Deuce

Just make sure your prof's grad assistant drinks a bottle of wine before THEY read it.

Thank you, Canuck! Dude, you are my favorite AirShark! If I didn't have CopyrightedMusicPhobia I'da put the Jaws music on formation load 4 where you blast past me! Thanks for the thanks. That makes it more than worth it. Come to Perris and do it again! Yessssssss.

That's pretty damn good tandem work for a 4-way camera flier. Happy happy joy joy

Peace, brother, peace.

Nothing is 100% effective. Bill, I'm sure you'll prove me wrong even in that assertion. We will deploy this Mark 1, Mod 0, defensive weapon system. We will continue to improve it's effectiveness in field conditions, which is much more realistic than any laboratory test, which you point out have been made more easy by the weapon's manufacturer. As N. Korea and China develop and improve their ballistic delivery vehicles, we will develop our ballistic defenses. We are moving back into the nuclear holocaust threat world I grew up in. The only difference is it seems we aren't going to be in a Mutually Assured Destruction standoff, but one where China, and N. Korea get a swing, and we deflect all or part of it, and then turn their nation and their people and culture into glass. I don't know that an arbitrary number between 70 and 99% for effectiveness is going to change anything. And I expect as these new nuclear nations attempt to exert their new hegemony they will get around out defensive shield by deploying them in submarines. Duck and cover.

Yeah, that sounds too graceful. I think there's only 3 or 4 members, and it's been from a spectacular tumbling full-submergence chow. Even when Evan skipped off the surface he didn't get the title, cause he bounced out without submergence. Getting that pond-scum award is TOUGH

Yes! Wreck-less! Great stuff! Nobody joined pond-scum this weekend. Damn.

Nah, it's on video. More super coolio was this astounding 75 yard flat-turn-carving-obstacle-avoidance swoop that occurred out in the grass. Very swoopadelic.

(1) Do they have packers out there that work fast enough to get us on at least a load per hour? Their packers were good. I used Astrid's services while I was there for the Holiday boogie, yes she turned it around fast for us when we were doing the formation loads. I think we went about once an hour that Sunday. That's expecting a lot from a packer, though, cause you're asking for a pack in about 30 minutes from drop to pickup and in there you've got to manifest, ride the shuttle, ride the plane to altitude, and clear the DZ. And everybody and their second cousin wants to be packed up NOW. Hopefully you'll eat and meet other skydivers in there too. Packs were $5 for sub 170's, $6 for bigger than that. and you should tip your packer, especially if they're turning you around fast. (3) Any common mistakes that newbies make at boogies that I should try to avoid? Newbies talk more than they listen. I'm pretty new to the sport, but newbies everywhere ask questions and don't listen to answers, they tell stories. "What way is the traffic pattern here.... Cause at my DZ we do it this way...." Nobody at the boogie is at your DZ, so listen to the answers. The vibe at Eloy was great, but then again, I only jumped with my DZ.com buddies. Oooh. and B-squared lives there!

"Does the music on my video make you horny, baby? Does it make you randy?"

Lori, that's the greatest news! I'm looking at that picture, and I've jumped with 6 of the 9 people there (but not you, YET). A big hello to Emily and Hudoba! I was on the night 10 way with Keith when he got injured. I am so very, very glad he is back in the air. Wow. That's just great. JP Oh, my numbers!

KingMonkey, Katie's got sent to Kuwait, and I was told it shoulda been there Saturday. I sent it via the premium service. Nothing too good for our soldiers You think it mighta got hung up cause I sent it in a case of beer? J/K If she didn't get it Saturday, it should be early next week. JP

Billo, my brother, it's Deuce's Kids safe! Bring em all into the room! Whoo hooo!

B-squared, the last time I was in Perris, I found the nearest Starbucks. We're set for coffee. Finding beer for Bytch is much easier. JP I'm off to do my 400th skydive. I'm thinking a nice 10 way funnel from 14K is in order

Hey, it's what you get when it's non-copyrighted! If I used "real" music I would definitely have met some lawyers. I didn't earn the nickname "lightening rod" for nothing. It does kind of make you expect everybody on the Van to take their clothes of and start an orgy, though. Whew. Mission accomplished. Proof that even the most amateur editor can do OK if the subject matter is great- people having fun. And Sangiro-san? My kids think your balloon jump music is from Sponge-Bob. Porno Sponge-Bob?

I'm losing it. Some of you should have gotten your formation load videos Friday. Hell, Katie should get hers by Saturday, and she's in sand-heaven. Let me know. JP

Ever see a lizard smile? Enough people finally got in that we got off two Kingair loads. So goddamn beautiful today. Launched a great 5 way with Q, where were you Lizzie? and another great 5 way with the people who taught me to skydive. Oh, I love this stuff. The lizard says Hi, and it loves you unconditionally, as long as you skydive. He tells you to skydive more. Much more. Yessssssssssss.

Crap. I'm lost. I'm leaving Tuesday. My bunkie is BigBen, and he's a Brit. "No Constable, I'm not drunk, YOU are driving on the wrong side of the road, take that gun off, revolutionary, and I'll kick your Yankee ass". I'm all over breaking camera lenses. No pictures, no proof. "Dad, tell us again about when you were both married, and a drunk" Yee-hah, Bytch. Bring it on! JP

Nuh-uh. Evaluations are done, budget's done (easy when there's no money and I just fired a bunch of people) I AM leaving. In 10 minutes. Is it snowy where you are? Whoa, the lizard recoils at the mention of snow. It thinks that if Columbus had discovered California first, nobody'd be living where it snows in America. But you don't wan't to live here. Earthquakes! Oh, we are terrified of earthquakes every moment of every day. Especially when we drive our rust-free cars.

That makes me EXECUTIVE management! Oh, and Sunny's bosom. I will not need to delegate that task. I must lead from the front, follow me lizard, we must gain solace in the warm cleavage of a rigger! Yesssssssssss.

Yesssssssssss. The lizard can type, but it can't write. No thumbs. Hardest part for it is to hold the forks in it's tongue together when it whacks the keyboard. Here, I'll scoot over, check this out. q ri ckes brung q to dp a hybrod Oh, can't do anything uppercase either. I'm getting this image of me and you and Q doing some sort of hybrid. Maybe just me videoing you guys doing a rodeo. Yessssssss.

As I was reading this the lizard looked right over my shoulder, Jesus Christo this things HUGE, and read your post, the other eye left the clock, looked right at me and nodded again. The lizard gives you permission. Do you feel it? Skydive with Deuce at Byron, get video.... Skydive with Deuce at Byron, get video.... Skydive with Deuce at Byron, get video.... Yessssss. Leave for lunch at 11:30, be there by 12:30. Yessssss. It must be Friday, cause I'm no longer rational. The lizard is nodding, yesssssss.

The Lizard! Good god, I ate the last one! Where are they coming from! This huge freaking lizard is right there on the file cabinet. I heard this weird noise, and it's thing's tongue! I mean this tongue is like a yard long! It makes this dry, leathery sound, and it's snapping it in and out about once every five seconds. This wasn't always a government building. I'm thinking maybe something dark and wrong happened here. I should look for the nest, but then I'd have to file an environmental impact report and stuff if I ever found it. Wow. It's like Louie the lizard, but a radioactive Incredible Hulk version. It has one eye on me, and one eye on the clock. I'm getting this idea that I should leave the office on this fine, crisp, clear beautiful blue-sky day and go skydiving... Whoa! The lizard just nodded! AHHHH. I can hear it's voice in my head! Must skydive. Must skydive. It's nodding more aggressively. I submit. I'm going.

Now I know why you're getting a PC recorder! I got a bunch of non-copyrighted music that all sounds vaguely like porno soundtrack (so I've been told). You need some of that too?

SunnyD went to JAIL?! Crap! I'm gonna pay REAL CLOSE ATTENTION at Perris, cause I apparently missed all kinds of stuff. Must stick to the PLAN.....