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When I was much younger I heard that you could tell your lifelong fortune by the song that was number one when you were born. When I learned it was this, I thought "Uh oh...." My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

Maybe spinning malfunctions should be renamed after this guy. ...btw, in my book he hit "fail" status back when he suspended a tomato over a ceiling fan. Getting you-know-what-slapped by an appliance was Fail Part Two. Clearly he's missing the "what could go wrong here?" part of his brain. My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

While I don't believe the notion that skydiving is "safer than driving," I now suspect that skydiving might be "safer than sticking your head in a ceiling fan" My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

I've felt the "I can't breathe in freefall/high winds" twice. Once on one of my AFF jumps (I had to repeat the level because I was so distracted that I didn't pull on time. D'oh!) The only other time this happened was about 25 years ago, when I was on a beach on a very windy day. I was going to add "...so I don't think nerves caused it," but then I remembered I was at the beach watching a terrible pier fire, so I suppose my brain was in "holy $#!+!!" mode at that time too. Other than that I haven't had any problems.

"Thank you! Thank you!" "You're going the wrong way!" scene on YouTube My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

And the scene where he was demanding a car from the rental agent lady.... "And you're fucked" "You're going the wrong way!" My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

Here's my latest student skydiver cartoon: Skydiving Duck: Solo Two (Adrenaline Boogaloo) I'm getting better, but I have a looong way to go. My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

I've done less than 15 jumps so far, and here's my perspective: Skydiving is exciting and fun and lovely. It's something I never thought I could do. I think about it all the time and am so glad I pushed myself to try it. It's wonderful... ...except on the mornings when I drive to the drop zone. Then suddenly it seems scary and crazy and something I have no business participating in... ...once I'm out the door and stable it seems cool again. My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

It is probably the case that said jumper suddenly discovered that in a tunnel they couldn't fly like they thought they could. The subsequently fly themself into the wall... The speed being up high could either be shifting blame or simply making light of the situation. That's the most plausible explanation- that he did find himself stuck, but not because it was running at top speed. My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

I have the shirt that says "2+2 = 5 (for extremely large numbers of 2)" My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

You have a point there. Maybe he was pulling my leg. My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

That reminds me of a quote from the book Deep Survival. "Any time I start to believe I'm some hot shit [insert activity here] expert, I pull the [photos of someone who didn't make it] out and I'm over it." There's another quote in the same book about some climbers who were overconfident about climbing Mount Everest: "We've got the Big E wired!" and so on. You can probably guess what happened next... My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

I wondered if there was a "Hitler is upset that it's too cloudy/windy to jump" so I did a search and found this. It made my day even though I have no swooping ambitions. My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

I believe boundaries and consistency is the key to getting kids to behave. When I grew up, a some kids on the block would actually get beaten*by their parents. But it didn't make them angels, because things went like this: 1. Kid acts up. 2. Parent nags/yells at kid to stop it. 3. Repeat steps one and two a ridiculous number of times. 4. Exasperated parent wallops kid. All it seemed to teach the kid was that sometimes misbehaving got them in trouble, but not always and not right away. My folks, on the other hand, made it very clear how they expected us to behave, and made sure we knew what would happen (spanking, taking privilege/toy, time out, allowance dock, etc..) if we chose to do otherwise. And happen it did! I'm pretty sure it was the consistency of these consequences that kept us in line. If you removed spanking from the list of punishments, the system would have still worked. *I realize nobody here is advocating beating kids black and blue- just using the example to suggest that even the harshest consequences won't scare a kid into behaving himself. My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

How about the guy who holds up traffic in the parking garage so he can get a soon-to-be vacated space? Never mind that there's plenty of parking upstairs and the time saved is a few seconds in the elevator ride. My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

I was a fairly imaginative kid, and the "or I'll give you something to cry about" threat freaked me. I was convinced that parents had some devious secret weapon or instrument stashed away for that occasion. My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

I think making him sit there and watch while everyone else is opening their presents is punishment enough. It's not like he was shoplifting or broke something he wasn't supposed to be messing with. Also, as others have suggested, can you determine his motive? Was it impulsive curiosity? Or was he trying to be defiant and sabotage things? My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

Canopy ride for now, but that may change if (or hopefully, when) I get used to exiting the plane. Currently those first few seconds are Yaaah! What the $^C* did I just do?! moments. My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

Hiya Squeak, One of my skydiving acquaintances told me he booked some tunnel time to practice (on his own.) It was the Universal Citywalk tunnel. He explained that he was an experienced skydiver, so they should crank it up full blast... ...guess who found himself plastered to the side of the tunnel in front of a bunch of curious onlookers? My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

I'm not a parent, but I used to teach school and can say from experience that some kids have poor impulse control. His thought process might have been closer to I gotta see what's under the wraps as opposed to heh heh, I'm pulling a fast one on Mom and Dad. After all, it sounds like he didn't try to cover his tracks. Also, I think the take-a-peek-at-the-presents scheme is more common than a lot of parents realize. If it were my kid I'd confiscate the goods until Christmas. (I'd probably remind him that receiving presents is what happens when kids are good, so if he wants them, he needs to choose to behave himself.) Just my two cents. My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

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I was planning to jump this weekend but it may be too windy. Nobody has to buy me a beer, but I'd be happy to say "hi!" it wont be come on out early

I was planning to jump this weekend but it may be too windy. Nobody has to buy me a beer, but I'd be happy to say "hi!" My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.

I've never had a standup landing. I'm not the most coordinated person in the world so it may be awhile. I'm just happy that they've been gentle. I think of them as extra PLF practice. My blog with the skydiving duck cartoons.