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4 X 10! Especially if you commute, your day is pretty much wrecked anyway. On Fridays you get all your household stuff done, Bank, supermarket, drycleaners' etc. And the weekend is really yours to enjoy. I had 4 X 10's for 10 years. I loved it. If you have kids, it will also reduce your childcare costs if you keep them with you on Fridays. The only drawback for kids is that it's a long day in daycare for them, but you have more quality time on the weekends. If you don't have kids it's a no-brainer. Three day weekend every week and 4 dayers on Monday holidays! ENVY! JP

Where you jumpin? That's my very favorite kind of beer -----FREE! Feel the love, baby! JP

I got this E-mail last night and thought I would forward it for local skydivers who may not be on the NorCal Skydivers list. Johnny Luv has passed away. I had several opportunities to have informative chats with Johnny, and was looking forward to skydiving with him and the other members of Bombsquad when my skills were better. He was a fixture at Byron, and was a real contributor to what we call the "Byron Love". I was fortunate to know him in passing, and I miss him, so my heart really goes out to his family and friends. NCS post follows: On the heels of Tim Mattson's last e-mail, I just received a call from Chris deBar. As Chris is currently in Sweden, he asked me to e-mail the following information to each of you regarding his Bomb Squad teammate, and friend, Johnny "Luv" Horton. At approximately 3pm PST yesterday afternoon, Johnny was involved in fatal military training accident at the military base in Monterey. The accident involved an ATV rolling over ... Johnny did not survive. As soon as Chris gets back from Sweden (first possible flight got him back tomorrow afternoon) he will be e-mailing you all with additional details. As of now, the arrangements for Johnny's funeral are *tentatively" set for this coming Monday. Johnny is going to be missed by all .... His happiness, positiveness, genuineness and wonderful, giving heart are truly going to be missed by ALL. Karen

I'm no instructor, but I jump with newbies to give back what veterans gave to me early on. It'd be pretty funny for that student to tell you off with all that grass stuck in his teeth and those grass stains on his ass and knees. What kind of a track could he have if he's just been turning in a vertical sewer pipe? What kind of a freeflyer can you become when you can't get above the speed of the tunnel? As combat veterans will say: Shootin paper ain't shootin people. There's gotta be a similar analogy for tunnel rats and skydivers.

The photographer moved in for that manuever shortly after this photograph was taken!

Hey BillVon! Did you use a Bellevue for that first picture? Scandal? It must in some way have involved brestesses. Simply must've.

You left out Prison! He can write about Prison!

Balloen whuffo! Har! Thanks.

Talent: I can open a Moosehead with a handcuff key. Pass me one, eh? Kooo lu ku ku Kooo lu ku ku! Kooo lu ku ku Kooo lu ku ku! Good day Eh!

Enjoy your protest. Make up a nice sign. There's enough of us to protect you from the mob.

Hey! That picture's fake! I can tell cause the Cessna's not sitting lower on the gear. Those must be paper mache' engines.

They have reserve canopies in many of the newer rigs. Kinda cool actually. AggieDave you just like those ballistic parachutes cause they get launched with an explosive charge! EJECTEJECTEJECT! BAMM! People think hangliders are safer cause they can see the contraption before they get in it. Our contraption(s) are all folded up and hidden away and require an act of faith. You gotta jump out of the plane without seeing the parachute. People think that the hang glider is intact now, so it will remain intact in flight. Not me. Maybe a paraglider, but there's no aluminum sparred hanglider in this boy's future.

Yep. Now, let's get on the plane. How 'bout a shuttlecock exit, rotate to a sit and attempt some foot docks? It's Friday morning, 24 hours to load one. Anybody else going to Davis for the Freefly camp tomorrow? Chow.

Skreamer, I can't listen to most Country music for any length of time. I've only listed to the song in question once, because it was played at opening ceremonies of a conference I attended. I don't own the album and I change the station when it comes on. I tend to agree that it's a little over the top. But I will fight and die, and send my children to fight and die for the freedom to be able to produce, buy, and sell whatever we want within the laws of our Constitution. That song is no more dangerous than a super size order of fries. I don't have to buy those either, but it's nice to know I can.

Wow. That brings back memories. Sometimes I get a lump in my throat. Yes____ No____ I like people Yes____ No______ I loved my mother Yes______ No______ Freaky. I ran the HR and Training section of my PD for a couple of years, those tests only indicate areas for the Psych to probe you. The biggest useful thing is tests is consistency in answers. Its so dang long that it's impossible (for normal folks) to try and be deceptive the whole time. Moody, if that's the test you're up against, the Minnesota Multi Phasic Instrument (or something like that) just knee-jerk it. If you consistently answer from the gut, you'll have a very low deception index. Good luck. 1987: Psych: "So, JP, how are you?" JP: "I think I'm fine, what's that report say?"

Yeah, de-gloved. I think it's called "alleuvial tear" or something by doctors in emergency rooms right before they start hollering for "Ringers lactate! Stat!"

Yeah, I understand that the Heli pilot might have taken off backwards and that's what got me thinking. If he pulled up the collective just enough to get it just off, and then took off in reverse, that might explain why this happened. In that configuration if the victim stepped out in back of the heli to get a picture thinking the heli was going to go forward and up, lifting the tail rotor, and then the heli unexpectedly took off in reverse the tail rotor would drop and back into the victim. It's very tragic, and is a reminder for us to have eye contact with heli pilots when approaching heli's.

I don't wear mine, except if I've got gloves on, and that's infrequent. I lost a lot of weight, and mine's falling-off-loose. If you caught it on the plane during exit, you could strip all the tissue right off the finger. I forget the name of that kind of injury, it basically means 'mudslide'. Firefighters use that as an excuse not to wear theirs. Buncha pancake-eating-weightlifters.

I think you're talking about the system I have. It's just a lower profile handle than a hackey, it tucks partway under the flap. I love mine, the handle is always in the same place. A true pud release does pull the pin directly. This looks like that system, but people figure it out when they see the BOC pocket.

Congrats! The Spectre rocks! Beware the Shark's cat dock at the 'Chicks' boogie.

Oh my God. You can't fly it conservatively when you've got a bad spot, the winds came up in a different direction at high speed and you've set up for a downwind, you realize it at the last moment and you make your last toggle turn ever. You're visiting a new DZ and you realize there's a barbed wire fence in your path. What about when you get cut off on final? What about when that crw formation shows up out of nowhere when you thought you had the pattern to yourself? About the time my Spectre 170 seems stodgy, something like the above happens and I'm real glad I'm not pushing my abilities with 9 cell 135.

Cool. Not enough people are willing to put their skin on the line for a principal. There's no way the prosecutor could have filed against the friend in this case if the friend had used force to try to keep him from driving. If the friend had shown up the next day with a black eye from trying to keep idiot boy from driving, there would be no question that he had met the burden of his duty to attempt to keep the knucklehead from driving. We gotta party Sebazz. When you comin up north again?

What a refreshing invitation to discuss the topic. I am so grateful I live in a country where I can choose to buy or not buy, to listen or not listen to just about whatever I want. I am so grateful that you are not in charge of making those choices for me, you would take it upon yourself to a fucking idiot*** I'm so glad I can choose to be a f*cking idiot if I want.

Thank you. I needed that. I am nothing but a big hairless meeker-monkey

Sebazz, this has already happened. Cop pulls guy over, guy is drunk. Cop drives guy home, cause it's right around the corner. Guy's wife says thanks, guy goes inside, cop goes back on patrol. Guy drinks some more, gets in wife's car, drives it into another car killing himself and the other occupants. Everybody sues the cop and his department, he loses job, City pays out millions. All cops lose the ability to use discrection in cases like this. You SHALL book. It just occurred to me that maybe the municipality is going for the criminal conviction to avoid the civil liability for releasing the drunk guy in this case to his friend. Answer me this: how much force would it be reasonable for you to use on your freind to keep him from driving? Could you break his legs? Could you kill him?