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Well ya'll I am heading to spend time with mi familia. I will see ya'll tommorrow! I hope someone will be there before noon because I will be and I want to do my 100th.!

Somehow I missed that Wingnut was in Columbus. I can easily pick it up. Let me send him a PM, we got this! Damn, I did not read past alana's post. I see it is worked out. Well Wingnut if it is easier for you I can pick it up I live on the west side of town. Let me know.

I have enver bought one but I always thought that was what most people did when they bought one.

can't we rent one from the same place you are getting the keg?

This is the hardest part about parenting. We want our kids to learn from their mistakes. But we also want them to learn forgiveness. Unfortunately(for us and them), forgiveness does not mean that they get to do what was taken away. I have cancelled plans because a child was willfully disobedient (which I think is the key here.) Most of the time I wanted to do that thing that has been cancelled as much as they do. Sometimes what was coancelled has ruined other plans of mine (I can think of a night where they were to spend it as friends and my wife and I were going to be home alone for the first time in 2 years that got ruined). Any time I have had to dole out punishment it has broken my heart. I hate it. I hate doing it. I hate that role. I think any good parent would. But it is part of the job and we must make the tough decisions. My children know that I will always forgive them, but they also know that just saying your sorry does not mean the punishment is averted. I do not think that does them any justice. If it were me, she still would not go to Disney world. But on that day, I might take her out for a lunch or dinner date just the two of us to show her that just because I was disappointed and just because she had to accept the consequences of her actions, does not mean I haven't forgiven her. Then again, I might just boil her in oil and make her the dinner.

It's even tougher when they say "When I'm eighteen, I'm gone." Heard that for the first time two weeks ago and it felt like a sword went through my heart.. Thank God she came up later and apologized and said she only said it cause she knew it would hurt my feelings. If that was her goal, she reached it in spectacular fashion. Never knew she had such a mean streak. Too much like her old man I think.

Frankly anything beyond drinks with pals is not exactly the best way to start off a marriage. I look at it this way, a guy who needs the "last hoorah" before the wedding, probably is not really getting his "last hoorah".

I am totally up for a raft jump. It will be my pre-non-beer raft jump. 2 more days!

wanna post a link?

Ijust bought this DVD and saw it for the first time. I was blown away. By far QT's best flick ever. Can't wait to get Volume 2.

Damn that looks painful. Sorry you got hurt. You got a PM.

Let us not forget Felix the Cat, the wonderful drug dealing cat. Whenever he needs a fix he reaches into his bag of tricks.

There is a ton of research and developement going into more feul efficient form of transportation. I am a member of The Ohio State Universitie's Challenge X team. The EPA, DOT, General Motors, Ford and many other companies have partnered with 15 Major Universities to sponsor developement of Hybrid electric vehicles. The work is being done to lessen the amount of feul being used by vehicles. Challenge X specifically focus on the SUV market. We currently have designed a Ford Explorer that is getting 32 miles to the gallon with our hybrid system and are trying to attain higher efficiency. For more information on Challenge X go here. This kind of problem is not easy to solve. Integrating motor systems, developing inexpensive feul cells, etc. is a monumental engineering task. And as far as all electric vehicles, the sonsumer market for them is minimal. No one wants to plug their car in everywhere they go and having enough feul cells to last would make the car so heavy and expensive it is impractical. Everyone thinks that nothing is being done to find better forms of transportation energy, but your wrong. You would not believe the resources being poured into it. A simple google search before making your statement might have enlightened you.

Hey I have done something like that in the Marines of a Huey. We call it Spy-Rigging. Hell of a lot of fun, of course we got a lot more guys on the rope and we get a helluva lot more alitude and we don't do it on that crazy thing trying to be called a chopper. Definitely worth doing.

Some of the guys in my skydiving club have around the same number of jumps as I do. They have focused more on a specific discipline and have better skills in that discipline than I do. I have been playing with Freeflying, RW, High Alti canopy flight and sometimes just stupid gimick jumps for fun (silly exits or spinning my buddy in the air,etc.) I really just jump to have fun so I do whatever I feel like doing for that day. One day I might jump all FF and another all RW and another mix it up. Maybe it means it takes me longer to get any good. Frankly, I am fine with that. I just want to have fun. I do not want to get real serious about any of it right now. Because of that if someone comes up to me and says "Hey lets see how many backflips we can do while holding onto each other." My first reaction is "Great Idea!" . Got a few jumps like that. It's all about doing what you want to do in the air to have fun. Hey, it is a playground afterall, so play!

Hey Allen! Anyone find my hat? That thing probably flew to Cleveland.

No dude, you ain't the only one. Of my 97 jumps I have 12 high altitude pulls where I just played over the DZ (low winds or you'd get blown to BFE) and another 4 cross countries. They are fun. Something about playing under canopy and having enough time to hang out up there and look around. Gotta love it. I usually like to get one high alti canopy ride each time I go out. Doesn't always work out but I have been averaging 2 a month. If I knew of anyone who did CReW I would be chomping at the bit to try, but I don't know anyone. Plus since I jump a hefer of a canopy I don't think I would be able to keep with anyone. Someone correct me if I'm wrong there.

Pains me to say this but you are absolutely right, Doc. We must not stoop to their level. If we do then we really will have lost.

You are right, you have no proof that I owe you 10,000 dollars because that proof does not exist. But the proof of God's existence in everywhere. Scriptures speak of events before they happened and speak of many more events to come. Miracles happen every day. People are healed, tragedies avoided, blessing incurred, often times without anyone realizing it, but many times in plain sight. But because people do not want to believe in God they see those miracles as some random chance or as the power of the human mind to heal, or because they smoked some herb, or because of luck, or whatever way people explain away miracles. It is easy to not believe because then you can do whatever you want without accountability. It requires something more of you to have faith. And not just blind faith, but faith that has been reasoned out, mulled over, and discovered. I by no means choose to come to faith blindly. I had to be convinced and I reasoned all the evidence and came to faith through the evidence. So as far as all the ability to question and reason that God gave us, He gave it to us so we would look for Him. Then come to faith through reasoning, not blindness. He even says in the scriptures "Come let us reason together."

and and Not sure what you are saying here, but I am gonna go with how I read it. I do not believe that God is disinterested. He takes a very active role in the events of the world just as I take a very active role in the lives of my children. He sets standards for our benefit as I do for my children. And just as my children have free will to do whatever they want so do I. Should I do the wrong things there are consequences, just as for my children. More importantly, because of free will I will not always intervene on behalf of my children to fix their mistakes, sometimes I let them suffer the consequences on their own, in the hopes that they will learn. God does the same. That does not mean He is disinterested. As far as attacking anyone outside my faith. I have done no such thing nor will I ever. In fact I "live *my* own life, treat other people as well as possible, and try to have as few regrets as possible." (to quote you) And I do it while living a life of faith.

Sadly, I think you're right there. He'd just gain entry illegally, and then collect welfare while working under the table illegally sucking up our resources.

Boo...no Otter? (No me gusta Casa. Me gusta Otter.) Are you kidding me? I wanna jump the Casa. Definitely the Casa! Gonna be my FIRST, as in PRE-SECOND, as in BEER jump out of a CASA! But since it is my birthday I will let you guys by the beer. BWAHAHAHAHAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA! 18 days and counting.

Can they really be called scapegoats? They did the crime. Then they photographed themselves doing the crime. And they certainly did not look like guys following orders they did not want to follow. If I am told to do something I do not want to do but feel I have to I am going to be mumbling and grumbling the whole way. Not saying "Woohoo look at me! Hey, Bobby, grab that camera!" They are not scapegoats.

I can accept this condition. How do we make it law? Imagine the scenario. Ole Bob decides to flee to France in order to evade the draft. The draft ends and the crisis is ended. Ole Bob decides to come back to the States. Upon reaching the border He comes across Billy Boy who served in the crisis gladly and is now a customs or imigration agent. When Ole Bob shows identification Billy Boy sees Ole Bob is a draft dodger. Ole Bob is told, sorry you cannot cross the border without a visa from his home country. You are no longer a citizen of the United States. Unfortunately he was only living in France but was not a citizen and now he has no way of securing a visa. Or if he was a citizen of France, the US denies his visa. And all his assests are given to some child whose father died in the crisis. Have a nice life! I like it!