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Butt-slide landings. Even on the reserve. I got good at it when the knee was out. The ankle is immobilized and protected in a rigid brace. Frankly, it's nice to have the agility I have in the air, cause I'm pretty slow-moving on the ground.

The rest. Oh, 12 jumps for the weekend. Six Saturday, the last one was the cutaway, I'da jumped again, but it was getting late (gotta get home for dinner) And six today. All tandem videos. Father's day is a big tandem draw. Back in the saddle. Actually more confident than before. Humbler, more serious about emergency procedures. But not a thought of giving this up.

After the biggest skydive for me yet, a formation load out of two Otters, a nice one-point 35 way that should have made the second point, with me front float on the trail plane, I tracked away at 5000 feet to 3500, slowed, waved off, and deployed. My faithful Spectre 150, loaded about 1.5, rapidly spun up right out of the bag, about three twists, then continued to spin up and went into a dive. I'd like to say I did everything textbook, but I didn't. I yanked both handles just about simultaneously. The reserve pilot chute came off my back and around me ( I was spinning on my back at cutaway) and came up into my sight as my canopy left. The pilot chute was just sitting there, and showed no signs of taking the bag out, because I was on my back. I rolled over belly to earth, away from the bridle into a boxman and waited what seemed like a very long time. It wasn't. Bang, I have a canopy, very pretty sky blue, big ole' risers, metal connecting links. 1200 feet. I tossed my cutaway handle, but I've got my reserve handle. Damn. These are the tie-die ones.. The canopy ride was no big deal, cause I did a ten minute ride or so from 14K on a PDR143 on a demo day. They sink faster, but handle similarly to my Spectres. Lessons? Practice emergency procedures all the time. Have someone else drill you. I have never practiced cutting away in a hanging harness. I really wish I had, it probably would have improved my performance. I will cutaway and wait a beat before pulling my reserve ripcord next time. Maybe it will be 488 jumps from now. That's how many it took to get to this one. Thanks Vic Krusi. That case of Guinness is chillin.

Thanks for thinking about us Ed! Very nice! Skydiving customer service is the best. When you get that new coax switch set up for the 10D, I promise you've sold at least one. Heck, just the connector and the coax wire would be worth having. I'm not alone wanting spares in my box, but two $52 switches is a little steep. Let us know if you have any luck. JP

It's all good.

Yeah! Strut-hanging babes! You got a ride locked up?

I gotcher gay hanging right here.... Oh crap, did I say that out loud?! FRIDAY!

Absolutely great Sushi place right next to my office in Martinez, believe it or not.

As soon as divas register on DZ.com, Sangiro has his CIA buddies plant cameras all over their house or apartment. The guy version of the site has live web cams of all of you. Oh, sorry. You didn't know? Hey, you signed the waiver

Damn, woman, you gotta crop that photo down! I'll have those pictures you wanted this Sunday. You gotta talk some coach students into getting video! JP Oh, you gonna be at 40 way base practice tomorrow at Lodi?

Do you know if skybaby is coming up?

Viking loves your avatar, click picture below to see how much. Yes. That much.

I am so proud, Sunny. Not a single Baldwin brother. You're GOOD!

Hey! It's like 11:30, no posts here for an hour?!! Bwah!

I have RTFB. Thanks for the prompter, though.

AKA: sex.

(smaking hand down) Me. Of course if you're going to provide comic releif by funneling it, your in. -Grab clothes as you go through, though...

Bite me, you exoskeleton. We're skyjumpin again pretty soon aren't we? You hear something? Edited cause I don't care enough to spell rite.

If you haven't met GirlFallDown yet, she'll be game.

I think you'd be looking at about a 20mm. Maybe a 14.

I've got 20 or so jumps on mine. It's locked up once because of condensation. It works just as reliably as my film camera (Nikon N70s) If you don't take a picture every minute or so, it goes to sleep, and you have to press the shutter button to wake it up and then the bite switch is engaged again.

If you break open a glow stick the material inside will continue to glow, but will not last anywhere near as long as if had stayed inside the tube. It will also stain most clothing and even some non-porous surfaces like, um, bathroom sinks and stuff . . . however, for the most part it's pretty harmless stuff and non-toxic.*** Quade. Tell us the most-excellent un-boring story that goes along with this knowledge. I want to know how you stained clothing in a bathroom, also staining the sink and toilet, with broken-open glowsticks. Or maybe you just had to retrieve some of those whacky network personalities from one of their bathroom glowstick parties?

Hypothetically, if a "boy" was going to be 40 in 8 weeks, would it even be remotely possible to refer to him as a "hot FF boy?"

We've missed you Nathan...

The Lizard will be subcontracted out to a special effects company in Tokyo. Must be a big rubber costume. No animatronics, no computer animation. Lots of F86 Sabrejets on strings, model buildings to destroy, etc.