GeekStreak

THANKS FOR ALL THE GREAT REPLIES! I found something to fear.. actually 2 things: 1. Myself 2. The guy with the radio I'll post all the gory details of jump 3 after I get some work done

I've read a lot at this site regarding fear... How to deal with it mostly, and it made me start thinking. I was scared stiff on my first climb out of the c-182. It started when the door came open. It got worse when I put my legs out... and worse still when I reached out for the strut and my hand flew back at me. By the time my JM gave me the finger I had to force myself to let go. Being petrified, I didn't arch and did a barrel roll. Landing was another scary part. I began to flare way too high and made a tumbling landing. On my second jump I got a little shocked when my canopy openned super-fast, but that was it. I was never afraid. I even stood the landing. Granted, I'm an SL student, so there's no freefall... yet . That might scare me the first time, maybe. It's hard to say. I am really looking forward to it.

So, let me get this straight. If you prematurely, um, project, then you die. Harsh! 1111, GeekStreak

First time I ate wasabi I thought it was avocado or something with avocado in it... ate a full spoonful !! BAD! VERY BAD!!! It cleared my head alright, and my intestines too!!! I have never eaten any since. On the bright side, my kids got a little free entertainment while I dashed around the kitchen looking for something to put the fire out.

Air travel is very common in spiders. Little ones just spew a little web out the back end and off they go on the breeze! He/She is probably sitting in a clearing somewhere wondering when the recovery team is gonna arrive.

Damn straight!! I love the name now. I hated it when I was in grade school... Remember Freddie the Freeloader? TOO MANY THINGS rhyme with Freddie! Just try and rhyme Karl... doesn't work as well

Kimmer, I'm sure that your DZ is chock full of support. Go. Jump. Hang out. Meet. Greet. Have a beer or three. Come back here and tell us all about it! 1111, GeekStreak

When all of your coworkers keep track of when your next jump is for you... probably thinking that you'll shut up afterwards

Remember self-potato doesn't count... You'll have to have somebody help you!! 1111, GeekStreak

I gotta ask this... ALF???? 1111, GeekStreak

LOL!! I had a friend back in TX who lost 2 husbands that way. She's still in counselling . OOPS! Was that insensitive ? 1111, GeekStreak Edited by GeekStreak on 7/12/01 04:19 PM.

I think who gives and receives is not relavent . 1111, GeekStreak

I'm sure that's not for a lack of volunteers! Look at it this way... YOU GET MORE JUMPS! I've been logging 0 in the middle for weeks! Gonna fix that Saturday

Yup. They'll train their masters if they can. Maggie (who killed her first critter today!) has our boxer pretty well trained! She is definitely the alpha of the two. I am, of course, the real alpha dog

I was afraid someone would ask that. I'm stumped. All I know is it aint 4, I think. If it aint 1 I've been counting wrong. 1111, GeekStreak

LOL! You could always cop-out and borrow his grandpas' names like my folks did. My grandpa was actually Carl (not Karl) but since rest of my name was to be Frederick Buesching, the German version fit better. All that thought and then my family called me Freddie... and we're NOT German. Go figure. 1111, GeekStreak

DZBone, I recall that being a per session number. Now you got me wondering... BTW: You could name your son Carl. The spelling is kinda off, but I like the name . 1111, GeekStreak

A hump loading of 1:2:3 is... 1 hump. 2 jumps. 3 WHAT? The third number represents: Beers (or equivalent) consumed Cases of Beer (or equivalent) consumed Beers (or equivalent) purchased Cases of Beer (or equivalent) purchaced Cases of Beer (or equivalent) owed for firsts None of the above 1111, GeekStreak

I watched an 'extreme' something-or-other show on the tube once that showed a guy snowboarding. They played Joe Satriani to the whole thing. There's not a single word in any of it... just some kick-a$$ rockin. I had never heard of him before, but went and bought one of his CDs after seeing the show. 1111, GeekStreak

No. It IS cheating . 1111, GeekStreak

That's what I thought too. I think yer right. 1111, GeekStreak

CONGRATULATIONS!! 1111, GeekStreak

I've been completely nuts over skydiving since April, when I made my first jump. My wife was, at first, afraid I was actually going crazy because all I want to talk about is jumping. She was right . She states that she is interested, and is actually going to come and watch me make my next jump this Saturday. The amount of time it takes me to do one jump = one whole day, so far. I'm predicting that the time away from home will become a problem until I can get her up there too. My mom wants to see me do it just to see it happen. She too thinks I'm crazy, but not because I'm jump crazy. She thinks jumping out of airplanes is crazy. She doesn't give me a hard time about it though. She never has nagged me about any of the stupid things I've done in the past. Why start now? My oldest son made his first jump the same day I did. It was his 18th birthday present. He loved it! He even made a stand-up landing one giant step from the peas. Way cool! Since the sunset load went up right after us, there was a crowd gathered by the peas. They cheered, clapped and congratulated him. It was the perfect ending to a very long day of wind-delays. His canopy knocked a beer over, so I let him drink it

That is sooo way cool! Somebody should tell that magazine reporter (from the dreaded HH thread ) about this! That's a question for HH, but if you can't find a home for it I'll be happy to store it on my server and post a link here.

Speed Racer, It wasn't you, Dude. No worries, eh?