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My parents weren't. Mom asked when I was at 120 and she said "that's all... that dog I saw skydiving on TV the other day has over 200 the man said" Told her then if she wanted me to do more she could donate to my Jumpticket Foundation. Instead I got an AAD that Christmas.

Ya know, it's one thing to look like you may be a touch pregnant. But when you look like you're delivering the placenta... OK... definately going in the snow today to get over to the gym. yup yup yup! ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.

My size-15 coworker sent that to me this morning. We both feel aneorexic now. ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.

This will probably stop your appetite. I can't look at another jelly filled doughnut now. ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.

Hmm 12" of snow for the Eagles game, now another 2" just came down right now. Snow fight!! ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.

ARE FUCKING GOING TO THE FUCKING SUPERBOWL Ok if I hear people shouting this out my window anymore I'm going to start hurling bricks and icicles out my 8th floor apartment. It's been what, 5 hours since the game now???? LOL ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.

Some people have that allergy of looking flushed across the top of the chest up to the cheecks in the face after kicking back some. Funny how some people also have that same flushed look when they are ughm... you know... ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.

You know... it LOOKS fun... BUT... If you were a phychologist... woulddn't you think that a RealDoll owner has a supressed necrophilia fetish?? ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.

Who haven't I done pager-sex with? Oh wait. I'm not going to go there. Ooops already did. BRB gotta call.

Not one of the brightest things to do. Imagine if she miscarried because of it... I'm sure the folks at DarwinAwards would have had a field day. ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.

Small facilities aren't that bad either... as long as you get to jump, right? It would be nice to have more mega-DZs out there that aren't on the coasts... for those who live in between FL, IL and CA. Who knows, there is a lot of untapped talent out there who are just unaware about the sport and would probably be very good at it if they tried it. ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.

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I don't think any of the States would consider banning skydiving, honestly. Especially since it's been around for so long, the USPA serves to protect the sport, which is allowed by the FAA... and there's a proportion of the military (a very, VERY important bloc of voters) that also "jump civillian." Thanks to some celebrity push (GHW Bush), the chances of it at least of it being banned in the State of Texas is zero. I honestly believe if it came down to that, we could probably count on him to help USPA lobby in case that threat ever did materialize. For states like Illinois, skydiving is an economic resource with SDC and a number of DZs clustered in that area and the city of Rantoul has benefited from WFFC moving from Quincy. Thanks to the jump waiver, the risk of skydiving shutting down like McDonald's hot coffee is low. This smells like a SC thread now.

Ding. We have a winner. More money and MUCH more national attention means a LOT of pressure for DZOs to keep planes safe as well. Hear hear. Although the bigger the sport gets, the bigger USPA gets... and that's not necessarily a bad thing per-se; but you would expect to see more regulation as you add more people to the sport. Anyone who has studied human behavior in Organizations and Organizational Behavior in college well knows how institutions like to grow and perpetuate themselves... $0.02 ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.

Cold cold cold. Yesterday's high was 19F... that's what...almost -10C? One pic is outside my egress today. The other is outside my building in my 'hood. BRR. ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.

I've had three scary jumps... one was a reserve ride and the other was an abort. Had to go back through my logbook to find them 1: Had jumper holding my arms on 2 way. He couldn't get over that exit hump and went into a stand on me while I was already flat. He also twisted to my left and pulled my right arm out of socket. I was at about 4000ft by the time I realized I could not move my right arm, so pulled silver. Had to steer and flare a Tempo 150 with only left hand and hitch a ride to the hospital. No AAD on this jump. 2: 18 months later I was leaning out of the plane ready to let go for a hop and pop and felt my right shoulder dislocate while I was turning to face backwards. Instead of letting go I just cussed out a storm and got back inside and had a friend cut my AAD. 3: This wasn't so scary as much annoying. Perfect skydive, nice opening... except for one thing. I was holding my risers during the opening sequence and got a small backwards nudge before my Sabre2-170 was flying. That kick on the right side was enough to (yet again) disclocate my right shoulder. I am a pro at putting it back in myself now, but the harness strap prevents me from contorting my arm across my chest to pop the joint back in while I was in the harness... so I undid the brakes and flew it with just the left hand and flared. Landed in the peas, but landed hard. I got some good 1-handed canopy flying practice now.

I am a project-based worker... and on some projects I usually get so frustrated with obstactles I am constantly dropping the f-bomb in front of everybody. It hasn't hampered my performance, but sometimes it gets irritating to other people. I guess that's why they stuck me in Pennsylvania. ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.

I take out all my frustrations at the gym ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.

Most Techno is what I've heard a gay friend of mine call "tired House." I really can't stand to listen to a lot of it. BUT... some of the techno that is mixed off of older soul vynil happens to be actually really good and isn't too "thumpy". One internet radio station I like is Netmusique (Toronto station).. There are a few techno tracks I like that I take with me to the gym on my mp3 player... 'Shiny Disco Balls' is quite "trust".

Harry's basically just a British couterpart to Courtney Love. ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.

... on a commuter train (caught, but didn't care) ... parent's house (not caught) ... at a New Years party with coworkers (caught, but I didn't remember any of it. At least 40 people saw! ) ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.

Hopefully RW will be better in Austin. RW Philadelphia had really lame people on it. ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.

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How about along with weight loss y'all also track a better number that's more important... bodyfat %? After all, when BF goes down, that actually proves you've been losing the weight you're trying to get rid of, and not lean muscle/water/kidney shutdown, etc? As of December I was at 17%, now at 16%. Trying to get back down to 11 to 10% by summertime (I've been as low as 9% before)

Well, I thought I would be in the shit since I moved from Texas... but when Brownsville got SNOW for Christmas... (I can't fucking believe that!) then I knew it wasn't so bad. Everybody up here in New England is perplexed that it's so warm. I don't think 43F is warm! But apparently we're supposed to be knee deep in snow around this time of year. Oh well. ____________________________________________________________ I'm RICK JAMES! Fo shizzle.