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  5. oldwomanc6

    ***I tried it once;
    Never again;
    It was like chewing on a mouthful of rubber bands.>:(



    That was my experience, as well.

    Horrible texture coupled with the fact that I grew up in So. Cal., where they are garden pests, make them very unattractive.

    I grew up with my very old school Florida pioneers family... Floridas version of Swamp People... I have ZERO food aversions.

    Addendum

    Someone mentioned calamari.... Jerry there is a little restaurant on 52nd and Sandy... Zien Hong... their pepper salted squid is to die for... and they have a VERY diverse menu Vietnamese seafood menu.... Never had anything there that was not just seriously great food....

  8. BillyVance

    The interesting thing I read about Florence from a news conference was "do you want to get hit by a cement truck, or do you want to get hit by a train?"

    The analogy I got from that was a cement truck = fast moving powerful storm. Train = HUGE slow moving storm with seemingly endless hours of rain, wind and flooding.

    My aunt has a house in Topsail Beach across the road from the water. From the ground, you can't see the water due to the 6-10 feet high dune, but you can from the 2nd and 3rd floors. Sure looked like the eye went ashore right there between Wrightsville Beach and Surf City. I was there less than 2 months ago. [:/]




    My uncle used to have a house there... Used to... destroyed years ago....


    I feel bad for all the folks in NC ( lots of relatives) who were in harms way and now dealing with the aftermath and flooding. My 89 year old Mom lives 100 yards from the Atlantic Ocean in Myrtle Beach and evacuated to my first cousins house NW of Charlotte in the mountains. When they took her home 2 days ago the normal 6 hour drive was 12 hours navigating all the road closures. Her house was built in 1955 as most of the one story beach bungalows in her neighborhood were built between late 1954 to 1959. Hurricane Hazel did a bit of urban renewal there in October 1954 with a 17' storm surge. I thought for sure this was the one that would do it again and luckily she just lost a tree in her yard ... no damage to the house except for a little water in the garage. A couple years ago we had to spend about $40 K to repair flood damage that caused the foundation to settle into the sand bar that is Myrtle Beach. Luckily for her the storm track turned and went north of Wilmington. For others in the family up there not so lucky and a few around the Cape Fear River region it will be months till they can return their lives to normal.

  10. BillyVance

    Just make sure you don't 100% rely on GPS to lead you the right way. I learned that lesson driving from Blackhawk, CO down to Idaho Springs on I-70. Instead of the paved road, it led us to an unpaved road barely wide enough for two vehicles, no guardrails and 1000 foot drop offs. :o



    You afraid of heights??
    :ph34r:

  13. BillyVance

    I have four. One ocean and three lake types. I don't do white water kayaking.



    You should.. I mean what's the worst that could happen.. you could kiss a rock doing 20 MPH or so... but usually the cold water keeps the bleeding down:ph34r:

    Scars are cool..... It improves some peoples looks :)

  15. I have a VW TDI Bugly. I filled it up at Costco in Woodinville this week for $3.22 a gallon for the diesel. I usually get around 500 miles out of a tank with my usual commute although I have driven to Spokane and back on a single tank. I kept my lead foot out of the pedal and it gave me 62MPG on I-90 there and back. I am good with that little car.. Bugly has been a great money saver since I bought it used in 2007.

  16. Bob_Church

    rec.skydiving's glory days were also a time of users with dialups and Ohio University had very limited storage. So every time someone would post a photo two things would happen. Those of us on dialup using newsreader would find out that instead of reading rec.skydiving before we go to work in the morning we'd be lucky if it finishes downloading before we get home that evening. The software we had then didn't let you see the individual posts on the server side, it just downloaded everything. Then I'd get to work and the phone would be ringing. IT was threatening to stop accepting rec.skydiving because of the amount of storage. These were the days when the zip drive and its 100meg storage disks was a mammoth breakthrough in storage.
    So I got a reputation with OU IT for being a wasteful jerk and on rec.skydiving for being a complaining jerk for nagging people not to post pictures.
    Oh, and the endless crap because I don't wear a helmet.
    But I really really miss it. I think it's like when we get nostalgic for rounds. We don't really miss those canopies, we miss being 25.



    Just use the rounds( I have several PC's and Papillion) for Summer Water Jumps.... DUUUDE.. BIG KERPLOOCH SPLASH even in the brisk summer water temperatures of a crystal clear Montana Lake ( At Lost Prairie) beat the hell out of a BIG THUD on Terra Way Too FIRMA any day!!!!

  18. JohnMitchell

    I know that a good track will reduce your rate of descent. Has anyone tried that for slowing down their vertical rate after a speed run?



    I always went to a monster track and gradually spread arms away from my side and spread the legs out more and more.... But what would I know ;) The two Pro-Tracks though in a full face was far more important so you actually knew which elevation you were passing thru... Missing the first alarm in an open face is not a good thing when the hard deck alarm goes off... Deployment can be a wee bit rough on equipment and body while the dytter is screaming at you.

  19. Iago

    ***
    I have a week in the FL Keys coming up. Any recommendations for SCUBA sites?



    The diving off Key West proper is rather mediocre. However, if you're an advanced diver the Vandenburg has options. It goes down to 140 but the top structure is reachable by regular rec divers.

    Marathon and Key Largo has preserves but I haven't seen those myself.

    The reefs up north end like Pennecamp although a preserve tend to get crowded. I prefer the reefs southwest of Marathon. The Sombrero reef is good but the patch reefs inside of that are great. And if wrecks are your thing Check out the Thunderbolt.

    https://www.bing.com/images/search?q=sombrero+reef+florida+keys&id=1B54CA570162B67013D454719D1BC4B15DD8AAB7&FORM=IARRTH

  21. BIGUN

    Not saying one is better than the other. Had a great experience at both. Just offering a driving difference of 45 minutes compared to 3 1/2 Hours.



    Indeed that was what I was after go as many places I could and experience as many people as I could.
    I am avoiding DZ's at this point ... that helps remove the temptation to do stupid shit.

  24. GogglesnTeeth

    ***Good choice to leave Florida. Your IQ will jump 20%. :D

    Not so sure you'd like winters in the Cleveland/Akron area though but good luck.



    My IQ will jump, and will maybe stop loosing teeth!!!! LOL

    I grew up in Nebraska, so I know how to drive in snow, ice, etc.... I have a Jeep now, so I'll head to the drifts!!!!

    Cloudy sky's didn't bother me too much when I lived in Seattle...

    I was stationed at Wright Patt AFB OH after being stationed at Homestead AFB in FL. Do get over to Greene County SPC.... in Xenia.. in the SUMMER... that winter jumping at way below zero crap sucked....

  25. BillyVance

    A lot has changed, but yes. Hardly anybody posts in here anymore. And yes, I do think Facebook is the reason. You choose who gets to see your posts on there.

    But hey, I do have my You Can't Make This Up news story thread going, after the mods shitcanned my NSFW thread. :D:S



    I drop in once in a while..... but on other platforms I have all the nutters blocked there starting with those who used to send me hateful messages here. Keeps my failing heart far healthier .