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I really have to disagree here. The situation you discribe is perfect for roomates, but marriage is a lifelong commitment, or it should be. I just shake my head at the "first marriage" attitude that some people express. If you keep everything separate and "fair" you have one foot out the door of separation. Keep one credit card in your own name, and your own checking account for the amounts of money that are really "yours" at the end of the year or whatever, split up the cash you don't need to spend on the house or vacation and put it in the individual accounts. But marriage should be an equal partnership. Nobody gets to be the majority shareholder cause they make more money, or brought more furniture to the relationship. A divorce should be a disaster. That's why making the decision to get married should be taken seriously. I can't think of many things that would piss me off more than desperately wanting to go to Perris and do 20 jumps with my DZ.Com boddies next labor day weekend, and not have the money to do it, and my wife sitting on 5 grand in "her" account and needing to "borrow" money from her to go, or having her tell me she wouldn't lend it to me. When my wife took 2 years off when the twins were born, did she make nothing, so could spend nothing? Was I supposed to pay her a wage? (she would have earned more at home than I could make working chasing bad guys!) When we scrape by, we both empty our "personal" accounts into the joint account, like at property tax time. I'm sure it's harder when grown-ups get married and have lots of stuff. I'm glad it works for you, bobby-sue, but I think a partnership where one partner has more stuff and one has less, where they have different standards of living, is doomed. Criminy I get long-winded when I do this from home! Night all!

Congrats! I had my 300th yesterday and it was a 0 point three-way. (I video'd a tandem jump) My 200th was a RW funnel at Perris. An 8 way from 2 Cessnas sounds really cool. Happiness at 14.5 is more truer.

With twins, we had to use the pump. Put a pump session in between the regular feedings and you'll be fine. Lordy, but that's weird to watch, though. JP

We have a joint account and we each have an individual account. Our paychecks are direct deposited into the joint account. If we get any money for whatever, or some kind of personal windfall it goes into the solo account. If we had made it easy for us to get divorced we would have. At times, being married was like sitting on broken glass in a dirty corner of the basement of hell. We got married young, though, so we didn't have diddly to start with. The money arguments are the worst, they lead to the arguments about other stuff. "What's this $1600 on the Amex bill?" "My new video camera" "oh...." The Mrs. will now get something large and sparkly for Christmas. It's never really even, but you do kind of keep score.

Hey Seb, next time we get to Perris, we'll fake like were doing a two way belly and we'll chase out the big way and beat them all into the base! Except Lisa, and she'll let us dock because she knows and trusts us!

What the hell are you doing Tandems with small squares of tissue paper for?

Big hug Lisa. Mmmmmfff. Chill out chickie-bismol mama! What's the rule of big way? Bytch: I was where I was supposed to be, where the hell were you? You still got it broken down to hours?

$5 for my 170. $6 during the boogie. $30 for the six pack jobs Sunday and a $5 tip. Included one haul-ass pack job so I could get a paid video jump.

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Seb, you never said what kind of gear you're looking to buy? Secret? JP

I worship old-timey skydivers. Especially old timey video guys. I borrowed a wingsuit from David Keith, a 60-something year old video flyer. He's got over 5000 non-military jumps. It had all these weird velcro attachments on the front. I ask "what's all this sh*t for?" He tells me that's where the VCR and cables were hooked up. " ! " I guess their tummy's got cold when they got rid of belly reserves and a giant battery and VCR were needed to make them feel comfortable. I think if all those guys started now, they'd all be BASE jumpers.

Shut-up you little monkey bastard Don't make me stop this car and come back there!

I've got a Hawkeye LT and I had to re-do the upholstery around the ears so it would fit more snugly. I took apart some foam knee pads and covered them with fabric and put that behind the stock earpads.

Save your money B-squared. Equally effective for most men are: eye contact, a smile, the word "Hello" or even "Excuse me". Many men can also be rendered helpless by the breast-brush on any part of the body, and especially by the boob-push into the shoulder, or shoulder-blade. The butt-brush is also adequate for most men.

I REALLY remember that. I bet just as many kids got kidnapped and abused then, just didn't get hyped in the papers. We would wander miles and miles from home and get back when we got hungry or it started getting dark. I can remember a bunch of times even having lunch from some strange Mom with some new kid I'd just met and never played with again. I wouldn't be comfortable having a kid in my house whose parents I didn't know. I miss sitting on the tailgate of the station wagon, with the back window rolled down, holding onto the back of the roof-rack on the freeway.

Santana was really 70's. The numbers were good, but he had about 50 minutes of solos where everybody walked off and the drummer pounded away for 15 minutes solo, and then the bassist went off, then the percussionist. It wasn't bad, but it wasn't great either. Crowd watching was fun, though. Paunchy balding people trying to go back in time. Staggering old bastards with broken bic lighters shouting "FREEBIRD!". Your date with the blind chick was probably more interesting. JP

A ton: 6 : 2 4 paid video jumps, finally got my fall rate and manueverability down. One of the chicks on one of the jumps was a total riot. "I LOVE YOU!" I couldn't hear her, but it was fun to lip read nonetheless! Did a 24-point 2 way with the G man, Gareth Holder. You can forget how bad you suck when you jump with someone world-class. It pays to be at the DZ early, when a sky-god shows up and his usual posse isn't there yet, you can get some great coaching. Saw La Boheme with my wife Saturday. It didn't suck. All the actors were good-looking and the director understood the Power Of Cleavage. Great costumes and it was subtitled so I understood what all the shouting was about. Saw Santana Friday night, he's really out of touch politically, and that hippie rant is so silly, especially coming from a multimillionaire. Nothing stinky in my in-basket yet either. Might not be a bad week.

My DZ has a professional video concession and they do the slow motion, frame shots, fades etc. I give them 8 minutes of the shots that Michael described and it ends up between 10 and fifteen. I've been really surprised at the lack of "fluffing" other DZ's do. Until the customer sees a nicely edited tape with some "Whooo-hoooo!" on it they may not know the difference, but the good tapes bring more business by convincing the whuffo they want to give it a try. All the camera flyers at my DZ have at least 10 times the jumps (300 vs 3000) and it's such a bitch to have a customer really psyched about the video you shot of them until they see the video from a veteran flyer. Argh. Figure they want to show it at work during their break, so no longer than 15 minutes. "Yes, I'd like to order video and stills, but not from that goofus in the superman outfit"

Well here's hoping she doesn't end up boiling your rabbit. Dude, you are going to be so miserable there in February.....

Not like your counting! Pfah! Pictures Dammit! Or I will dislike you! JK (Just kidding not John Kelly) JPK (Just Phucking Kidding!)