Deuce

All my molars are crowns. If you are a teeth grinder, get gold. It's tougher than the porcelain. The porcelain looks better, though. I have both. They'll mold both your top and bottom teeth, and use the mold from the opposing tooth to sculp the crown.

Yeah, I heard somebody talking about using nitrogen, too. I don't think you should be spraying any compressed gas into your camera. Just a hand bulb if you must. If the chip is dirty, Quade put a post about how to swab it clean, and that is the procedure that I use.

That's brilliant.

Way to go, Leese! Those instructors are all just frustrated USMC drill instructors. Way to win! Everybody else? Keep it positive. You will gain some weight when you start working out. You strain your muscles and they swell and retain water. That is why a bodyfat monitor scale is so nice. A real hard workout causes the swelling or "pump" and water weight really doesn't count. Don't get discouraged, it's the weekly weight that counts!

That, will be really cool. superhellacoolio kinda cool.

I thought you were talking about the other present. The really cool one...

Dude, you get the beta copy of the DVD, and my HercBoogie Birdman DVD whenever it gets here (Jarno? Send me another one! I'll trade you for a DZ.Holiday Boogie DVD!) Be back next year, Scott! Lots of requests for Birdman tht you could have fielded, and lots of demand for that killer .45 degree camera helmet of yours. All that and you party like one monkeymotherf*cker...

Must be my absence. Glad I could contribute in a positive way.

Isn't that cool?

That's my line. I wonder if people would kill a bat with their bare hands for less money than a puppy? I wonder how much it would cost to kill a rabid bat with your bare hands?

Hey, you guys should all look into those hardcore, "boot camp" fitness prgrams.*** I did one of those in Quantico a long time ago. Don't have the temperament for it anymore. Less wine, more walking.

I feel kind of bloated. About 22lbs bloated. Are us guys allowed to use that line? Let's face it, we're all hot under the extra pounds. Chris Don't worry, BillV told me your pants don't make your ass look fat. Your ass makes your ass look fat. I always liked the line "the fact that you reflect light makes you look fat" MonoUno? You're a dick. We gotta get somewhere in the air at the same time so I can take another avatar picture of you. One that is more Mansonish.

OMG......that's hilarious. Every time I look at my resume and think it sucks......I hope people like this are the only other ones applying for the position I want. I want to see it. "Effective deterent of enemies, both uniformed and in mufti" "Rides well in large leather chairs"

No, I'm not. Just in conversation with you and several others the topic has come up, and I thought "what the heck". I think weight watchers works cause you go to the meeting every week, weigh yourself and talk about success strategies for keeping it off. Don't hurt your elbow at the gym.

No throwing up allowed.

What the hell. Lots of talk in the forums and PM's about fitness goals. The way that weight watchers worked for me was getting on that scale once a week and cheering weight loss in a public setting. Now this is public. My goal is 185 pounds or 12% body fat, whichever comes first. Today I'm at 213 and about 19% (Tanita bodyfat monitor scale) As I and whoever else wants to join it make progress, we'll post like this Starting weight/Current weight/Goal weight/Pounds lost. Mine would be 213/213/185/0. For folks who don't want to post their actual tonnage I'd suggest Goal weight loss/weight lost. Mine would be 28/0. At 213 I really don't feel all that obese since I peaked out at about 300 a few years ago, but I got lax in the last year and the comments from the skinnies about my "built in arch" and shit like that at Eloy were annoying. Being thin is a less annoying lifestyle. Who's in?

Monkey, you rat-bastard, Eloy was not anywhere near as fun without you and your Mrs. I missed Gimp a little, and Skymama and Flyangel2 a lot, and hope we can get together sometime in 2005.

I'd let the thing go, if I had caught it like you have. I probably would have caught it by smacking it with a rolled-up wet towel, though. Probably would have killed it. When I have mice in my house either me or my dogs kill them. Mice and bats and scorpions and snakes and stuff are cool and fun. Just not in the house. It's a mouse with wings, not a bald eagle. It hasn't bitten anybody, so let it go. If it dies, don't sweat it.

There's no safe way. The safest diuretic is water. If you are really that desperate, drink two gallons of water a day and you'll have the weight off quickly. It's going to be mostly water weight, though. ( I always thought that was a funny expression, since most of our tissues are water anyhow) A pound of fat contains something like 3500 calories. So 10 pounds means 35,000 calories either burned off above what you normally require, or starving out that many calories from your food without changing anything else. Short term, you can just get some of the water our of your tissues, which is relatively easy. A gallon weighs 8.3 pounds. Good luck.

Remi, I skipped all the rule-mongering in the middle of this festival of RW dogma. Did the Alligator crowd get more than 21 up, or did somebody in the 21 way get DQ'd? It was still fun, and it was great to see everybody again.

Scooter! BADASS! So very well done! You are the man. On the ground and in the air with a BallSack. I just wish we could see Ballsack earning his $350 jacket. Very nice. Well done, dudelio!

You know? SkymonkeyOne is the only human I have ever seen puke in a way that looked like fun. Like a sports event. "Hold my beer and check this shit out yo!" YAAAAAAAAAACK! "Gimme my beer back, biotch"

But Deucy..ya didnt hear what Bryan said to me as we were standing there watching! Something like: "Betsy, I don't get it. Why do you keep inviting that meathead back here? You think he's going to downwind that reserve to up the ante on last year?"

I had dinner with Mouth and stayed sober. Being with a crowd that is getting drunk is like bording a moving streetcar. I was holding off drinking until a little later in the evening and was pushing water and soda trying to rehydrate from just being in Eloy, and I missed the bus. I was going over to the beer truck and saw this really gorgeous woman in tight leather pants lean up against the hangar and puke like Linda Blair. It didn't look like much fun. So I got this really bright flashlight and shined it in Amazon's eyes while she was landing just after midnight and made her crash. Then I went back to my hotel and talked with my kids when New Year's hit California an hour later. It was pretty cool, and Betsy did a great job organizing the party, as always.

WTF did you do Deucey???????? lmao I didn't tell you? No shit there I was, thought I was gonna die. I had gone up with Fireflyr to photograph him in the Relative Workshop Tertiary rig doing an intentional cutaway. You gotta open fairly low at Eloy, so I was cranking my way into position below and behind Jaime pretty fast when I see him click his heels telling me he is going to chop. CHOP! goes the main, clickclickclick, and his reserve opens in line twists and I'm thinking "YAY! He's going to chop the reserve and go for the belly mount!" As the line twists clear (this takes about two seconds) I hit something. Whatthef*ck? Over. I look up and to the right and there's this jellyfish eating the right side of my canopy. Jellyfish? I ask myself. No. Because I was higher than the last times I have photographed intentionals, the chopped main is entangled with my main. I flare my canopy, and it flares OK, but when I let the brakes up, it is doing this diving-spinning-bowtie-stalling thing that I don't think I can land. For a second I wonder if I can pull it out of my main and let it go behind me and pretend it never happened, but that had lots of fatality potential so I chopped. As I went into freefall for about 45 seconds I could see the car I was going to crash through. Not even a cool car, either. "California man dies crashing through Yugo" I could see the headlines. Anyhow, I had just called my rigger out by name when I got a good reserve and landed it without incident. Incidentally, the red tie-die Wings rig has a blue reserve, and the blue tie-die one has a white reserve. Here comes Burk. Argh. I'm now two for three on DZ.Holiday Boogie Burkings. "What happened?" "I was filming a skyhook cutaway and the chopped main entangled with my main and I chopped" "You get video?" "Yeah" "I can't wait to see it" In the landing area, apparently it looked pretty cool. McGruff the Crime Dog says "Don't photograph cutaways from above!"