sdgregory

No kidding here. Especially if you want to get on bigger dives. I like to pull around 4000' or higher because I absolutely love canopy flight and it is more comfortable to me. This weekend my last jump was the largest group I ever jumped with. It was an 8 way. We broke off in two stages of four. the first group left at 5000, the second group stayed together till 4000 and then turn and tracked. I was in the second group. Everything in me wanted to turn and track when we hit 4500. But I knew I needed to stay in my slot and I knew that 4000 was plenty of altitude. 4000 came we turned and tracked and I pulled at 3000. My 'hard deck' is normally 2500 so this was a little different. I had to mentally adjust my 'hard deck' before the jump. It was a different experience and the ground certainly looked a lot closer.

yeah what she said . . .

Like a "hum" job only different.

Should and are . . . well those are two diferent things.

Yes, I would hope that is MOST important.

she's never called me anything . . . but who knows after the SGC party . . . she may come up with soemthing . . . and I'm afraid

More importantly, my kids see me as I want them to see me.

In very rare cases this has happened. Usually I can judge pretty well by the way the homework and quizzes look how much time I need to dedicate to the exam. I have been fooled but not often. The worste is when you think you prepared enough and the test comes out of left field and slams you with things you never looked at. Then all you can do is hope you can make up the error on the next exam or beat the average.

Which means you see me exactly as I want you to see me . . .

I would love to see a 100% universal victory. That would mean that everyone agrees with me!

Oh man I would probably give up every one of my freedoms for the chocolate banana flavor.

Without 'crackpots' there'd be no skydiving! THE HORROR!

Well I was going to say something about how that one kid must speak for the entire High School population. But Dave beat me to it here. And I was going to say soemthing about how you defined "toy gun" but PhillyKev beat me to it here. Is this how we come up with a conclusion in the North? Certainly in the South and even as far North as Ohio we tend to get a better sampling of the population before drawing a conclusion. I bring my toys to school everyday. I have this kick ass cell phone that plays Tetris and all kinds of other stuff. I take my brandy spankin new shiny Acer with all kinds of cool functions to school. I use it mostly as a toy. You know to play skydiving movies on and games when my longwinded closed minded liberal professors bore me. I have another cool toy. My Harley that I take to school as often as I can. Love my toys. And if I have a water balloon cannon that I bring with me too. And if I had a rubberband gun, I would probably take it to school and shoot my friends with it just because it would be funny as hell since we tend to shoot each other with rubber bands all the time. So since taking toys to school by your definition makes me "special" I am going to stand over here and wait for the short yellow bus with tinted windows. Should I wear a safety helmet?

Dude that is one kick as gun. I am ordering one now.

ROFLMFAO!!!!!

How do these two equate? One is a search for knowledge and the other is a flashy arrogant show of pride.

YOU'RE KILLING ME!!!!!!!!

That was my understanding of Hard Deck as well. Please correct me if I am wrong. But I understand 'hard deck' to mean 'decision altitude' or 'lowest cut-away' altitude or whatever term you want to use for it.

A poll inspired by me!!!!! wait, is this poll something to brag about?

Dude I look at it this way. When all my Kids are grown up, I will only be 42. Young enough to run around the house nekked without tripping over breasts and earlobes . . .

You don't look half that good NOW!! Give him tits though and we might change our minds!

The opposite is also true you know . . .

Hey I scored like an 82% or something on that purity test and I even knew what a dental dam was! That's hysterical!

Yeah with that it kinda gives this quote a WHOLE NEW MEANING.

Okay then Bet SHE would taste yummy!