J-S

Welcome to the skies and forums

Time to practice your anti-fog dance!

Be safe, have fun.

It's always hard to lose a little one that has become such an integral part of your life. The now emptiness is the reflection of the joy and innocence he filled your life with.

May the happy times shared always make you smile and lead you through your loss.

LuckyMcSwervy

******Picture of Shah

Holy crap! You could have given a warning.

+1

Aww come on, he's not that bad looking. I've seen worse. You'll see I'm not any worse or better than shah in the looks department, but no one says "Holy crap!" when they look at me. Well not to my face.

I wonder how much time lapsed between him pulling his firearm and taking the shot, being the wife had time to react to try to stop the shot.

If my life was really in danger and I had to use a firearm, it's pull out and shoot now. The case of a highly trained officer that knows how to really shoot to save his life, I'd imagine the wife would have no time to react.

Was the texter really a deadly threat being there wasn't a fight for your life struggle? It's not like the texter was on the ground choking the shooter and the shooter shot him on the ground. Sounds like they were standing, not being a deadly threat.

Maybe in Florida you can waste someone for punching you, I'm not sure.

Ban sports watching.

Good job on working hard to get what want, and being able to employ a few others.

Very cool.

What you're doing is good for you, our economy and other peoples lives, hats off to ya

Keep grinding away, don't get discouraged/come out swinging if you do. If you have the passion for it, it will be yours.

Nice work, I'm smiling for you and wishing you the best

You state you have 350-400 jumps. You're still a student, as I am.

I read the forums all the time. If I wanted to I could reiterate and post similarly to posts/threads as the more experienced can from reading their repeated responses. I don't have the jump numbers, time in the sport, actually experienced what they have, the respect they've earned, so I don't deserve to post advice, neither do you, other than "listen to your instructors".

The posts that you post that ARE comprehensible remind me of when "Shah" (another low jumper number guy) was telling other students to watch youtube videos to learn how to flare. Ill, inexperienced wrong advise. Your posts clutter up the forums with arguments of you trying to validate your inexperience. Annoying when I'm trying read different viewpoints on a giving subject from the experienced jumpers.

Stop posting about stuff you don't know about, jump more, get some ratings, learn to teach/preach from experience and learn to write (feels like I'm crazy when I try to understand what the hell you're trying to write).

If you really have 350-400 jumps I'd hope you know by now giving out inappropriate or uneducated responses can get someone killed.

Take no offense to what I've said, I'm just blunt. Keep your lack of skydiving knowledge to impress the girls at the bar that will never jump or take your knowledge to the skies. Seems not too many here are impressed. Be safe and have fun, shut up, jump.

Edit: I spotted your BS a while ago.

skymama

Your kitty is pretty!

My kitties were cracking me up last night. As soon as we took the Christmas tree down, Monty had to hide behind it, like if he was in the wild. He here is about to pounce on poor, unsuspecting Phoebe. He torments her.

You gotta love the innocence of those little zen masters

ianmdrennan

Got what he deserved, but I can't say that what they did was smart - especially putting their faces out there publicly.

Ian

A few weak punches to the face is hardly getting what he deserved, unless there was more we didn't see.

Assuming the allegations are true, they should if contacted the proper authorities. That way his family, friends, coworkers and society knows what kind of character he is of. Then if he's caught being or acting suspicious he'll have a record already with a similar crime.

A few punches (from what we see) and letting him go, I'm sure he'll be more cunning and careful with his next victim.

But the two beating on him don't seem to be that intelligent, announces he just got out of jail, assaults someone on video. The white boy calling another white boy "nigga", sounds just as smart.

I got my GPL over the summer, already have a PPL so it was cheap enough to pursue along with jumping.

It's defiantly something I want to go farther with. I've only done ridge soaring and hanging out by thermals within close proximity to the airfield. Cross country and mountain flying look sick and seem to be an interesting challenge.

The only thing I don't like about it is when there's 10 other gliders trying to get lift from the same spot, the only spot with lift. Especially with the guy that has an army green sailplane Maybe I'll get used to it with time. Other than that I can't complain about being able to stay up in the air for a couple hours at a time on good soaring days. It's perfect.

JerryBaumchen

Hi J-S,

You are one talented fella. I am envious.

So just how did you get the 'tree' look on that stand?

JerryBaumchen

Thanks.

I used an 8/4 (2") mohogany slab. Drew the tree pattern on the slab and used a plunge router set to a certain depth so I had a universal depth where the tree wasn't going to be. Left the tree pattern there (raised up), rounded over what I could with a round over bit, then dremeled the rest to take away from the machined rough look. Then sanded it all. Easy enough to do, just tedious work trying to do a 3-D look.

DrewEckhardt

Computer software, stereo speakers and subwoofers,electronic circuits with tubes or solid state, ar15s, ammunition.

Nice job on the speaker cabinets! They look sweet.

Techshop is an awesome idea. I wish there were more around, I'd love to learn the CNC mill and water jet machines.

oldwomanc6

***The last few years I've been building steel and reclaimed redwood furniture.

Picture of drafting table, I. The background, a buffet and table. I'm a whore for vintage industrial cast iron that I can build with (table legs I found 300 miles away in a barn, and the buffet wheels are from an old industrial cart).

Other pictures are a 1956 Buffalo Forge Drill press, before and close up of after restoration.

I do a bunch of other stuff but you get the idea.

Why didn't you post this a few days/weeks ago, You know, before Christmas?


I want that drafting table. It's going to be harder to justify on this side of the holiday.

Thanks for liking the drafting table
It was sold before I got done building it, the other pieces too.

I've been working on building my own shop most recently, that's my side job for now. I turn down too many jobs outside of work because I already have a lot of side work booked locally. Having my own shop will let me have the time I need and put my creative side to work full time instead of building mediocre stuff for the man.

The last few years I've been building steel and reclaimed redwood furniture.

Picture of drafting table, I. The background, a buffet and table. I'm a whore for vintage industrial cast iron that I can build with (table legs I found 300 miles away in a barn, and the buffet wheels are from an old industrial cart).

Other pictures are a 1956 Buffalo Forge Drill press, before and close up of after restoration.

I do a bunch of other stuff but you get the idea.

The knife is made by Rick Hinderer, I remade the scale with a ghost jade green scale to fit the knife to give it character.

The .22 is a single shot with extractor. I made it for a friend for Christmas. Not much to look at but it was fun figuring it out. Shoots well. It's boxed because I was smuggling it out of work (didn't want the boss man to know I made it at work, off work hours)

Guitars. Computer stand and liquor cabinet (a customers design, not mine)...

Here's a few things I've made the past year or so. I had more pictures from the past but my old computer took a crap.

I'm a luthier (custom guitar builder), furniture builder, metal worker/machinist, antique furniture restorer, vintage woodworking machine restorer.

Jewelry box, TV holder...

Good job on the chop and retaining what your instructors taught you

airdvr

***Don't you hate it when your main form of transportation blows up and costs so much money that you can't skydive? Or in my case start AFF like I had hoped...

I have to be among people who have been in these predicaments, right? It sure is depressing.

Come on, let's hear how you got through it!

Credit cards.

How Americans solve their problems which create more problems.

TravisR

BIGUN:

It's done. Fixed... had to be, it's how I get to work. It just cost a lot to fix, which bummed me out.

Off my ass now, going to work!

Merry Xmas!

Nevermind my post. What was wrong with your car?

BIGUN

***Don't you hate it when your main form of transportation blows up and costs so much money that you can't skydive? Or in my case start AFF like I had hoped...

I have to be among people who have been in these predicaments, right? It sure is depressing.

Come on, let's hear how you got through it!

Around here, we roll up our sleeves and fix it ourselves. If we can't do it, we have friends who will come over and roll up their sleeves to help us get it fixed. We take out a second job to make the duration of achieving our goals shorter. We do not sit around on the Internet whining about getting depressed. Now, get off your ass and get it done.

Tuff Love, Big.

Very true.

To the OP, join a forum to your cars maker. There's usually sub forums to your specific car within those forums and DIYs to fix whatever the problem is. Post your car problem(s) there and see what can be done by yourself. Some local forum members don't mind (such as myself) to come over to a strangers house to help out to get someone on the road again.

Do it yourself, you gain experience to help your friends and family too. Most likely if you do the repairs correctly and use the proper torque specs/replace one time use stretch bolts, etc., you'll do a better job than a mechanic that uses an impact gun and over torques. The price of new parts and new or specialty tools is usually cheaper than having someone else do the work. Autozone and similar places have loaner tools if you don't want to buy them outright.

I learned about cars when I first started driving because I was poor. Have my 2005 VW since new and it's never broke down or saw a mechanic besides myself. I have a dependable car (my life line) that I know just about every nut and bolt inside and out and their torque specs by heart.

Educate yourself, spend a few dollars and save thousands in the process.

People that put HID bulbs or retrofit kits in stock headlights. People that think going over 4300k (start of the bluish look) puts out more useful light, it's actually less useful light output and it's annoying. People that think American made pick up trucks look good with blue light, looks cheap(er).

People that drive around with their fog lights on in clear weather, doesn't make your car look cool, proves another "look at me" idiot. People that buy blue bulbs for their fog lights defeating any possible benefits instead of using yellow fogs that "might" possess an increase in visibility.

I think daytime running lights are a waste of energy and bulbs, look like crap during the day, but I guess they help the stupid and make others safer by them not having to remember to put on their lights at dusk/dawn.

People that don't take the time to aim their headlight properly after they had taken them off or replaced them.

Real OEM HIDs don't bother me, they have auto levelers so people aren't blinded.

oldwomanc6

It never ceases to amaze me what People THINK they are capable of doing safely.

Multi-tasking is something that so many (especially younger people) think they have mad skillz at, when studies show just the opposite, that we're capable of focusing on only one thing at a time. People mistake DOING multiple things at once as multi-tasking, but they don't realize they're just good at task-switching, not really paying attention to more than one thing at a time.

I suck so bad at it (not driving, Multi-tasking, that is), I don't even like to talk via bluetooth when I'm driving. I wish more people would admit that to themselves, and decide that when they're behind the wheel, driving is the only thing they should be doing.

"Honk if you love Jesus, text if you want to meet Him."

Haha, your last sentence

I agree, driving is the only thing you should be doing, besides switching the radio station when AC/DC comes on

I turn my phone on silent when I drive and keep it in the door in case I need it. I don't want to be tempted to read a text or answer the phone. People can wait for a response from me, 99% of the time it isn't important anyway. I think people today are too used to communicating via the new technology, that's all they know now.

We were all a bit safer when we only had rotary phones.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DK0nHfe6NWo&feature=youtube_gdata

Texting and driving. How someone thinks it's a good decision to wack it too while driving, blows my mind how stupid people are.

I'm not sure if it's just me, but has anyone else noticed the past year or so how people driving just cross the yellow lines into your lane towards you? Or even on the freeway crossing the slashes then jerking the car back into their lanes? I've saw people in front of me drift into oncoming traffic more than a few times forcing the other drivers off the road. One lady did that in front of me, almost a head on collision. Two minutes down the road I can see her looking down at something, into the on coming traffic again! Crazy.

Be on the offensive people, they will kill someone again.