Pammi

Bwahahaha! Yeah, I'm still waiting for that too ;) *hugs*

It was so good to see you again Mouth! Merrick and I had a lot of fun jumping with you. You and Kramer are badass! I tried to warn him I fall like a rock....I just bend like that naturally! It works out well for Merrick, but not so much for fall rate Kramer, you are an absolute cutie! It was good meeting you. Thank you so much for your patience and input. I'm sorry I missed seeing much of you Skybytch, but I'm glad I finally was able to meet you in person. I hope you're not reading this in California now! 4 jumps each for us that weekend...Thanks to Tony and Kate. Thank you guys for the rig and $10 jumps. Fantastic weekend, particularly fruitlooping Merrick after I flew off his back on our rodeo dive. I was laughing the entire time :) Pammi

Mouth - guess the ballgame didn't win out eh? See ya Saturday! Pammi

Thank you all so much. It's a special little family here when people I've not 'met' send me PM's and well wishes on threads from all over the world. You've no idea how much it touches me to just have a word of kindness. My mom passed away last week on the 11th, 12 days after my dad died. After getting to Wichita, they were able to do a lot of simple tests to see if there was any brain activity. There wasn't any. My little brother, me and Merrick were by her side when we took her off of life support and she passed quickly and quietly. There are terrible memories of the last thing she said to me before she coded in the hospital, asking me to help her, I'll always have to live with. But there are also some talks we had right after my dad died, love letters between them that I will cherish forever, a romantic secret I never knew about them that I learned...those memories I'll treasure. I was so close with my family, it's been so hard. Me and my brother's have bonded together in a special way through this. We had just spread Dad's ashes the day before she got sick, and now we have to decide where she would want hers, then we'll also take her lab's ashes who died a few days after dad to spread with hers. They'd had the dog for 14 years and it meant a lot to them. My little brother is struggling since he was the one who lived here with them and helped the most during Dad's lung cancer, so I feel this need to care for him, take care of everything so there won't be a burden when I have to leave to come back to NC, but I'll be leaving on Wednesday to come home. They didn't have much, so there wasn't too much to do. But thank you all for everything. Honestly, I'm torn now whether to keep jumping or not. I'm scared to death to see something happen to Merrick now, or put the kids through this with me. Perhaps with time because I can't fly without thinking of wanting to get out :) Thank you. Pammi

Thank you everyone for your PM's and messages. I haven't been able to get back online because of other things going on since my father died a week ago. My mom is now in intensive care. I flew on a lifewatch with her and am now in Wichita, KS and she's on a respirator. She had an ulcer that was on a major artery and she began to bleed out suddenly. We'd taken her to the hospital last Sunday because she felt sick and dizzy, thinking it was something she'd ate. Her blood pressure got so low for so long that they are concerned about her kidneys and brain function. She also coded but was brought back. They did emergency surgery, telling us she wouldn't get through (chances were "slim to none"), but she did. Now, though, she's had 14 pints of blood and they are trying to get it to begin clotting again like it's supposed to since basically she's had an entire transfusion. If you would please pray that her body doesn't reject the blood and begin bleeding out, that as they try to begin waking her up that she doesn't have much brain damage and that she continues to get better. Also, if she codes again they won't be able to do CPR on her well because her sternum broke last time they brought her back. She's stable now for the first time in three days. Hard decisions have had to be made, and more are coming I'm afraid. We had to decide whether to let her die or take a chance she may wake up a vegetable. I'm praying night and day we made the right decision when we had to. Merrick is with me now, he flew out last night, and our kids are staying with an amazing friend who's somehow managing to get them, plus her two kids, to three different schools every morning. I haven't seen my babies in almost 2 weeks, though, and we are missing each other terribly. I'm basically just out of it right now but if you guys could pool any prayers you have for us right now, I sincerely could use it. Pammi

I just wanted to thank everyone who PM'd me when my dad was diagnosed with lung cancer a few months back, and update that his battle is over. He passed away on Friday, the 30th, while at home with Mom standing with him. She was the light of his life, so it was a good end for him after a thankfully quick, but difficult struggle with cancer. I'm in KS with Mom who's doing well, considering, but wanted to thank everyone who continued to check on me and ask how I was on and off over the last few months. With dialup and an old computer, it's easier making one post then a lot of PM's! Pammi

No kidding! My eyes are crossing again as I read through all that Seriously, thanks for the help. I'll print out the thread and read thru it all as I work on setting it up. As a last resort, I'll find one of you geeks who lives near Raleigh to help me...I know anyone on a skydiving board will come over if beer is involved! Pammi

PPoE....??

Ah, very good. Looks like a great deal but my eyes started crossing reading all the specs right about the time it stopped absorbing into my brain. Big surprise! Thanks! Pammi

I am wanting to set up my laptop (HP Pavillion ZT1135 - shut up, it was given to me!) with wireless internet at home. Right now our desktop is hooked in with Earthlink DSL. Would something like this work? Can the desktop plug into this router too or will it need a wireless pc card as well? (Or perhaps there's a wireless router to plug the desktop into that the wireless can also use?? Pammi

Haha! Well, no mention of Merrick of course! I'll snag the guy, then keep Merrick on the side as a well-kept boy-toy! I think he'd enjoy that

Your post touched me deeply with what I'm going through with my Dad right now too. I'm so very sorry that your loss. He sounds like a brave man. Pammi

I heard something on the radio this morning I thought was bogus, but apparently isn't. It has these two women chatting about how they want a rich guy to come 'sweep them off their feet' then an announcer comes on and says that there's this 'self-made millionnaire' moving to the area who wants to meet people here 'since he doesn't know anyone'. Gives a website, 1-800 number and everything! Wonder what kind of women he'll hear from? His dog is cute but I think there might be a reason there isn't a close-up of his face. Roberts World 2004 I think someone should call him just to see what happens! If you DO hook up, share the wealth! Pammi

I'm so sorry to hear this! You're not far away...please let us know if there's anything we can do. Perhaps Judge could come visit if Merrick will give him up long enough Seriously, we'll be thinking of you. Pammi

In an attempt to not piss off anyone in the incidents forum, I put this here. It was my understanding that discussing what happened, well wishes, questions, etc. were NOT to be in there. Only specifics about what happened, which I didn't know. I was merely asking how the person was, not telling what happened. I don't think just being AT the DZ when something happens qualifies someone to report the facts. If the greenies disagree, they are more then welcome to move it. Doesn't matter to me where it's put...I got the answer I was looking for already! Pammi

Fantastic, thanks! I'd been hearing much worse...good to hear otherwise!

I didn't want to post this in the incidents forum because I don't know anything about what happened other then what people there were saying (I was inside at the time so didn't see what happened myself), but I was wondering if there was any new info on how the guy is doing that was hurt there last Sunday? Pammi

No it's not Pammi

Definately overpriced. Try Logodogz and speak to Emily in customer service. They charge like $25 bucks, but I don't know how it works if you want them to send you the digitized version..they might charge more for that since they generally keep it on file for you to order stuff from them. Worth a try tho. Pamm

Nope, I did and got the "I'm soooooo drunk" drunk. :) There should be a catagory for an F&F drunk. First you want to fight with someone then you want to F*** someone! Pammi

Wow...this thread is making my eyes glaze over. I think in my particular case it depends on how much he had to drink last night and what kind of mood he's in today because of it I'm thinking he may be right even though it sounds wrong. (and it's not like I could print out this thread to prove it anyway..."I was doing some research on our disagreement..." hehe) Besides, I bring you back to the "I'm always right because I'm a girl" thing anyway! Pammi

Don't you mean SPEECH ROFL! F-you Ah well, right or wrong my boss is still a jackass! Besides, I'm a girl so he's automatically wrong! That's the rules! Pammi

HA! Knew it. My boss is such a dick and I just got this big speach about my lack of proper grammar on a letter I typed. Jackass.

I'm trying to settle an argument about how this sentence should be ended: "...to confirm a previous telephone conversation between you and me." Which is right..."you and me" or "you and I" and why? Pammi

I'm sorry. I'm going through something similar myself right now. My dad has metastatic lung cancer that is untreatable and has been given 3-6 months at best. He's only 69. I just returned from a trip back to KS to see him and to help as much as I can because my mom is laid up as well after a brown recluse spider bite. How do you leave knowing it is probably the last time you may see someone?? For me, the crying has finally stopped and I'm in a sort of numb state at this point...like it's not real. Anyway, PM if you feel like talking. Pammi