Kiyami

You'd better cross more than your fingers re: the weather. It's been a frustrating past 4+ weeks watching tandems. They say the weather gets better through May though.

This could be a textbook case of 'too good to be true' - Thursday morning and still the forecast is looking good

I know this is akin to washing your car on a sunny day i.e. it'll start raining before you've finished the waxing lol But the forecast is looking good for Saturday, I'm booked in for 8am and even though there are still 2 weather forecast destroying days to go I'm feeling nothing but this much excitement. That is all

Depending on which weather service you look at, this weekend is looking better. I need to get my AFF2 jump in and hopefully crack on with some others too.

If the school provided lunch bears any resemblance to those on that Jamie Oliver program, I think I'd be moving my child to a school that allowed a lunch from home.

Kilt or No Kilt?

Definitely.

Yeah. Although, I'm led to believe not as many as the non paid version.

You got me. But then it's been really windy, I've not been able to get my AFF2 done and I'm frustrated (about AFF2) :)

I struggle to see a 4ft 82lbs boy couldn't have been apprehended without the pepper spray. Do we know how many cops there were? Are there no other options between talking and pepper spray?

Yeah, it'd be cool to go through AFF together, for sure

Yeah, ours is not even showing sun anymore - just the word WINDY in italics LOL Good luck :) I've sown the seed with mine but she's not coming across very keen. I'm sure if she sees the tandems landing she'll give it a go but if not, I'm hoping to at least get her to ride up and down in the plane one day once I'm licensed. I appreciate it's not everyones bag so after months of deliberation I've decided even if she doesn't jump, I'll still love her

The forecast gets more windy every time I check so I'm pretty sure there'll be no AFF progress this weekend. I'm getting more and more mentally prepared for cranking out the jumps at the next opportunity though. We'll get there :)

Yeah, that pretty much could be this weekends plan. The weather is looking ideal for beer

I have no desire to jump in high winds and I'm on board with being down here wishing I was up there than up there wishing I was down here etc. But if the weekend winds around Eagle Lake, TX would like to give it a rest for a month or two so I can get jumps 2 - 25 completed that would be very much appreciated - thanks in advance

Hi Guys, I'm from Neath but working in Houston and ironically have struggled to progress my AFF on the weekends over here this month. The weather has been sunny and warm but the winds have been too high for student jumps. I've been catching the sun watching tandem after tandem after tandem! If I don't jump AFF2 this weekend it'll be over 4 weeks since AFF1 o_O So frustrating. I still hope to get my licence by the end of May and I'm looking forward to jumping over the Gower sometime over the summer as my first UK jumps. If you get a good week weather window back home make the most of it! Hwyl fawr :)

Apparently not :) http://www.basejumpingsite.info/5-yr-old-skydive-puerto-escondido/

That's down to the aspartame - stay well away from the stuff - although it's in so many products these days that's easier said than done. http://www.sweetpoison.com/aspartame-side-effects.html

With the right mindset it doesn't hurt for long. People here have alluded to you having a good/well paid job and if this is the case I wouldn't let $40k hold me in a location or situation I wasn't happy in. If you've identified that you'd be happier in a different location - just move. Or why not rent your current property for a year and go get a rental in a preferred location to see how it works out? There might be some imbalance in the financials but probably less than $40k

I've never been that captured or impressed with the whole Chris McCandless story, but I concur with the first line of this quote... “So many people live within unhappy circumstances and yet will not take the initiative to change their situation because they are conditioned to a life of security, conformity, and conservation, all of which may appear to give one peace of mind, but in reality nothing is more damaging to the adventurous spirit within a man than a secure future. The very basic core of a man’s living spirit is his passion for adventure. The joy of life comes from our encounters with new experiences, and hence there is no greater joy than to have an endlessly changing horizon, for each day to have a new and different sun.” - Christopher McCandless What always sharpens my focus is reminding myself we are only here for a short time and nothing is guaranteed after that. So, just make the most of it - achieve the most you can achieve.

You crazy fool

I exchanged some video footage with one of my instructors this weekend. Here's my AFF 1 from his view point. http://vimeo.com/20968859 It picks up some co ordination issues with the practice throws. I'd been running over it a million times with the rig on the ground but when you're in the air that little ball [obviously] doesn't stay so still.

Congratulations on that first solo - it sounds amazing after finishing the AFF on the same day

Shw mae, John