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Ha! Just blood work! Cholesterol and the new prostate cancer prewhatever and some other stuff. The doc I had for years is retiring ( a guy I really liked) and they are letting me test-drive this new lady, who's hindu (hindi?), pierced nasal labial fold, red dot on the forehead (I'm not being disrespectful, it's just not a faith I'm real familiar with) really great interpersonal skill and we laughed cause I was so ready for the shocker. She wasn't afraid to touch when making a point, and I like that. Poor Dr.s, knowing how much germ stuff is floating around, and most people only wanting to see them when they are sick. Good handshake, good eye contact, good listener. I think she's a keeper. Contrary to what people like to think, at Kaiser you get a GP you can actually call on the phone and e-mail and stuff and get to know. Bitch wouldn't give me the cocaine prescription, but I'm working on her.

Big hairless doofus Selling cocktails to minors crotch like a desert

I don't need to go. They are making me. Cause I'm over 40. "This will be a little uncomfortable" I want to come up with a nifty comeback line, like "Don't sweat it, Doc, I did 5 years in Soledad, you got nothin' " Maybe "Could you please just kiss me first" (I have a female GP) Or right after "Just hold me" I should be grateful they don't put my testicles in a vice like they do for women's mammamanaonograms. -Oh crap! I gotta change out the gerbil!

There. Fixed. Ah, you demonstrate your greenness yet again. How bout "And there will be a ton of people from DZ.com who have never heard you open your pie-hole that will think you are cool and JamesBondish!"

I'm going to post this from a PM I shared with a friend. ***This is wierd, but if you don't have a credit card, you cant have good credit. Credit cards are kind of like guns. To demonstrate responsibility you have to have them, and handle them responsibly. Difference being, every single time you use a credit card, the bureaus know. If every time you pull the trigger on a credit card it is in a responsible manner, you get more and more credit. So, someone with no credit cards and no, or little record of using credit, won't be given any. So, just as it's irresponsible for someone with no firearms experience to be handed a submachine gun, the banks are irresponsible if they lend out a quarter million dollars for a house to someone who hasn't demonstrated the ability to live within their means when they have access to "free" money, or credit. To build a great credit rating, you have to get some credit cards and use them responsibly. Having a credit card with a $50,000 limit that you use to buy gas and groceries and pay down every month to a current balance of $0 makes the bureaus and the CC companies want to offer you more. A very low credit score may be the result of having demonstrated very little use of credit period. Not just screwing up. If you have no credit cards you may have never been late, but think about it, you've never been on time either.

I've photographed and video's a few skyhook cutaways. I don't have one on my sport rig, and I don't think it's needed. I posted recently about a couple of tandem chops I had in the last couple of weeks, and I would really have liked to have had the system on the tandem rig. Mr. Booth stated in the thread that he originally designed the system just for tandem and student rigs, but added it to the sport line because the test jumpers liked it so much. It is faster, when it functions correctly, than an RSL or a non RSL chop. On a student or first rig, I think an RSL with or without the skyhook is a very good idea. Don't you DARE come down from your first reserve ride without your reserve deployment handle having been pulled in sequence and on time, regardless of your backup system! In the attached picture, you'll see the skyhook has the bridle out and pulling the reserve bag clear well before the spring loaded reserve pilot chute can inflate . ( I think Egon has this one on the Vector site) Edit: Sorry about the quality of that photo, it was taken with a telephoto with us both under canopy and I didn't have the shutter speed high enough. Anyhow, the Skyhook is attached to the bridle right at the top of the frame, and you can see it is pulling the bridle clear before the reserve pilot chute can even inflate.

You ass. Holiday Boogie in AZ. Everybody there will think you are cool and JamesBondish until you open your pie-hole.

You've worn enough of my clothes! You can't wear my pink jump suit! karen I am seriously thinking about changing that to my sig line. ROTFLMAO Argh.. Where's that picture LewMonst took?.....

WTH is that all about? SoCal, you are forgetting that as a JP everybody knows you are a badass knowitall without even having to ask/advertise. Yeah, Summer. Saturday it will be 130 degrees in the Kingair while we wait on the tarmac for some dumbass to walk his glider off the centerline and then somebody will call a 10 mile final in a Cessna 150. On the plus side, Clay will claim he's freezing sitting with the door open and the greatest releif will come when I finally get to get my tightly bound heaving sweating humping burning hunk of 230 pound terrorized love out of the dang door. Then it's nothing but fun. I really do love the sunset staff load. Hanging on a hybrid as the sun sets over mount diablo is splenderiffic. Staff people, remember to get lots of water as we move into the busy season. J/K JPSoCal, that's an impressive resume.

Two cans of Pam no-stick and I'm in there. Don't dare me. As you you, Biotch, what if the questions was: Hey, Leese, can I fetch you a beer? Wanna go out for Sushi? You look tense, backrub? You a liar. And Mary-Berry, eventually I'll get a spot flying camera on one of the JFTC events, and I will GLADLY wear a pink camera suit.

What was the question?

Hmmm. Looked like every instructor had over 1000 jumps. The total number of skydivers with your numbers is statistically about zero. The number with over 1000 jumps is probably the 99th percentile. When you got your AFF rating 4 years ago, and your coaches rating after your first year, did you think you had low jump numbers? What amount of jumps entitles an instructor to an opinion? 2000? 3000? You must really feel like you are hanging out with the short-bus skydivers when you jump with folks with less than 500! I'll have to think about quitting if getting to 4000 jumps is going to make me seem so condescending. If I missed your point, I apologize. If your point is that me, Remi, Roy, JB, and John don't have enough experience to profer advice, then I fart in your general direction.

Who took the WFFC picture? The Bev pic is STYLIN! I want a pink jumpsuit! Then what does that make me?

Who took the WFFC picture? The Bev pic is STYLIN! I want a pink jumpsuit!

Oh, and less tawdry, I went to High School with Cory Ness, Arlen Ness's son.

You talking to me? The "Women of Courage and Beauty" proved there metal when they let me take their pictures. Tough, brave, women.

BWWWAAAAHHHHH, Stop it, you're killing me. After your ass plowed a 200 meter long furrow in the AZ dirt you say your "fragile" BWWWWAHHHHH, oh my side, stop it LOL I'm sitting here eating and just about choked on my dinner when I read that JP has fragile French bone structure. Stop doggin me! My Mom occasionally gets pissed because with a name like John Patrick Kelly people aren't open to the fact that my maternal grandparents were named duGaul and Pelletier. I'm 1/2 French and am an aristocratic refugee driven to America due to some unfortunate French plague or persecution. The Irish circumstance is easier to explain, Ireland not being as cool a place when Europeans were splitting the place heggeldy-peggledy. So bite me. I'm a beautiful and petite 1/2 French nobleman much removed from Versailles. (no pictures, Poxon, be cool)

Behind closed doors. Oh, and a few times in the shower. Hey ya know what, I even get naked at WFFC to take a shower there Well, better judgement than me. I spent a lot of time sweating out Finnish liquor in the sauna at Herc Boogie. I have sweated with the best skydivers in the world. 'course I sweat every time I see you, and it doesn't require hot rocks.

Suit is not tight enough. -Did you know you gave me the best (most effective) ass-slap in history in JP (SoCal's) trailer at American Boogie, what, 3 years ago? Apropos of nothing. Nice hair and suit. You are a hottie. That is all.

Well, we got proof that you got naked a Perris, at least once....

BWWWAAAAHHHHH, Stop it, you're killing me. After your ass plowed a 200 meter long furrow in the AZ dirt you say your "fragile" BWWWWAHHHHH, oh my side, stop it LOL OK, that was cool. I was thinking of the gopher hole at Perris that broke my ankle. Nevermind.

That's too bad.. We usually fill a King Air staff sunset load at Byron. We may have been doing work jumps most of the day but when the work is done, most of us still love to skydive. I think we're lucky like that at Byron, Roy. At most other places I've seen, the pro staff doesn't mix with the upjumpers because the "school" for AFF and tandem is removed from where everybody else is. Honestly, I can only think of a couple of Tandem, AFF and video people at Byron who split when the work is done. We're really lucky like that. The number of students anywhere else that have been on a 14 way sunset jump when they had 28 jumps is probably statistically zero. Steve, the love of the sport is something that has to be worked at. It's funny. After 10 tandems I can be pretty whooped and ready to go home, but a hybrid or speed star to end the day really recharges the batteries for fun jumping. Slotperfect? Agreed on all points. During the summer I often don't make sunset load, cause it puts me home too late. It's funny to look forward to the end of Daylight Savings because it means I get to do sunset loads and still be home in time for dinner.

Steve, you have the jumps and time in to be a good instructor. But if you can't instruct, you end up losing those skills pretty quick. Confirm with your DZ management if you'd get to instruct. That "we have all the instructors we need" thing can turn around on a DZ in a heartbeat. If there's a boogie where everybody is out of town, you are suddenly very much in demand. One or two times you save their bacon like that and you find yourself on the wheel. PS, I took Jay Stokes class with Ms. Yong, and she taught me how to deal with small students, which has really proven invaluable with smaller students when things go south. The first time I was upside down and spinning like hell with a little female student I literally thought to myself "I've been here before in the AFF course, I can fix this" and I did. My experience with the AFF course was that is a very valid test of flying skill. Almost half the guys who took the course with me were invited to finish it when they had aquired the necessary belly skills.

Our loading is about the same, and your describe your landings as being similar in procedure and "reason why" as mine as well. I enjoy flying my canopy aggresively, but don't want every landing to be death-defying. Remy, I really think you should get the whole hand in there (minus the thumb) and just use fingers 1-3 on the front risers, depending on how much effort it takes to fly them. I use risers to dive and turn on to final, and brakes only to flare. I make all my final course corrections on risers. I use 3/4 gloves (at least) on every skydive. Particularly with tandems, after a day of wrestling them (two sets of toggles per side to land) my hands just aren't up to doing that without gloves. With the 3/4's I have good fingertip dexterity with protection for the rest of my hands. I'm really glad you aren't to much the worse for wear, and I'm envious of your huge French bone-structure. I got the fragile French bone structure gene, and I would've been in a body cast if I had had that landing.

You can find the same thing in person if you just look around enough dropzones. More efficient to buy the calendar, though.