.5 hours and give you $75 in cash and off you go. They feed you before, too. Anyhow in NorCal the group I did last night is Q & A research, and you can check them out at www.qar.com Another NorCal group is Nichols Research, but I haven't done one of those in a while. The last one I did we came up with the fallibilities of the "dish". Kinda fun to see your ideas on TV. I'm sharing this cause I'm thinking most of us are willing to eat a sandwich and some cookies and give our opinions for a while in exchange for 4 jump tickets. I'm hearing something in my filing cabinet.....

Stipulated: I want you on a belly dive. Addendum: The folks that are having the most fun, in my opinion, are the ones that have at least two full sets of skills. So one jump you lay base for a hybrid, the next one you hang or sting. Then turn some points, then just bomb out and do a campfire while looking for the camera! There's just too much fun to be had. I want to be able to play with whoever is in the hangar, not just whoever has the right jumpsuit. -I did contract stuff all week again. You crack jokes at lawyers and they just look at you like a dog staring at a ceiling fan. TGIF Whoo-hoo!

Careful Muenkey. Since you're gonna be all grown up this winter, you gonna drag your A-licensed butt out to Eloy?

You start talking explosives and you're never gettin on a plane, even an SDA plane, amigo. OK. I got some tarps at Costco and I'm gonna stake out (literally) an alley on the grass at Davis. First come, first served, and we'll move the tarps as people claim space, if we can. I gotta finish setting up my new stills setup and get my photo printer going. Then the party light is lit.

WHAP! BillVon has cloned a Bytchslap!

I'm finding it really entertaining. Kinda like being 20 but with credit cards with really really high limits. And kids to tickle that live with me. And dogs and bicycles and church and skydiving and vacations to Disneyland. The 20's and 30's were hard. I'm cresting now and I'll start coasting ten years from now until whenever the end comes. Meanwhile me and SM1 are doing a POPS birdman jump at Eloy. And most of these little maggots can't come. Hahar!

Well, I use a tongue switch, but yes. Without a remote release it will be useless on a helmet. 5 megapixels is good resolution, yes.

James Taylor at the Greek Theatre in Berkeley, in like '79 First rock concert was Journey in 1980.

Sorry Wendy, but word has it some pretty important Monkeys will have thier POPS cards in time for the festivities. And a doofus or two.

D'oh! Chachi, is there a provision for a remote? Looks like it just has a self-timer from the link.