skybrat68

bump - to each their own (sorry, I couldn't help it)

Beer X 2. You said the "F" word twice (BTW, that would be industrial fog. Clouds are a no-no.)

Ha! Chances are, you'll NEVER live this down

It is. Southern cookin at it's best

umm.. whats up with the cartoon hands, and the guy with what appears to be a baby pacifier in his mouth? *** I missed that before . Like I said, looks like ya'll were 'rollin' along

That's dddrrrryyyy

You Cheated!

Third pic looks like you guys were just 'rollin' along, havin a blast.

Go ahead. Take the test chicken. I'm from Alabama and figured I'd be 90% or better but only ended up with 83%. Ain't ya even curious??

2 cups corn meal 1/4 cup flour 1 egg 1/4 cup oil small can of creamed corn diced onion diced bell pepper lots of diced pickled jalopenos Mix all the ingrediants together. Pour half the mixture in the pan. Get American Cheese and lay it over the cornbread mixture Pour the other half of the mixture in the pan. Bake at 350 or 400 until you can stick a toothpick in the center and it comes out dry and the top is golden ENJOY

That was cool! I'm 83% Dixie (which suprises me since I'm from Alabama).

Well, I have 260 jumps and I still haven't had the nerve to collapse my canopy. According to Scott Miller's canopy control course, it's important to know the stall point and intentionally stall it to know where that point is and what it feels like when that happens. If I understand it correctly, to stall the canopy, you find the stall point by pulling down on both toggles until you start feeling it rock back and forth. Then I think the canopy kinda shimmers, which I believe is when you let up so the canopy will reinflate. People have told me they do it all the time and it's a blast but still, I can't find the nerve to do it. Maybe it's a trust issue cos I don't like to mess with something that's working properly - if it ain't broke, don't fix it right? As far as accidentally collapsing the canopy from playing around, I think it depends on what type of canopy you have. I know someone that had a cut away on her first or second jump on her new Lotus by burying a toggle too hard and the canopy simply spun up into a ball of shit. I'm ultra-conservative under canopy seeing as how I broke my foot on Level II so I don't play around too much. My canopy is simply a safe way to the ground.

People that work in the skydiving industry deserve to get discounted jump tickets. Not too many people in the industry get paid a lot. I would consider discounted jump tickets almost like part of their salary.

I think Para Gear has them.

Why can't we do a couples RW too??? I don't know how to FF but 2 ways RW could ROCK!

Ugghh! I'd love it if your clicky worked

Yea! All that stuff that all the more experienced people said PLUS I haven't seen anyone mention how this canopy opens. Afterall, the Katana is truly elipitical. How can you expect to have a clue about flying an opening??? At 100 jumps, when you deploy, all you do is through out your hackey. At this time in your skydiving career, do you think you have any idea how to lean one way or another in the harness or steer the risers to keep from spinning up into a ball of shit??? I may just be talking out of my ass because I have no idea the nature of this canopy during deployment but I only have 260 jumps and my SO has a Jedei 150 (not a canopy to compare to the Katana but still eliptical) and he's jokingly ask me if I wanted to jump it and I reply with "When I deploy, I don't want to think that hard about being in the right body position or sterring anything. I just want a nice, square, steerable and landable canopy" In my opinion, at 100 jumps, that's ALL you should be wanting!

So when we talk to our dogs, what do ya think they hear? Do ya think it's like that on that Simpsons episode when Santa's Little Helper has to go to obedience training and when he finally gets it, he hears blah blah blah SIT blah blah...What would they say if they could talk back? Then there's always "What came first, the chicken or the egg?"

I choose my screen name because my home DZ is Skydive City. I've never had to jump out of anything less than a an Otter and I've never had to try to land on anything less than the acres and acres provided there. I went to Harvest Moon boogie and only made one jump because the landing area just wasn't big enough. I've only jumped from a Cessna once just to say I've done it. Because of this, I consider myself a spoiled little skybrat. I had to add 68 because someone else had just skybrat. BTW, has anyone ever seen just plain skybrat post cos I haven't.

Sitting at home, probably watching depressing Lifetime movies all day. My honey works 5p - 5a, Monday thru Saturday. Seeing as how V-Day is on the last day of his ridiculously long week, I'll suprise him with the gift he's been wanting since last year some time and he'll go to bed very shortly thereafter until right before he has to be at work. His birthday and our 5 year anniversary is 2/26 and he's taking that day off so that will be my V-Day.

What is it that you want to change to the one on your stomach? I've got a rose on my ankle, a butterfly to one side a little higher than the small of my back, and a rose blooming out into a heart (which I wish I could have removed) located right below the panty line. This one was an impulse tat. Had I been thinkin, I would have put a small twigg of mistle toe where this one is. I've always wanted something around my navel. As far as piercings, I've got ears, navel and tongue.

People standing in the express line at a grocery store with a cart full of food *** _______________________________________________ Me too. I think for me this is more than a pet hate. When I get behind people that do this at a grocery store, I loose all control of my mouth and stuff just starts comin out and it won't stop. I also experienced today one of my other pet hates: Don't you hate it when you're in the fast lane trying to get over but there's traffic and some jack hole comes rushin up on you ass knowin there's no way you can get over because of the traffic. I refuse to speed up to 90 in order to do so.

I only have 260 jumps and the only time I sit fly is by accident. When I try it on purpose, all I do is flip so I call it flipflying. At my number of jumps, I feel like I should concentrate on one discipline. It took me until probably 200 jumps before I wasn't the one messing up skydives and now I'm generally in my slot. I feel like I'm at a rapid incline in my learning curve and I'm going to concentrate on getting good at one thing at a time. I'm not saying you couldn't handle both, that's just what's good for me.

Don't give up hope. Like I said, we were a day away from starting the paperwork to file an insurance claim with the USPS when the rig arrived at it's final destination. It's probably caught in customs.

Why would you have used the USPS??? When we sold Randy's first rig, the buyer requested that we use USPS because a lot of people claim that UPS sucks in Canada. It took 8-12 weeks for the rig to arrive. At least you put $4000 insurance on the package. The guy we sent the rig to was trying to avoid customs charges and told us to declare the value at $500. He came very close to having sent us $2200 and getting no rig and $500 in return. I hope everything turns out alright for you. I can certainly understand being on the edge of a panic attack, we were and technically it wasn't even our problem. UPS or FedEx - always.