grannyinthesky

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Such fun! A wonderful almost Spring day. No hop n'pops for a change. All fun rw jumps with friends.

Seeing the thread come up again inspired me to read through it. What an adventure this is! I've met quite some of the people who posted here and I've got more I plan on meeting. Reading about things I did sure brings them back. I do have occassional moments of frustration when it takes me longer to get the hang of something than it probably would have 20 years ago, but it sure doesn't discourage me for long. I am definitely keeping on jumping..... nine jumps last week and it's still the first part of March.... not too bad. Sure hope you have as much fun as I've been having.

Happy Birthday. Hope you had a great day!

You going to do an SOS jump this summer? I'll finally be old enough!

Hope you had a great birthday.

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Our three kids are adopted from Russia, they were 6, 7 & 7 when we brought them here.

I should have emphasized it more, that I am sure younger children would love having parents that jump. My daughter was 18 when I started, so at that age she had an idea of what can go wrong. I should have defined the thread more about how it affects older children.

LIke mine.... they were in their early 30's when I started. They were pretty worried about me at first, especially when I didn't promptly call after making a jump to let them know I was fine. My daughter didn't find it particularly reassuring when I told her that she was my emergency contact and she'd be the first one to know if something had happened. When I think of the grief they gave me as teenagers........ They have since come to be pretty proud of me and show off pictures of me skydiving on a regular basis.

"safety first... and What the hell.....
safety second, Too!!! " ~~jmy

POPS #10490

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Hi Everyone,
I've decided to pursue an AFF A license at age 46. I'm reading the threads on this forum with great interest and I'm pretty stoked to have found such an adventurous crowd!

Just curious~~
I'd love to hear from those who picked up this sport in his/her 30's, 40's, 50's, 60's....

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Come to Australia Minna! It was only 109F today at the DZ! Which was a nice break from 114!

you know at this stage in my life

A
Angus said

'go do what you want, while you can

always before

we have seen you,
and watched you got back "up

but this-time go to DO
"SOMETHING"that i've wanted to do"

it is time nw.

so i was looking intois

what there was for ii could do,,,

there.
and in NZ

where i could and would do what
i want.


AU & NZ were

on the list along with idaho.



so do you got gimp tossing bridges over there also? _ minna

The first time I flew with my rig i checked it. Neve again, if I can help it. I got through security and heard my name being paged. When I returned to the ticket/baggage area, a new TSA agent had started opening my rig before someone stopped him. Fortunately, he started with the main and not the reserve. I was a bit grumpy with him.

If they want to swab and look at my rig, fine, but I'm going to be there with it to hopefully keep things from happening that shouldn't. And I have run into TSA agents severaly times that haven't had a clue what it was or if it was ok. I was there to explain. Oh, and the letter from TSA and x-ray card of the AAD did absolutely no good. They had to find the information in their own manuals. I make sure I allow plenty of time to get through security.

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iphone is the greatest thing since velcro.....

btw, for those that don't know, ATT is matching verizons 69.99 unlimited talk plan, even though their not advertising it. Just call them, if you pay for their current unlimited plan. Heck, the guy even retro-ed it to the beginning of the billing cycle. If you have more than one iphone, it's even better. 69.99 for the first, and 49.99 for each additional phone. With 5 on our plan, (we use them for business), it saved us fully half on our bill.

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we've had plenty of other carriers in the past and so far we've been happiest with verizon, which we have now. we're out of our contract, but whatever we do phonewise, we'll stay with verizon. as far as a need, we've identified one. when we're out and about, the gps and the ability to look up and find or call busnesses would be very nice. of course that could be taken care of by getting a gps for the car, but the idea of putting a gps in a car that already has a nav system in it just seams silly to me. (we have a toyota, but the maps are so old that it is nearly useless and last i heard it was north of $300 for updated dvds). we're going to new orleans this weekend, so we may think about just one of us getting a new phone after our nav system inevitable fucks us again.

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ok so whos clicking on the Not sure
that just jumped we were at 80%

Fun!

Well, I'm sorta watching. The opening ceremony is on tv while I'm grading exams. I'll probably try to actually watch the ice skating events, but since I'm teaching 6 classes, it will be multi-tasking most of the time. There's always something to grade!

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Some of us aren't math inclined.

There is a certain level beyond which the average person doesn't need to go. It depends on what career you plan on pursuing. An English major probably doesn't need to take calculus.

However, far too many people don't have even a basic level of understanding of algebra and geometry and that simply baffles me. Their excuse is usually something like "but I'm not good at math" which in my mind is essentially saying "but I'm illiterate." I'm not talking about anything all that advanced either, just the kind of stuff you'd grossly cover in the (for me) 9th grade.

I don't get it.

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PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE Do NOT do this!!!!!!!!!!!!

but the only person you should be talking to is your instructor

And what if the problem is that he has a really terrible instructor, not that I'm suggesting at all that it's the case here.

You know... somewhere in the world is an instructor deserving the title 'Worst instructor in the world!'. In fact, roughly half of all instructors are below average.

I would be very suspicious of any instructor who forbid me from talking to other instructors or experienced skydivers
about my experience. I've been around long enough to know better. Of course, I would ALSO talk to my instructor about any and all concerns I have, and I would be honest with my instructor about who I talk to and what I've heard from them. But tell me not to talk to others... and you're fired.

Yesterday!! Did two jumps Saturday and Sunday both. We would have done more, but we had to wait for the fog to lift.

Good to hear from you again. You really don't have to sell everything you own and neglect your family to become a skydiver, although, you may well go overboard at first. I was in so much trouble with my kids from time to time at first when I stayed late at bonfires and didn't call after jumping and things like that. Skydiving is still a huge part of my life, but my kids, grandkids and other activities have a place too. I play in two of college's community bands as well as the college jazz band. I still have a house and car, but there are things I might have done that don't have any great priority anymore... like new carpeting in the house or central heating and air that I once considered. My kids also joke that I am spending their inheritance (and they are always smiling when they ).

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Well non sunday jumping folks what were ya numbers.
I'm know i'm special but i'm not the only one who jumped on Saturday only

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Is is possible to post the article here? Because I live in the Netherlands, where we don't have that magazine..

It's not an article... just a picture of me being presented with my 12-Hour Freefall Badge.
I was given Award No. 5500.

In 700 jumps, not bad!