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I ate a bag of oreos the other night. Not a few of them.. the entire thing. cavete terrae.

1. My car requires a change every 10,000 miles, not every 3,000 2. Jiffy Lube is the last damned place I'm going to let touch my car. I did it once (was going on a road trip and didn't have the time to go buy a new torque wrench. Supplied the oil and filter, of course) and ended up needing a new oilpan because they overtorqued the bolt and stripped the pan. cavete terrae.

I wish that were an option, but it's not. Unfortunately, Sony is the only company that makes a machine that fits my needs. There is literally no competition for it. cavete terrae.

Ironically, I have had more problem with the flex-z style goggles than any other. The three times I've worn them to terminal, including saturday evening, I've lost a contact each time. Yeah, it was just on the inside of the goggle, but if my vision wasn't decent anyway, I might have been in trouble. Fortunately, my vision -is- pretty good and I just had to do a lower speed approach than I otherwise would have. The $20 pair of motorcycle goggles I wear haven't presented an issue on my belly, back, sitting, standing, or even in the head down I did last night. cavete terrae.

0:5:3 5 jumps First controlled freefly headdown First rating course (Not quite done, still need to do a few more things) Finally got off my ass and took the exam for my B. cavete terrae.

The pic doesn't really do it justice, it really is a fair bit smaller. cavete terrae.

Your first BASE jump? Pretty much! I tried to do some PRW (parental relative work), and do a two-stack on dad's back, but didn't bother informing him, so he kept walking cavete terrae.

Had my hand shattered by my at-the-time girlfriend slamming it in a door (not her fault, though). Had to take 2 years off of hockey because I couldn't catch a puck at full speed, which blew my chances for D1 play like I had been planning. Broke a few ribs jumping my bike off of a small (3m or so) bluff. Broke my nose once (hockey puck. I wasn't even on the god damned ice, I was coming out of the locker room and onto the bench). Fortunately you can only tell if you're really looking at it. Broke my hand punching a goalpost in soccer. Broke a few fingers over the years doing various things. All of these predate my skydiving career. Post-skydiving-start: Broke a bone in my wrist landing wrong after making a save in soccer. Didn't even know it until 5 months later, never could figure out why it always hurt Oh, and I have a small dent in my skull from when I was 5 or 6 and jumped off a couch and landed on a coffee table corner. cavete terrae.

I'm head lifeguard/pool manager for the biggest pool in the city. I love: Being outside Getting a tan Getting in the water Going on the slides Looking at the ladies I hate: Parents who don't watch their kids * Paperwork Worthless employees that I can't fire because I have nobody to replace 'em with Kids who don't listen People who expect a refund when it starts to rain/storm, and it's been in the forecast for days. Seriously, people... * This is seriously my pet peeve. Lifeguards are not babysitters. They are not there to make sure your kids are sharing and playing nice. They are there as the last line of defense against serious injury or death. If the guards have to act to save the life of a child, it almost always means the parent was not doing his or her job. Quit sitting on the deck reading a book and drinking your lemonade, and watch the damned kids. If you don't want to do this, pay a babysitter, most lifeguards aren't making enough to pull double duty as parents. Full stop, end of argument. Among the few exceptions to this rule are the rare case of a kid jumping in without looking and landing on someone, or someone buggering up a jump off the diving board, or something along those lines. That's just a case of 'shit happens', and that's why the lifeguards are there. If I can avoid ever having to put a little kid on a backboard again for the rest of my life, I'll be happy. cavete terrae.

About twenty minutes, but my canopy's too big for the bag. Literally about ten of those minutes are spent squeezing every bit of air out of the canopy. cavete terrae.

I've got one, lemme go take a pic. Crappy pic, but... http://spiceweasel.net/front-of-rig.jpg cavete terrae.

In psychology, it's called exposure therapy, but it's normally not so extreme. The skydiving thing also doesn't work because there's nothing to give a frame of reference, I reckon. You put someone on a 10,000' tall ledge and I bet some issues will come up... unless he's a BASE jumper cavete terrae.

My next machine will most likely be a Sony VAIO SZ portable, after having Macs in my house for 22 years, and personally owning one of my own at all times, usually more than one, since I was ten years old. This could still change, but it'd take Apple doing something I don't think they'll do. A year ago I'd have been really excited about this port, though! cavete terrae.

Did it work? I'm not personally acrophobic, but I've met quite a few people who are, and say skydiving didn't help a bit, they just have money problems because of it cavete terrae.

I'm not worried about it. It's unlikely i'd ever meet a woman that'd ever be utterly fucking crazy enough to be the other half of the equation cavete terrae.

I think I may remember viewing by state, actually. Might have been before I actually joined though, I can't recall. THat was a looong time ago. cavete terrae.

I was under the impression that the previously free features would remain free after the implementation of the premier membership. I just went to use the member database search for the first time in about 3 years, and while yes, I can still view it, I cannot search it in any useful way. Hell, it even says here: Just as a suggestion, you might wanna make a separate subscription available where you just get that. No little star, none of the other features, just the database search. I still don't like the idea of paying for something that was free, but if it's not an exorbitant amount of money, I'm not going to worry about it too much. Alternatively, you could do something that might piss off some users, but has worked well on another forum I use. Lower the subscription cost, but make it more worthwhile. On that forum, you cannot have an avatar, your PMs are limited (maximum of 5 in your inbox), you cannot view user profiles, and you cannot search (I don't recommend this last. It's more trouble than it's worth because of amazing reposts). When your subscription expires, your avatar remains, however. Because of this setup, a certain amount of elitism has evolved however, and "no-avs" are given less respect because they don't support the site. When subscribing, you have the choice of with ads or without ads. With ads, a 1 month subscription is $4.95, a 3 month is $9.95, a 6 month is $19.95, and a year is $29.95. Without ads, it's $5.50, $14.50, $29.50 and $49.50 respectively. Also offered is the ability to have search and PM increases only, without the avatar, etc, for $5.75/3mo, or $15.75/yr. This could work as the "user database search" subscription. But then again, I'm a broke-ass college kid, so maybe my views are different than most. cavete terrae.

I'll take 350 jumpable days a year and nothing but sand as far as the eye can see every time. cavete terrae.

21,800. 10am on 1/1/06, jump # 80. cavete terrae.

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To whom it may concern: Acme owns you, your momma, and your momma's thong. Hook up the scholarship and nobody gets hurt. -grue. cavete terrae.

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Shitty made for TV movies make life worth living. Along with PB&J with a glass of coooolld milk. cavete terrae.

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