skyflower_bloom

morning, need me some caffeine... off to deal with the real world. hope everyone's safe and healthy! "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi

Anyway, belated good mornings and coffee to all, and hope you are feeling better MrWrong!! Mircan that is f'ing scary but glad all ended well.. And Shropshire I am jealous of all your marvelous plans, hope it was fun!! that said, I finally got to jump today after 4 or 5 times of not getting to, so I cannot complain too much at all- all I really wanted was one jump in this week and i got it so meh, all good.. i could have done a second jump today but my son was getting tired/cranky, and I was seriously emotionally and physically drained so thought it best to have a week to rest and practice and reflect and start fresh next weekend. I was at the DZ all day yesterday too but was unable to jump due to high wind speeds, some craziness there.. Went in late this morning, and finally got to get my aff-3 go-around. while most everything else felt good and improved a lot from previously, there were stability and awareness issues at pull time. Short version being that this jump adds a wave-off and you pull at 5k, but you "lock in" and get aware that pull is coming at 6k. when i saw the exactly 6k on alti I had no idea what to do with myself and my body from 6k to 5k, whether I should take my eyes off the alti, or complete the circle of awareness, and then wave off after another practice touch, and then go BACK down to the handle and pull "for real" then or how much altitude that all would burn up, or what the frick to do, and obviously your sense of time and speed and such are not yet ideal at third jump level.. so i guess i just didn't have that timing well thought out or felt out or visualized at all, and it was a new aspect added albeit a minor thing, so I panicked a wee bit (yay me) and would have gone quite unstable and tumbled if not for the instructors. anyways sadly yes that is the "short" version, maybe i'll post more specifically for suggestions elsewhere but this thread seems not the place for a ten page post (yes you are welcome) but yeah aff-4 is a release dive and i am not ready for that now so will focus on pull awareness and stability close to that time/altitude, & repeat 3 next weekend, maybe get 4 in too, we'll see how the weather situation goes. hope everyone's weekends were safe and fun, and i know it is not morning (least not in my corner of the world) but wanted to pop on and say hey and get around to making my new account/name and all.. blue skies, robyn (aka skymama1 aka skyflower_bloom lol) ohh just saw your post bry-- is that your wife/partner? hope everything is ok!! keep us posted and my thoughts are with you guys.. and you still owe me a long pm lol-- sorry if you sent it to my old username/account, as i cannot receive anything there apparently as stated.. resend it sometime maybe? see you around! thinking of you and put your health and your family's health first of course, i'll be around for a bit as far as I know anyway :) good thoughts your way *hugs* "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi

Just my opinion, but that's fucking silly. How many times in the month that you've been registered has it caused confusion to the point of a major conflict? I'm guessing the only people who it caused a problem for were those who actually could distinguish between the two usernames. Are there really people around here with the level of incompetence that it would take to mistake one of you for the other? I suppose it's possible there might be, although a worrisome thought, lol, but I guess I wasn't really on my A game either the day I picked that username since I had been lurking prior to registering, should'a known *shrug* but yeah, to my knowledge it has never caused any confusion or conflict at all, except the conflict of first hashing out that I was not a troll attempting to fuck with peoples' heads or something.. I think that's been established in the interim (hopefully lol) But no, no one has pm'ed me or addressed me in mod fashion at all, it does seem to have been settled for some time, and I had signed my name to posts and had my pic in my avatar for most of that time.. but it's all good, as my new name is (potentially) more creative anyways and hopefully I can get back the data I lost as I cannot access my other one now. It's just that I don't have any of my old PMs or subscriptions or friends list, so-- hope I can retrieve somehow but in the meantime, if you have messages we've exchanged or wrote to me in the past week or so, and are like me and write insane amounts of text and info in messages, just please resend them to me/i.e. forward the "sent message" if you have them to this username "skyflower_bloom," and/or just re-add me as a friend, so that I can get all caught up in my new reincarnation. Well on the bright side, I suppose that since I post the longest shit ever on this forum, no one will have trouble distinguishing my new persona on the site from the "old me" LOL. "You must be the change you wish to see in the world." Gandhi