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  1. Wow what a day. My daughter went up for her check dive I could see them exit... so cool saw them track away and one opened the other fell. and fell and fell... Then i saw the free bag fly away as the reserve opened. I went to chase down the coaches Freebag as they landed. When I got back I learned it wasnt the coach it was My daughter with the reserve ride... Whew this old heart cant take it....Well maybe I can after all.... Father daughter jump this weekend!!!!!
  2. I'd see things a little differently if it were 30 years ago and people stayed with companies for life, but in this day and age, employees should be no more loyal to a company than a company is to them, which is to say, not at all. I hate to disagree but... The corporation I work for has done a fantastic job of taking care of its employees. Health care; 250 a month covers me my wife and three kids with just a fifteen dollar copay health, dental, vision and prescriptions included. 401k and profits sharing matched 1 to 1 up to five percent. 9$ an hour is spent on benifits alone. The average time of employment for our company is twelve years. very little turn over and a lot of experiance. Most newhires dont last long when the have to "Work" for thier pay. Not all corporations are EVIL, Some actually do it right!
  3. You should try the eternal mercenary series from Barry Sadler. He was a special forces soldier. He is also the guy who wrote "the balad of the Green Beret"!
  4. I admit it your better than I am! Then Why are you smilling. Because i know something you dont know. Im not left handed. You are amazing, but there saomething you should know! Im not left handed either. Princess bride
  5. There is a Diamond scalple used to cut viruses for disection under an electron microscope. It cant be toucheb by your hands or the oil on your skin will dull the blade.
  6. I am always suprised at the looks I get from the guiys at work when I am asked, "What you doing for the weekend?:", When I reply reading a book. There is something far more satifying reading a book for fun than whatching tv or going to a bar. IMHO. If you read for fun who are your favorite authors a what genre? Science fiction: Anne McCaferry, Elisabeth moon, Gordan Dickerson, Barry Sadler, Mercedes lacky, Andre Norton, Steven Gould, Robert Hienlien. Dickson, Leo Frankowski, David Webeer. Fantasy: Robert Jordan, Tolkien, R.A. Salvatore, Terry brooks,Orson Scott Card. Fiction. Melville, Steven King, Dean Koontz, James Paterson, et al. Favorite books: Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, Wheel of time series, Cross time engineer, Honor Series. What are your favorites?
  7. Anybody got any favorite ones? Here are some of mine... How much more grevious are the consequences of anger than the causes of it! Marcus Aurelius One can never consent to creep when one feels an impulse to soar! Hellen Keller She cried and the judge wiped her tears with my checkbook. Tommy Manville Middle age is the time when a man is always thinking that in a week or two he will feels as good as ever. Don Marquis Don't give women advise; one should never give a woman anything she can't wear in the eveningh. Oscar Wilde To act responsibly, you have to take leaps without being sane! Dan Ellsberg A very popular error...having the courage of ones convictions; rather, its a matter of having the courage for an attack on ones convictions. Nietzsche Keep away from people who try to belittle your ambitions. Small people always do that, but the really great people make you feel that you, too, can become great! Mark Twain Any others???
  8. I feel like I did when I found out Santa isn't real... WHAT DO YOU MEAN THERES NO SANTA?????
  9. Yes I worked as a rigger... not for rigging canopies but for thirty and forty ton cranes. its a job I havent done in awhile but the usual riggers were out for the day. As I was working figuring out load limits, angles, and wieghts, doing all that math I got to thinking about the awsome responsibility it is for a rigger to do his job right. Thirty peoples lives depended on me to rig the loads right. How many more of us are there that depend upon a rigger to his job right... Packing our reserves and checking our new purchases. I think I am going to go out and buy my rigger a bottle just for the hell of it!!!! Just a thought I had today!
  10. I THINK THE PRINCESS BRIDE WAS A GOOD RENDITION OF THE BOOK... i READ THE BOOK FIRST... ONE THAT DIDNT WORK WAS STARSHIP TROOPERS WRITTEN BY ROBERT HIENLIEN... BOOK WAS EXELLENT MOVIE SUCKED...
  11. I believe the term is...protohuman not sure though
  12. D U D E and I thought we got on so well... Just what is it you have against us Army Officers anyway? Its not as if IM a Wild Rover....
  13. Why do we drive on a parkway and park on a driveway?
  14. I am jumping a a sabre one. The one one jump I must not have rolled thr nose very well and I got slammed a bit on opening. I was thinking about that opening on my next jump and reached for my risers to early. my ring finger on my right hand got between the front and rear risers just as the opening shock hit. I didnt get spanked but I broke my finger just below the first joint on the finger. Lesson learned!
  15. true but the fun of it exist in the fact that the individual knows or he doesnt. regardless oif what answer he may post for viewing. It would be like cheating in solitair. what would be the point?
  16. One for the ladies. What was the name given to the largest diamond ever found in the United States? Diamonds are a girls best friend!!! right?
  17. Here min the Denver area a woman and her daughter have been ruinning a scam for the past ten years. I was in court yesterday for an unrelated issue and I watched this drama unfold. This woman and her duaghter set it up so that one of them would get involved with a guy. the one involved would claim that the other was abusive and needed a place to go. The guy/dupe would let the one move in with him. a few months later the mothwer and daughter would reconcile. and the one not involved in the relationship would "lose" thier home apt etc and ask to move in with the couple. the guy/dupe would end up supporting both women in hiss home niether of which had jobs just kicking it at his expense. The one invilved wouold get the guy to do a refinance or secound mortgage credit accounts whatever to secure "Spending money. When the well dried up the one not involved would cry rape, assault, or some othe violent crime. I know it sounds absurd but whatching this in court was stunning. The defendant brought up ten cases over the last decade that involved these two women. in many cases the homes of the unfortunate guy were given over to the women who proceeded to loose them to forclosure a few months later. Usually after they had found another mark. One man lost his home car and a barber shop he had owned for more than twenty years. As to how the women got caught, thier last mark happened to be the son of a D.A. and his father did research into prior court cases under the two womens names! He did a great job in presenting the two conwomens act. Most of the cases were settled out of court which made the research even harder. I am still amazed they got away with it for so long. Final conclusion of the court ....Probation for the daughter and six months county time for the mother! A thousand dollars in reparations to the last young man. thats it! The daughter even tried to claim comon law marriage and ownership of the guys house!
  18. Knowing my penchant for the subject, somebody gave me a book of ten thousand trivia questions. I got about a third of the questions right! anybody want to try and guess some? How many mile per gallon did henry fords modle t get? What was unusual about the sexto auto manufactured by reeves mfg. of columbus Indiana in 1912? What was the longest flight achieved by wilber wright? distance not time!
  19. I went into a dropzne i used to frequent and I dotl the do all me money was spent. I asked him for credit he answered me yeah. If you jump with no chute you can have your own way... and its no nay never. no nay never no more....
  20. Hangul malrul halsu imnika? Hankuk yoja chingu manny chsimnida!
  21. case of Guiness works for me... cant stand pilsners
  22. I ork in the construxction industry. concrete welding carpentry. while many people call this hard work I enjoy building things to much to concider it a plebian existance. I could sit at a desk doing marketing or sales but I would hate every minute of it even if I was making more money. Any one who thinks building things from scratch is a brainless activity and requires only brute stregnth is an elititist,ignorant snob! Engineers may design the product I make but they cant build them. Anyway Is wok wok when you enjoy it hmmmm?
  23. Down the street from my house lives a woman. She is on section eight government housing. she pays fifty dollars a month for this five bedroom, 2 3/4 bath, house. Her welfare of aid ran out years ago so they put her on disability. "BiPOLAR". This plus food stamps gives her about 1200 a month. She is not employed at this time. She has two children living with her and she gets child support for both I dont know how much. Thats the situation. now, She rents out three of the room for 600 dollars a month each. It is suspected not confirmed that Crytal meth and pot are/is being sold out of the home. the front yard looks like a junk yard sale for used car parts, and lawn mowers. apparently the lawn mowers dont work as the weeds in the yard are about a foot tall. At any given time there are five to twelve cars parked outside the house, many of which are in various stages of repair. Now should this woman be reported for mviolating the rules regarding government housing or should she be applauded for getting over on the system?