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You mean the Prius? Dude! The Prius freaking Hauls Ass! Yeah, it may get 100 mpg if you drove it like a normal person, but Amy is like Ms. NASCAR and with the batteries and the gas engine and the electrical stuff all humming that thing ROCKS. It's got a dashboard like the Enterprise, too. It's a car with Bluetooth and WiFi and GPS and chaff and flare launchers and everything. More stuff than the Mach 5. 100 mph getting 40 mpg dowloading porn. That car is cool.

Heh heh . . . trust me for 90% of all the time you spend on the plane with a 4-way team, there's just nothing to be said and nobody is going to be listening anyway. They are all in (or trying to be) in deep meditation and visualizing their skydive. The best thing you can do is not even be noticed. Dude, I really missed you. When the Shark or the Gypsy or the Nomad or the Vagabond or whatever they call it started up after a shut down we taxied down to the other end and the pilot was going to do a run up. One of the other team's members started to close the door. Being attentive to all the wierd local customs of dropzones that will get you yelled at and looked upon as a retard, I had earlier noticed that they leave the door open during the run up when it's hot. I said "leave it open, he's going to do a run up" Either that or I mentioned the green light was on or the red one and man, everybody started flinging poo at me. Those Perris Primates can fling some serious poo when you motivate them. My Confrontational Aspect tends to induce poo-flingage from the most docile of local jumpers. It's like every individual DZ pre-exit handshake. You do the Byron one at Perris and people think "Oh, crap, it's the gay guy from San Francisco, what the hell was THAT!" No one got hurt and on the jumps that Pat was on, I didn't bust any points, and jumping different teams counts is HARD. Fun time. If you hear of anybody who needs a 4 way flier, drop me a PM. I heard you are going to coordinate the multimedia this year. Should be cool. Edit. I KNOW! I vagabond jump a lot! They do some CRW thing at 12.5. I'm back there, put the seat up, make the belts all quiet cause that's polite, the light turns red and I don't say anything or make eye-contact with any of the Silverbacks. The light turns red and and I remain still and make no noticeably aggressive postures and don't attract the attention of the troupe. Well, the folks get out and the light remains red and I start to climb out and the hair-pulling and poo-flinging commences big-time. It was really cool. Like one of those old Samsonite commercials. The red light goes out and I go passive and they stop flinging poo. Many are actually laughing. At laughing, not with. A bit later, the lights do the same thing, I climb out this time, they get out too and "Wheeee!" we do some 4-way. None of that has anything to do with the BillVon Eco-mountain climbing house, other than they let me shower off the poo and let me drink their beer. As well Amy should have. Amy flings poo, too.

It was sad to see The BillVon read that piece of mail. Janna's husband was talking to me Sunday about how Mad John married them in freefall as they jumped into that brewery. I think that's the same one. In the guest bedroom they had all these gun parts on this shelf. Really neato gizmos made out of really, really quality stainless steel and titanium and stuff. So I'm riding to Perris with Amy to her team's training day and I ask "Uh, was that a rifle bolt in the guest room?" and she says "No. That's a thingie I tried to put in somebodies femur during my orthopedic residency and it was the wrong size" That's just neat. BillVon is the very, very rare breed of cat to walk the walk. If everybody in the world had a house like theirs, we would save so much stuff we could just build another planet to move to it when this one gets boring. Having never lost my fascination with things cool, like wierd-looking gun parts that used to be in people's hips, you ask "Amy, what does that do? And she says "It gravity feeds the wash water to the roses." And yeah, Wendy, wandering into the backyard while Amy was off to pick up Bill and finding a climbing wall was even more cool than the battery bank thing that forces the electric company to buy power from the BillVon. "You a mountaineer?" "Yep" "Whatcher toughest climb" "Freeclimbed the Eastern side of the AB wall" "AB wall?" "You don't know what the AB wall is? The Amy-Bill wall. You f*cking poser!" I had a great weekend at Perris filming Pat McGowan with two teams, and learning from his amazing ability to teach. He is a really, really nice guy who has time for everybody, and is generous with his knowledge. My favorite quote from the whole weekend was as we were climbing to altitude in the Otter in 100-something heat was: "Why is the camera guy talking?" That and "When you are in that piece during rotation you have to be the jailhouse bitch, know what I mean?" The guy is a genius and watching him fly and esplain stuff will really help me with my teaching.

He was cute when he was doing the desperate virgin thing. I'm going out to watch the coyotes. Out.

Then ya might wanna watch out they don't orbit too close to Uranis and get pulled into it's gravitational pull.... They are nice aren't they. I was spoiled jumping them for some time, but once and awhile I'd get stuck with the Eclipse rig, since I was the only TI rated on it, and even after a clean exit and drouge throw I'd have to look back over my shoulder to make sure the drouge bridle wasn't caught on something that was making me feel like we were almost head down! Just like we have in Lodi. Be safe! Ed Yeah, you ass, and I honestly admitted to a SoCal jumper today about the amazing frugality of jumping there. There's also the barbed wire thing when you land out, but I didn't focus on that. Or the freeway. Or you. Freaking Iwan still has my birdman suit, when's the next event at Lodi?

Hey Dutch, you still pulled left anyhow, but the hook beat you, right?

Looking for suggestions. Messing with anything in the laboratory is suicidal. There are batteries and lots of stuff like from the old Frankenstien movies over there bubbling and arcing. I'm pretty sure this computer is doing some sort of CAT scan on my brain function right now. I just made up the guest bed. They have nice pillows. Bill will be home soon with Amy, and we may or may not talk about solving the world's problems cause he's been doing the airplane thing for many hours. Tomorrow I get to video Amy's team, and she let Pat McGowan be on it, and he tells great stories about his giant new plasma TV. The only thing missing from my SoCal experience this time is Keith, but maybe he;ll come out tomorrow, but I think he got a regular job. BUY HOUSE NOW! ASK ME HOW!

Oh, Ed. I got Nads for days. Nads and nads and nads. I am a typical problem child high number jumper rating holder in a short period of time. But since I got nads that are so huge they don't enter the room until I've walked halfway in, I do stuff like post about my ignorance and include pictures. So now, my low-time high-jump number self knows something I didn't know before. They are freaking huge, Ed. They have their own atmosphere and everything.

It was just as hot here, and you should have seen poor Lewmonst at the end of the day, they do like 12, and they hammer out tandems here like plowshares. Good luck at prairie, and either turn your cypres off or promise not to have any fires! Deal? Coolest thing! AmyVon shows up this morning (I thought she was out of town) and they need me to video their practice jumps tomorrow. Can you beleive that shit? Sometimes it's good to be me. Pat McGowan is on their team BTW, and I have learned so many great ways to convey ideas just from listening to him explain stuff. Getting pretty good off the Otter, too. If you want my helmet for Nationals, teams out there in America-land, get in touch with me quick. I'll sign off now, but Perris is just amazing. The volume here is just staggering. And yeah, it's HOT. Laters, and thanks Perris-peeps for the usual warm welcome.

THe funniest part, according to Camille is : "The rabbit, when sir Galahad goes to the castle, heck, there's a lot of funny parts" Have your kids memorized Holy Grail? Losers.

Dude, that is it. Unrelated, but a favorite memory of a military retirement in the old O Club in San Mateo was a beautiful filipina singing "Peelings, nutting more dan Peelings, trying to por-get my, peelings ub lipe!" Maybe that's it. Good thing were not in charge. I'd start with mandatory leg warmers for the chicks and all men wearing mullets. Good night. Time for English humour. Cheers.

Could you boil that down? My speed reading training told me it had something to do with the smell of sex and babies. I know those two things and they smell different. Help a brother out.

Wife's out of town celebrating a GF's birthday. Tonight is pizza and "Holy Grail" Ha! Life hardly get's better! The pictures don't come out for crap, but that's my evening! Beat that. Course you probably have your Mr's and some fantastic trattoria, but the Holy Grail with 8 year olds who have no idea how heretical it all is is pretty fun. Cheers! "Let's leave Camelot. It is a silly place." -Oh for the killer rabbit scene. I'm off!

I guess the point I was trying to make is that almost anyone who would murder a bunch of innocents is a lone wacko. Whether or not he's using religion (or whatever else) as an excuse is beside the point. He's still a wacko, no matter how he wants to justify his wacko-ness. The fact that he uses something (whatever it is) as a justification isn't really a reflection on the underlying thing. Tom, this is where we are at a unique point in history. The men who did the 9/11 aircraft attack, and the men who did the London transit attack were not "lone wacko's" by a LONG shot. They were like the Kamikaze's. Fierce believers. Not whack jobs. Products of a life long culture of reightiousness of action against the enemy. There was no lack for kamikaze pilots. Until we took over the educational institutions of a nation and systematically brainwashed them into democracy over a generation. We did that with Japan and Germany. I think we would consider that a crime against humanity these days. We told Japan "your religion is wrong. Here, here, and here. This is your new truth. Obey" and they did. I don't think we have the stomach to do that with the radical elements of Islam. Until something astoundingly bad happens and we open the gates of hell on some people.

I've been motivated to get back into the speakers corner because of this London tragedy. These boys were Brits. But they were more radical Muslim than British and killed their fellow citizens because thier faith so dictated. Again, examples have been given of Rudolph and McVeigh in the US. I would kill for ( and swore that oath ) the United States and the state of California, but not the Catholic church. I can understand why that hypocrisy that was the Crusades pisses so many people off for just about forever, but killing people today for stuff that happened a zillion years ago doesn't balance scales I can understand.

That's it. My religion prohibits birth control, but I would practice it if I had to. My religion prohibits capital punishment, but I accept it. Any kind of fun that ends up with the seed of life somewhere other than the uterus is also a no-no, but I can get forgiveness. (So long as the spillage of the seed is in the immediate vicinity of my beloved). Placing the sacred seed in the vicinity of a non-beloved would be especially bad, and I'd need to learn some new prayers. This thing in London isn't the first time. In the US we stopped teaching "My Country Right or Wrong" a long time ago, and we equivocate grandly now. So? Islam over Britain? America? France? Holland? I'm not anti Islam, but I think Governments should trump religions. Whattyou think?

If that's not at length, I'm doomed. One answer, and not meant to be flippant. Somebody should have killed Mengela. He was a Dr. who did horrible things including abortions with a fascination on twins. Truth be told, we learned a lot from his research (I have read) but his methods were inhuman. I am pro life (but strangely, as an American Catholic, pro law at the same time which means that you are free to have an abortion in my state, CA, and always will be as regardless of Roe V. Wade, our constitution guarantees the right) Killing him in the name of life would have been ok. I would have killed him. Yikes. I'm really out now, Alex. You are good. JP

Hey no big smarty-pants talks in my threads mister! You know I can't undertand them. Um, in China wearing a green hat means your girl screws around on you. That's wierd. Vierd. As Iwan would say.

Slipped into what cupholder? A cuckold is a guy who is being screwed around on, right. Hang on, from Wikkipedia or whatever: So I'm guessing there is no such thing as a Chinese Green Beret?

Thanks to you that has happened to me in Europe by women who speak no english, make eye contact, hump my leg, and leave. Come on! Drive down from Colorado and have dinner with me! It should be about 120 degrees on the landing area with a density altitude of flight level 380. And all you Perris peeps, I will have JFTC calendars for sale if you want some. And I have to formally apologize to Frenchy for being an asshat to him about a JFTC calendar thing, when he is actually a hefty benefactor. But I will not wear the goggles. I will not. Not. Not.

Never underestimate the power of wierdness. Some men feel validated that their woman is attractive enough that other men want to screw her. Without the jealousy/cheating bit I don't think it counts as Shakespearian cuckolding. Just a wierd ass that likes to watch his wife do other guys, or watch in his imagination.

It's when a guy's wife is fucking around on him, and rubbing his face in it, and he's not man enough to either leave her or beat the fucker's ass. The definition of the guy who puts up with that shit is "Cuckold". That's some nonsense right there. Some people don't have the guts to leave, some don't even have the guts to leave after they have been screwed around on. The guy who puts up with it is the cuckold, the chick who does it is, uh, a cuckolder, which is like a cupholder that needs the occasional wax.

OK. Not quite the affirmation of love I was hoping for, but whatever back. Bitches.

A NorCal team needs a camera flier at Nationals-land, so I'm riding down 101 on the bavarian crotch-rocket on Friday and I'll be getting in Friday afternoon/evening. They've got tunnel time Saturday morning and then practice jumps the rest of the day and Sunday. Hope to see some of my favorite Perris/Elsinore peeps then! JP In the Bombshelter I usually look like this, but I don't know if any West Coast Monkeys will be representin' Maybe BillVon?

Arlo swearing and stuff is worth replying to just for fun. I've sent several students to the tunnel at Perris because they just weren't getting it. They almost all (one exception) came back confident and fixed. We had a guy come back from either 15 or 30 minutes just recently who fell OK, but just completely world record screwed up his deployment. The video is incredible. He looks for his handle and front loops, then does something incredible and barrel rolls, deploys the drogue through his legs which then opens him so hard he loops right over the top of the risers doing whatever the aerial version of a step-through is. Is there a word for that maneuver? Anyhow, tunnel teaching is for tunnel teachers. I like the tunnel and learn a lot in it when I'm down that way. I'd suggest you do a 15 minute series on how to pass the AFF, but John, Dom, SM1 and company, it sounds like you are. I think it's a plus for tunnel instructors to be AFF instructors too. I think there would be more awareness of what stuff done in the tunnel could translate into during a freefall. JP Hey! Do you have a practice rip cord rig? I know nobody wants any extra stuff in there, but having a harness with a handle or hackey to practice touching while maintaining body position would be GRRRRRReat!